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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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Hey, Fredrik here.

Marcus and me have been pretty bad at updating the blog lately. So we figured we would do weekly progress reports on how the projects are going and just plain awesome stuff that have happened.

Week 2, 2012

Last week ended with my laptop deciding to die on me. Luckily, the hard drive survived and no work was lost. Though it meant I had to work from home for a couple of days.
Mailstorm have stood still this week, instead I’ve been focusing on a consult job we’re doing. There isn’t much to say about it, it’s a small flash game. We decided to work in the Flashpunk library. So I’ve been spending my time reading through the documentation and started with the basics of the game.

Meanwhile on Marcus side of life:

Marcus been writing a business plan and been off on a VD-workshop in Malmö with other people from the games industry. Both sharing and gaining knowledge, tips and tricks. When he got back we started setting up a plan on how to optimize our work process, which we will start using next week.

So even though Mailstorm stood still this week it feels like we got a lot of things done and learned a bunch of new stuff.

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So.. it’s been a while since we released any news here. In the beginning of June there were a few changes in our team and the production of Societies was put on hold until further notice for a couple of reasons. It’s probably not cancelled, but when we pick it up again we will redo a lot of  the stuff we weren’t happy with, including some big gameplay changes.

With that said, we’re quite jolly at the office at the moment. As it turned out, right after we stopped working with Societies, Markus Lundberg came to us with an idea for another game. After some meetings and discussions, the basic design for our new game project was set.

We started working with ”They Came to Feed!” about 5 days ago, and because we prefer to talk about our projects rather than keeping them for ourselves, we thought we’d show you what we have so far.

So here it is. ”They Came to Feed!”. 5 days into production. Our plan is to release a new video every week or so. Thank you for reading!

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Overtime! is a puzzle adventure game for the mobile market.

Progress screenshot as of July 27th.

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