Starting our dev update off with what's important lol: All the KO_OP staff members have their own dinosona now; a lot of them are actually in this picture, at a big concert on the roof of the school.
Our animation team is on a strict wrap schedule that has all their remaining work mapped out for the rest of the game. The animations have been split up into two categories: poses or in-betweens (sound off in the comments if you wanna learn more about this process). We’re also down to just a few pick-up lines of dialogue before we fully wrap on VO, which is huge, and our background art team is almost done, with only two members of our background art team remaining 🥺 It’s so bittersweet to off-board team members from a game as it wraps up! Right now, the name of the game is integration: getting alllll those assets into Unity. Our integration team is so efficient right now it's wild, and we've gotten an assist from our Team Pilgrim programmers (in case you missed it: we operate under a "two team" format, where one team is making a game while another is in concept development so we always have something on the go. We're Team Fang, in case you missed that).
In addition to our dev updates though, we've finally been able to get Goodbye Volcano High into people's hands! Not the full game of course, but our demo! In March we had our first opportunities to get hands-on thoughts from other game developers at GDC's Day of the Devs, where we were one of a handful of games curated for the event, and at PAX East, which was the first time consumers got their claws on the Goodbye Volcano High demo.
Thanks @wolfnanaki for this amazing round up of all the press on GVH's demo!
Getting to hear all your thoughts and all the things people were excited about was like a balm on our weary souls! We can't thank you enough. We were, however, very sorry our online dino delegates didn't get a chance to play the demo 💔 Wouldn't you know it though, that's all about to change...
Because we are proud to announce that the first online demo for Goodbye Volcano High will make its debut at LudoNarraCon this coming May 4th-8th! YES THAT'S RIGHT DINOS. It’ll be here on Steam.
It's so overwhelmingly wonderful to get to be a part of LudoNarraCon. I remember watching talks the past few years and being so impressed with the way they run this fest, and the types of games they highlight. It's so special. And now we're in the mix! We're so honoured.
It's been a big month for us, dinos! The whole development team has been hard at work finishing this darn game, and it's looking so beautiful. We really can't wait for you to see it.