The lore of Fringe Planet is vast. It’s a world I’ve been developing for years now, filling it with stories and details. What happened to the Brizo? If the Aspects are so powerful, why don’t they just kill the peons? Why is there a dimension hopping cat? There are many different stories to explore in
This week has been a flurry of work dedicated to turning UI mock-ups into a fully implemented UI. The UI has been something which has been repeatedly commented upon during development. Which means it needs some serious improvement – and this has been my focus for this week. Firstly, let’s look at the latest mock-up
This week has shot passed. There has been a lot of work on the new UI re-design going on behind the scenes. I’ve created a bunch of new UI behaviours in the game to mimic the mock ups and now I’m waiting on some pretty looking assets to populate them with. I’m very excited to
This week has had a very UI orientated taste to it. I’ve been busy building mini-prototypes of UI elements, as well as spending a lot of time mocking up interface ideas and testing them. One of the bits of feedback I often get about the game is about the lack of quality to the UI
There are a lot of different terms in Fringe Planet; some obscure, some esoteric and some just technical. Today’s blog post is aimed at providing clarity to some of the terminology used in the game. We will keep this blog post updated with new terms and will also move this information to the Fringe Planet
Fringe Planet is a cold and harsh world, and in order to succeed, you will need to provide warmth and safety for your peons. Today we are doing a different type of blog post. Rather than development news, we are going to take you through the first 30 minutes (or so) of gameplay. This will
Welcome to another weekly development blog. For the past week we have been focused exclusively on the UI of Fringe Planet, and this weeks blog post talks about the changes, as well as some of the design philosophy behind the new UI themes. Fringe Planet has always had a very minimalist but functional UI –
This weeks development blog is focused on an issue very close to our hearts, that of accessibility in games, and primarily how we are going to make Fringe Planet as accessible as possible to as many gamers as possible. We will be talking about audio today and how we can help everyone experience the sounds
Greetings and welcome to the first of a weekly development blog post. I’m going to post these every Friday and use them to provide a retrospective of the development work I’ve been doing on Fringe Planet over the week. I got some incredible feedback on Tuesday from some extremely talented people about Fringe Planet –