{"author_name":"Stoney","cat":"October Challenge 2011","comments":[{"author_name":"Blodyavenger","time":"October 2, 2011 2:52 am","epoch":1317541920,"text":"Looks nice so far, only those side UI parts (where you select buildings to build) are a bit too rusty \/ dark. I think some bright colors won’t hurt.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"October 2, 2011 6:05 am","epoch":1317553500,"text":"Thanks for your comment. I was going for a steampunk-ish style with the dark and rusty buttons. Some buildings especially the mechanical ones (for example the power generator) have been designed with the same style in mind.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Blodyavenger","time":"October 2, 2011 6:09 am","epoch":1317553740,"text":"Oh, I missed that you see \ud83d\ude1b Then it’s fine, post more screenshots when you have any updates avaliable \":)\"","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1317501300,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"63458","p_author":"Stoney","p_authorkey":"321","p_urlkey":"99241","p_title":"October Challenge: Wolkenwelt","p_cat":"October Challenge 2011","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1317501300","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"321","us_name":"Stoney","us_username":"stoney","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"

I’ve been anxiously awaiting the October Challenge this year. I wanted to join in on the fun last year, but I was way too busy back then. But I’m hoping nothing is getting in the way this year. Also, as of today I’m a full-time indie developer.<\/p>\n

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Before I get into what my game is all about, here is some back-story: I’ve grown up with strategy and simulation games like Sim City, Caesar or The Settlers and they have been and still are my favorite game genre. What I want to create is a peaceful strategy game which is not too complex for newbies, but not too simple for veterans. I had several prototypes in mind with different gameplay mechanics and what I settled on was a scenario in where the player has to build a settlement on sky islands.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, I came up with the original sky island idea for LD #20 and after playing around with the idea for a bit, I decided to create a small prototype while I was at BIGJAM<\/a> in Berlin. While I was not as productive as I hoped to be, I got the basics done and decided to stick with the prototype. All in all, I worked about three weeks on this game so far. If you want to know what happened so far development-wise, click here to be redirected to the development blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you liked the screenshot, I uploaded a very short gameplay video to Youtube<\/a> last month if are interested in how the game looks like in motion. I also want to mention that I’m not working alone on this: Christian Storcks is doing the music (a short preview of that is in the video I linked in the last sentence) and Jesse<\/a>, a friend of mine, is helping me with some coding, in particular scripting and some backend stuff.<\/p>\n

The game is going to be released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. I am planning on starting pre-orders by October 21st and I hope someone will buy the game.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: simulation<\/a>, strategy<\/a>, wolkenwelt<\/a><\/p>","time":"October 1st, 2011 3:35 pm","title":"October Challenge: Wolkenwelt"}