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Steam Page is up!

Big news! Sink or Skim is officially on Steam! Go and add it to your wishlist, it's coming out January 12 2018!

Steam Page: https://goo.gl/2tsVGk

Download the demo on Itch.io: https://goo.gl/zdmF9t

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Demo out now!

You can play a short demo of Sink or Skim on Itch.io! Check it out here:

https://chefseth.itch.io/sink-or-skim

I haven’t been posting to Tumblr as much because I feel like it’s a bit of a dead end exposure-wise. The community here for weird not-pretty indie games just isn’t big enough and my project isn’t special enough to capture a large audience despite that fact. I want to do everything I can to get my name out there though, so if you can tweet about this demo or reblog it or anything, it’d be helpful. If you’re gonna tweet, tag me 

twitter.com/@chef__seth 

Thank you all for your support, I’m looking forward to release!

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Been posting a lot on Twitter, you should follow me and retweet some stuff!

https://twitter.com/chef__seth

Get the word out!

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Hey you should all follow me on twitter, there’s only a few days left until some big news!

https://twitter.com/Chef__Seth

Here’s a video comparing one of the early builds of Sink or Skim to the current one, things have come quite a long way!

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Update

Sorry I haven't been active as much, I've been finalizing the last bits and pieces of the game! It's so crazy to me that I'm this close to done. Just a text post for today unfortunately, but I wanted to say that all the art is done. I won't show off all of it in screenshots, I want there to at least be a few surprises when the game is out. I’m putting together the last bits of story, maybe a few easy to implement art pieces, and then it will be done! It’s so close I can taste it. So close I’ve already started thinking about another project when I really shouldn’t be because the last thing I need is to get distracted. I still plan on releasing in January, I don’t want to be overshadowed by the Steam Winter sale even though the game would be ready by then, and I want to give myself time to reach out to everywhere on the internet I can and market this game. I’m putting together a trailer I think will turn out pretty well, and hopefully some good reddit posts that gain traction. 

If you know anyone I should contact, or if you’d like to cover my game, connect me with someone who might cover my game, anything that would assist in marketing, just DM me here or on Twitter, I could really use the help. Thank you!

Also here’s a small gif of the new dialogue boxes that’s too big for Tumblr because I didn’t edit or optimize it

https://i.imgur.com/hl9iOvp.gifv

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November Monthly Build

It’s here! $10 Patrons on my Patreon can check out all the crazy stuff I’ve worked on since October, there’s a lot! Everything is starting to feel like a real game, I’m officially in the polish phase now and I’m excited. Can’t wait to really get things looking nice and feeling complete. If you play the build, make sure you report any bugs you encounter to my twitter 

https://twitter.com/chef__Seth

Check out the build on my Patreon: 

https://patreon.com/chefsethdev

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Announcing: Sink or Skim

I’ve changed the name! It’s official, as is my push for exposure starting now! I’m stepping up my presentation of everything and I’m going to really try to get myself out there, anything you can do to help would be great! Here’s some screenshots, enjoy! 

PS: the monthly build is coming out tomorrow for Patrons and it’s gonna be pretty cool, so look out for that

https://patreon.com/chefsethdev

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Hi Which software you use for modelling?

I use Blender! Free and there are tons of good tutorials for it. The interface is kind of intimidating and doesn’t always make sense, but if you get confused someone online will have the answer you’re looking for so that’s always nice

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Meet Rockthony

Leading up to my deadline today of being feature complete and ready to start marketing, I’ve worked on everything BUT NPCs, I wasn’t even sure if they’d be in the game. I’m pretty proud that I’ve gotten to make Rockthony though, and I’m fairly confident he’ll play a big role in the final game. Also Happy Halloween, sorry I don’t have halloween themed stuff to show off, I was busy making the game work properly :(

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Update

    The last phase of development has begun, the most difficult part. It’s been so insane working on this game. Now all that’s left to do is polish, playtest, add in a tiny bit more content, and release! It’s exciting and terrifying!

    I’m going to describe the timeline for the remainder of development, but first I want to say that making a game is very very stressful and it can be very isolating. If you have game developer friends, make sure you reach out to them, keep in contact, be supportive. I had friends who did that for me and it made all the difference. 

Timeline:

-All major content completed by October 31st

-Playtest, polish, and market throughout November, minor content additions throughout

-Release either December or January, depending on demand and other game’s that are being released in that time frame

    Sounds simple, will definitely be the scariest and most difficult two to three months of my life. I hope that all this work I’ve put in will pay off and I’ll at least be able to make another project. You can help make that happen though, and it won’t cost you anything! 

    If you want to support me, show this blog to your friends. Reblog some of my posts, any of them. What I need more than anything, is exposure, and that’s something that anyone can do.

Thank you all for sticking around, I’m getting close-ish to 200 followers in less than 8 months, those are pretty good numbers for blog that isn’t about art and is very inconsistently posted to. Let’s get some more!

https://patreon.com/chefsethdev

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Update

    The last phase of development has begun, the most difficult part. It’s been so insane working on this game. Now all that’s left to do is polish, playtest, add in a tiny bit more content, and release! It’s exciting and terrifying!

    I’m going to describe the timeline for the remainder of development, but first I want to say that making a game is very very stressful and it can be very isolating. If you have game developer friends, make sure you reach out to them, keep in contact, be supportive. I had friends who did that for me and it made all the difference. 

Timeline:

-All major content completed by October 31st

-Playtest, polish, and market throughout November, minor content additions throughout

-Release either December or January, depending on demand and other game’s that are being released in that time frame

    Sounds simple, will definitely be the scariest and most difficult two to three months of my life. I hope that all this work I’ve put in will pay off and I’ll at least be able to make another project. You can help make that happen though, and it won’t cost you anything! 

    If you want to support me, show this blog to your friends. Reblog some of my posts, any of them. What I need more than anything, is exposure, and that’s something that anyone can do.

Thank you all for sticking around, I’m getting close-ish to 200 followers in less than 8 months, those are pretty good numbers for blog that isn’t about art and is very inconsistently posted to. Let’s get some more!

https://patreon.com/chefsethdev

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Sometimes Unreal likes to mess up my material slots when I reexport a model/models from Blender. No idea why this happens, it happens seemingly by chance. It has some entertaining results though, like changing all my stone materials to the water material, like in this picture 

And the whirlpool got turned a lovely slime green.

Here’s the intended material setup for reference, and a slight spoiler of things to come 

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Labnet cuties!

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Shout outs to Labnet aka Labyrinth Network, an old game I was working on that never really came to fruition, still would be pretty sick if I came back to it. Sqribblings was helping with concept art back in the day, check out her blog she’s an incredible artist

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Redesigning the protagonist to have a more expressive face! Here’s a quick compilation of faces that have been added. There are some big changes coming up soon, so reblog posts and get the word out there, I think people will like what’s coming!

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State of the Game Oct 2017

What’s up, everyone?

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an overview of where The Waking Cloak’s development is at, so let’s do that!

Currently I’m working on:

Art, animation, and logo for title screen

Mechanics and prototyping for a major game item–the swap staff

NPC art

Planning for story, draft two

Roll attack for combat

Dungeon design

Tweaking the pit hazard

Discord server setup

Writing this post (hehe)

NaNoWriMo

November is NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month–if you write 50,000 words by the end of the month, you win (there are lots of winners)! This year I’ll be writing the second draft of The Waking Cloak’s story, and I’m very excited. 

Back in 2015 I wrote the first draft, which sort of just ended up being a very extensive outline. This year’s version will be much more in-depth. I’ll be going into each of the character’s lives and hammering out a bunch of lore. It’s gonna be great.

I’ll be pausing other development in the game (NPC reveals included) until December, since NaNoWriMo will take up every second of my free time. Once it’s over, I’ll pick up development where I left off, with the addition of finishing up combat (roll attack and simple enemy AI, mainly).

Discord!!!

YEP you heard me right.

Look at this beauty:

For those who are unaware, Discord is a communication app, like Skype but not evil. It’ll be a place where we can hang out in real time, chat, discuss the game, whatever–an honest-to-goodness The Waking Cloak Community! There will be a channel for you guys to ask me questions, a channel to post fan art, and so on. I hope you’ll join me in getting hyped about this. :D

There are a few more things to do before it goes public. First, for my sanity during NaNoWriMo, I’ll be waiting until at least December of this year. January 2018 is probably a safer bet! Keep watching this space or my Twitter (@MrDaneeyul) for updates!

Patreon

Last but not least, I’ve got a Patreon set up in case you’d like to help support the game’s development! I try to be pretty open about development, but if you support the game, you’ll get to see most everything early. In addition there’ll be a Discord channel just for patrons, and you’ll get access to some cool secret stuff and discuss cool secret things. Even $1 helps!

If you can’t support me financially, but would still like to help with the game, please share and reblog as much of the game stuff as you can–your favorite NPC, art, anything! You seriously have no idea how much it helps to spread the word.

That’s all for this time! Hope you’re all doing well. I appreciate you a lot! I’m blown away by the support everyone has been giving to The Waking Cloak; I’ll do my best to make our dream game. :)

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Animation glitches are weird, now he just wobbles around constantly, what is he on, WEED?? HMMM? 

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Is this monument white and gold or black and blue? Reply with what colors you see