With the Telepath Tactics soundtrack close to finished, I figured it would be a good time to sit down and chat with Ryan Richko, the man behind most of the game’s score. Here, he talks about composing for video games, and about composing the music of Telepath Tactics specifically. Read…
Read More »Another month, another update on Telepath Tactics! Before we get into the nitty-gritty of what’s new in the game, I thought I’d share something neat with you all. While visiting my dad earlier this summer, it came up during conversation that he had actually tried being an independent game developer.…
Read More »Wow, is July gone already? I guess that means it’s time for another monthly update! Perhaps the single most exciting thing (from my perspective) that happened in July was “Tactics Jam,” a 6-hour intensive workshop I ran on how to mod Telepath Tactics. Basically, I gave a small group of…
Read More »Another month, another update! What’s new? Work is underway on the game’s promotion classes. All but four of them are outlined now, and we’re making progress on drafting their sprites. You can see drafts of the promoted cavalier and bandit below: We have new rest sprite variations for certain unique…
Read More »May is now gone–and with its passing, we investigate the various things we got done on Telepath Tactics. So what’s new? First up, I released a new teaser trailer for the game! This is the first trailer to showcase the game with final graphics and animations. I don’t know why…
Read More »Hello, tactics fans! We’re another month in and another month closer to the release of Telepath Tactics. So what did we get done in the month of April? New character portraits! I took some more time to practice pixeling–this time, I edited the “cast” animation for the pyrokineticists, making them…
Read More »Hello, tactics fans! Wouldn’t you know it? Another month has gone by, and we’ve made still more progress on Telepath Tactics! Before we get to The Big List, something funny happened last month: the very day after I posted the last monthly update, I started getting tweets of congratulations. Curious,…
Read More »Hello, tactics fans! With February behind us, it’s time to recap everything we got done on Telepath Tactics during the month. As always, we’ll start with all the pretty new art! More portraits from David Hammond! Lorne Whiting has completed the first set of NPC sprites! This first set consists…
Read More »Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Today, in honor of the Day of Love, we are going to learn how to speak the most romantic language of all time: Lissit! (Or “lizardtongue,” as it is sometimes called by the humans of Cera Bella.) Let’s get started with some basic pronouns: si see…
Read More »All right! Time for another monthly update on Telepath Tactics. Let’s get right to it: New character portraits! Fun fact: as of today, Telepath Tactics now has 77 distinct character portraits, with dozens more to come! This set is pretty much exclusively just villains: We’ve created a new character class,…
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