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Made While the Iron’s Hot - A cozy blacksmith RPG in which you need to use your wits and skills to reforge broken bonds 🔥 Out now: https://bit.ly/wtih-steam Join our Discord: discord.gg/y2Ny6UXYGG Support: contact@bontemps.games
This week we've been stuck into AI land to improve the difficulty of our single-player battles. It's a bit hard to show that in a video, so instead here's the effects we added to modify the look of our battle scene!
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We're adding a new piece to our turn-based strategy game! It's a little robot that you can spawn mid-battle to get some help fighting off the opponent. He's so cute 🥺
Game is called Kingdom in Pieces and you can get more info with the link in our bio!
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We just realized we had the wrong material on the characters so none of them were being impacted by the post-processing effects. So here's the real before and after!
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We thought it was time to do a first pass on our post-processing for Kingdom in Pieces! I really like the color adjustment the artist did for this spooky village. What do you think? Leave us a comment if you have any advice to make it better!
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Happy holidays to everyone who celebrates, and thank you again for being here.
I also wanted to thank everyone who has followed along as we work on Kingdom in Pieces. Next year is shaping up to be a big one for the game, and we can't wait! If you want to keep up with the project, follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page over here:
Day 12 of our #12daysofgamedev!
For the final day, I wanted to share a look at how we make our characters. It starts with rough sketches, then we do higher-fidelity drawings, and after a lot of work in Blender... it's ready!
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Day 11 of our #12daysof gamedev!
That horse was the first character model we did to find the style for Kingdom in Pieces, and we knew something was wrong... but it took us way too long to figure out WHAT the problem was. Must have been a Monday!
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Make sure to follow us if you want to see more of his 3D work because there's going to be a LOT coming in the next few months!
And if you want to experience his pixel art first hand, check out While the Iron's Hot:
Day 10 of our #12daysof gamedev!
This is an appreciation post for Thiago, the artist that has been the other half of the studio since the beginning! He did all the pixel art of While the Iron's Hot, and now he does all the 3D stuff for Kingdom in Pieces.
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Day 9 of our #12daysof gamedev!
Today I wanted to (re)share the best advice I have ever received. Don't worry about how it looks at first, just make it exist! Once it's real, you can spend your time on making it look good.
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3. Test ideas early.
I fell into the trap of thinking one of my feature was amazing, only to realize it SUCKS once people try it out in the game. Weeks of work now worthless... So -> Test ideas early, test often, test with different people.
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2. Share as much and as early as possible.
Things only clicked for me after I started sharing my work and getting feedback from other devs and players. Showing the game early, gives it more time for it to find its people, and you'll get some valuable feedback too.
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1. Keep projects as short as possible.
I would focus on one small project and try to polish an element of it as much as I can. For example, take a Tetris game but focus on just the game feel for three weeks/days/months/whatever, then release it to the wild and/or move on.
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Day 8 of our #12DaysOf GameDev!
If I was just starting to learn how to make games today, there is three things that I would do differently than I did.
Bit of a longer post today! 1/4 🧵
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Day 7 of our #12daysof gamedev!
The steam winter sale is on, and While the Iron’s Hot is 40% off! It’s a cozy RPG where you’re a blacksmith with a pet Ox that you can dress 🤭 It's definitely worth a try!
store.steampowered.com/app/1906830/...
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Day 6 of our #12daysof game dev!
It’s been two years since we released our first game. Time really does fly. Thank you to everyone who played it and supported us throughout our gamedev journey! ❤️
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Day 5 of our #12daysof gamedev!
I refused to add PvP for a long time. I was afraid to have to tackle that can of worms, but it just made sense once we playtested the game with friends locally. Plus, our team is 100% remote so... Online it is!
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Day 4 of our 12 days of gamedev!
Today, I wanted to share a bit about our process adding new pieces to the game. Our artist preps everything so that it's super easy for me to create the prefab in Unity. As easy as 1, 2, 3!
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Day 3 of our 12 days of gamedev edition!
I've been waiting to show these off for a long time, but I finally received the new FBX. I have 40 different pieces to setup for our demo, and it's only the first batch! 🤩
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Day 2 is a recommendation for any unity dev out there!
My absolute favorite asset is the Dialogue System from @pixelcrushers.bsky.social. It saved our lives when we were making our first game, and it comes with a neat save system!
Definitely check it out 🤓
assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...
Day 1 is a famous trick that we used a lot in our first game While the Iron's Hot ➡️ hiding stuff under the scene so it's already loaded and available when the player needs it!
Ho-ho-ho! 🎅
Xmas is almost here, so to celebrate we're doing our own twist on the 12 days of Xmas: 12 days of gamedev! Each day we'll share a quick tip or trick that we learned or used while working on our games.
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Big week for Kingdom in Pieces! We finally decided what “winning” a battle actually means... and made the system that checks it. 😅
New devlog is up! Leave us a comment if you want to see more Kingdom in Pieces content!
youtube.com/shorts/1...
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Me getting ready to fix the leak under my sink after one YouTube tutorial
Make sure to follow us for more Kingdom in Pieces content! ❤️
And checkout our Kickstarter page for more info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
And on the art side, we still have a lot work to do for all the variants. But we finished the war donkey!
And then when you’re ready, the BATTLE! I’m working on UI to make it a bit more clear who’s turn it is and who’s winning.
We’ve got a camp scene where you can buy base pawns and upgrade them with items. Basically that’s where you prep your army for the battle to come.
We’re baaack!!! We fixed the bug that stopped us from recording last week’s recap, so here’s where we’re at now. The keyword for this #screenshotsaturday is multiplayer!
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