My latest game Wildhollow was released before Christmas, and while I’m still no millionaire it’s selling enough to finance my next project. I’ll do a proper Wildhollow postmortem later, but right now I’m going to babble on about upcoming things. Interestingly enough, when I started working in Wildhollow it was just going to be a quick intermediate game before my next real project, Spandex Force 2. Stuff(TM) got in the way, though, and in the end I got delayed about a year. But now I’m back on track again, and the next game has the working title Spandex Force: Superhero U.

Just a crappy placeholder logo. Artwork and final title is still pending.

I’m pretty excited about this game for a number of reasons. If everything goes as planned, these are some of the highlights:

• More puzzles and more game types
• Battle mechanics innovations
• More customization with skill trees, sidekicks and items
• Wacky superheroes/villains combined with a superhero university setting. “X-Men meets The Tick meets Harry Potter.”
• Larger budget for backgrounds and (hopefully) GUI artwork
• Some voice acting, if the budget allows
• Possibly some online battles…
• And finally, I’m aiming for a release before summer

Another big thing about this game is that I’m trying a new development platform: Actionscript 3/Flash, which opens up a lot of new possibilities… I have some very cool ideas for that, but I need to see if everything is feasible first.

So yeah, this is what I’ve been occupying my time with for a number of weeks now. If nothing unforeseen comes along I think the schedule might hold, but we shall just have to wait and see…

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