We've recently started working on Mac support for Croakwood. While there's still some work left to do it's generally working now, but the performance initially wasn't quite as good as we were hoping. So we investigated what's going on and here's the story of what we found :) When
We're on track to release Croakwood into Early Access this winter! Check out our new trailer that's giving a look at lots of new things: View game page What is Early Access? Early Access means the game is available to buy and play while it's still being actively developed. The ga
Hey! Don't forget to check out Wholesome Direct this Saturday :) This month we made a lot of progress in how our game world is put together and designed. The way our game world works is a bit like a puzzle. We have individual pieces that we design by hand, and then the game autom
Hey, it's been some time! If you want to know what we've been up to, make sure to check out Wholesome Direct on June 6th :) In one of the previous posts I described how the villagers navigate around the world and in this one I want to talk a bit about how they decide where to go
In preparation for Game Garden and in the time afterwards we've spent some time on polishing how placing objects works. Placing objects is one of the main things you do in this game of course, so it needs to feel good and be intuitively understandable. There's a few consideration
We're bringing a first demo of Croakwood to Vancouver Game Garden on September 27-28, alongside many other great games from local independent developers. If you happen to be in Vancouver we'd be excited if you come and give it a try! The demo encompasses a slice of roughly the fi
When we started working on Croakwood, programming the villagers seemed to be relatively straightforward - they just have to walk around in whatever environment the player created for them and interact with certain objects. In that sense they are very similar to the guests in Park
This post is about a few different aspects regarding how the game is being rendered. It's mostly technical but I figured it might still be interesting to see behind the scenes a bit. We're using Unity as the engine for this game. A game engine is a piece of software that provides
A big part of Croakwood is providing cozy little houses that your frog villagers can live and work in, so let's take a look at how the houses work! All of the buildings are created from individual pieces, so every wall, furniture item and decorative object is an individual object
In a game about frogs you kind of need to have water, which means you need to program a water shader. A shader is basically a short program that calculates what color a pixel should receive. To me as a programmer they can be somewhat intimidating to create - you need to write som
In this post our art director and concept artist Marve gives some insights into her thoughts on the setting of the game and some of the influences for the art direction. Mood We decided pretty early on we want to keep the overall style semi-realistic and not wander too far into f
In a game about building frog towns the frogs are unsurprisingly pretty important. Here's a look at how they developed over time and what we had in mind while working on them. First of all, as with everything else, figuring out their look took some time and we went through some r
Where do you even start developing a game? There's so many things you need to work on at the same time. A good starting point probably is the terrain and general environment, so let's take a look at how that developed. As with any feature, it starts very simple. Over time we get
Whew! Feels good to finally have this game announced and be able to talk about it 😊 Seeing all the reactions to the announcement trailer was incredibly thrilling, and we're all very happy that people seem to be quite excited about it and sent so many nice comments. You never kno
Here's a lovely little surprise in the midst of Summer Game Fest: the makers of the excellent building and management sim Parkitect have been cooking up a little something in secret. Today at the Glitch Future of Play showcase, developer Texel Raptor revealed a new game, and it l