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Over the course of the past year, students studying the Diploma in Game Development at Futureworks insitute of Media in Manchester, England, have attempted to create a workable 2D video game from the ground up. Combining innovative Design, in-house programming and striking visuals; Spin Doctor is the result. Spin Doctor is a puzzle/action based 2D Adventure game, set within a Victorian world with steampunk elements. Spind has been coded in C# and compiled in Microsofts XNA engine . Players will take control of Harland Shears, following him on an adventure through a hellish maze of steam-powered puzzles and obstacles in a quest for freedom. Users must work their way through a mix of thought provoking and physically exhausting puzzles designed to push the player and Harland to their limits; both physically and mentally.

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The weeks close in and the days count down until our Beta deadline and hopeful demo release...

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Hey!

Finally got everything set up on IndieDB for the game and we all seem to be set up and running; awesome.

Today's date is the 13th of August and marks the last Sprint we will be doing until the last push for Beta is over and we are hopefully left with a finished project. There are plans to release a demo of the game once it hits Beta on the 22nd but we will talk more about that closer to the time.

Our level editor is almost finished also, meaning we can potentially release a development copy, allowing users to create there own custom levels for the Spin Doctor game!

"Sprints" are part of the Agile methodology and something we have used since the end of April. The minute we adopted this strategy production and efficiency shot up and we were able to keep development times down to a minimum. The process of creating and design levels was sped up, Programmers had clear and concise tasks they were able to finalize and the Artists churned out assets weekly.

Valuable lessons have been learnt for the next game we create.

Thanks for reading and we hope to have some more information soon along side the end of our Beta phase. We are keep to get people playing Spin Doctor.

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