Oh the joy of updating your blog after so many months!
Seriously though, when it comes to news & updates I can’t say I am the most reliable person on this planet, I am working on it though!
Lots have happened the past few months and many more will take place in the near future, so sit tightly and enjoy the ride.
There are more or less three projects that are keeping us busy the past few months: Two iOS projects and our updated website.
Ani & the Word Scramblers
Our upcoming iOS game is getting better by the week. The core mechanics of the title are already there and we are now in the process of coding the final gameplay pieces of the game which focus on replay value and player engagement.
We design Ani & the Word Scramblers around a play-reward cycle. Every time you play the game enough to reach the next milestone (which essentially is a boss level), the game will unlock new modes for you to experiment with.
So, after your first successful boss battle you will unlock the Boosts (name pending) interface where you will be able to select a specific item to start your next playthrough with, in order to have a head start. This might include an extra life, a gem multiplier, a powerup or… some other ideas we will discuss in a lalter post. Boosts will give you the opportunity to beat the first levels easier (and sometimes faster) in order to reach the more challenging ones!
This week we are implementing another feature that will add some extra replay value to Ani: Missions! After your second successful boss battle, you will get to unlock the missions interface, from which you can inspect your current mission assigned to you by the Elder Ones. The missions will test your skills and reflexes and will reward you based on their difficulty!
We have lots of ideas for cool new features in store for Ani, but they will have to wait; our focus now is getting the game on your hands as soon as possible!
Expect a more technical & descriptive analysis in the next Ani dev blog post!
New iOS app
As git log informs me, we have been also working for the past nine weeks on a new iOS app which is based on a rather simple idea we had this summer. We are super excited about this project and we can’t wait to show it to you. We will unveil more of our new project on the coming weeks!
New Evil Window Dog website
That’s one of the projects that start small and gradually matures to a much bigger scale.
We knew we wanted an updated frontpage for our website, to showcase who we are, a bit of our projects & news and a touch of a new style, so we begun working on it.
We realized pretty early in the process though that we could overhaul every page of the website, so we begun with the task of redesigning the whole website.
The moment that I write this post the new version is running on a staging Heroku instance and it looks pretty solid, so we will roll the update probably some day in the next week.
That’s all for now peeps, we will keep you up to date more often from now on, so you might want to follow our progress on Twitter, Facebook and Google+!