Now it seems that we might do this for Win8 and their phone aswell. I have no clue about the pros n cons about that other than hearing what other people say. Gotta wait until tuesday to hear what they have to say.. could be cool!

The video has been created! Here you can see how the game is coming along. 

This game is full of:

I agree 300%!

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i have a instagram picture of a smiling fish in there

Looks creepy I like the art style

Forogt to ask, are you planing to release it on iOS, or PC only?

Yes we are! As soon as we can afford a mac and iphone for testing. And the module needed for gamemaker. That could take a while though 

Got some people who has the macs but they are not so happy to let me borrow their stuff for debugging for more than a few minutes. Especially phones...

Nice art direction.  I look forward to a video!

Thanks! We havnt had much feedback on the looks, so thats encouraging for Natalia! Adds instant +15% to productivity. Gonna try to have the video done during the week.

Hello!

This is going to be my first try at a devlog for our game Fran Bow! It's going to be cool to see it progress (or not, then it's time to nolife again) and when it's done im printing it out as a trophy for my bath-hour. Anyway, heres the stuff!

I will be writing about the entire process up until the date of launch and whatever happens after that, be it for good or really maximal worse. A post-mortem?

About the game:

Fran Bow is a point and click adventure with a touch of horror. You play as Fran Bow, a little girl with a unique perception of the world around her. Her parents are brutally murdered and the only thing she has left is her cat and aunt Grace who takes care of her. But something happens, her cat vanishes and she is taken to an asylum for mad children where she loses her memory. One day the cat appears outside her window and she starts to plot her escape... During her way back home she will unlock fragments of her memory about the murder of her parents and finally discover who did it.





You get to use pills to see the world shift into a gore filled madworld. It's a crucial part of the game since lots of the puzzles need you to jump in and out of the two different realitys. Sometimes using the pills summons Remor, a hallucination of Fran Bows insane mind, and starts chasing you around. If you get caught by him you lose one day out of 60. Lose them all and it's game over. You can always switch off the pills to make him dissappear.



There is going to be some minigames in there aswell. Short but hard retro-games you will need to complete to progress in the game.

Right now we are almost done with the first chapter of five. It'll propably go faster now since im almost done with coding the engine, but goddam those bugs just won't stop reproducing..

Anyway, im the programmer and the second half is my wife doing all the art and game design.
We will put out a run-through video of the first level in the asylum so you can all see some in-game action soon! right now, right here ->



Oh and the girl you see in the photos have had an extreme make-over so it'll be different in the update.

And for the technical part this is all done with Gamemaker Studio, photoshop, gimp and animestudio.


We also have the wordpress http://killmonday.wordpress.com/

Thanks for reading!

I also try to make games. My goal is to be able to create whatever is in my mind, then i'll be one happy gamer! I'm 26 from Sweden.

[First room in the kids mental hospital.The dining area under the influence of the pills! (That makes her see the world in her way!)Sometimes when you pop a pill the scary skull-dude Remor appears and starts chasing you. If you get caught you lose one day ouda 60 because of mental breakdown.. if you get down to 0 you get lobotomized and lose the game with no other way than to start all over.]

Here are some shots from Fran Bow, our pointy & click adventure and also first game ever. The art is still under heavy work. Natalia, who does the graphics, is giving the girl a make-over and she is going to be much more gritty! This is how it looks right now anyhows.


First room in the kids mental hospital.


The dining area under the influence of the pills! (That makes her see the world in her way!)


Sometimes when you pop a pill the scary skull-dude Remor appears and starts chasing you. If you get caught you lose one day ouda 60 because of mental breakdown.. if you get down to 0 you get lobotomized and lose the game with no other way than to start all over.

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I usually get all my ideas from game soundtracks, it's a trip listening to all kind of music while playing and it ends up giving me lots of advanced pictures of ideas in my head that I usually forget when the song ends Right now the soundtrack of Hotline Miami gave me a cool idea im going for that includes hipster zombies and ghetto gangbanging vampires with one-button-smash combat. It'll be the derp of the herp!

This is the first game I'm doin ever, a kind of point n' click adventure. I have nothing to do with the art tho, just the programming. The graphics are still under development, especially on the girl Fran Bow.


First area where you wake up in a mental hospital for kids.

A bit deeper in the hospital in the dining area while influenced by the pills.

Sometimes a friendly dude can turn into Remor, the skull-dude chasing you around, when you pop a pill.. If you get caught you go one day closer to total lobotimation. No mercy for game over here!


What do you think?

For the first time ever I decided to watch the gagnam style video to broaden my knowledge in whqts going on outside and now i know