Continuing the theme started with the previous update, today I’d like to share more games that inspired us when designing Book of Aliens. Last time I talked about thematic influences and the X-Com games. Today I’d like to name a title that helped us engineer and shape the goals for the top-level gameplay mechanics in […]
Read MoreBackend We have been working on what we call the “Influence system”. It handles every effect that is not instant but acts over time. By combining skills, buffs, and debuffs in one neat system we can now add, remove and activate a variety of effects that affect either a single character or are global. Activation […]
Read MoreToday I’d like to share another screen that we recently designed for Book of Aliens. We call this the Mission Landscape screen. It serves as the background for the mission part of the game. This is the part that sits right between the top-level global strategy layer in the orbit (top-level in orbit, see what […]
Read MoreBackend We kicked off 2022 with comprehensive tests of the multiplayer backend. One of the issues we had to tackle was the synchronization when one of the clients was running on a really slow computer hitting extremely low frames per second (4-5fps). We solved that issue, so good news to everyone playing on really slow […]
Read More
