#smallworldz

Hey guys this is late but here’s the Q4 recap. I need to stop neglecting this blog!!

Small World Z

Oh boy..

A lot of this time was spent on finishing touches, N3DS support, and the submission process for SWZ.

New Release!

On November 21st, 2019, SWZ was released for Windows/Mac/Linux on Itch, and for Android on Google Play.

We also released this awesome trailer that Josh made:

N3DS/IOS

The game did not release to N3DS until January, and an iOS version is still coming, very sorry about the delays. I have been busy with our next title to be released, as well as doing a EU release for Phasmophobia.

CHax 2

bet that name caught you by surprise. Yes, I opened up the ol project folder and I removed all the networking code in preparation of using a new API. Then while I had it open, I thought it would be fun to prototype an AR feature. It did not take much work, it looked incredible, and I really want to come back to it soon. I’ll share more of this in the future if it comes up again. Just know It isn’t an abandoned project.

Altruism: Matchmaker

MATCHMAKER HAS COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED!

A whole lot of work has been done! Lots of animations and levels have been done, and something I wanna talk about in this post is the transformations. It has been a core element of the game and I don’t think I have discussed the mechanics at all.

Here are the four transformations, just like the original! (These are revamped from the original Altruism: The Game)

Transformations in Matchmaker will give essential powers for passing levels. To create a transformation you must make certain combo matches! These are listed below:

Key - Opens Locks :)

Combo: Match 4 pink or purple tiles in a square!

Platform - Resets part of (or the whole) board!

Combo: Match 5 blue or green tiles horizontally!

L - Clears an L shape on the board! MORE POINTS!

Combo: Match 5 pink or purple tiles in an L shape!

Spiked Squirt - Falls down and eliminates any red tile it touches

Combo: Match 5 blue or green tiles vertically!

NO MORE DARK MODE

This is a happy game about love, so why was it so dark looking?

Coming Soon!

There really has been too much to share but I am excited it is finally coming together and I can’t wait to release this game. Should be sometime this year :)

Other Things:

I work on a lot of random stuff on the side here and there, a lot of it never gets released but is always there for me to come back to when I feel like it. Some of it I don’t share to the blog but I think I am going to be more open again because it’s nice to have stuff documented and that’s hard to do is nothing can ever go public. So here are some things I worked on over the quarter.

Card Game Simulator

This is pretty cool, there isn’t a whole lot to say about it other than it’s designed to be able to play any card game you want online with friends, a lot like Tabletop simulator, but this game targets mobile users as well and will focus mostly on card games.

New Shooter (Undergrudge, Release Date: TBA)

This is the new shooter to replace Arena 51. It’s gonna be a fun one, and I will share more details about it in a future announcement post.

For now checkout these prototype GIFs, because developing in secrecy is becoming lonely too much isolation for me.

So i know this is a little late but here we go. I mostly just worked on Small World Z in these three months. It has been all end-game content, adding more dialog, fixing tons of bugs, and doing IAP implementation for the mobile versions of the game.

It was a super busy time and I didn’t document or milestone a lot of the stuff I did, I just worked and worked and worked.

Teaser

At the time of writing this, the game has just released and we have a launch trailer but for the sake of continuity I will plug the teaser here. We learned a lot from making this teaser that helped make our trailer a lot better. Check it here.

Awesome Artwork!

Our artist/my girlfriend made this amazing piece here, it includes some of the game’s bosses.

Other Things

I started working on something else too in my free time. This project here is going to be replacing the previously teased “Arena 51″, although keep an eye out for references to both of those games in Small World Z.

CHax 2 will be continued again soon now that Small World Z is being released. I think the focus will shift onto CHax 2 and Alrtuism: Matchmaker, both of which have been shown off in old dev logs if anyone is interested.