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DOGVELOPMENT LOG #12: PupperDex Incoming!!

Once upon a time, I had a dream. A dream of a new way of handling quest tracking, in interstellar airports run by dogs.A PupperDex.Working with Dave Makes, our incredible UI artist, those horrible MS Paint mockups turned into something that looks a lot like this:My productivity this week has been co...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #11: The Candy Plane Rises

LudoNarraCon ended a couple weeks ago, and boy are my arms tired!No, but seriously.Why are my arms so tired.LudoNarraCon wrapped up a couple weeks ago, and as part of that event, I streamed the creation of the Candy Plane - something that'll actually exist in the game world, now! You can watch t...

We're in LudoNarraCon (+ Build Update News)!!

I'll cut to the chase - we're a part of LudoNarraCon this year!In case you don't know what LudoNarraCon is, it's a showcase held through Steam. Developers show off footage of their games (and even full demos) - all from their homes! It's an accessible, proper game event, all focu...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #10: Harbinger of the Haunted Horse Plane

For my day job, I make games. On weekends (and nights, when I can manage it), I also make games - this game about dogs in alien airports, to be specific.To no one's surprise but my own, that means I am often tired.However, this week, it has had unexpected dividends.I learned how to do really eff...

GRAND OPENING - Phobos Airport Build! [Expansion #4]

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!With all the changes and updates that have occurred since our last non-incremental build, I think this might be our largest revision yet. Fortunate timing, too - we were just featured in a big ol' Xbox showcase you can watch in the link below:https://www.yout...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #9: New Build Incoming!!

It's 3:42 AM in El Paso. We just announced the delay of SkateBIRD to 2021 (I've been the story/narrative director on it!). The world is on fire - and every time I work on this game, I forget that a little bit.I spent a long time telling myself that I was a person who could be productive even...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #8: Candy Plane's Fate

I spent an agonizing series of hours extending the plane system yesterday. Every time you board a flight in Dog Airport Game, there's now a chance you could encounter one of four airlines.Combined with the modular randomization affecting your canine fellow passenger, and the different sets of mu...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #7: Steamy Events!!

Okay, that headline promises a bit more salacious content than I'd like. However, today, we made a giant announcement:Dog Airport Game is coming to Steam!You can wishlist it right now!And we got a fancy trailer!!(I actually highly advise you do wishlist as soon as possible, to keep us from getti...

THIS IS THE PAX EAST BUILD SHHHHHH

One major shift in this build captures the kind of changes we've been making to Dog Airport Game this month.Remember how you couldn't read your boarding pass in shadow? The darkness would obscure it completely? Yeah, that's gone now.In lieu of jumping into adding more shops and dogs (tho...

IT'S MIDNIGHT IN EL PASO AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT DOG BIGGADOME

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DOGVELOPMENT LOG #6: Can You Keep a Secret?

You can keep a secret, right?As of 4 AM this morning, all music in the game is part of the original soundtrack now being created for An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. I'm delighted to announce that our chosen composer is RJ Lake. He's gone above and beyond knocking it out of the p...

THIS IS THE TRAILER BUILD SHHHHH

It has been nine days since we last spoke - and I come BEARING GIFTS!In the previous build, looking in this direction would drop the average framerate from over 100 fps, to roughly 15. We called it the Bad Direction, and feared its presence, while also acknowledging it was a primary location in the ...

MEGA-SIZED Post-PAX South Build! [Expansion #3]

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!It has been a hell of a time since PAX South. Folks went absolutely bananas for our boarding passes, and the game in general. I did a postmortem of the event on Twitter.Since our last build, we have had a metric ton of content additions (coffee shops, a quest aro...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #5: Post-PAX Plans! Key Art!

You know what's really cool? When everything clicks, and you see something that perfectly encapsulates the world you're creating. That's what Ben Chandler (of Wadjet Eye fame) made possible with the key art for An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs.That picture is going to be front...

THIS IS THE PAX SOUTH BUILD SHHHHHHH

Heya, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!I have to fly out for PAX South in like 24 hours. Attached, you'll find the information sheets I'm bringing to the show (including the controls, which actually aren't needed because they're now listed in-game!), and the link to the build that'l...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #4 - Rodney the Cursed Dog Man

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!The results of the poll came through, and we're getting the next Patreon build after PAX South, when the issues have been fixed and I am slightly less panicked. I wanted to be chill about this, but uh: t-thank you for doing that. You have spared me, and I app...

