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Screenshot Saturday, 11 Feb 2012

By Rubes | Published: February 11, 2012

The Vespers submission for Screenshot Saturday for February 11, 2012. Check out all of the indie screenshot submissions over at screenshotsaturday.com.

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The Completely Random 2012 Update

By Rubes | Published: February 9, 2012

I’ve been working on Vespers such a long time now that I think people consider it part of who I am. And not so much in an inspirational or spiritual kind of way, more like a lingering-chronic-disease kind of way. So every now and then when I see friends, I get a few “Say, how’s your game?” questions, and while it’s nice to know that people still think about the game it really just sounds more like commiseration than anything else, kind of like ”Say, how’s your irritable bowel?”

Despite the lack of updates on this blog for some time, the game actually is progressing. Seriously, I’m not kidding. In fact, I’d say it’s progressing very well – better than at any point over the last [More...] Read the rest

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Now We’re Getting Somewhere

By Rubes | Published: April 20, 2011

Well, it certainly has been a while, hasn’t it?

It is fair to say that the general lack of activity on this blog has been directly related to the lack of significant progress on Vespers. While much of that has been due to the inconsiderate intrusion of Real Life on the development process over the past, oh, 18 months or so, a fair share of the stagnation was also due to an unfortunate combination of bad luck, shortsightedness, and an incredibly exasperating game engine.

I’ll conveniently ignore the former stuff, and expand just a bit on the latter.

As I’ve discussed in earlier posts, most of what I’ve been focusing on since last fall (or so) has been the first cutscene, since the demo [More...] Read the rest

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All’s Well That Ends Well?

By Rubes | Published: January 21, 2011

Some encouraging news, for a change.

My last post, back in November (really?), discussed how the parent company behind the Torque Game Engine, the engine I’m using for Vespers, was shutting down the portion of the company responsible for engine development. I think a lot of people saw that coming. The original company, GarageGames, was a small, friendly, down-to-earth group of people that had a passion for helping other people make games, and it helped them build a strong game engine and a large, fairly devoted community. The employees spent a good deal of time on the forums interacting with the customers and developers, and this created a nice connection that a lot of people appreciated. Then things started changing. They expanded [More...] Read the rest

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Whither (Wither?) Torque

By Rubes | Published: November 12, 2010

Thanks to Rampant Coyote for bringing this to my attention, but for those of you who haven’t heard, InstantAction has decided to shut down its operations. While this is certainly sad news for a number of people who will be out of work, a lot of you are probably saying, “Who?” The truth is that I’m not sure I could accurately explain exactly how this relates to me, even though it does.

About three years ago, GarageGames – the company responsible for developing and selling the Torque Game Engine (TGE), the 3D engine I’m using to make Vespers – announced a ‘partnership’ with InterActive Corporation (IAC), which is just another way of saying that GarageGames was bought out by IAC. The idea, at least as [More...] Read the rest

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