As I’m writing this post, the closed beta testing period is over, having thrown invaluable feedback from players. From errors (exceptions, mostly) and other hard-to-find bugs, to design suggestions, everything was valuable. Steam distribution Use Steam as soon as you … Continued
Through these years I’ve learnt that UI design is one of the hardest, widest and, maybe for begginners, more underestimated tasks in a game. Why? UI shows information about things that player should or might want to know, but are … Continued
When you think about blood action shoot em ups you may think about a few splats here and there, or something more dynamic, bloody, gore, if you like. That’s what we thought about Trespassers. When the 5.2 Unity3D update was … Continued
In the early stages of the development of our 2D run’n gun game, Trespassers, we started to get some performance problems. One of our design goals was having tons of enemies on screen at once, and shooting them without thinking … Continued
Warning: Lengthy post about business/marketing here. We are in the middle of the Greenlight campaign (click to go there) these days with Trespassers, and have some insights about the process. In case you wonder, we are tracking the links that … Continued
Right into the development and after talking with other developers at Madrid Games Week 2015 (where we could further test our game, but that would make up for another story), we felt the needed to recover a special kind of … Continued
Months ago, while preparing the Gamelab 2015 build of Trespassers, we were thinking about how could we tell bits of the story inside the game. But things were that we had no time to develop a full cinematic for every … Continued
One of our design decisions with Trespassers was that we wanted lots of enemies at the same time. Not smart, but you should be always outnumbered. Thus, that meant that we had to make the most out of the resources … Continued
While working on Trespassers, one of our concerns was persisting data between different levels as they were loaded. For instance, if a player spends too much ammo, he may run out of it, and we wanted to store this change … Continued
Although this would be our first entry in the dev blog talking about Trespassers, we have been working in the game for several months right now, although not full time though. As we are approaching our Steam Greenlight release, we … Continued