When the shit hits the fan Bad news first: Last Monday my hard drive where all my project data was got corrupted and a whole lot of data got lost. The problem was I didn't realize it immediately and had to figure out, what was going wrong. I spent until Wednesday evening to build in a new hard drive, copy all the data …

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Oh no, there is a child missing from the Muddy Maggots Orphanage in Few Pork. The billionaire heir Wuce Brain, whos parents died under mysterious circumstances after a circus show, didn't return last evening. Georgia Pupweazle, the head of the orphanage says: "Well, he went out for his evening crawl and did not …

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I just wanted to build the final version of the game demo. The only thing missing was one last audio file that I had to record. The recording went without problems and then I wanted to implemented the sound file into the project. When I copied the file over to the right directory and marked it as …

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I'm currently working on the last missing characters of the game. I had to create some soldiers and a general for a secret military base on Terra Grande Vermis. Here are some images: Another new character is Don Pati. He is part of the family, ya know. Da family! Done is also Worm Doe, a mysterious guy that …

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From images to text Today it was time to convert all recipes in the game from images to text components, because else it wouldn't be possible to translate them to other languages. Until now I used images from "Looky - The Adventure" as placeholders, where the recipes are drawn on. The problem with images is, …

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AC Speech Tool My wifes currently helps a lot with translating the game into english in the evenings. To help with translating and also keeping track of the voice overs I developed a tool a while ago called "AC Speech Tool" (AC stands for Adventure Creator). You can throw in all text used in your AC created …

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This is where "Basement Society" comes from... I just took a picture of the place where I will work in full time for the next weeks. Of course this is in the basement of our house. I wasn't sure for some time if I will carry my PC from the living room down to the basement to work on the game or if I will …

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Since Wormventures - Barrier 51 is in a state of feature completion which means every system for doing stuff in the game is implemented and will not change from now on to keep focus on the content, I couldn't help but change my current way to draw skies in the scenes. Yes, I know, it was the LAST system I changed. I …

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Seven years gone... After working on the game in my spare time for around seven years now I finally take some time off of work to develop full time for a whole month. The means the loss of a whole months wage for me and my family and the decision was not easy, but it is very hard to keep track of the development if you …

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I always liked the idea of Toasts in Android to give a quick response to the user if something happens. Based on that idea I implemented a QuickMessage system into sqUId. With the command UI_QuickMessage() you are now able to display a quick message to the user in the like of Android Toasts. You can define the time the …

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