the dev blog
I was having a thematic crisis with our game last week. I got hopelessly lost scrolling through a tumblr page chock full of 1980’s Dungeons and Dragons art. There’s something about these illustrations really pulls me in. They feel novel. I’m not sure if it’s the fidelity of the facial expressions, or the detailed textures.…
I was trying to brainstorm some new enemies the other day; started off with some random doodling in my sketchbook, and it went in a very wild direction! -Armin
A little bit of iteration goes a long way. One of my biggest struggles has always been to get inspired after my first draft. After I draw for a bit, I get stuck, and feel anxious. Then the anxiety makes me want to quit and move on to something else.
As many games do, our game started with a Game Jam. On Friday, February 9, 2018, having recently passed up the opportunity to participate in Global Game Jam, our team divined our own jam in the solitude of my apartment living room and embarked on an assuredly doomed mission to make a game in 48…