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Development news and new game pre-announcement!
🕑 Added 2023-05-01 12:36:55 +0000 UTCHi everyone!
It's been a while since we had any public news about our games development, so we'd like to fix that! Especially since we have a lot to tell you!
You may remember that we have not just one, but three projects in progress. And one of them we kept secret for a long time, because we didn't want to announce it publicly too early, when we have nothing to show. But now we have almost finished the Intro and we're already actively working on the Prologue of this new game, so we can finally tell you about it!
This isn't an official announcement yet, but it could be considered a pre-announcement!
Our new game is called (non)trivial. This unusual name is not a coincidence as one of our goals is to show the many different extraordinary stories of the characters' lives. The kind of stories that make you wonder and exclaim: "No way!" 😁
(non)trivial — is a stealth adventure game where you have to find out the deepest secrets of your housemates, devout neighbors down the street, and other people of the town neighborhood, to uncover all the backgrounds of your friends, foes, colleagues, and just interesting passers-by.
Together we will watch the adventures of Vi (Vivian) while she spies on all sorts of people, delving into their secrets and discovering new things about herself and her desires.
What skeletons are people hiding in their (pants) closets? Nothing and no one can hide from Vi, this girl is a magnet for other people's secrets!
But Vi is not the only playable character in (non)trivial, there will be a second protagonist, who will have his own storyline and maybe even his own game mechanics. His name is Sam and he lives a rather peculiar life.
The game is planned to be quite large and intense, and the story is intended to be divided into several parts. And with all our originality, we've decided to start the plot from the middle! 😋
(non)trivial has already come a long way, as we revealed it to the patrons back last year. The game concept has evolved a lot in the meantime! For a long time we've been on the search for a visual style for the game and have tried a number of different options, both in 2D and 3D. We have now come up with a mixture of 2D and 3D visuals, and are actively working on bringing that into reality.
This game is very important to us, so we are putting a lot of demands on ourselves to make it really fantastic and to surprise and delight you.
We have now designed a lot of main features of the game and work on it is in full swing 💪
We plan to show the (non)trivial Intro to our patrons this week! We are currently making the final tweaks to the Android version and then everything will be ready. The public release will take place later when we have finished the Prologue too. The Prologue shows some of the basic mechanics and will give a better idea of the game than the Intro alone.
Most of you may be wondering what's going on with the rest of our games and what our plans are for them.
Right now our top priority is (non)trivial, while Tame It Too! and Neon Blago are in second and third place.
As you know, we have released the first chapter of our game Neon Blago publicly recently. Have you had a chance to play it yet? What do you think? Feel free to share your impressions! Your feedback is very important to us, so we could get a feel for how much resources we need to invest into the continuation of the game and how quickly we can bring it to life.
Right now we already have the plot setup for the next chapter ready, and we've got new guests in mind that you’ll definitely like!
As for the development of Tame It Too!, our main focus now is on the gameplay. We came to the very reasonable conclusion that without creating the basic mechanics, we can't move the story forward. Therefore, for the foreseeable future, we plan to tackle survival mechanics.
We have also not given up on making a mobile version of the game, but we need to make a lot of changes in the game for it to work successfully. We have even discussed the possibility of the Android version being quite different from the desktop version, but this has not been approved yet.
Join our community to be among the first to know all the news and updates! And don't forget to check out our Discord server, where there is always lots of new and interesting content. We also publish there some WiP images for the patrons, which we don't even publish on Patreon 😉
We are grateful to everyone for their support and interest in our games!
We wish you a great mood and a wonderful week!
