Vilya's Work-blog! (aka Pixel Ferrets behind the scenes)

Tylerthedragon

Tylerthedragon

Boar
Apparently having the armour slot be visible would take too much time. It's a shame, I would love it for my Knight Armour to show up on my character.

Edit:

Also, I did this because I felt like it.
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It could be a robe that is balanced between Attack and Magic Attack, but with minimal defensive properties. Would be great armour for people who are using both Physical and Magic attacks.]

Edit 2:

Because I like the robe and I think it has a lot of potential, I did this too.
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It could definitely be a more defensive robe in the game, and could have more critical chance?
 
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Own

Own

Moderator
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Interesting. I didn't realize until I saw these side by side that time travel could be used as a potential Spot The Difference clue-giver for goodies, for people with particularly sharp eyes. Cool lookin' sword is missing. :eek:

'Course, it could just be nothing and Spot The Difference isn't being used in time travel area. :D
 
The G-Meister

The G-Meister

Giga Slime
If we have got some Spot the Difference, I'd be glad for some more puzzle types! ^-^ It's nice to have a break in-between smacking in the faces of anything and everything :D
 
MrChocodemon

MrChocodemon

Handsome Moderator
JUNE 30, 2015
The Storage Room Ruins

Now that I've made a bunch of rooms & areas in the past version of the time travel area, it's time to start transforming them into their present states, where time had taken it's toll, leaving things forgotten, broken & overgrown.

In this video I'll transform the Storage Room from last week into it's present state:


The finished room

watch a video of Vilya's work progress over at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/06/the-storage-room-ruins.html​
 
Purrbidden

Purrbidden

Giga Slime
MrChocodemon said:
JUNE 18, 2015
Steam Capsules

Alright, so before jumping into what I believe will be the final menu edit (the character tab), it's time to start uploading the Steam graphics so we have all of that in place. As I'm sure you've noticed, a bunch of different banners are used throughout the Steam store, and each demo or DLC has to have all of the same banners, whew!

So, here they are, the ones we'll use for now (perhaps we'll update them before actually releasing the finished game, we'll see):


Regular Banners

Other Banners and more infos can be found over at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/06/steam-capsules.html
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JUNE 19, 2015
The New Character ID

The final (?!) menu edit is here!! This time, it's the Character tab, featuring a bunch of stats, your pet, and some other random info about your character! Let's begin with the old version:



SO TERRIBLE! There's brown EVERYWHERE, it looks boring, it's uninspiring... Nope, it won't do. I want more colors, more graphics, perhaps some additional for-fun info about your character.

Ready?

Here it is:



Infos regarding the new character ID can be found over at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/06/the-new-character-id.html​
Click to expand...

I really like the new character ID.
As well as the Steam banners. ; o ;
 
Jyeli

Jyeli

Green Slime
I noticed two things that were a bit off about the storage room.
First off is the bottle on the left, you started out with making a broken version of it, and then you added back the original, unbroken one at a different spot.
There's also the ruined book that appears to have come from nowhere, as the locations and number of books are otherwise identical in the two versions.
Perhaps I'm nitpicking, it was just something I noticed while looking at the video.
 
Own

Own

Moderator
I assume some things were added / taken away from the Storage Room between the (however many) years that passed between Past and Present. Unless the Past is literally the very day the town was destroyed, in which case having new things added to that room would be odd.
 
Vilya

Vilya

Developer
Staff member
Yeah when making these rooms I'm assuming that things have happened since, both in terms of adding and removing stuff! :)
 
MrChocodemon

MrChocodemon

Handsome Moderator
JULY 01, 2015
Portrait of a Man With a Hat

Another portrait! This time of a man in one of those strange asian hats one of you mentioned in a comment last week. Googling the hat gave a lot of different results, so I simply picked the one I thought looked the best.. :)


Line Art​

More about the man with the hat can be found here:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/07/portrait-of-man-with-hat.html​

JULY 02, 2015
The Barracks F1 - Ruins

We're working our way upwards through the Barracks! A couple of days ago I made the storage room, this time it's the first floor that's being transformed into its present, sorry state. :)

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The finished room​
 
MrChocodemon

MrChocodemon

Handsome Moderator
JULY 06, 2015
Plans For the Near Future

Whew! It sure is warm in Sweden now, and when I say warm I mean CRAZY warm! At least that means it's a great BBQ season, and BBQing and planning our tasklists has turned out to be a great mix for us Pixel Ferrets.

This time around we've been discussing further details regarding the time travel temple! I can now reveal that this temple will begin with a mini-boss fight, which we also went ahead and planned ever so slightly. For now, I'll just say one word: fans(which, given the crazy heat around here, sounds about right).

