Jarokn Games would like to announce their first RPG game, where you embark on a mission to unseat the Dark Lord from his throne, spanning many years and many generations, all with your legacy living on. Level up and spend gold to get the best weapons and armor and then destroy the Dark Lord slowly and surely in an incremental fashion!

It may be preordered at http://jarokngames.itch.io/the-timeless-battle and will release on December 11th 2015.

Gameplay footage can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnl1ox8ZRiM&feature=youtu.be.

Well, I’ve decided to abandon Game Maker: Studio. While it’s a decent game engine for the newbie game developer/programmer, I noticed I was using way more code than the blocks provided. That, combined with the fact that it only makes 2D games has made me want to try something else. With my coding skills improving, and my imminent enrolment into a 3D Animation course, I’m moving game engine to Unity3D, a free engine used by AAA and Indie studios alike.

I intend to use the Asset Store to buy some game assets, like models and such, to attempt to create a prototype to learn the engine, and then move on to a fully featured game. I am unsure of what genre to develop for, but sports jumps out at me.

Also, we recieved our first review of The Stadium Project, which seemed pretty scathing when translated from German to English, but I was talking to the developer, and he thinks it needs more work, and that the scathing remarks were not the intention.

Anyway, Arthish still works for us, and we still have our email server up, so hopefully things improve!

Well, 1.4.0 is now in the wild, I’ve changed the interface a little bit, not too much, it’s more tweaking and such, and there’s a few new features.

Fixed:

• Bug that could allow building to level 41 instead of 40.
• Bug occurring in new versions of GameMaker: Studio that would click things multiple times (Dev issue, not noticable)

Added:

• Bankruptcy, with game over screen.
• Winning screen when max level achieved.
• Level indicators on stands.

You can download the new update here.

Now for the big news. We’re coming to Steam Greenlight! We already have a greenlight up, but it is only a concept, as we wanted to test the waters before entering, and the feedback’s been okay, so I’m willing to pony up the $100 to get on properly, after I make a few more changes.

I considered spending the money on going to Android, but that market is very diluted and fragmented and it’s involved in a race to the bottom. No smartphone user would ever pay more than 99c for a game. We intend on making TSP $5 on Steam, and as such, the next major update will not be released on itch.io, instead, it will be withheld for the Steam release, but if it looks like it’ll never happen, I will make TSP a minimum pay-what-you-want of $2 and upload the new version.

I hope you can vote f0r us on Steam Greenlight within the next few weeks, but until then, we’ll see you later.

P.S: The old greenlight is available here for your consumption and comments.

Yes, the title is correct, and the best way to do this is to move back to itch.io!

The suggested prices will be slightly cheaper than Fastspring, and that will remain an option, mainly because I can’t be bothered cancelling that particular account. itch.io will be the preferred mode of download and purchase however.

I have noticed that no-ones even visited the home page, so I’m gonna start a marketing campaign, word of mouth of course.

Also, in other news, we have a new Lead Artist from India, named Arthish Banerjee. The 13 year old whiz kid has shown great promise as an artist doing some contract work, so we’ve signed him on a semi-permanent basis!

Also, I have had a lack of ideas and will to program, but with the return of itch.io, that’ll soon change! 😀

From now on, my games and software will both be released as open source software, however, all apps will cost 99c.

I have found two awesome software creators. lunduke.com‘s App-make-inator, which makes HTML5 app building as easy as clipping some blocks together, and PhoneGap, which converts HTML5 into Android and other assorted phone apps.

However, open source is required for more than one app, and as many people probably do not know how to use a compiler, I figured I’ll keep the source free, and charge 99c for the binaries. I am using the MIT license for this purpose.

Day 2 didn’t happen, as I had a psychiatrist appointment.

Day 3 was a shambles, we couldn’t get any computers re-imaged apart from 2 as we had server issues left, right and centre! We ended up transferring Windows Deployment Services from a virtual server named Raven to a physical server named Funnelweb, and it worked like a charm since!

Mark, my supervisor and the head of IT, also gave me an old computer that was used in the school before the rebuild, I will have details on that shortly. We also had a busy day with student laptops.

Day 4 we’ve all computers done bar 5, they will be done tomorrow. Very quiet day today so far.