In the last few updates, we have been talking about influences and, most recently, logos. Today let’s get back to the meat of it, namely the guns. Weapons have always been an important aspect of UFO games. On the surface it’s pretty obvious – it’s the guns that kill the invading aliens, of course they […]
Read MoreIn the last few updates we’ve been covering some important design influences and decisions, but today I’d like to change the subject a bit and for a moment return to the visual side of things. It is something of a tradition for us to start projects with a logo design. While we already had a […]
Read MoreContinuing 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 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 […]
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