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Ripe for Harvest! (And the CE rev30 Update)

August 13, 2014 by David Baumgart

Upcoming “Early Access” Launch of Clockwork Empires

On Friday, August 15th Gaslamp Games is going to be launching Clockwork Empires on Steam Early Access. We’ve been hard at work stoking the boilers and polishing the cogs for the big day. If I may be so bold: the game receives noticeable jumps in quality as each patch is released and we’re pleased with how things are coming along.

We will, by the way, be updating the Clockwork Empires: Development Progress page alongside the Steam launch so you can follow along with the overview of project progress as we transition from “Earliest” to “Early” Access. (Speaking of, the latest Clockwork Empires update patch notes can be found at the bottom of this post.)

Around here, it’s not just knife-fights and musical numbers – sometimes we even do some game design! Let’s talk about what people really play Clockwork Empires for: cabbage.

Farming Overhaul

(For our sharp-eyed readers: Can you find the pumpkin that isn’t a pumpkin?)

No, this is about farming actually. Farming got an overhaul and I’m going to talk about it.

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Posted in Clockwork Empires | Tagged a most exquisite cabbage simulator, booze, Fishpeople have it tough, Fishpeople just want to be loved, Gaslamp Games is not West Side Story, historically accurate sparkling, poetry, we really do hope that someone grows something other than cabbage one of these days, when you're a jet you're a jet from your first cigarette to your last dying day, who runs cabbagetown, you can't eat most poetry
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The Fishman

April 2, 2014 by Nicholas Vining

THE FISHMAN

[set, roughly, to the meter of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
having just returned from GDC a couple days before,
lying in my bed with con flu, none too happily sorting through
the impressions of the journalists who visited before.
“They struggled with the game,” I muttered, “having never played before.
These struggles I do so deplore.”

Ah, distinctly, I remember, it was in my warmest sweater,
as each JIRA ticket crashed like waves upon the ocean shore.
Eagerly I watched the replays, studying hard and searching for ways
to improve the user’s gateway into CE’s dreadful lore.
The mouse clicks were not working, as they once had worked before,
for putting things onto the floor.

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Posted in Clockwork Empires | Tagged a poet failed to be inspired by a particle system today, bizarre literary experiments, David does in fact have an icon for every occasion, Fishpeople have it tough, game development real talk, I guess this means we're going to have to stock the office with little shakers of shrimp flakes, madness, make icons of gears and stick the icons of the gears to things, Nicholas' personal vendetta against poets rages on, no Nicholas you are the poets!, poet simulator, poetry, spite-based game design, this is game development, you can't eat most poetry, you win this round of bizarre literary experiments Nicholas
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Yet Another Technology Status Update

February 27, 2013 by Nicholas Vining

Last time I wrote a programming team update about Clockwork Empires, I made a comment that was somewhere along the lines of “the game is starting to hit that point where it transitions from a bunch of technology bits to something that looks like a game.” Well, we’re a lot closer to that goal than we were last update. Some of the edited highlights:

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Posted in Clockwork Empires | Tagged a blog post where everybody dies is the best kind of blog post, clockwork empires, gathering but not hunting due to Vegan influence on project management, happy hunger games, happy little bushes, if your head falls off in the woods can you still write a poem about it, luckily we vetoed showing off Nicholas' special "programmer UI" progress, may the odds be ever in your favour, Nicholas' personal vendetta against poets rages on, poetry, premature head removal, the bamboo is insufficiently poetic, the code team doesn't get out enough and thought bamboo should be categorized as aquatic vegetation, the first authentic British Columbia clear-cutting simulation, the Roanoke simulation is now complete, too soon for Roanoke jokes? Gaslamp Games apologizes., what does a bamboo even do anyway, you can't eat most poetry
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