Category: News
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A farewell to demos
You may have noticed that I’ve removed links to the demo from here and elsewhere. And if you hadn’t noticed before then you surely have now after reading that sentence. It felt weird doing this – like I was trying to get away with something bad – so I started making this post as an…
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What goes bump in the afternoon?
(The release date of the upcoming demo) The next public demo for Village Monsters – which you might know as Candy Corn – needs to be bumped to November. The exact release date and eye-roll-worthy nickname will be announced a little later. Last time I delayed a demo it was because I still had work…
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Open Dev Policy
One of my favorite trends in video game development is how increasingly open its become. It used to be that game creation was (to players, at least) an unknowable and arcane process that you could only catch glimpses of in magazines or websites. These days you can find all sorts of examples of refreshingly open…
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Arrested Development
For some, summer is about fun vacations, trips to the beach, and picnics. For others… After looking at the heat maps of the US this past week I think I’m with Mock on this. Unfortunately I have some bad news, so let’s rip it off like a band-aid. I need to delay the release of…
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On Alpha 2, Too
We’re barreling toward the first release of the post-Kickstarter demo of Village Monsters, so I wanted to take some time to talk about what that means. First, the release date: Alpha 2 will be made available on December 11th, 2017! Following Alpha 2 will be several Feedback Releases which will come out between the 11th and the end…
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Village Monsters has Launched on Kickstarter!
Help Me Build a Village Oh, hello there! Village Monsters is now live on Kickstarter! Nearly nine months ago to the day I quit my job to create games. When I left I was excited and nervous and happy and anxious – and these are all the same emotions I feel today! I’m having the…