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Thank you! Here are our answers, we hope it helps!

Game Engine

Long Gone Days is being built in Unity (which is free, but we are currently using the Plus license), but if you are the sole developer of your project and your strength isn’t coding, we would recommend using RPG Maker, so you only have to worry about eventing, the story, the battles (if there are any) and the art (if you want to use custom assets).

Personally, I (Camila) used RPG Maker MV (which is $79,99) for the 2016 prototype demo (here’s the trailer of that version) which was built in 4~5 months working full time, so it’s really easy to use! I wrote an article about choosing an engine with pros and cons here. If the price is out of your budget, there are older versions of RPG Maker that are great as well, like RPG Maker XP ($24,99). I don’t recommend RPG Maker VX or VX Ace though.

Graphic Assets

For pixel art and animations, we are using Aseprite (which is $14,99), which is great at handling tilesets and lots of different animations:

It allows you to export spritesheets (you can choose the number of columns and rows you want) because making your own spritesheets manually is exhausting.

The little animations seen in-game that are not pixel art were animated in Unity, using its default animator.

Tumblr’s gonna kill the quality, I know it is.

Hi there! We are really glad to hear that ♥!

I always forget to upload sketches here, but here’s a bunch of doodles of Rourke and Adair from Long Gone Days ( @lgdays ) using different tools. The last one is digital, though.

wowowowowowowow forget about branna, COYLE HAS A PORTRAIT NOW

Next Update on July 25!

We are happy to announce that our next big story update is coming out next month!

On July 25th, the game will be automatically updated on Steam. Several changes and improvements were made to the first chapter, so we recommend playing it from the beginning, but otherwise, we’ll add an option to start directly from Chapter 2.

We’ll write a more detailed log on July 25, but here are some of the things included in this update:

PS4 and Xbox controllers are now supported

Rourke’s walking speed has been raised

Battles, equipment, items and rewards have been rebalanced

Ivan can now be used in battle

Lynn and Ivan’s portraits have been revamped (See here and here)

About 3~4 hours of new content (which means the game is now about 8 hours long)

More instances to get to know your party members

More narrative-focused sidequests

Lots of bug fixes that have been reported by our players

We also want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has helped us with feedback using the Steam community forums and our Discord server, none of this would have been possible without you!

See you all next month!

As always, remember you can join our Discord, or follow us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook for more frequent updates! And don’t forget Long Gone Days is currently 25% off on Steam and itchio.

Weeklong Deal!

Long Gone Days is on sale during this whole week! Get the game until April 22 10am PDT at 25% off!

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