Hey guys!

We’ve finally got Kyren, Armagon, George and myself moved over to the London office. :D OmnipotentEntity is visiting, too! We keep trying to convince him to stay.

I know there’s been lots of concern over progress lately, but now that most of us are in the same space and settling into a steady 9-5 work week, we’re really excited and motivated to focus on more frequent and substantial updates. Kind of amazing how much more can be accomplished by shouting at each other across a room than just pinging someone in IRC. :P

More on that next week, though!

We’re excited to announce that we’re publishing Witchmarsh— a 2D co-op platformer set in 1920s Massachusetts!

Currently in development by Inglenook, Witchmarsh is a gorgeous game that we’ve personally been looking forward to for awhile now. In Witchmarsh, you join a team of detectives in rural 1920s America as they embark on a mission to find and return the missing ‘Witchmarsh twelve’, who vanished under mysterious circumstances. Featuring 2-4 player online co-op as well as a single player mode, Witchmarsh also has an extensive character creation system that allows players to mix and match a large set of attributes, perks, items and weapons.

And tonight they’re launching their Kickstarter campaign!

Witchmarsh is tentatively set to be released in December 2015. We think it’ll appeal to lots of you, so check it out!

@InglenookGames on Twitter

Witchmarsh on Tumblr

Our artists have posted sneak peaks at the new ship tiers in various places, so I thought I’d give you guys a quick progress update here. :)

Omni’s been working on staffs. Basic implementation is finished and all fireable weapons are now lua-enabled! Randomly generated staffs are planned, but not yet implemented. Finally, YER A WIZARD. Or at least… soon you’ll be able to be sort of a wizard. A science-y space wizard. What could be better than that?

George’s first day in the UK office was today, and he kicked things off by teasing the new Hylotl ship design!

Rho also recently showed off some of the new Floran ship tiers, so now I’m gonna show you all 8! During tiers 1-3 you’ll be doing some repair work, but by tier 4 you get to start adding rooms! Shh, listen, flowers and vines totally work for a space ship exterior as long as you refer to them as spaceflowers and spacevines.

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We pushed an update to the unstable branch last night!

Update 4/26/14: The unstable branch has been pushed to stable!

Here’s what’s new:

• Updated OSX build scripts to allow it to work with OSX 10.7+ – Please let us know if this is working for you!
• Fixed issue where Grappling hook sometimes causes a crash
• Added new function to lua API to get item descriptor (not just name) from an entity’s hand “entityHandItemDescriptor”
• Fix visual smelting bug
• Made preview images flippable for asymmetric tiered doors
• Fixed issue with build tests

OmnipotentEntity posted about the update on our subreddit earlier today as a head’s up, but I was running around at appointments and wasn’t here to do the changelog until now. Sorry for the late post! There’s a lot more work going on in separate branches that isn’t quite ready for primetime, but this patch is important in that it should allow people with older versions of OSX to be able to play– OSX 10.7.5 compatibility is one of our most common support questions! Additionally, this branch is probably going to be the new “stable” soon.

To maybe preemptively clear up a few questions, here’s a comment Omni posted in aforementioned Reddit thread:

Our automated build server had just got put on a barge to ship to England, so I spent the last 2 weeks or so recreating it with help from kyren. And I ran into a lot of complex issues with respect to OSX because our previous build VM did not support Xeon processors.

Not having a build server is a show stopper. We can’t target all of our platforms, and we can’t upload to Steam without triggering a full redownload of the assets paks, meaning that the update is nearly 600-800 MB instead of 90MB, which if you recall, we got quite a bit of flak for as well.

Additionally, most of the dev team has been either: taking care of the business of moving to another country, this includes lots of back and forth with lawyers, and running errands (ie, not being in front of the computer doing productive work.)

To reiterate: there’s a lot of work being done day-to-day in other branches that isn’t ready to be pushed just yet. It’s just taking a bit longer due to current circumstances.

Happy Friday, everyone! Have a nice weekend. :)