PAX South Reveal + Build Poll!

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!I'm going to be at PAX South, in the newly-announced PAX Together showcase on the main floor! Attached to this poll is an exclusive look at the boarding passes we'll be giving out! It's a very exciting time for Dog Airport Game, and I'm extremely ...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #3: In Which Scott McCloud Validates My Existence

Happy Almost-New-Year! I'm finally reading Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, and it's validated both this project and my entire existence.One chapter of the book focuses on the power of the cartoon. I'm paraphrasing, but the basic idea is that the closer an image is to the abstract/...

New Build Day! [Expansion #2]

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!I thought this would be a small update. A little mid-month refresh of the airport as we go into the holidays. Maybe a couple new shops. A few new plane dogs.That is not what happened.We've got new interactable objects with systemic consequences (vending machi...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #2 : Asset Flip

Yeah, that's a bit of a clickbait title, but it's the same quiet criticism that runs through my head every time I use a purchased package to improve a part of Dog Airport Game.What if people write off my game, because they recognize that starscape, or that pair of shoes, or that character mo...

The New Build is Here! [Expansion #1]

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!I promised monthly (or more!) updates, and here we are: less than a month after a busy Patreon launch, and I've got a build for ya that represents a pretty dang big boost to the gameplay, content variety, and structural integrity of the game. You can see some...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #1 - New Build Coming Soon!

Hello, Dog Fans!As was prophesied in the part of your patron tier description that said " updated monthly (or more)! ", a big update to An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is landing in the next few days.IT'S GOT- New carpets!- New stores, including Patron-chosen chew toy restaur...

Dogvelopment Stream Announcement + Poll

Hello, Dog Fans!I'm doing the very first Dogvelopment stream of Dog Airport Game via this Twitch link on Wednesday, November 20th, at 10AM PST/1PM EST/6PM GMT!That's tomorrow!Gonna have to miss the live show? No worries! I'm planning to upload the archive to YouTube and Twitch. It's ...

BARKSTORY #1: What Dogs Mean to Me

I'm a cat owner, but I love dogs. I'm making a game about dogs, in airports. I have lost too many nights of sleep looking through public domain stock photo libraries of Extremely Good Boys and Girls. The reason for this love is among the nerdiest things in my life; a life filled with nerdy t...

It Begins

This is the first post-No Quarter build of Dog Airport Game!- Get a ticket!- Find your gate!- Successfully take a flight!- Do it all in less than 15 minutes, because this is still a timed build!!You'll find the attached controller map (also adjusted post-No Quarter) useful, as the controls aren&...

Hiatus = Started

Hey folks!I've got an uber-busy period ahead of me.Hypnospace Outlaw, which I narrative designed, is launching March 12th. It was nominated for 3 IGF awards, so I'll be at GDC/San Francisco during that period to attend the ceremony--feel free to say hi if you're around!!Alongside that ma...

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (season 1, 2001) = Finished

I'm writing this at 1 AM and I have to be in class in like 4 hours but I don't CARE because I have been ENLIGHTENEDHARVEYFREAKINGBIRDMANIT HOLDS UPHe's a character from the traditionally-animated past, when the best original superhero they could come up with was an off-brand bird-headed ...

Velvet Buzzswaw (2019 film) = Finished

It is so damn refreshing to watch a horror movie without a point.I've seen a lot of mixed critical reaction to Velvet Buzzsaw over the past few weeks, and I think it's due to a fundamental break between what people wanted this movie to be, and what it actually is.Velvet Buzzsaw is a straight...

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017 game) = Finished

I'm going to say something that sounds a lot like hyperbole, but I promise that it isn't.Resident Evil 7 is the best first-person game ever made.I don't know why this game - in a series that I always struggled to understand on a fundamental level - clicked with my brain SO HARD, but it d...

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018 movie) = Finished

This movie chosen by a "Fennelsher" patron.SOLO FRICKING ROCKS, ACTUALLYCan we talk for a second about how much of a miracle this movie is?It was essentially handled by two distinct creative teams (three if you count the scriptwriters, who had their own vision of the project), and still feel...