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Aloha!
This week have been crazy insane and mostly about penguins. It all started with someone stumbling upon this  live stream . Which caused Mario to go into hyper penguin mode and ended up with an A4 of penguins drawing and several songs about them.

On the Mailstorm side of life I’ve been continuing working on the controls. They are almost done and ready to undergo some play testing to see which works best. And as soon as I can I will implement the design changes Marcus have made. I’d hoped to do it this week but some other work sidetracked me.

Except drawing penguins Mario have continue working on maps and also set up a devlog over at tigsource. So check it for more regular news and updates about the game.

Have a lovely evening and see ya’ next week.

-Fredrik

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Captains log, earth date: 3/2 – 2012

So here we are again. It’s Friday, Marcus and Mario is playing around in 3D modeling programs trying to learn a thing or two. I’m playing around in Unity trying to create a thing or two.

On Monday me and Marcus boarded a train in Denmark and went back to our small peaceful town of Karlshamn after a weekend of jamming with awesome people.

The rest of the week has mostly been spent on consult work but we actually managed to get in some work on Mailstorm too. We taught Mario how to create map blocks with our system and he made some sweet stuff. Some bugs have been found and written down as well and are now waiting to be exterminated.

Since most of the tech stuff on the consult job is done I’ll probably be able to work a bit on Mailstorm next week.

Fredrik out.

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This flaskpost is a bit early for the simple reason that Nordic game jam starts tomorrow and Coastalbyte will be there. This afternoon we will board a train to Denmark and traverse the Swedish forests, villages and finally cross a gigantic bridge to the legendary land of Denmark.
We might make a small update from the jam, if nothing else we’ll make an article to sum up our experience once it over.

In other news so have we been working on a consulting job. It’s going steadily forward and next sprint we will probably start working parallel with Mailstorm so we make some progress on that too.  Mario have been learning some Unity as well. He made a Skyrim clone where you shoot golf balls and climb mountains.

Oh yeah, and Rasmus made that sweet flaskpost image.

-Fredrik

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This is the second flaskpost update and much have happened since our last post.
First off, we have redesigned our office here at Gameport. We may have intruded a tiny bit on our fellow studio Forgotten Key’s space, but they so far they haven’t complained.

Second, we took the beginning of this week to actually sit down and hammer out a new way of organizing our work. We have really adopted and integrated google docs into everything we do, even for cloud storage. But that isn’t really fun to read about now, is it? In that case I’ll continue with announcing something completely different – we have a new addition to the team!

We at Coastalbyte warmly welcome Mario Gryth into our little troupe. Mario has worked with us with Mailstorm Express, composing the games music and sound effects. He is most known for hiss efforts as a sound- and game designer over at 2Play Studios working with their flagship title Bloody Trapland. Needless to say, we are very happy to have him!

Finally – this is the last update before Nordic Game Jam, which we will attend in Copenhagen January 27. Me and Fredrik plan to keep record and document the experience and share it later, who knows, we might even actually have a game to show for our efforts!

Be good and live well!

/Marcus

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