We also made a checklist for the next few things I need to make for the temple, so here's what you can expect to appear here in the near future:

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Read the rest of the future plans over at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/07/plans-for-near-future.html​
 
MrChocodemon

MrChocodemon

Handsome Moderator
JULY 07, 2015
Static Touch

So, as I mentioned yesterday, we decided to replace the old Wind Slash for a new skill called Static Touch!

When casting the spell, a number of cubes will appear around you:




When you hit something with your sword, these cubes will trigger and deal additional damage to the targeted enemy based on your MATK!

Read everything about the new skill over at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/07/static-touch.html
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JULY 08, 2015
The Barracks F2

Time for another interior! This is one I made before the meeting I talked about in Monday's post, and it features the top floor of the Barracks, which is only available in its present, ruined state:


Finished Room!
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A video about vilya's work can be seen over at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/07/the-barracks-f2.html​
 
MrChocodemon

MrChocodemon

Handsome Moderator
JULY 09, 2015
Portrait of a Time Travel Child

And here's another Time Travel portrait, also made before the Monday meeting, but I thought I'd post it as well before posting the newer stuff! This one is a younger girl, whose role we haven't entirely decided upon yet.. :)

Oh yeah, also, no video this time. I've been having some issues every once in a while with the recording software, and this time it crashed silently on startup and I didn't notice until I finished the entire thing... Sigh! Better luck next time (I hope) :D


Line Art

Take a look at the complete post and the finished sprite over at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/07/portrait-of-time-travel-child.html​
 
MrChocodemon

MrChocodemon

Handsome Moderator
JULY 13, 2015

Today we're launching Secrets of Grindea on Steam Early Access! By the time this post publishes, it's probably due any minute.

We've been working towards this launch for a few weeks, but because reasons, we had to launch it a bit earlier than we anticipated. Because of this change of plans, I've spent most of the day last minute bug testing to ensure that the new stable build isas stable as possible. Depending on how many new users we get from this launch I suspect Teddy will be quite busy dealing with bugs in the coming few days/weeks as well.. How much it'll affect me remains to be seen - graphic bugs/mistakes are known to happen!

Other than that I honestly have no idea what to expect from our Early Access launch. I believe most people who know about the game and are interested in playing it before it's officially done have already bought it through our site. Since we haven't done or plan on doing any additional PR stuff around this launch, I don't know how many additional people will hear about it. So I guess the player increase will mostly depend on how many haven't bought it yet due to the limited payment options of the Humble widget, as well as people who for other reasons didn't wanna buy it until it was properly available through the Steam store.

The thing is, you never know what's gonna happen, ever. When we first started making this game, we made a random devlog thing on TIGSource, which led to a post about our game over at Indiegames.com. At that time, we had no site or anything, all we had was an incredibly silly YouTube video on Fred's private YouTube account, where tons (thousands) of people viewed it before we even understood what happened.

That shit is scary.


More at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/07/steam-early-access.html
 
MrChocodemon

MrChocodemon

Handsome Moderator
JULY 15, 2015

Okay so this blog post is late and I'm gonna try to keep this short because I'm ready to crash after 30 crazy hours!

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Finally we have a Store Page!
So as I said we did approx. 0 PR for the Early Access launch. Turns out, we still got a ton of attention (so far), so I've spent most of my time awake answering e-mails and checking the Steam communities and other places where people discuss the game, just to make sure everything runs smoothly.

And it has run smoothly! So far, we only have one negative review, which seems to not even be about the game itself, but rather that we don't update it fast enough for his/her taste (it was a Thai review, though, and I'm not sure how reliable Google Translate is). People seem generally happy, and I've been fortunate enough to watch a few really fun Twitch streams where people really seemed to enjoy themselves (and nothing makes me happier than that)!


More from Vilya over at:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/07/one-crazy-day-or-thanks-guys.html
 
MrChocodemon

MrChocodemon

Handsome Moderator
JULY 15, 2015
Portrait of an Autumn Fae

OK GUYS! Time to try to get back to some regular workflow!

Here's the portrait of one of the fae guys we need for the proper cutscene in Santa Fae, where that rude old Winter grandpa freezes an innocent Autumn fae (no video this time, things are still kind of busy and I actually work a bit faster when I don't have to worry about the recording):

Line Art

Do you want to see how the sad Fae looks colored? Pay a visit to:
http://vilyaroo.blogspot.de/2015/07/portrait-of-autumn-fae.html
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JULY 16, 2015
The Ambassador's House F2 - Present


Okay, let's jump back to that Ambassador's house in this post. This floor already has a Past version, but you'll pass through here in the Present as well! So, time to ruin this little place... >:3

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A video about Vilya's work progress can be seen over at:​
 
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