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 »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 »Our industry has long had a problem with representing women in games, and the recent news about Assassin’s Creed Unity dropping its female playable characters continues the trend in a fittingly embarrassing fashion. Earlier today, VideoGamer.com asked Ubisoft technical director James Therien why they had canned female playable characters in…
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…
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