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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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Hot Testing Action and Starvation

June 25, 2014 by David Baumgart

The Gaslamp Games office is heating up.

Top Men sweat furiously, cursing script errors and crashes. Top Buttons are unbuttoned, frantic SVN commits hammered out. Meanwhile Daniel “Action CEO” Jacobsen blasts some Kenny Loggins to set the mood. In other words, we’re implementing a stricter quality control protocol for pushing test builds of the game as we get closer to the danger zone. People have been putting decisive, serious looks on their faces while they nod with their arms crossed.

Cooking! It’s really important now, actually.

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Posted in Clockwork Empires | Tagged baby you've got a stew going, bizarre literary experiments, blasted hellscapes: the secret to cheap real estate, boiling: the British contribution to world cuisine, Cabbage: The Stahlmarkian Way, Daniel will not be satisfied until we can simulate the entire plot of Sweeney Todd in a game of Clockwork Empires, game design triage, hot sweaty testing action, I will note now that I did not specify whether it was the test build or the testers that would receive additional beatings, Kenny Loggins, tables basically break everything and the world would be better off without them, talking to dead people was a serious problem, who runs cabbagetown, zones of danger
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So That Happened.

March 26, 2014 by Daniel Jacobsen

GDC happened! And with it, some exciting announcements that we have been selfishly hoarding for people who deal in the trafficking of humans (to their websites).

Steam Knight of Her Majesty’s 1st Armoured Guards Regiment reporting for duty.

First, we announced that we will be releasing Clockwork Empires in some sort of paid early access model this spring, with more details to come soon. We decided to run it this way a couple of months ago, but we’ve been discussing it internally for a long time. Clockwork Empires is just a good fit for the process. It’ll be a new experience every time you play it, and we can use the way that people are playing the game to inform our design priorities. Also we can sneak in stuff so if you pull up your game after an update some new and weird things can surprise you, and that’s awesome.

More importantly, we announced the Steam Knight, cleverly hidden in plain sight this whole time, who may be armed with a grenade launcher or one (or two) of a number of other gigantic weapons! There are turrets as well: the Minum Gun Turret (“what we have and what the fishpeople do not”), which can be deployed to protect yourself from waves of Eldritch horrors, crudely armoured bandits in the Grand Australian Tradition, as well as The Stahlmarkian Menace. There are some issues with them so we disabled them for the press build (take THAT press!), but we will soon fix the bug that allows every character in your settlement to sit in the same turret seat and never leave. Ever.

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Posted in Clockwork Empires | Tagged after GDC we had to collect Daniel who was found wandering the streets of San Francisco in a hotel bathrobe mumbling something about saving receipts, all design concepts came from a mysterious leather bound book we found on the streets of Vancouver, bandits are australia's most dangerous animal, capturing the dudebro market with drunk stoned colonists is not a PR strategy we approved of but okay whatever, Daniel will be selling early access passes to Clockwork Empires from an unmarked Van cleverly hidden somewhere in East Vancouver, everything is terrible, issues with the Minum Gun include "only able to explode in flame", it turns out that tuberculosis can be cured, Maslov's OTHER hierarchy of needs mostly revolves around some kind of snake cult and The Riddle Of Flesh, nicholas had a dream during GDC about peter molyneux and it was weird as heck, our PR people love it when we joke? about trafficking in human flesh, Sauerkraut: The Stahlmarkian Treat, short discussion had about whether "Deathwurm" was one word or two; decided that two begs question of what other Wurms exist and what being Death might imply, so many journalists and so much opium, the steam knight grenade launcher has the nasty tendency to explode other people, We're off to see the Kaiser!, while at GDC we let the artists do whatever they wanted and Sean made some kind of blood fountain with a skull spitting blood in the fountain (as skulls do), who runs cabbagetown
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Ripe for Harvest! (And the CE rev30 Update)

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So That Happened.

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