Hello 2016! We hope everyone had a lovely holiday break! Each of us took off a short amount of time for a well-needed break, in preparation for the hectic months to come! We already started back on schedule yesterday with a running start: strategizing, planning for this year and working late into the night.
This may or not be what we looked like:
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| Bonfire on Iztali Point |
With Spring 2016 just around the corner, we have A TON of work to do. Some of these things include:
- Finishing all asset creation
- Content, mechanic and level-lock
- Finishing music composition and putting it into the game
- Finishing sound-design
- Finalizing a menu design that will work for both VR and non-VR players
- Marketing
- Testing and paying for Quality Assurance (and fixing all the bugs for a month or two)
- Lots of Polish!!
- Organizing all of our Kickstarter backers' rewards and sending them out on time
- And, you know, releasing the actual game.
There's a lot more than just that list, but it's a pretty basic rundown of what we are looking at. Wish us luck and continue to share our posts/Facebook page/Twitter/screenshots with friends :)
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| Temple ruins in Nahele Rain |
If we make all of our goals, it will not be a miracle. It will be the result of determination, hard work and most likely a lack of sleep.
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| The nights in XING become more mysterious. |
Thank goodness we love what we do! Even now, there are days when we all feel a wave of excitement about something we just made work, or a concept we get to see finally brought to life. Personally, I love designing and refining environments around gameplay, and vice versa. The two are closely interconnected in XING: The Land Beyond, so it's important that they both influence each other.
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| The Desert of Naar |
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| Temple view in Hyaku Lake |
Lastly, here are some catch-up photos from IndieCade and the PlayStation Experience:
IndieCade 2015
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| The Setup |
PlayStation Experience 2015
Day 0
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| John and James competing in a speed run after setting up on day 0 |
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| The booth setup :) |
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| We love how our home screen looks (shots of whichever level you are in now play in the background) |
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| Us :) |
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| Posing behind the decorations. |
Day 1
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| John talking to some players |
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| Outside the booth |
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| James and John |
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| Only one of us stayed inside the booth while the others stayed around the outside and talked to people. |
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| Happy that the booth is going so well! |
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| Eating Chipotle at 8:30pm. The show floor was open till 10! |
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| Dinner Break |
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| Dinner break. The booth pretty much ran itself this time :) |
Day 2
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| Lots of people played in pairs! |
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| John doing an interview. |
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| This might be one of my favorite moments from the Experience. These 2 pairs were playing the game and talking to each other to figure out how the other team solved things. John was watching in the middle. |
Thanks for reading, now back to work!
