Kickstarter Update #16
First, Will and Dain talk about where we are with Duet: Second, the takeaway: Duet production is in full throttle. We’re partway through several weeks of prototyping. We have a rough recreation of the...
View ArticleWelcome to Dev Notes!
Welcome, Bienvenidos, Bienvenue, Willkommen, Witamy Was, Добро пожаловать, 欢迎, ようこそ, Pe’el! We’ve gotta admit it, Backers, but we’re pretty private people. So this Dev Note Access thing is kind of a...
View ArticleThe Birds and the Bees
Where do Cipher Prime game ideas come from? What we love most about being a game company is bringing our crazy ideas to life. When we’re not doing our “normal work” (chipping away at our main studio...
View ArticleOut of the Rectangle
In the original Auditorium, the gamespace was just a single black rectangle. Although we’ve always been happy with how Auditorium turned out visually, we also think it would be fun to create a...
View ArticleNo Need to Construct Additional Pylons
For the past week, most of Cipher Prime has been out of the office, celebrating Nikko‘s wedding and catching some tasty Cali waves. Excuses, excuses. But rest assured, I’ve been holding down the fort,...
View ArticleThe Cooperation Continuum
This past week we’ve started getting into the nitty-gritty of cooperative puzzle play. Before we try adding any genre-bending features to Duet, we want to nail down cooperative puzzles that extend the...
View ArticleCreate Your Own Levels in Auditorium: Duet
When we were making Splice, we created an in-game level editor for ourselves so we could jump into any level and modify it while playing. The editor was a simple drag-and-drop interface for creating...
View ArticleDuet and Multiplayer Prototyping
So, Duet’s development has been taking a lot longer than we ever really anticipated. What the hell has been the major challenge? The simple answer: networked multiplayer prototyping. Before we did any...
View ArticleLet There Be Level Components
Hey Backers! We apologize for the radio silence, about six weeks ago a company called Leap Motion approached us with a business opportunity we couldn’t pass up. They make a neat little motion control...
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