Now that the Tranquil Builds demo has been live for a couple of weeks let’s dish the dirt with some statistics. 185 buildings have been constructed with the farm taking the lions share of these. I assume that’s because the farm is the first level displayed in the main menu. 9,625 pieces have been placed. …
After months of work behind the scenes, today, the first Tranquil Builds demo is live. It includes 3 environments to build and can be downloaded directly from the Steam page. Hopefully you enjoy the chill, pressure free vibes. The windmill is my favourite environment. It’s a lengthy animated construction of the inner workings of an …
We’ve spent the last 2 years working on Merek’s Market, a game about running a medieval shop and I thought it might be fun to do a deep dive on the development of the haggling mechanic and how that mechanic changed over the course of development. We’ll be looking at it from a design perspective …
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In our previous post, we talked about acquiring and managing VO audio files in Merek’s Market. This time, let’s look at how we built a lip syncing system. The same goals apply, a quality outcome with low cost and with a small time investment. We started with a few talking animations and built a simple …
In this post, we’re going to talk about why we decided to voice act Merek’s Market and how we’ve managed to do it without breaking the bank. Serving and haggling with customers is one of the main mechanics in Merek’s Market. A customer strolls in and strikes up some dialogue that alludes to an item …
We’re a little into the dev of Merek’s Market, its going well, and someone suggested we get a blog started! ‘What a top idea,’ we said back, so heres a bit of the art work and how its progressing. When I said we’re a little into the dev, I mean quite a bit. The character …
What is it? In Merek’s Market you build your shop, craft crazy contraptions and strike dark age deals. Don’t believe me? Well, watch this completely impartial (not impartial, we made it) video and see if that changes your mind. Haggle Questionable customers come with the territory when running a shop in the dark ages. When …
