Hello, Detectives! Welcome back to The Speakeasy; grab a drink of choice and get comfortable. I'd like to start off by saying wow, you have exceeded expectations with the Dupery ARG. 5 clues solved in around 2 hours, and watching the way you solved them was fascinating. Truly never had more confidence in a set of detectives. We're upping the ante for the next clues but have no doubt you'll breeze through them like before. We also announced the release date yesterday and now, more than ever before, we're counting down the days eagerly until you can play the full game. Playtests and demos have been received with such enthusiasm that we are super keen to see how you detectives enjoy the full release! And onwards to our main course for this week, we asked the devs: What are some of the biggest things you’ve learnt through the development process of the game? Luke: Add an in game button that people can press to send bug reports!!!
It’s helped us so much to find some of the trickier, more sinister bugs, and as we also send the case info across as part of the report, it also helps us filter out false positives (Looking at you accountant/milkman/conman/fall guy+mathematician). Lydia: To use imperfection in visuals to my advantage! With such an irregular and angular art style, I have a lot more freedom to focus on the major image and not get caught up in the details. The scratchy-ness of brush strokes, the fact that the magnifying glass is a little wonky? IT'S A FEATURE!
It has let me iterate with so much more freedom and efficiency this project, and really let me play with negative space in a way I haven't before. ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I know you're all very active in the Discord and ask the devs plenty of things already, but if you have any questions you'd like to see in these dev diaries, do let us know and I'll fire the questions away at them! Here's a fun little screenshot from of the Discord community members, Snowman
The bouncers do not deem you worthy, you are banned from the clurb. (But not the Speakeasy, we like having you here)
See you next week, folks!