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[Alex Norton]

Hi all,

Got a new blog post up. Countrysides are coming along nicely and we have a heap of new sounds in place, which really help with the immersion:

http://swordofahkranox.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/countryside-sounds-good-too.html

[Alex Norton]

New, slightly humorous blog post is up!

http://www.indiedb.com/games/malevolence-the-sword-of-ahkranox/news/it-has-to-be-done

Also, only a week left in our IndieGoGo campaign! Please help out and share the link around!

http://www.indiegogo.com/Malevolence

[Alex Norton]

A new blog post is up showing some of the new in-game features:

http://www.indiedb.com/games/malevolence-the-sword-of-ahkranox/news/two-pints-please

Here are some screenshots!

Watch this space! More to come, soon! Also, while you're on here, check out the game "Delver". It's amazing!

[Alex Norton]

Just posted a new dev blog article. How Kevin Bacon helped us make Malevolence:

http://swordofahkranox.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/how-kevin-bacon-helped-make-malevolence.html

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some image from tinypic

I don't understand.  Who is this and what does she have to do with the game?

[Alex Norton]

WOW that's awkward... TinyPic seems to have replaced one of the images that I had hosted... WHAT THE HELL... It's all fixed now, though... Sorry about that...

[Alex Norton]

I think I might move all of my hosted images elsewhere if TinyPic are going to just swap out images like that... So much for permanent hosting!

[JimmyJ]

I find Dropbox to be a good image hosting solution.

[Alex Norton]

That's a good idea. I'll do that. Thanks

[Alex Norton]

Just put up a post outlining the difficulties of creating an infinite video game world:

http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/27/The-Difficulties-of-an-Infinite-Video-Game-World/

[Alex Norton]

So we FINALLY worked out a way to get onto KickStarter!

Please help us out by pledging or spreading the word!

VISIT US ON KICKSTARTER!

[BlueSweatshirt]

Wow, awesome!

How is it that you guys only need $6k for this though? 
That seems incredibly small for the kind of undertaking that polishing the game would be.

[Alex Norton]

It's all explained in the pitch video :D

The game is nearly done. We need some extra cash to be able to hire extra artists, modellers, etc, to give the game that extra bit of polish to make it EXTRA shiny we want to make it the best that it can be, and unfortunately that costs money but KickStarter is good for helping that!

[Alex Norton]

We have a new (and very long) blog post up! Check it out!

http://swordofahkranox.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/so-weve-been-quiet-for-while-but-were.html

[Alex Norton]

So we've started work on the towns in game! Very early days so far, but they're looking quite nice!

We paid particular attention to the way towns are arranged, to give them quite a natural feel. We played with three different methods, but settled on one in the end which worked really nicely. So there's no textures yet and no lighting, and not all of the models are finished, but here's an early video to show you it working properly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yowreBTKo6E

Also, please don't forget to take a look at our KickStarter page!

In our first week we managed to reach half our funding goal! We'd love to see it make it all the way!

Anyway, more soon!