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« Reply #200 on: August 10, 2016, 02:32:08 PM » |
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Hey everyone! Good news...  We did it! Thanks so much to everyone for your support! Now comes all the paperwork etc. etc. and then we can go back to making this game! We really want to thank everyone so much. Over the course of the campaign we broke 30000 views on the devlog, then 30500 about a day later, so there are clearly a lot of you who helped make this happen. We might make a post about the Greenlight process, since help from others is what made the process possible for us! More soon! |
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« Reply #201 on: August 10, 2016, 03:27:09 PM » |
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As Ricky just said, we're through! Here are the final stats:  Clearly those last 10 votes made all the difference. So, I'll probably write a little bit about our preparation and media strategy at some stage soon. There's nothing particularly unique about our approach. Getting Greenlit in a week is pretty good, but we may have just launched at a good time. Thanks for putting up with our incessant devlog posts for this past week! |
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« Reply #202 on: August 31, 2016, 11:21:10 PM » |
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As always, click the images for better resolutions (not the horse). More soon! |
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« Reply #203 on: October 01, 2016, 09:02:43 PM » |
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Is this made in Unity?
No actually! We're making it in FlashBuilder, using Aseprite for graphics, Ogmo editor for level design. Ben could give you a better run down than I can about why, but we're looking at unity for future games. Sorry for the 4 month late reply  Good job on getting greenlit! Nice to see it :D I highly recommend you check out Duality, it has all of Unity's 2d features without any of the pains that come with a 3d engine trying to be 2d. There is a lack of documentation, but the tutorials on the wiki cover it, and the chat room is extremely active  It's also completely open-source, so it's relatively easy to find what you need in the source! Here's a link: https://duality.adamslair.net/ |
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« Reply #204 on: October 01, 2016, 09:04:25 PM » |
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Is this made in Unity?
We're using Adobe AIR and our own custom framework built on Flashpunk (see https://github.com/volticgames/volticpunk). We started this game back when people were, you know, actually still using these technologies. It's given us heaps of control over everything, since it's relatively simple but we battle with AIR quite a lot. Very happy with the APIs and abstractions we use though. I write a lot of C# these days and I've been experimenting with Unity prototypes in my free time, and I like a lot about it. Not sure I love the idea of being so dependent on the Unity team to fix things though. I've also been considering LibGDX or MonoGame but both provide very little compared to Unity and I don't want to spend months writing an engine. I also looked at Monogame, and found it too low-level as well. Like I said in my previous reply to iammonshushu, Duality is a great alternative to Unity. Especially since it's completely open-source, and the dev replies to any of your questions within 12 hours (It'll probably be answered within a minute in the chat as long as the problem isn't too complicated ) |
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« Reply #205 on: January 03, 2017, 10:51:12 PM » |
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Wow, is it January already? Honestly, you take a 5 minute nap... Lots of behind the scenes stuff going on, lots of discussion and work with our musician! We've got some track to show off in the next week or so. Its been slow going sometimes... #gamedevfeelslike Otherwise, we've just been putting more props in the game, prettying up gameplay elements and visuals, adding cutscenes and fixing up others! We've also been improving the visual effect for finding things with which you can interact. Its a tricky issue: each player is a bit different, and will want a different level of hints, so we're trying to make a system that caters to at least most people. Here's a peak: Elevator Console Looking at people's desks Breaking the game... More like it! We're hopeful 2017 will be the Year of The Thin Silence, as we chip away at the final pieces of the puzzle! More soon... |
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« Reply #206 on: January 19, 2017, 10:21:23 PM » |
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« Reply #207 on: February 13, 2017, 01:49:45 AM » |
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Hi everyone! Great news! We can finally show off some music for The Thin Silence! Our music is being composed by LightFrequency, an amazing artist from Portland, who was introduced to us by Amos Roddy (the artist behind the fantastic music of Kingdom). Check it out on soundcloud: |
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« Reply #208 on: March 29, 2018, 08:45:56 PM » |
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Hey everyone! We're happy to announce the game is finally going to be released, 100% complete on April 27th 2018. You can check out the trailer here: YouTube linkhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=5ze1-9ZIEx0&feature=youtu.beComing to PC on April 27th, 2018, The Thin Silence is a narrative adventure game told through the introspection and recollection of Ezra Westmark, the game's disgraced protagonist. Inspired by games such as Limbo and Knytt Stories, follow the journey of Ezra from his self-imposed exile through to his own forgiveness and hope for a better tomorrow. Find creative ways to make your way out of the darkness while uncovering the journey that lead you there, and holding onto the hope that leads you home. |
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« Reply #209 on: March 29, 2018, 09:46:28 PM » |
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Your trailer isn't loading for me. It's like there's not even a file there.
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« Reply #211 on: April 01, 2018, 06:54:13 PM » |
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The Steam page is also live if anyone wants to wishlist the game  |
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« Reply #212 on: April 17, 2018, 06:23:21 PM » |
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Hey guys! We've just announced our partnership with the Mental Health organisation Checkpoint: We'll be donating 10c of each sale of the game to Checkpoint and sharing more about our personal stories with Mental Health and how they relate to the game itself. You can read more about our partnership here: https://www.terminals.io/product?pid=411&news_id=606
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