Hey Everyone,
It’s been a while since we’ve done a development update. We had a lot going on after PAX ended but now things are finally starting to quiet down. So here’s what’s been happening.
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Been a quiet year, hasn't it? We, like many indies are believers in open development, where you talk early and often about your game and include your audience in the process of developing the game. It's a great way to market and expose your game, which is the biggest problem indies have and will always have. We don't compete with each other; we compete with obscurity.
Well it's not always a viable option. Sometimes you need to dive and run silent. We needed to develop a new art style for Due Process. Block dudes are great, but they're very limiting, and we can make a far richer game by choosing a style other than abstract programmer art.
A year ago, we hired a team of artists who have been working very hard to deliver a style suitable for the game. Game art, much like the game attached to it, is complete shit for 90% of development and really only comes together in the last stretch, so it was important to shield the art team from early and undue criticism. We had to lay low for a bit and not show too much to keep morale up, because the internet is unkind.
So now we've surfaced. We're back, and we're very proud to present this:
It’s about time we updated everyone about Alpha Testing. There’s still a lot of stuff to get done before we can start, but we figured we should let everyone know how it’s going to work and why it’s been taking so long.
- How it’s Going to Work -
When testing starts we’ll randomly select around 100 people from our list of people who’ve signed up to help us test out Due Process. We’ll send emails to those addresses ahead of time so make sure to check your inboxes! As alpha testing goes on we’ll continue repeating that process. It’s not likely anyone will get to play in more than one test session. We can only have so many games running at once and we’d like to let as many people try it out as possible.
So with the new DP, internally, we've been talking about something I call "the Inversion," which is a potential solution to a design problem we've had since the start. But before we get into the Inversion (which is cooler than it sounds), let's start with this:
