Happy New Year! OK, I know it's not January any more. But we did do a video devlog! But who wants to watch my face for 8 minutes? I certainly don't! So what did we do in January? Well, we launched our first teaser trailer, which
I should probably do a end-year round up, but honestly this month has been so busy it can fill a post by itself! Briefly, this year we finished 3 months of art dev, went to Paris (!), did our first voice over recording session in July during the Edinburgh Fringe, made
It's been a few months since the last update, as we've all been working on other projects. But from November we are now all working on Less Miserables! Did you hear? We are making a point-and-click adventure game parody of Les Misérables! We had our first
Today marks the one year anniversary of us unleashing 'The Protagonish' on an unsuspecting world! This post aims to give a bit of background, how we did marketing and promotion, and details of sales and Steam and all that jazz, and to celebrate, it's 50% off
We are making an adventure game about the French Revolution. OK, technically not THE French Revolution, but this one. And in our research we have been looking at the shapely calf muscles of a lot of French Kings. Our parody adventure game 'Less Miserables' features a mini-game
It was something we talked about at the very first stages of the game: we had to do a field trip to Paris! It would give us a chance to see the real places we wanted to have in Less Miserables, while capturing the visuals and feel of the place.
OK, OK, I know I've not done proper updates in a while. Soon! But I attended a great live talk from Michael Liebe and Maria Burns Ortiz on their top tips for successful Kickstarters for Video Games, and it was actually great! Good data, clear tips, with why
We are excited to finally announce the next title from our new studio: a point-and-click adventure game that's a parody of Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables! It's a wonderful and timely tale of revolution, inequality. sacrifice and love, and has inspired generations. Our
By far the best part of developing our point-and-click adventure game, The Protagonish, was working with professional artists. I've already mentioned the huge learning curve for me, understanding layouts, art styles, brushes, and colour palettes, and a whole technical language I didn't know! But today, we&
In most computer games, the character you play is the conquering hero. Think of Civilization, Skyrim, Doom, Mario, Zelda... Even if your job is to be a 'goody' and bring peace to the land, or rescue the princess, you do it pretty much single-handed, as the legendary savior
It's launch day, and The Protagonish is now available to download and play the full game! You can get The Protagonish on Steam or itch.io for the tiny price of US$3.99 / £2.99 / €3.49 for a tiny but fun game, with full hand drawn
Our short, point-and-click adventure game finally has a launch date! We will be releasing the full version of The Protagonish, for Windows, Mac and Linux, on Steam and itch.io on October 24th, at 6pm UK time! And we will be having a launch party in Leith! Testing is going