We’re taking the week off! If you’re holding an occult ritual this week, celebrating something more civilized, or if it’s just business as usual, we hope you have a great time doing your thing, and we’ll be back next week 🙂
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Happy Holidays From Gaslamp Games
Posted in Clockwork Empires, Gaslamp |
Tagged being silly, content creation, Fishpeople just want to be loved, madness
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Gaslamp Never Rests: Office Moving & Gameplay Science
Once again the wheel turns. The Time of Change is upon us. Those who are unready will fall defeated while the once-humble may ride chaos to reign victorious!
By which I mean we’re moving the Gaslamp offices again. That’s pretty neat, right? Let’s look at pictures of boxes. (There’s a changelog for the experimental build which should be coming out today at the end of this post, so if you want game-relevant stuff you’re going to have to look at our silly moving pictures.)
Daniel is SO excited about packing up all of our paperwork.
Posted in Clockwork Empires, Gaslamp |
Tagged cardboard is the worst spell reagent, considering phones these days "phoning in" a blog post could actually work pretty well. And now I feel old, David has been listening to too much viking metal, froda's jump discontinuity put all our computers into a canal, our attempts to carefully ration coffee to run out at the appropriate time failed send help, powerful spells of wizard teleportation, ring ring ring lingonberryphone, the black insurance rider rides again, the nameless tome just contains our insurance rider, why do we do this to ourselves
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The Mad, Mad, Mad Vortex of Game Development
Alright, real talk. Today’s post is inspired by a question asked in the forums, paraphrased:
“With early access titles you find a lot of people complaining that features are being added while bugs aren’t being addressed and I’d love to see what Gaslamp Games could say about this.”
This question makes me reflect back on myself 15 years ago, when I was an enthusiastic fan of games eagerly watching their development from the outside, being frustrated by waiting for patches, and, I’ll admit, not being very understanding at all about bugs and venting anger at developers. Now I’m here on the other side and I can see why things happen the way they do, I recall specifically saying, after launching Dungeons of Dredmor, “I understand now why things end up the way they do”.
Vaguely related example: Yesterday I argued myself into conceding that the most important thing I could do was another mockup for the character info UI widget.
(I was originally going to use the framing conceit of Dominions 4 game mechanics to explain the functioning of a small game studio, but Daniel helped me see that this will not necessarily make the process easier. And that Dominions 4’s game mechanics being comparable in complexity to running a small game studio says more about Dominions 4 than it does explain anything useful to gamers. So let’s not do that. Also rejected the “Eastern Front of World War 2” analogy as potentially a bit grim. Moving right along.)
Game development is a problem of satisfying a bunch of competing interests while trying to align a bunch of contingent sub-projects. Let me dig into an example loosely inspired by reality.
Posted in Clockwork Empires, Gaslamp |
Tagged developers developers developers, finally got to use the word "frenemies" in a blog post, for bonus points: which of the four Battles of Kharkov best represents Clockwork Empires and which side is Gaslamp Games in the conflict, for more bonus points: Is Gaslamp Games more like LA Ulm or EA Abyssia. Cite sources and choose a pretender plus scales to support your answer., known unknowns vs. unknown unknowns: FIGHT!, Micah we need the pathfinding enthreshulator fixed, the Dominions 4 carp god represents Nicholas somehow, the importer dreams of a day when somebody will give it a cool name like the particle editor has, this post got way too bloody long, we apologize for the off-colour workparty names; those responsible will be sacked, we put the "management report" in "indie games are so punk rock", we will now celebrate our independence as developers by using the word futtock in a tag, whenever we release a new version of anything people in the office start muttering about the "Eye of Sauron", you have to put the developers on the beaches, you're doing it right when testers aren't sure if it's a bug or an intended otherworldly abomination
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GASLAMP VR: The Future Of Indie Gaming
April 1st, 2014 — Gaslamp Games, Inc., independant game developers and makers of the critically acclaimed Dungeons of Dredmor, formerly deep in production on Clockwork Empires, are pleased to announce an exciting new direction for the studio. “The future of gaming is here,” said Gaslamp Games Technical Director Nicholas Vining, pausing a moment to pull a slug of whiskey. “We’re going to build VR the indie way.”
Look into the face of the FUTURE OF GAMING. Do you see it yet? Keep looking! KEEP LOOKING UNTIL YOU SEE IT.
