Hello everyone!
First of all, I wanted to thank you all for your interest in our game.
I wanted to take the time to write a little note to introduce our studio, Optiz Onion, and tell you more about how Drafting towers came to be. First thing first, who are we and where do we come from?
Optiz Onion is a two person studio composed of Axel nevel (8umpty) and me, Julien Coppenolle (Kobal). Axel came from a Web Design school and I came from a Comics school, we met at a Video Game Development training about two years.
The goal of the training was to make the transition to a carreer within the videogame industry and it lasted 6 months. The last two months, we had to produce a game and that is when our team came to be. The result of this two month's work was the first iteration of our game : Drafting Towers
As you may know by now, Drafting Towers is a tower defense game mixed with deckbuilding and elements from the roguelite genre. The first iteration of it is still available here on Itch.io :
https://8umpty.itch.io/drafting-towers
After the end of the training, Covid struck (nuff said) and like most of us, our plans got disrupted. Fortunately, about a year later, Axel and I got reunited to work together on a paid project under another studio. This project led us to reconsider working on a full scale Drafting Towers game as, when it was done, the studio originally offered to finance us. Unfortunately, this offer didn't come to fruction but the seed had been planted in axel and I's brains... After all, why shouldn't we work on a new version of Drafting Towers? Covid was in full swing, we had time and little else to do.
It is around this time that Optiz Onion, our own studio, was born (although we didn't have a name yet) and for a few months, we worked on a new Drafting Towers whenever we could. Here are a few images or what we did so far.
Today, we're working on another project and we want to be upfront about it, we haven't given up on Drafting Towers at all but we're part of a program that requires us to make three games within one year, one in 2 months, one in four months and the last one in 6 month. Drafting Towers will be one of the game we produced during this time period but we want to give it our all so it can't be the one we finish in two months.
Don't worry, we will keep you updated as often as possible and if you're interested, we will be sharing a monthly devlog related to our experience during that one year of game developing. You can follow us here :
https://medium.com/@optizoniongames/first-steps-to-being-a-belgian-videogame-studio-e77093ca3e5f
That is all for today but we will be keeping you up to date every week starting today! Until then, have a good one! Enjoy !
Kobal