Adventures in Game Development Chapter 30

THE PRODIGAL CHILDREN HATH RETURNED! AND WE'RE EVEN EARLY THIS TIME!

We had a really good week, honestly. Lots of fundamental design decisions and priorities were hammered out, and we're having the time of our lives never sleeping and pushing ourselves to our creative and technical limits.

Cole is fitting right into his role as producer, musician, scripter, drug fiend, and all-around dabbler. Patrick has been doing exceptional work on the pixels, bringing highly detailed, skeletal animations (with full 3D lighting) to the world of ES (and apparently we're even saving VRAM while we're at it). Falco has essentially feature-completed ESTk with the last update, and now it's just a matter of exposing things to a pretty little GUI to allow content creation to be shared by level designers and Patrick rather than all having to be done via Lua.

We have also been in discussion with OUYA regarding the fate of the Free-The-Games-Fund and our options moving forward. I'm sure you're all aware of the fact they've been purchased by Razer now, which we're all honestly pretty damn excited for here. We'll keep you guys updated on that front. Don't forget those of you who backed us on the OUYA, we gotta decide if we're going to go rogue and find out a way to get on there with or without permission, or if you guys want to move to another platform (because we KNOW you don't want your money back, haha).

Don't forget, we're also streaming 4 days a week on Twitch, and you can all join us live to see the not-so-glamorous-life of being a ghetto indie game development team living in a double-wide in Alabama. Monday: Falco's Engine and Toolkit Stream Tuesday: Patrick's Pixel Art and Animation Stream Wednesday: Tyler's Scripting and Gameplay Stream Thursday: Cole's Audio, Level Design, and Production Stream Then don't forget to check out our weekly Kickstarter/Steam updates either!

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