Gameplay – Starting a New Town
Now that most of the major gameplay systems are in place, I think it’s time that we start sharing them,…
Author Archive
See 1849 and other local indie games at the Good Game Club
We’ll be showing off the alpha version of 1849 on November 13 at the White Walls gallery in San Francisco. Come…
Choices, choices…
Last week, Eddie’s hard work produced some new logo treatments for 1849. We think they’re both excellent and either would…
Miner 49er
Eddie has started on NPCs and began with a miner. Here he is banging away at some Sierra quartz trying to…
“What’s Next?” Rob talks with Gamasutra’s Patrick Miller
In advance of November’s GDC Next, GDC’s Director of Online Community Patrick Miller reached out to many games industry luminaries…
Making clothes
We’re nearly done with the buildings that will line the paths and streets of 1849’s camps, towns and cities. This…
Rob’s Upcoming Panel at GDC Next
Rob will be joining some other former triple A devs that have started their own game studios at GDC Next…
Making Wine
Production assets continue to come in from Eddie.This week, we were focused on producing liquid libations that will keep miners…
Screenshot Saturday – Inaugural Edition
In the first of our Screenshot Saturday images, I’d like to introduce our fruit orchards. Farms in 1849 will have…
Art Update – An NPC!
We’ve been working on mostly buildings so far, but Rob is starting to implement NPCs and asked if we could…