Category Archives: Development

January Update

January 30, 2015Development, Game JamGlobal Game Jam, One Life Left, SpillprisenShadow Puppeteer Team

Hello everyone!
We hit the ground running in 2015, and so far it’s been a good year with Spillprisen
(Norwegian game developers awards), Global game jam, Catharina attending the hilarious
radio show about games and developers “One Life Left”, and further updates on the game.

Continuing our work with improving Shadow Puppeteer as we move towards bringing it to other platforms, we’ve started overhauling the controls. The controls have been one of the central points of frustration for many players, so now we want input about what YOU think and what we can do better.

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Crunch Time

September 21, 2014DevelopmentShadow Puppeteer Team

“Once upon a time there was a team of indie developers who wanted to make a game.

Slowly but surely they worked and shaped an experience that they called Shadow Puppeteer. After some years it became apparent that the game would have to be released, and then came the time of crunch.”

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Developing a cutscene: From start to finish

September 14, 2014DevelopmentAnimations, Creating cutscenes, Planning processShadow Puppeteer Team

We convey important parts of the story in our game through cutscenes; small videos without gameplay. Today we want to share with you the creative process and steps in the production of these cutscenes.

In an earlier post about Pre-rendered Cut-scenes; A Blessing and a Curse, Klas detailed his workflow when setting up a scene, animating and rendering/compositing a scene. Today’s post will focus on the cutscene development as a whole; who does what, when and how.

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This is how we do it: Scenes from a week of development

August 22, 2014DevelopmentHelpfull tips, Planning processShadow Puppeteer Team

Hi everyone!

We’re finally back in full «work mode» again. Which also means a new topic for the Development Blog. Today we want to share with you the day-to-day office life in a week on development. Our routines, our work spaces, meetings and more!

We hope you will find this useful, interesting and somewhat funny.

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Gameplay elements: «Darlings» that have come and gone – Part 2

June 27, 2014DevelopmentHelpfull tips, Kill your darlings, Looking backShadow Puppeteer Team

This week we continue last week’s post about elements in Shadow Puppeteer that have
been added or removed throughout production.

The game has not always been as it is now. Many gameplay elements have been tried and
tested, some found too light and others kept and refined.

We want to share with you the gameplay elements and levels that we explored and
scrapped, and those that came in late and were kept. We find it fun to look back on our
choices, and we hope this trip down memory lane will be interesting and educational.

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