PUZZLE PTUESDAY: FINAL COUNTDOWN

Here’s another installment of the Ptuesday update, brought to you by your devoted dev team!

Current Submissions:
Ghost Art

Current Votes:
Location, Location, Location Story Input
Mr. Rollins Concept Art


Episode 1 Updates

In case you might have forgotten what community assets are being incorporated into this episode, here’s a quick recap:

• 1 game idea
• 12 Garden Gnome Art Assets
• 2 Adjectives Describing Gnomes
• 5 Garden Elements
• 4 Gnome Battle Cries
• 1 Pink Slip Text

We’re in the final stages of development for Episode 1: the audio is being integrated into the episode and a final animation pass is underway. The rest of this week is really all about making small tweaks to timing and cleaning up assets as needed.

The gnome game is also wrapping up nicely! Brittany has been hard at work getting all of the final art assets ready for this last stage of integration. One of the biggest tasks she had was incorporating the community submitted gnome artwork. After reviewing all of the submissions, we picked out some that would work the best in the game atmosphere. (Don’t worry! All 12 of the original community submitted gnomes will appear throughout the episode). Unfortunately it was difficult to distinguish some of the gnomes at the size we needed them, so we decided to create simplified versions, based off of the original submissions, that would read well on the screen. Here are some examples of the in-game gnomes (with the original submission on the left):

Last week, Dave mentioned some of the interesting challenges we’ve faced with this particular game. Well since then we’ve implemented a few new features and made some other small changes to the game play – things we only realized needed to be tweaked through continual iteration – and we’re really happy with where the game is now! We can’t wait to hear what you guys think!

Episode 2 Update
The community has voted and chosen the game prompt that will be used in Episode 2:

Ghosts drift through PCH phasing in and out of the visible spectrum. Use a device to turn the Spectral Regret they ooze into a visible trail. Track them down and beat them with the Transplanar Bat of Whiffling to make them quit their haunting ways. If they find you 1st they will bemoan you to death.

This week, Patrick and Dave are working on the first pass of the script, as well as fleshing out the winning game submission into a full-fledged design document. We also might have a celebrity guest for this episode, so stay tuned!

Until next time…