{"id":2973,"date":"2015-02-17T02:38:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T01:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2015-05-04T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:36:09","slug":"crosscode-devlog-64-steam-greenlight-is-going-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"CrossCode DevLog #64
Steam Greenlight is going amazing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright! DevLog on Monday again (more or less). Getting closer to the original schedule. Also stuff happened<\/b>:
\nSteam Greenlight is running like crazy<\/b>, we had our awesome livestream with Dekay<\/b> on Saturday and all the while we still made progress with CrossCode!<\/b> I’m not even sure how we managed to do that!<\/p>\n

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Greenlight going strong<\/h2>\n

So you remember, about 6 days ago, CrossCode was put on Steam Greenlight<\/a>. You know that competition where all those games (about 1700 at the moment) try to get into the Steam store. So guess where we are standing right now?<\/p>\n

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\nWe are #60! After 6 days only<\/b>! (actually, at the time of writing, we’re already at #57<\/b>… too lazy to update the image right now :P ).<\/p>\n

Everyone, this is amazing<\/b>! We didn’t expect this kind of impact. CrossCode is sky-rocketing up the charts:<\/p>\n

\"lea-stat-skyrocket\"<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who voted for us<\/b>!
\nLet’s see how much higher we can get with CrossCode!<\/p>\n

Let’s play more CrossCode!<\/h2>\n

Greenlight is going strong and the Indiegogo campaign is just around the corner, starting at February 25th. What now?<\/p>\n

Let’s spread the word!<\/b> Because yeah… for a successful crowdfunding we need a lot of people playing and talking about CrossCode. :D
\nIf you know some people who might like CrossCode, please tell them. And if they want to do a Let’s Play<\/b> – that’s even better!<\/p>\n

If you want to actively help us spread the word, please have a look at this forum post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh and another way you can help is to simply rate and follow CrossCode on Gamejolt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Concept art, puzzle effect and faster cutscene skipping<\/h2>\n

Let’s talk about CrossCode stuff, shall we?<\/p>\n

First of all Frece<\/b> and T-Free<\/b> are back in action and working hard on designing the villages and towns of CrossWorlds<\/b>!<\/p>\n

Frece already delivered an awesome new concept art for the heat village area:<\/p>\n

\"heat_village\"<\/a>
\n(Click to see the image on Frece’s deviant art page!)<\/p>\n

And just because it’s cool to look at, here is how this piece evolved over time:<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile T-Free<\/b> is working on the actual ingame graphics. Here a small preview for a new area:<\/p>\n

\"preview\"<\/p>\n

Of course, this is WIP. We still plan to add a lot of details and shading here.<\/p>\n

Okay, now about puzzles! Remember bounce switches? I made them more shiny now:<\/p>\n

\"bounce-switch-shiny\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I worked over the whole puzzle area in general and it’s now polished to a point that it’s basically ready for the crowdfunding release! The puzzle mode is now about two times as long as before and features a cool boss fight!<\/p>\n

R.D.<\/b> also worked his menu programming magic and added a highly requested feature: a hotkey to skip cutscenes<\/b>!<\/p>\n

\"scip-cutscenes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It works by pressing a button twice<\/b> during cutscenes to skip it. You’ll get a message after the first press – as seen in the screenshot – just to warn you what you’re about to do.
\nBy default you’ll also get a prompt after the second press to confirm the skipping once more – but you can disable this one in the options!<\/p>\n

I personally love this feature already. Makes playtesting so much easier! :P<\/p>\n

There is much more stuff happening in the background. Intero<\/b> is composing an awesome track for our crowdfunding video, Chibi\/Hyouto<\/b> is drawing awesome new avatars for the whole team, GFl\u00fcgel<\/b> is helping me writing those awesome<\/del> darn press releases and so on~<\/p>\n

Busy times!<\/p>\n

Awesome Livestream with Dekay<\/h2>\n

And finally, we had our awesome livestream with Dekay. It ran for almost 4 hours and we had over 1100 people watching the whole time!
\nWe also had a lot of fun discussing several gamedev related things – and even had a look at a very, very early prototype of CrossCode made with the RPG-Maker 2000 (that was at least 8 year ago!).<\/p>\n

If you missed the livestream, you can still watch it here<\/a><\/strong> (still in German, though :P).<\/p>\n

A few highlights:<\/p>\n