Hello fellow co-conspirators! These past few weeks have been spent working on the tutorial of the game (man I think I’m like at the 5th revision). I’ll be honest it has been a bit gruelling to go over the same territory again and again, but every time I go at it, the game becomes stronger. …
As we get ready for a big surprise anouncement, there is still much to be done. Our players are still a bit confused on how they got here and we have tons of quality of life improvements for them…
Hello fellow co-conspirators! Well it’s been a crazy last week. It didn’t start that way for sure. I was planning to continue on development nice and easy, gathering the feedback from Full Indie and working out the kinks in the game, when I learned of this awesome event happening across the border in Seattle. Now …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! Wow what a couple of weeks! As I mentioned last time, Puppetmaster was going to be presented to the Vancouver game dev community. I was pretty nervous, so I spent the last weeks playtesting fervously and obsessing over every detail that could go wrong. My main fear, of all things, came from …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! I’ve got some exiciting news; I’ll be presenting Puppetmaster at Full Indie! This might not mean much to most of you, but for me it’s special. See Full Indie is a monthly meetup of vancouver game developers. It’s a chance to catch up with industry friends and talk about the problems you’re …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! Well it was a bit of a journey, but I finally finished the new tutorial. Instead of it being very hand-holdy (say like a mobile game would), this one was more exploration-focused; letting the players do their thang and then explaining what just happened. The idea is the as players have control …
Hello fello co-conspirators! I’ve been spending this week working on a new type of tutorial. Sometimes I feel I’ve gone through a hundred versions of this, but honestly it’s one of the most important parts of any game. No matter how good your core, if people don’t get the game, they will just drop out. …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! These few weeks have been pretty busy. I’m preparing to show my game at Full Indie, a local Vancouver game dev meetup. It’s the first time I’m showing the game to a large group of people instead of a single playtester at a time, so I’m a bit nervous. What makes me …
Hello fellow co-conspirators! This was another week of playtesting and feedback. Players are really responding well to the new mission system (yay!) but are definitely still confused by the economy. They do pick it up after a few turns, but at the beginning they are utterly confused. I’ve been testing the new visual feedback for …
Hello dear co-conspirators, After the last couple of tests, I’m pretty happy with the core structure of the game; I feel there’s still a bit missing to make the end game more interesting, but the base is there. Testers have been showing signs that they need more of a sense of progression.. i.e. what happens after I …