Hello, everyone! It is my pleasure to announce an official release date for Telepath Tactics: April 16, 2015. It’s been a long long journey, but the end is in sight at last! “Now wait a minute, Craig,” you might be saying, “I remember you saying that this would be releasing…
Read More »We’re coming close to the finish line here, folks! Telepath Tactics is all but complete. Here’s what we got done this past month: –I finished attack animation variants for the Caduceus and the Titan, and picked up the Bowmaster’s Split Shot animation (which I’d somehow neglected the first time around).…
Read More »We’ve now left 2014 behind and are marching headlong into 2015. I set myself a goal of having the main campaign for Telepath Tactics finished in rough form by the end of the day on December 31, 2014. Did I meet this goal, you might wonder? The answer: yes! Let’s…
Read More »Hello, tactics fans! I won’t waste your time with a big preamble–let’s get right to what we accomplished this month: –new animations! As I mentioned last month, I’ve been doing a lot of promoted unit attack animations myself to save money, so this is where a pretty big chunk of…
Read More »Folks! We’re now a mere two months before the end of the year. Early in 2014, I decided that I would try to have the main campaign for Telepath Tactics finished by December 31, 2014. Is that still plausible? Yes! Is it going to happen? Maybe! All I can say…
Read More »Another month has passed, and that means it’s time to provide an update on Telepath Tactics! So what’s new? First, there’s this! Much as with the voice actors from my last game, I’ve been wanting to interview some of the folks who’ve helped me out with various aspects of Telepath…
Read More »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 »If you’ve spent any significant time going through my archive of design-focused articles, you probably know that I am allergic to dogmatic declarations about how to design games. Over the past four years, I’ve responded to calls to remove text from games, calls to remove story and attractive visual art…
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…
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