A couple months ago, we realized that we've worked essentially continually on Future Proof Games for years. The two of us have had day jobs, and have tried to maintain a work/life balance, but nights, weekends, and free days still felt like they were, by default, time for FPG work. ...
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FPG Video Update April 2020
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on inCheck out our first video news update! It includes info on the upcoming Majesty of Colors update and a reminder to sign up for our newsletter!
Game Design Vision Statements
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on inGames mean things. It's unavoidable with any art form that meaning and feeling arises from a work. However, game design involves enough details and interlocking parts that it's easy for the design to become muddled and say something that's either unclear or different from what the designer would intend. This ...
Four Flash Games Now Downloadable
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on inFlash will soon be dead. Future Proof Games, and the game community in general, owes an enormous debt to the Flash development zeitgeist of roughly 2004-2014. My (Gregory's) Flash games have led to two different FPG releases: Exploit: Zero Day and "The Majesty of Colors" Remastered. However, most browsers' ...
Exploit: Zero Day - Update to 0.48.0
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on inWe’ve updated Exploit: Zero Day to 0.48.0 as part of the "Acid Burn" release. Changes include:
- Upgrade back-end code to Python 3
- Delay destruction of solved systems to allow solution sound to finish
- Fix ghost nodes remaining when deleting nodes with multiple backlinks
- Miscellaneous code style cleanups
If ...
Our Rosette Diceless Home Game
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on inWe like our tabletop roleplaying system Rosette Diceless enough that we've had a home game running every other week since August 2016, two years before the game released. At first it served as a valuable playtesting resource, but we've kept it going. We've incorporated other systems, switched our general playstyle, ...
Ossuary Half Off in Humble Store Fall Sale 2019!
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on inIt's time for the Humble Store Fall Sale! Do you know why leaves fall? Trees discard them to save resources, just like your skeleton is slowly sloughing off your useless flesh.
Ossuary is half off! Just like your flesh. Your naked bones will be BEAUTIFUL.
The sale ends Dec. 3, ...
Cultivating Insurgency 1.0.0 Released!
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on inIt ended up taking longer than we expected, but we've just released the first version of "Cultivating Insurgency"! It's free to download for PC, Mac, and Linux.
"Cultivating Insurgency" is a little run-based, turn-based strategy game we started for LOWREZJAM 2019 where you play guerrilla gardeners fighting cops ...
LOWREZJAM 2019 - Cultivating Insurgency WIP
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on inWe're in the middle of taking part in LOWREZJAM 2019, a fun game jam where all the projects have to be at a resolution of 64x64 or less. That's a wildly small resolution; if you don't scale it up, it ends up looking this small:
As you can see, ...
EZD Roadmap for July 2019
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on inWith our opening of Exploit: Zero Day's alpha test, we're making progress toward having the game fulfill our complete vision for it. Here's an updated roadmap to the work we have planned over the next year, broken up into our named releases.
This work will happen in parallel with ...