We have some huge news this week! We’ve put our game on Steam Greenlight! If you’re reading this, you probably already knew that but just in case you didn’t here’s a link to the page: The initial comments that were coming in made us realize that people very much wished it was a co-op game…
So it’s been a bit since I’ve last posted an update on our progress with Above. We had spring break a couple of weeks ago and we’ve sort of been playing catch-up ever since. Most of the work we’ve been doing has been fixing bugs. There were (and still are) a lot so we’ve…
This week was our last week of building new levels. Everything from here on out will be testing, fixing bugs and polish. That’s a pretty big milestone and I’m excited to have gotten this far and to still have a month and a half left to clean up the game. Our team is still…
This week we continued to polish up levels 4, 5 and 6 and we worked on several other pieces of the game too. In fact there were so many changes it almost doesn’t seem like the same game. You may have already watched the video I created to submit to the TERMINUS conference’s game…
Our team submitted Above: The Fallen to the 2017 TERMINUS film and game conference in Atlanta. If we’re chosen as finalists we’ll be able to show the game off at the conference and we’ll be competing for some awesome prizes. Here’s the video we sent in.
Unfortunately, I’m unable to continue creating WebGL builds of the game as we’ve just integrated Wwise (a tool for sound effects) into our project files and it doesn’t support Web builds. Instead I’ve opted to record some of the game play from this past week. Please check out the video below and let me…
This past week was spent working on polishing up and adding to our first set of levels. We also dedicated a lot of time to play testing to get some initial feedback about Above. We had a lot of great feedback come in and we were able to fix a few things that players found…
I’m happy to announce that we’ve been allowed to start building out our levels for the final version of the game and 2 weeks ahead of schedule too! This past week we were busy building out our ideas for the first 3 levels and the tutorial of the game. As you can see we’ve…
Another week down, another set of puzzle experiments completed. Just like last week that was our main focus again and because of the progress we’ve made we’ve been given the “go-ahead” to start working on our final level design ideas. The goal of creating these puzzles was not only for us to build drafts…
Environment art has started to roll in. The whole team is very excited about this work created by Matthew Sahakian.
So this week we all spent the majority of our time building interesting puzzles that we could potentially use in the final version of the game. I had a hard time coming up with ideas for fun interactions at first but it wasn’t long before I had so many ideas bouncing around that I…