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We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.
Changes:
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We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.
Changes:
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It's hard to write story for a massively multiplayer game. You need story that can be played by thousands of people. In some cases they're playing it simultaneously, and in other cases they're playing it months or years apart. You want players to feel like their efforts matter, but you ...
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Here's a gif of us working to solve a system from one of the story missions in Exploit: Zero Day:
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Ossuary—which is currently 50% off on Steam, and will be 50% off next week on FireFlower—is getting an update soon to provide some user experience improvements.
One in particular that we noticed in watching folks play on YouTube is that colorblind players find the floor puzzles impossible to solve without brute forcing a solution through trial and error.
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In early November, I attended and gave a brief talk at DevOpsDays Charlotte 2015, a conference dedicated to exploring ideas around the modern movement of operations informed by and possibly run with development practices.
The typical, most obvious example of devops is the automation of builds and deployments of ...
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In the third quarter of this year, we committed ourselves to diversifying Future Proof's income. Our only real source of income right now is sales of Ossuary, and while Exploit: Zero Day is trucking towards having salable plot, development on that has barely begun.
We had another idea, though: in the process of prototyping the Car Game, we started developing a simple scene loading tool in Unity. (Think of the sort of code that loads upcoming areas in an open-world game as you approach the edge of the current one.) This would let us dip a toe into dev tools (an altogether different market than game sales) and wouldn't have required much in the way of PR work: its discoverability would primarily be managed within the Unity asset store.
"All it needs," we said, "is a little bit of polish and some error checking. A couple weeks of work at most."
Famous last words from developers.
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People often ask creative folks what their inspiration for a project was. It's a weird question to answer, because most projects have many inspirations. They evolve out of the primordial soup of your experiences and the state of the medium you're working in. Sometimes, though, there are specific works that ...
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A major part of our vision for Exploit: Zero Day involves lively discussion and roleplaying among players. When registering for the game, you pick a hacker handle and automatically have a forum account created for you — the forums are just another part of the game.
In the spring, when our first relatively large batches of folks got access, we saw some awesome roleplaying and player-created story and puzzles. That's since trickled off, and the forums have more site updates and bug reports than anything else.
Why the desire for forum content? There are a couple of reasons.
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We launched the Alpha of Exploit: Zero Day on December 22, 2014, but we haven't posted a "state of the union" type of post since February.
In that time, we've gotten a lot done, including finishing the features that allow us to craft stories and releasing some early story content.