Fully embracing cross-platform compatibility, the GASLAMP VR development prototype rig is carefully constructed from three iPhones and an Android. “The Busted Up Old iPad Taped To Your Arm peripheral is a feature we’ve been exploring for the so-called ‘power-users’ I’ve been hearing so much about on the ‘information superhighway’ ” explained Gaslamp Games CEO / Studio Director Daniel “Burning Hand” Jacobsen as he stroked a perfectly white Persian cat. “We decided that market disruption required a radical pivot to synergizing our core competencies with partners in cloud space,” he continued, addressing a corner of the office filled with stacks of shipping foam and a sad-looking umbrella.
Posted in Gaslamp |
Tagged BURNING HAND ONE OF US, everyone has a number, Facebook please buy us, GASLAMP VR, Ha ha! Business!, hematite, if you cross your eyes while viewing the screenshot gallery you will get a first taste of the GASLAMP VR effect, in the middle of the photoshoot Sean realized he could text my phone to make Nicholas' face vibrate and emit beeps, Jurie- we know you read the tags so we just wanted to say hi, meticulously accurate geology, most of our fans are geologists, Nicholas suffered graciously for comedy, serious business, that's actually some damn fine whiskey Nicholas is holding -- thanks Stephanie!, the diggle is an innocent
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Happy Holidays!
This year has been exciting, hasn’t it? We did an enormous quantity of game development, we blogged about it, and we released our first ever trailer (and launched a website!) for Clockwork Empires. Even better, builds are trickling out of our factory of fun, albeit in rough and unfinished states.
2014 promises to be even more exciting. Now, however, we collapse in a heap on Christmas and prepare for the new year by exploding forth in a blaze of regenerative energy – exactly like Doctor Who.
So, yes – we’re taking a week off. Normal blogging service will resume in January. Please enjoy your Festive Jars, and remember to consume Selenian fungal spores responsibly this holiday season.
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Tagged a charlie brown christmas special with diggles, ain't no christmas like a gaslamp christmas because a gaslamp christmas contains the proper rituals to Njibb'-Nor, diggle nog for everybody, if it falls from the sky it is not necessarily snow, if you need a safe ride home from a christmas party her majesty's steampowered zeppelins are at your disposal, isn't there anyone here who knows what christmas is all about, on the first day of christmas my true love gave to me a screaming head full of impossible teeth, painting by joseph rockwell nejat, remember in art that a slice of life is best served with blood oozing out of it, the only way to consume selenian fungal spores responsibly is by not consuming selenian fungal spores at all, this year while cooking the turkey please think about what you did and know that you are being watched, uncle quaggaroth's secret eggnog recipe, which of your relatives is secretly a cultist
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Go Forth and Monetize!
Gaslamp Games Inc. hereby gives permission to ANY third party to use images and sounds from Gaslamp Games Inc.’s video game Dungeons of Dredmor in “Let’s Play” videos, reviews, or any equivalent content on YouTube (www.youtube.com).
If you do choose to use images or sounds from Dungeons of Dredmor on a video, we hereby request that you include the following copyright notice:
“Copyright © 2013 Gaslamp Games Inc., www.gaslampgames.com”
This authorization is given if the video is monetized or contains advertisements or other commercial goals. You don’t have to, but if you do, hey that’s cool.
If you make a whole lot of money playing Dungeons of Dredmor, and buy yourself a tasty beverage, we hereby request that you say “Skol” before drinking it one time.
Furthermore, if you are affected by administrator removal of content which you have made due to the inclusion of Dungeons of Dredmor content in a video, please contact us at contact@gaslampgames.com so we can work with YouTube on your behalf.
(Also, we’ll include Clockwork Empires in this statement when it’s ready for the world, and when the world is ready for it.)
Help us raise money for children’s hospitals!
Today we’re working with a bunch of other indie game developers to help a charity called Extra Life raise money for children’s hospitals. If you could contribute $5 or $10 it would mean a lot to us.
The donations are going to Seattle Children’s Hospital by way of the Children’s Miracle Network (and if you are in the US you get a handy tax deduction form thingy)
http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=58321
We’re going to be playing Crusader Kings 2 on our stream, which will start at 5pm PST, you can catch us on Twitch.tv, and we’ll be our handsome and charming selves. See you on the twitch channel!
http://www.twitch.tv/indiemegabooth
Edit: Wow, we’re terrible at Crusader Kings 2. And at taking care of children in Crusader Kings 2. But we’re great at beards. Help make up for our terrible medieval child-rearing in the 11th century!
Edit #2: In case you missed it, you can see the archived stream of us flailing about in Medieval Denmark here. We’re on for about the first hour there.
Posted in Gaslamp, Interviews |
Tagged Crusader Kings 2, Helping kids, Seattle is a place in Denmark, taking over the pomeranians
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