After nearly 15 months of development, we are very excited to formally announce to the world our first game slated for public release: Interference. Well, technically we “announced” Interference back in January. And we’ve been posting periodically about it on various channels since then. We’re not exactly releasing state secrets here, is what we’re saying. […]
Read the Introduction, Guideline #1: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Guideline #2: Leave Perfection Out of It, and Guideline #3: Maintain Accountability. Making a video game is not fun. There. I said it. Okay, that’s not totally true, but when it’s 3:00 AM and you’ve been pulling your hair out for hours over what should have been an […]
Read the Introduction, Guideline #1: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, and Guideline #2: Leave Perfection Out of It. One thing that Jared and I have always come back to over the course of our nearly 4 years of experience building games with Unreal Engine is the fundamental fact that we both enjoy it. So why is […]
Read the Introduction and Guideline #1: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel. If over-ambition is a threat to the completion of a creative project, then perfectionism is the weapon used to make the final kill. I’ve gone my whole life as a perfectionist in varying degrees, and while I enjoy meddling in the meticulous details, I’ve found […]
Read the Introduction. I think there’s an inherent desire when beginning work on a creative project to do something different, to bring something totally new to the table. After all, that is the value of creative work – to create something, rather than just repurpose other things that already exist. But this desire can be […]
There are a ton of cheesy quotes about “failure” out there, about learning from failure, about taking failure in stride. But failure, no matter how flowery the sentiment surrounding it, straight up sucks. As mentioned in a previous post, failures led us to the development of Interference. It was important that this time we get […]
When we started working on Harvest back in 2015, I had just graduated college and still had access to the student license for Autodesk Maya that I’d used for class. Fast forward three years to the start of our work on Interference, and that student license was no more. So we had to decide on a 3D modeling […]
Making video games is hard. And while a visit from Captain Obvious is well-deserved for making that statement, truth be told, Brad and I had no idea the depth of the valley we were descending into when we began working on Harvest: The Unseen back in 2015. Long story short: that game doesn’t exist. Now, […]