Elysian Shadows: The Next Generation 2D Role-playing Game for PC, Mac, Linux, Dreamcast, iOS, Android and Ouya

Adventures in Game Development Chapters 30 and 31 Plus Kickstarter Update

by Falco Girgis July 21, 2015 0 comments

It has been a long, hard week-and-a-half for us. Those of you who have been following our daily streams may have noticed that we dropped off the face of the earth there for awhile. This was due to the fact we couldn’t afford the internet bill for about a week. Before anybody complains or accuses us of blowing all the money on coke and hookers, the opposite is true. We’re being so conservative with the money that we live on the bare minimal required for our survival and development, and if we have to make a few unplanned development purchases here-and-there, sometimes we have to reallocate funds from elsewhere… Anyway, we should be right back to our usual streaming schedule next week.

Since the previous update, Adventures in Game Development Chapters 30 and 31 have both been released, giving you around an hour of video content to watch if you’re into seeing the behind-the-scenes debauchery and life here at our studio:

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HUGE UPDATE and Adventures in Game Development Chapter 28

by Falco Girgis June 29, 2015 0 comments

God, I have dreaded making this update for so long… Not because I haven’t been slaving away on this game day and night, abusing prescription amphetamines to stay awake and focused, losing sleep and slowly my sanity, but because I just wasn’t 100% satisfied with the content we would be posting for the update. My perfectionism coupled with issues internal to our team causing levels to not be as developed as I would have liked them to be is what has caused such a gigantic delay in Kickstarter updates… We have always been 100% transparent with our supporters in the past, constantly posting behind-the-scenes YouTube updates, and posting on social media daily, but suddenly I lost the courage to show the “real” game development once we accepted money from Kickstarter. I didn’t want to show anything shy of perfect… But the truth is that sometimes game development is ugly and highly inconsistent. Some weeks you accomplish everything you ever dreamed and more, and some weeks you get stuck and barely finish a thing. It’s the nature of engineering and creative work in general, and I swear from here forward to show the true, unadulterated, uncensored, behind-the-scenes progress.