Well, I'm resurrecting this devlog.
First, an announcement (a bit shameless self promotion). After 2 years, I finished a new game,
Eklips. It's a small puzzle game based on completing squares around a dot. Of course you have the liberty to not believe it because I'm the maker of it, but imho, it turned out really fun to play, it involves a bit more strategy than your usual block game and has a unique feeling.
There are no ads, no IAP, that kind of stuff.
Here is the
townhall topic I've created for it.
Here is the
game website...or if you're already ready to put your faith in me, here is the
app store link where you can buy it.
I really hope that it brings some extra income so that I can spend more time on Bones, and hopefully other projects..
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And about Bones...Bones, though still lacking a proper name, is very much alive, and have some new & neat features that are already in the game.
I also tried to adress some of the problems I figured out in the first phase of testing, especially introductory levels which were supposed to ease your way into the game. It was a rough process, I'm not gonna go into details, I'll check it out with another testing phase.
About porting Bones to mobile, Eklips helped me learn mobile stuff (thanks to friends who helped a lot) and I'm now less afraid to dive into it,
but I don't think it would be easy enough to port Bones with it's current structure. I think it was already hard because of twitchy controls. So, first PC, as in the original plan.
There is also the usual worries. How much time will I be able to sink to this project, how much money will I spend, will Eklips gain any extra time for this one as I hoped? Well, we will see.
Also, itch.io's new refinery (closed testing system) sounds really good. I might try it for this one, but also I'm not sure yet, my budget (and the time it buys) is going down very quickly. May be I should try an indiegogo campaign to widen its reach (I can't use kickstarter where I live).
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So, that all for now. I will just put this here in case you missed those links above,
feel free to buy Eklips and support me .