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Battle For Dune: War of Assassins - Game Night - Celebrating a Spicy Year!

Aug 21 2023 Battle for Dune: War of Assassins 1 comment

It’s difficult to believe that the end of this month will mark a whole year since Battle for Dune: war of Assassins was released. To celebrate this...

Development

Mar 9 2022 News 1 comment

References for our dungeon/cave level with a first asset placement test to try and reach de best level design posssible.

Demo available

Feb 23 2022 Outshine

We now have a demo available on Steam! Also, our team did a video explaining the game mechanic of Outshine.

3 Books to Level You Up in #GameDev, Guaranteed!

Oct 22 2021 Level Design/Theory Tutorial

A Boost to Level 1000 in Game Design! Starting from game feel, the psychology behind game design, how we experience games, and what a great game/level...

3 Things I Wish I Knew when I started Level Design

Oct 22 2021 Level Design/Theory Tutorial

Do you think Level Design is easy? Think Again! Having a memorable, engaging and intuitive level design takes a lot of practice, experience and the right...

DB12 - Piece by Piece

Sep 2 2021 Oizys

As you know, Oizys is a Puzzle Game with very simple mechanics, and a focus on narrative. How does that relate to escape rooms and layering? Continue...

DB4 - World, we have a problem

Jun 4 2021 Oizys

... Maybe not a problem-problem... But still, we need your help! Do you know how some games have the power to bring people together over a story? We...

Codename Olympus Stealth Action Game | Scripting and Setting up the level

May 24 2021 Codename Olympus

In this update i talk about the progress we've had since the last relating to level designer and how we've added vast new sections a main menu and more.

DB3 - World, Bottoms up! (and no... we're not talking about drinks)

May 20 2021 Oizys

Today, we bring you our mechanics, and explain our bottom-up process of development regarding Oizys!

Level design tests

May 8 2021 Dream Hanker 2 comments

Week 9 - level design tests using Rational Game Design.

How I breath lief into a new level

Jan 26 2021 Leif's Adventure: Netherworld Hero

Leif's Adventure is coming along nicely. Have a look at the latest game development updates.

Sharing some decorating process using Unity3D

Dec 9 2020 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles 2 comments

A small tip to help you decorate your game and some decorating process.

Nanotale - The Devil is in the details

Dec 1 2020 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

We entered that specific moment in the production when there is nothing more to be created but everything to be improved. The Devil is in the details.

Harmless Demons | Steam release

Sep 27 2020 Harmless Demons

Steam release and store page, this is my last article.

Harmless Demons | Trailer

Sep 13 2020 Harmless Demons

Trailer for upcoming Steam release, on the 25th of September!

Cepheus Protocol - Horde AI improvements and more! - Dev Update #38

Aug 16 2020 Cepheus Protocol

Over the last few weeks we've worked to improve the infected, optimization and take feedback from the community to ensure we are hitting all the right...

DevDiary #1 - Building a virtual living complex for exploring (based on a real one)

Jul 4 2020 Epidemic Tracer

In this article I'm going to show you how to create imaginary but realistic worlds without any concept art needed, and based on real life locations.

Weekly Update #55: Working on the cave while having some fun

Mar 31 2020 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Still working on the cave and having fun as we can with the confinement.

Harmless Demons | DevLog #9: Destruction, Escape, Behaviours, Tools

Feb 7 2020 Harmless Demons

The game is getting stuffed, come and discover with what.

Weekly Recap #37: New Character Revealed

Oct 8 2019 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Hey guys! We have now a new character in our game. Master Lavender is here to teach you how to use your magic and how to collect elements from the lore.

Summer is heating up – so is our game! Dev Update #27

Jul 7 2019 Cepheus Protocol

This month we worked to build a more efficient way of approaching level design for future zones, we further refined the gameplay in terms of polishing...

Weekly Recap #29: Tree of Life and Cemetery

Jul 2 2019 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Last week we worked on polishing existing places from Nanotale such as the Tree of Life and the Cemetery.

What’s up, doc? Dev Update #26

May 26 2019 Cepheus Protocol

Over the past few weeks we worked to refine and get more gameplay mechanics into our dev builds. We've refined and changed some systems and worked on...

Weekly Recap #22: Tree of Life and new biome!

May 14 2019 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

In this update, we'll show you the second biome of the game and some work on the Tree of Life.

Weekly Recap #17 to #19: Demo, NPCs and more

Apr 29 2019 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

We went to PAX East and EGX Rezzed to showcase the game for the first time. It was really great and people loved it. But we also continued to work on...

Internal Playtesting Starts Dev Update #24

Feb 19 2019 Cepheus Protocol

I think it goes without saying that Indie Game Development is hard grueling work, it’s certainly not for everyone. Every aspect has to be planned out...

A Xmas Update! Dev Update #22

Dec 25 2018 Cepheus Protocol 2 comments

Past this Dev Blog: We will be omitting certain tasks people have done throughout the week in sake of spoilers! Sorry :), But over the past 2 weeks we...