Category: Development Diary
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Building a Village, 03/25/2018
Welcome to another edition of Building a Village, the weekly dev log for Village Monsters. It’s wrap up time here at Village Monsters HQ. There’s an astronomically large demo coming down the pipeline this month, so I’ve been hard at work putting the finishing touches on it. Let’s take a look! Journal Improvements The journal…
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Building a Village, 03/18/2018
It’s been too long, villagers, and that’s entirely my fault. I mentioned last month that I was being unusually productive, and that has continued into March. This is, of course, a good thing! However, the downside with being a one man operation is that when you’re productive in one area you tend to the let…
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Building a Village, February 2018
Hello villagers! Development of Village Monsters has really hit its stride in these early days of 2018. January was perhaps the most productive month of my entire life; it’s no exaggeration to say the game has changed more in last month than the previous 3 months before it combined. In today’s update we’re going to take a…
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A productive and rainy January
Hello villagers! What an insanely productive month January was! Toward the start of the week I took the time to sit down and analyze the primary game loops. I came away from this exercise with a much clearer picture of what I wanted (and what I didn’t want!) from the game. Here are the 4…
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Planning Out Beta 1
It’s a new year. People are coming up with (and perhaps already abandoning) new years resolutions, so what better time to talk about what Q1 of 2018 looks like for Village Monsters? Earlier this week the last Alpha demo was released into the wild. In contrast to the Pre-Alpha demos before it, the Alpha series…
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Village Monsters – Alpha 2.2 Release
Happy New Year! The final Alpha version of 2017 has been posted. It’s also very likely the final Alpha version period! Next up I begin work on Beta 1. Get hyped! Your download portal should already be updated with the new hotness. Here’s the patch notes for the release: Alpha 2.2 Additions The title screen…
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Village Monsters – Alpha 2.1 Release
Oof, that’ll teach me to make a bunch of changes on a release day. It’s obvious now that Alpha 2 needed much more thorough testing of the last-minute changes; many of you have reported crashes and other problems that are preventing you from even playing. I was able to fix the majority of them and…