Beta Crunch Mode

So we've officially entered Beta Crunch Mode with The Dream Machine - Chapter 1. We're trying our darnedest to get it done for the Independent Game Festival, and so far it's looking good. Not great mind you. A lot of assets have yet to be delivered and whole chunks of dialogue has not been written. But for every placeholder graphic we swap for a real one, for every line of code we add, things slowly start to congeal into a somewhat coherent whole.

This might turn into a game after all.

A new trailer!

We thought we'd celebrate relocating to a new server by publishing a brand new trailer for the game! It's a rough cut, that we'll re-edit in the comming week, but tell us what you think so far.

Check out the TRAILER!

The music is a placeholder piece generously donated to us by the ingenious composer Anthony Lledo. Check out more of his work here:

http://www.anthonylledo.com/

Sorry about the downtime!

Our hosting server caught the swine flu and we had to take it out back and shoot it. Them's the breaks I guess. With a new server up and running, we're pressing on trying to get the game done.

We'll try to enter it into IGF this year and the deadline is Nov 1st. It will be quite tight, but work on the characters has progressed nicely. Now we'll just have to write a ton of dialogue and finalize design on the last elusive puzzle. And some other exciting stuff that we look forward to telling you about in the coming weeks.

The picture above is me working on the animations for one of the characters. It's a tedious, labor intensive process (that I'll post about in a few days). But once you see the characters moving around in the game world, it's definitely worth it!

A small token of appreciation...

We have received some positive feedback over the last couple of days since we launched the TDM Blog. As a result of this we´ll show you this sneak peek of one of the charcters you´ll encounter in the upcoming episode of TDM. Please let us introduce the girlfriend of Victor Neff: Alicia.

Right now our 3D (Maya) guy is rigging this character and we´ll soon be able to show some early animation tests...

We get really excited when you send us e-mails. Please feel free to send us those comments/questions if you have any...

Thank you!
-Erik and Anders