by Rezzed and Beta8 plans – art upgrade!
March 17, 2015 in Announcements by Tom
Here’s an update on what I’ve been doing and what’s coming up for Lenna’s Inception!
Topics:
- Rezzed
- Artistic upgrade
- The plot and the ending of the story (no spoilers)
Rezzed
For those who don’t know, EGX Rezzed is an annual game convention in the UK. It’s very indie- and developer-focused which makes it a great opportunity to make new contacts and get feedback on games, as well as get incredibly sick from all the viruses going around!
I got to go to Rezzed this year as an employee of Chucklefish and man the booth for Starbound and the other Chucklefish games, including of course Lenna’s Inception.
I also attended the BeefJack indie game show and tell event on the Thursday evening after the convention and meet a friendly bunch of gamers, developers and a few youtubers. Even if free beers weren’t involved, this still would have been a worthwhile event just for the networking and play-testing, so look out for this event next time!
And the Loading bar unofficial after-party on Saturday was a shit-ton of fun, playing @Robin_B‘s one-dimensional dungeon crawler drunk.
Throughout the week, Lenna’s Inception got a lot of very positive feedback, which I’m very thankful for! Watching so many people play the same demo (with the same seed) over and over also highlighted a few minor issues which I’m going to fix up in future.
And in case you missed it, I announced a graphical upgrade for Lenna’s Inception while at Rezzed…
Artistic upgrade
Lenna’s Inception is getting an artistic upgrade, courtesy of @SamuriFerret, one of the artists on Starbound!
It looks fantastic. 🙂
The present, Gameboy Color-style graphics will still be available as an option. In fact, the new graphics are being implemented as a sort of mod bundled with the game. Beta8 will include the beginnings of a modding system!
It’s still going to be a while before all the new graphics are in the game, and we’re super busy putting this together. The very next thing we’re going to need to do is get enough graphics together to record a trailer for Steam Greenlight. Which, by the way, you can hear about by signing up to the mailing list, *hint* *hint*…
On the plot and the ending of the story…
A conclusion to the plot most likely won’t come in beta8, but people on the forums are starting to theorize about it, and are getting very close!
If you don’t mind potential spoilers, here are the threads:
- Theories about the setting (spoilers)
- Story after beta7 [Spoils end of Beta7!]
- Secrets and sequences (spoilers)
There is actually enough information in the laboratory, if you read all the books and bookcases, and in the titles of the lost library books, that you might be able to figure out the rest of the story.
I’m very pleased that people are interested in the themes and the plot.
Until next time!
It does look fantastic! At first glance on my feedly dash I was like “what game is this?” then I realized it was Lenna’s Inception and I was so happy that I already own it!!!!
Looks amazing, the Graphics look awesome, they did a great job, and the game is awesome, it si a blast from the past and reminds me of my childhood paying on my game boy :P, I hope my game will be as great as yours best of luck and keep up the amazing work.
btw is there going to be a Fix for the Save files not loading? I recently bought the game and my save file just starts in the begging, I was reading the forms and from what I made of it, there would be a patch to fix this.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean by the save file not loading. It’s supposed to respawn you at the last door you went through. Could you try going into one of the other buildings in the town and save and reload there?
I have tried a few times, and it still Just starts all over, it Shows on the Save file I have my Stats and Sword and such I stopped playing at, but when I load the Save it just Starts the game right after the Students die. and everything I did I have to do all over, I have tried this 5 times to make sure, with the same results.
I have tried a few times, and it still Just starts all over, it Shows on
the Save file I have my Stats and Sword and such I stopped playing at,
but when I load the Save it just Starts the game right after the
Students die. and everything I did I have to do all over, I have tried
this 5 times to make sure, with the same results.
Would you like my Save file?
Please do this for me:
1. Load your game.
2. Move into another building.
3. Save and quit to the launcher.
4. In the launcher, click the report bug button.
5. Copy and paste the text in that dialog into an email and send it to bytten.games@gmail.com
Cheers,
Tom
Wow! Excellent, man! I was wondering, what types of capabilities are you thinking of including in the modding system? Would it be only graphics, or could it also include music, enemies, and so forth?
What gets included depends on how long it takes to get done. Graphics, music and sound effects are already in. I’m working on a way to mod scripted events (which may or may not work in the end). I want to allow things like items and enemies to be modded, but that starts getting harder. Maybe eventually…
I think that’s excellent what you already have built-in for modding. That’ll be great if sometime in the future enemies and items could be modded too. That would open up big possibilities for extensions and extra quests and so forth. Keep up the great work, man!