There's a lot of different news to talk about this month, so strap in!

The most important thing to come out of this month is the new trailer! Check it out if you haven't yet:

I'm overall really happy with how it came together, and we all had a part in the end result. I'd also like to g…

What a hell of a month! We got a lot done, all of it culminating in the release of the new vertical slice demo! This demo is now live, and you can check it out for free!. This slice includes an hour or more of content for you to explore, so we hope you enjoy it!

Like last mon…

I can't believe it's been two months already since the year started. Time moves extremely quickly these days. Anyway, we have some solid progress to show, and some important announcements to make this month, so strap in!

Overall progress

Last month was a big update with a lot of new content, particul…

I hope you've all started well into the new year! We're well into production now, with the vertical slice slowly taking shape. Much of the work in January has been on concept and background work, which is now done, so we are moving forward on the implementation of the new features, assets, and writ…

Well, 2020 has certainly been a year. Given the amount of stuff that's happened, and especially the big changes in my life around Kandria, I thought it would be interesting to write up a review on the entire year. I'm not going to go month by month, but rather just give an overview on the many thin…

Kandria now has a Steam page! Please visit and wishlist! It would help us a lot to get the game promoted on Steam. As a result of the Steam page and other unexpected changes, this month was pretty hectic, too, so there's a lot to talk about.

October somehow flew by really quickly for me. It's already November, and we're nearing the end of the year, too. Just thinking about that is making me reminiscent, but I'll have to hold off on doing my yearly wrap-up for another two months! Who knows, a lot more can still happen in that time. Last…

A new month, a new Kandria update! First of all, a new prototype version is now up for download. As always, you can get it here. A short list of major improvements:

• Audio! There's now music and sound effects. It'll be placeholder stuff for a while, but at least the game won't be silent any longer.
• A …

Another month already. Fortunately there's a lot of stuff to talk about for Kandria this time around, so I hope you're ready for a beefy summary!

This month was originally intended to be focused on marketing and recruitment, but for more reasons than one that's not entirely how it went down after al…

This month marks the release of the Kandria 0.0.2 demo! It also marks a change in focus, but I'll talk about all of that in a second. First, if you want to give the demo a try, you can get a copy here: https://kandria.com/prototype

Now, last month I talked at length about the engine changes and brie…

It's a new month, and that usually means I'm supposed to write a monthly update on the progress with Kandria. Thinking about that though made me feel very depressed because I realised that I hadn't really done anything at all for the game, all of April.

I can blame however much I want of that on the…

It's April! … already. Man alive, March shaped up to be quite the month, didn't it. For reasons you can probably already guess at, not too much progress was made this month, but after the splash of excitement that was last month, I don't feel too bad about that. Well, actually I do, but I'll try my…

Another month has flown by, and this one has turned out to be much more exciting than I ever anticipated! Primarily this is due to me making a surprise decision to try and apply for a grant to help get this project funded. This prompted a lot of changes, which I'll talk about today.

If you're new to…

I think it's time for another quick update on the game! There isn't all that much to go through, as I've been rather occupied with other matters, such as university exams. Besides that I've also been struggling with figuring out the core story, setting, and direction I want the game to go in.

In any…

It has been a while since I last wrote an update. It's also now been a year since I first started to work on it! I think it's about high time I talked about what's been happening, and what I plan to happen in the near future, too.

Since my last update I have not had a lot of time to work o…

It's been two months now since I started to do daily game development streams. I've been trying my best, but it is time for this to come to a close. In this article I'll talk about the various things that happened, why I'm stopping, and the future of the Leaf game. Strap in!

It's actually been …

This weekly summary of daily progress would normally be very short, as I fell ill and had to sit out a few days of development as a result. I'm writing this from bed at the moment, though I'm already feeling a lot better. In any case, this week I …

In this week of daily game development, I worked on two larger features. The first is a pathfinding, so that NPCs, and the player character, can move to designated positions in the map. That'll largely be useful for cutscenes and making NPCs move …

And another week of daily gamedev gone by. The improvements implemented in the last week are not too exciting visually. I finally implemented a proper world storage format, including for the new quest system, as well as save states for the whole s…

That didn't feel as long as it was. A month ago I promised to do daily streams of game development. So far I've held true to that. I'm sure I won't be able to hold that true forever, but I'll try to keep going for as long as I can. In this one mon…

This week the weather has been much more amenable, but unfortunately not too much visible progress has been made. I rewrote some engine internals to allow a much better representation of GL uniform buffer objects. Moving platforms and simple elevators were also added, which proved much more frus…

This week central Europe was a hellfire, and the resulting heat did not help with productivity. Regardless, the daily development streams at least continued. Newly added to the engine are horizontal slopes and a lighting system. I'm working on a n…

It's been a week of daily game development streams, and the project is now about back to where it used to be before I started redoing large parts of it last Monday. There's still a lot left to fix and smoothen out, but so far the progress has been…

Starting tomorrow I will be doing daily live game development streams for my current game project, Leaf. The streams will happen from 20:00 to 22:00 CEST, at https://stream.shinmera.com. There's also a short summary and countdown page here.

The streams will first primarily focus on rewr…