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Dev-Blog 126: Adventures with Ai
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! Today I will talk about the thought process of our melee Ai and some genre specific caveats we have run in to. When working in a specific genre for your first...
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Dev Blog 127: Seattle Indie Expo and PAX shout outs!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! This week is a quick one because we are hard at work getting our demo ready for the Seattle Indie Expo! It’s a free, one day event on Sept. 1st at Melrose...
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Dev-Blog 128: Color Grading: Another cool rendering trick
Welcome back, followers of the fearsome! On Monday we showed our game off at the Seattle Indie Expo, and it was super fun to meet a bunch of Seattle indie developers, as well as meeting all the people...
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Dev-Blog 130: Keepin’ it Universal and Streaming!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! this week we’ll be checking out some of our very cool universal elements! while we want to bring a bunch of different enemy races to viking squad, we also...
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Dev-Blog 131: Ranged Danger!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! This week we’ll be checking out some more enemy types and talking a bit about what the bring to the pillaging table! Enemy variation is really important to us...
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Dev-Blog 132: Time for a Trailer!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! Just last Friday we had a very cool announcement trailer over on the Playstation Blog! And this week we’d like to go over how the trailer was created! Just in...
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Dev-Blog 133: Trillions of Treasures!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! This week we’ll check out some of the process that goes into crafting our super valuable treasures! Treasures are big carry-able items that players will need to...
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Dev-Blog 134: What’s your story morning glory?
Hello followers of the fearsome and Happy Thanksgiving to those along the 49th parallel! Two weeks ago we released a trailer that introduced you to the characters and world of Viking Squad. One...
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Dev-Blog 135: Getting that Glorious Gear!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! This week we’ll be taking a quick look at some of the very cool equipment customization in Viking Squad. We really want players to be able to choose gear that...
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Dev-Blog 136: Favorable Flask Design!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! This week we have a quick post about some of the thoughts that went into the art of the base potion flasks! When we have to design things that get incrementally...
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Dev Blog 138: Hard at work and a shout out!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! Phew! This week we are hammered with work, getting our game all ready for the Playstation Experience in Vegas! So we’ll have to keep this Dev-Blog lean and...
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Dev-Blog 139: Spectacular Spawning!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! This week we’ll be talking a bit about our enemy entrances and spawning animations. There is going to be a whole bunch of enemies to bring down in Viking Squad...
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Dev-Blog 140: Building a Better Penguin!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! Today on the stream at 4pm PST we’ll be playing the game! So be sure to come by and visit! It’ll be a great time for sure! This week we’ll be doing a quick...
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Dev-Blog 141: Visual Designing and the Three Bears!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! This week we prep for the Playstation Experience as we are flying away tomorrow! Wish us luck as we land our dragon ship in Vegas and get a bunch of people to...
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Dev-Blog 144: Back and a Happy New Year!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! We hope you all have had a most excellent holiday full of good times and cheer! We are getting right back into the groove of developing content for Viking Squad...
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Dev-Blog 147: Another Drawbarian Chop!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! Recently we’ve been streaming a lot and it’s been a ton of fun interacting with everyone on the Twitch channel. People have asked questions about how I approach...
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Dev-Blog 148: Darkest of days!
It’s another day in viking land and another awesome game has shipped from a Vancouver developer. This time it’s Darkest Dungeon by Red Hook! If you’ve been under a rock for the past year you should...
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Dev-Blog 151: GDC and PAX East here we come!
Welcome back, followers of the fearsome! As you probably know from previous updates, we’ve been working hard on our ‘GDC’ build. The real reason we were working so hard is because we’re in the Indie...
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Dev-Blog 153: PAX East!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! What a whirlwind the last week was. We started in San Francisco to attend GDC then flew to Boston where we showed Viking Squad at PAX East. Luckily Thor took...
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Dev-Blog 154: Parallaxin’ Backgrounds!
Welcome back followers of the fearsome! This week we are doing a quick one involving some of the artwork we have going on in the backgrounds of Viking Squad! When designing backgrounds I tended to...
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