Secrets of Grindea » Weekly Recap #47: Greenlight Vote Farming

Greenlight

First and foremost, thanks to all of you who voted on us over at our Steam Greenlight page. Thanks to all of you, we just got Secrets of Grindea greenlit and ready to be on Steam as soon as it’s finished!

Even though we still got a fair deal of work left to do before release, we are all super excited about this. It feels great to have the support from Steam, and get to see that a lot of people out there likes the game so far.

To celebrate, we’ll be sending out a bonus batch of Beta Invites despite not being patch day! :D

Production

So, for actual production this week. We kept the same theme as last week and dished out a new area. This time, it’s the western fields of Evergrind city.

These parts are mainly used as farmlands and are inhabited by a lot of wildlife, such as the pig enemy we showed off last week. From here you can access the Farm, which is where all of your caught pets will be stored while you are out on your collecting adventures.

A slightly better home for pets than the Evergrind Café!

How do I get it? :(

In the animation department, last weeks theme applies here as well. Our pig friend has gotten a bunch of new animations, including the attack, damage and death animations shown below, making him ready to take on any sneaky Collectors trying to turn him into bacon!

Posted by Secrets of Grindea at 2012/10/15. Tags: animation, Enemies, environment, Screenshot.

MrKn4rz wrote at 15/10/2012 23:58:

Congratz Guys!
Keep up the good work!

Martin wrote at 16/10/2012 00:12:

I’m proud to say I contributed to your greenlightening :D

In a side note, I absolutely love that “death” animation for the boar.

Marcel wrote at 16/10/2012 00:56:

Nice job, guys! I really love this “A Link to the past” atmosphere.

Cheers from Brazil!

(and no beta invite :( so sad)

Lazut4ik wrote at 16/10/2012 01:05:

Congratulations! it`s a really good news for everyone who saw this game (even if just a video))

Fernando Dallabeneta wrote at 16/10/2012 01:32:

Yep, I greenlit it!

But then again, thank you for doing such nice game!

Nayelianne wrote at 16/10/2012 01:32:

I’m very excited to hear you guys got the greenlight! :)
I’m really looking forward to this, too bad 2013 seems so far!

Love the pixel work you are doing for this game <3
The boar turning into meat animation seems so smooth!

Acronums wrote at 16/10/2012 02:15:

man…
ill never get to try this game :;c

JakeGr wrote at 16/10/2012 03:44:

Sweet news! congrats, looking forward to own this in steam =]!

Elegroth wrote at 16/10/2012 03:52:

I knew it’d be Greenlit! A game as amazing as this deserves nothing less! Congrats guys!!!

WasabiCurry wrote at 16/10/2012 04:38:

Really enjoyed the animations and pixel art style of the game! Hope you guys can finished it soon so that us unlucky fellows will get the chance to take a swing at it! Love you guys~

Artephius wrote at 16/10/2012 05:40:

Congratulation Guys! i knew it would occur any time.
And the animations are great, Loved the death one, so funny. Keep it like that, this game has so much future!

:D!

Meowzers98 wrote at 16/10/2012 06:47:

I absolutely love the way this game looks. I have been psyched to try it out since I found out about it! I know my friends and I are all looking forward to playing it together, which will be perfect once this game is released.

The art direction is smooth and lovely and the retro gameplay style seems to be right up my alley. I can’t wait! :)

Azureblaze wrote at 16/10/2012 09:42:

Congrats on the Greenlight!!! I’m stoked to play, glad I could contribute to the Greenlight success!

Natakei wrote at 16/10/2012 18:10:

congrats on getting greenlit guys, knew you could do it! now keep up the good work so we can all enjoy this awesome game

Jimmy wrote at 16/10/2012 19:03:

The bunny needs to look more like the pig, they look like they are form two different games

Achti wrote at 16/10/2012 19:31:

congraz guys!
I was really happy when i read the news about greenlight on steam!
Now, if only i could be lucky enough to get one of those beta-keys…

Sirnak wrote at 17/10/2012 03:20:

I’ve just discovered your game thanks to Greenlight and have been looking at all infos here since. xD

It seems like a wonderful game with a lot of great animations and excellent fighting mechanics, but I really wonder about the length of the game. How much time do you expect it’ll take to go through the whole game? o.o

I’m asking mainly because of Wanderlust: Rebirth, another classic-like action RPG with coop function that recently got released on Steam. It was really similar in concept to your game and was indeed an excellent game, but the first playthrough only took 2-3 hours (even though there IS somewhat a lot of replayability thanks to higher difficulty levels, gear and skills)… And well, as awesome as your game looks like, I really hope it’d at least take around 8 to 10 hours to go through it. I’m also woried since it seems you guys took months to create a REALLY AWESOME CITY ( I can’t say that enough), but… yeah, is there much zones? And how much exploration time do you guys aim for?

Anyway, I find this project really awesome. Even with only 4 hours of play time, I’ll give you my money for it without a doubt. Awesome job on the animations and concept. You guys are awesome. ^^

Adlez wrote at 17/10/2012 07:52:

Congratulations!
I’m really excited to play the game! It just looks great!
I’m glad to see that there are so many other people that like old-school RPGs like I do.

Kevin wrote at 17/10/2012 12:52:

Have you guys thought about making a profile border url picture for promotion of the site? It’d probably not pull too many in, but, in proper eggman voice: You know what they say! The more the merrier!

Elegroth wrote at 18/10/2012 06:54:

To Sirnak.

You won’t have to worry about the game being short at all. The beta currently takes 5-10 hours to get 100% and it’s only a VERY small portion of the game. According to Teddy, the full game will have 10-15x more content! So you should be able to get a good 100 hours out of it! ^^

Sarealius wrote at 19/10/2012 02:38:

Please, guys, let me play SoG at your acc. I will not change password or doing anything wrong. I’m begging you. :(

Rene Aramis wrote at 19/10/2012 20:49:

@ Sarealius

You’ll have to wait like everyone else. The point of the beta is to get as much information from people as you can. By having new people join the beta here and there, its fresh eyes even from things you’ve had out previous for a long time. Its just the way they want to run the game, and I suggest that we all stick to it. Won’t be fair to them, or the community if the game was to go public with its current release.

Just saiyan.

Sirnak wrote at 19/10/2012 23:21:

Hehe, thanks for the reply, Elegroth. Sounds much promising. :)

Mefinges wrote at 20/10/2012 11:03:

This game looks pretty good. This game looks like a cool co-op game. Ive been waiting for such a game. And take you so much time as you need for working on this game and make it great fuller, because I want in the end to spend much time in to playing this game whit my friends. >:)

Relm Arrowny wrote at 20/10/2012 19:27:

Even though to some people I’m wishing the world could end faster, but when can it be 2013 so this game can come out? D: *impatient*

Nice job on finding support! :D

Name
E-mail address
URL
Comment
Δ

Greenlight

Production

Archives

Categories

Tags