Category Archives: progress

Rethinking a door

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Tatyana

As a game progresses we set new goals. A new one for next release is more time players play “Burnt Islands”. In current release 0.13 the longest time played is 33 minutes. Which is bad. We get feedbacks where people … Continue reading →

Posted in progress, screenshots, terrain | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Burnt Islands also in Russian

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Tatyana

In our next release (0.13) that will come soon we are implementing support for Russian language. Partly because half of our studio are Russians and partly because we saw the following statistics from Steam: Language number two at Steam is … Continue reading →

Posted in design, progress, screenshots | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Crash, crash & more crashes

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Kent Fagerjord

I was supposed to be working on multiplayer and possibly a Mac release this month. However, we’ve gotten feedbacks the current release (0.12) is rather error prone and wants to crash all the time. It passed our initial tests, that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in bug, coding, progress | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Working with better graphics

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Tatyana

As you maybe know we are working iterative on our game these days. It means that we develop things in iterations. Each iteration is one week long in ideal, but mostly take more time. After releasing build 10, we decided … Continue reading →

Posted in progress, screenshots, terrain, texture | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Monster pets are coming

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Kent Fagerjord

Next release, 0.11, is a couple of days delayed. We where trying to get it out last Friday, but it slipped. There were a couple of things happening, and we were implementing new features and fixing bugs, which will significantly … Continue reading →

Posted in coding, progress | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

What feedbacks do game developers need to listen to?

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Tatyana

One of the new features in build 0.02 of Burnt Islands is a feedback form where you can write your thoughts about the game. The code behind the form sends a request to a PHP script on a server and … Continue reading →

Posted in organisational, progress | Tagged | Leave a comment

Experience

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Tatyana

There is experience (XP) in “Burnt Islands” that you gain by killing monsters and taking islands (expanding your territory). You can use it to get either more health, strength or speed with which you can fly. You are going to … Continue reading →

Posted in gameplay, progress, screenshots | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Baby palm

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Tatyana

This is my baby palm that you can plant in order to get more food. Somewhat thick and ugly though :))

Posted in progress, screenshots | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Nest gameplay prototype

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Tatyana

New prototype is available for play. Use 1 or 2 to choose an inventory item you want to use. Then use the chosen inventory item by clicking “q”. There is only food in inventory right now that can be used … Continue reading →

Posted in gameplay, progress, video | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Islands

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Tatyana

We are working on a playable prototype right now. One of the ideas we’d like to test out is a new grid. An infinite world implies much grid data to process and show. That’s also the reason why the game … Continue reading →

Posted in gameplay, progress, screenshots, terrain | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment