Another week full of work, this time with a frustrating outcome – the work wasn’t very good. I’ve found that when exploring new ideas, you have to fail a bunch of times before you get something right – learning what doesn’t work helps you create what does. I’m making the second-last boss of the game […]

The final level is about halfway done! I put in a bunch of overtime this week (around 50 hours total?) so this post may be a little light. It’s about Arcade Mode, which is returning (obviously!) But I’ve got a few improvements and changes planned which I’ll discuss briefly here. Probably the biggest change will […]

Progress continued this week! I’ve done some highly exact figuring, and there’s about 32 pieces of content (bosses, cutscenes, level segments, etc) that need to be produced for level seven. I’m done 11 of them so far, so we’ll say I’m a third of the way finished. Go team!   Ultra-Mild Spoiler Warning Here’s the […]

I worked on the seventh level this week: touching up environment art, finalizing the tileset, bringing the first section to near-completion, and starting on the second. There’s a large amount left to do including some complicated set-pieces and all the bosses, but hey, it’s good progress so far. Meanwhile, let’s see how in-game cutscenes are […]

Finished the sixth level this week, awwwright. Just one more to go! Although, this is the one level where I don’t have as much work pre-done – it wasn’t at an “alpha” state like the others. So, it’ll probably take a bit longer to put together, but hopefully not too long. Most bosses and environments […]

Bad news bears: my computer died! I make daily off-site backups (something I’d recommend to any dev) so Bleed 2 wasn’t destroyed — phew. Still, a frustrating amount of time was spent resurrecting my computer and restoring files, so I didn’t manage to finish the sixth level. Next week for sure! In the meantime: an […]

This week was more level six work! The end is within sight, and I hope to finish it next week. Now without further ado, let’s talk a bit about storytelling! One bit of polish I’m bringing to Bleed 2 is that the whole game is designed as a seamless experience; every encounter leads directly and […]

I worked on the sixth level this week, and got a surprising amount done — one or two weeks more at this rate and I should be on to the seventh level! Instead of showing that, I’m giving a huge ramble about implementing a replay system. TL;DR Bleed 2 might have replays, but it might […]

This week I started on the sixth level! I probably won’t talk about the sixth or seventh levels that much, because I’d like to leave some surprise when you finally play the game. Not that anyone plays Bleed for the story, but knowing everything that’s coming would kill some of my buzz, at least. So […]

The fifth level is finally finished!! Man it feels good to have that one behind me. It only took five friggin’ weeks to get it up to snuff. Once it was done, I celebrated by just playing MGS for a few days, because I’m a hopeless fanboy and I needed a break. But you’re not […]