Spearhead Team Blog

We have reworked the website a little bit. You can check it out here. This also means that we have moved the blog back to the intended location. Update your RSS readers! This should hopefully be the last time we move it around.

As you may have noticed we have also added Mana Chronicles to our website! You can find more information about the game here. We will be updating with more information as we near release date.

As the title says… we are back and have started to work hard on our upcoming projects. We’ll be announcing more news on upcoming stuff soon!

If you haven’t bought Phoenix Spirit yet (you should!) then you should keep an eye out on our Toucharcade thread as we will be giving away promo codes there.

Also don’t forget that the new version of Fall of Atlantis will be out on the 30th of July!

So we recently pre-ordered upgrades for our game engine, Unity3D.

This means we’ll be able to deploy to the Android platform within a month or two! It will most likely also mean we’ll be able to support iPhone iOS4 as well!

Also this is an automatic message since we are on vacation…

Since we read Gamasutra everyday we figured we’d put together a list of articles that you just MUST read if you are designing or thinking of designing a game. This is mostly only a recent list however it will provide you with a good read.

• Action Adventure Level Design: Part1 – Part 2 – Part3
• Examining pacing in games
• Listening is your first step
• The art of game polish

Here’s a quickie on what games we are currently playing:
Peter: Finished Mega Man 9 and is currently playing Zelda: Twilight Princess. Will most likely be starting up God of War 3 soon.
Ka Wang: Finished Final Fantasy 13 a week ago and is currently hunting new games to play. Just Cause 2 wasn’t too bad but it didn’t really hold interest for very long. May finish up Bayonetta or Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in the meantime. May also play Cave Story since it’s actually free for PC!
Adrian: Just got tier 10 shoulders in World of WarCraft.
Tobias: Grinding away at Final Fantasy and has just maxed out the main paradigms for all his characters.

Comments and suggestions on games we should play would be nice. Especially Adrian and Tobias seem to need new games to play!

After a few meetings we have finally decided to give Fall of Atlantis a major overhaul. During the upcoming weeks we will be working very hard at making it a better game. Due to a few optimizations we will however not be making a Windows build for this.

Major features we will be working on implementing:

• OpenFeint support for leaderboards and achievements
• Revamped and pixel perfect graphics
• Platforming gameplay for the Story mode
• Dialogue for Story mode
• Better overall performance

We have no hard set date for when this will be released. If everything goes smoothly it should probably happen at the beginning of May but who knows what problems we’ll run into…

The bug board is back. This means we’re closing in on the finish line!

Bugs!

Also for some reason people are listening to this weird version of Night of Fire…. and it’s the sound guy listening to it. Oh god.

We were interviewed a few weeks ago by Computer Sweden. The article has now been published over here. Beware of terrible photos, photography and photographic subjects!

The magazine is in Swedish and is published on paper twice a week though.