Game Development

Monday, October 26. 2020

Stone-piled Walls

Summary: In which the demo is polished; a new demo-version is uploaded and available; the pitch -deck and -email are worked on; the first pitch is sent out; and a new level is begun.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows the bare start of a new level:

The week just past had, in a way, two parts: The first was concerned primarily with updating the demo, preparing my publisher-pitch, and then--sending out said pitch! The second, once the pitch was done, was concerned primarily with what's shown above: the building of a new level.

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in A Door to the Mists at 11:12

Monday, October 19. 2020

Pitching and Scrolling

Summary: In which the pitch deck continues to see work; the pitch email is begun; bug-fixes are made; the level-five upper-puzzle gains some "nudges"; and mouse-wheel scrolling is better-supported.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows another look at the pitch-deck that I've been working on:

As you may imagine, much of the work of the week just past was given to preparations for making a publisher pitch, I believe. Still, a few other things were done too!

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in A Door to the Mists at 10:46

Monday, October 12. 2020

Preparing a Publisher Pitch

Summary: In which a demo has been released; last-minute fixes are implemented beforehand; a short holiday is taken; the saving-and-loading module is made more secure; similar changes are made in the code of the game itself; the saving-and-loading module is made available on GitHub; some post-demo bugs are fixed, including a memory leak; and a pitch-deck is begun.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot comes not from the game itself, but from a work-in-progress pitch document for the game:

As you may know, the biggest news of the week just past is that the "Depictions" Demo was released! It's by no means all that was done, but it was a salient item:

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in A Door to the Mists at 13:26

Tuesday, October 6. 2020

"Depictions" Demo Released!

Summary: In which the "depictions" demo has been released, and is available to download!

Greetings and salutations!

The "Depictions" demo is complete, and is available to download!

You can get it from either Itch.io or IndieDB, via the following links:

Itch.io
IndieDB

And to go with it, here is a new trailer:

I hope that you enjoy the demo! Please feel free to leave feedback--I'm interested to know how people find the game! ^_^

That then is all for this post--stay well, and thank you for reading--and for playing, if you do! ^_^

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in A Door to the Mists at 15:46

Monday, October 5. 2020

Demo Preparations

Summary: In which videos are made and uploaded (but not shown); a demo-name is decided; a lore-entry is given a page-image; that same lore-entry is edited; a prologue jump is made a little easier; build-testing is begun; bugs are discovered and dealt with; and an update on the demo's status is given.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a small change made to the prologue's traversal: