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Dev diary number thirteen : GWRD

Posted by Germain on 11 May 2012 / 28 Comments



May
11
2012
 28
This is a poster that happens to be in our office. It has been created by =PoX=, a friend of ours.


Ahoy!

So yeah, last week was pretty morose. As you might have read in the blog, we suffered a few setbacks that prevented us from running the Kickstarter as soon as we wanted.

Well, good news! This week, we either fixed some of those problems, or are making excellent progress in fixing them. Here’s a few examples:

  • We have found a solution to our legal obstacles preventing us from running a Kickstarter from Canada. It is perfectly legal, rather inexpensive and setting it up went faster than we expected. I won’t go into the details of it right now, because I’d rather prove that it works by running the Kickstarter. After that we’ll be comfortable talking about it.
  • We have fixed our game-breaking bug that was getting in the way of filming the trailer. We hunted the problem down to the root, digging through some old code, and found several other problems on the way. All in all, not only did we fix the problem, we were able to cut down the loading time of our levels by 60%. I personally give this a 9 our of 10 on our scale of awesomeness. Huzzah!
  • The music guys shipped the near final version of the trailer music. I dare say this last version brought a BIG smile on my face. The new mixing really has a lot of punch and is going to be a essential in making the trailer as epic as possible.
  • We have finally filmed a video that is satisfying! More on that in the next section:



Sauropod has made a video!

We never thought making a video of ourselves would be so hard!

We decided to go for an “interview” format where some of our friends would as some unscripted questions and we would try to answer as well as we could. They would keep track of those answers so that once filming was done we would have footage of us explaining our concept, and why we needed a Kickstarter.

We also listened to your suggestions and made part of the interview in French, with subtitles. Some of those answers were not only better, they seemed more spontaneous and honest, which goes in the direction of what we want.

A friend of ours also took footage of us working so that we can scatter some authentic “Sauropod-at-work” footage. We have a few screenshots for you if you’re interested:

A soldier and his mount, going to battle.


Fancy shmancy dinner with Sauropod studio.


The cramped confines of our workplace.


All of these pictures have been taken unaltered from our video footage so the quality is really good. This really is all thanks to our friend Mathieu Sauvé who is a professional photographer and agreed to help us out with the shoot.

Hurray!



Soundtrack of the week


So today is my birthday. I don’t like telling other people about that. Instead, I’ll post a very personal soundtrack. I can say that Minotaur Shock’s Maritime has been a BIG inspiration for Castle Story. A lot of the ideas I have contributed to this project have come up while listening to this soundtrack. Enjoy.


Short and sweet again this week. See you next time!

Team Sauropod





28 Comments for Dev diary number thirteen : GWRD


Gameovergames
1 years ago


Good progress, alredy planning a demo version of the game???

Juliaj
1 years ago


Happy birthday !!!

im waiting for the game for so long and the game seems to become true … aaahhh cant wait anymore

satamoto
1 years ago


Ummmmmmm are serious .I waited 3 weeks for your new video on the game casle story and you tell me tha I need to wait one more week to see it!!!!!!!!!!!I mean W#F (sorry) but ok!
Bay the way HAPPY BIRTH DAY!i

Ben
1 years ago


Happy B-Day!

And those pics are looking really nice. It appears you’ve acquired quite the legit toaster to achieve that kind of quality.

Oh, and I hope this means we’re going to see some fat, hammer wielding, yellow pineapples riding light blue, pink headed, sauropods in the game…. because who wouldn’t absolutely love that?

Oh, and can there be an option on the Kickstarter for an official Bricktron bobble head? Because it would literally complete my life.

Best of Luck!

ShadowOfCrimson
1 years ago


Happy Birthday man, good luck on the kickstarter, can’t wait, also, have fun partying!

Crispy_Steak
1 years ago


Happi Berth Day (relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2PCWYAZQc)
good job coding those errors out!

Daniel (Flight)
1 years ago


Next week….. NEXT WEEK!

Spacevagrant
1 years ago


Love these updates guys! I can’t wait for the game to be in a publicly playable condition. Will a playable version be made available along with the kickstarter?

That poster is amazing, I know people who would do evil things to get something like that. I know some guys who do a podcast called The Nerdy Show. If you would like some free publicity for the kick started I could see if they would be interested in having you on. Send me an email if your interested. Good luck guys.

    Spacevagrant
    1 years ago


    *Kickstarter not kick started. Damn you late night typing.

Phillip
1 years ago


Holy crap I nostalgia’d so hard looking at that soldier toy thing! What are those called?! I used to have tons of those guys, and I must have one right now!!! Anyone know what they’re called?

Sami Laakso
1 years ago


They are called Playmobils. :)

1 years ago


so where the video and the Kickstarter

MobbieAnimations
1 years ago


The tracks this week are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Why are you giving us birthday presents?

ION 6
1 years ago


Keep up the good work guys.O and Happy B day.

Antknee668
1 years ago


OMG. My Birthday is also on May 11, Way cool.

1 years ago


SAY THAT KICKSTARTER GONNA BE SOON ONE MO TIME MOTHA-FU….. I DARE YOU. I double dog dare you!!!!!! -_-

deneb
1 years ago


Each time I read your blog, you get up so many bars on my awesomeness scale.
I’m really looking forward to see this kickstarter video which seems really awesome too !

Good luck finishing that !

gameovergames
1 years ago


Hello, i have 3 questions for you guys
1. Are you gonna implent torches?
2. Are you gonna implent liquids like water or lava?
3. How did ypu guys made this site???

Alexander Williams
1 years ago


Just a reminder, don’t be afraid to pitch out to your fanbase for a little help here and there. I do voice work, a little video and mograph editing here and there, and I’ve been on-board with bated breath since Sauropod first announced Castle Story. I’m certainly not the only one.

You’ve got an enthusiastic, pre-built audience with a wealth of diverse skills. I guarantee, if you need some kind of support, someone out here has the right tool for the job.

(Also, Kickstarter soon. Squee!)

Cuerdass
1 years ago


Now translated into Spanish in castlestory.es!!

Plzbanme
12 months ago


Great they are late with the blog!

    Space Narwhal
    12 months ago


    I so sad. :( But I’m sure they are doing something important.

Joshua
12 months ago


I can´t wait to see the blog of this week…

Captain Weasel
12 months ago


I think we should start calling it saturday night dev diaries.

Jakub
12 months ago


i think that you should not be impatient.They do, what they can. This is second dev-blog i follow. First one is Wolfire’s blog. We should wait calmly. Also, Julek to pa?ka :)