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Wash your game's windows

Ever played one of those games where you have no clue what any of the mechanics actually do and you just kind of muddle through? Playing this kind of game is like peering through a dirty, smudged window. What a game like this needs is some Windex.

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DQ1 Physical Edition, Discord, DQ2 News

A quick newsy little post for everybody. First, we've got a fancy new discord server: Join Defender's Quest discord I'll still be keeping the forum around (especially as it's effectively the comments section for this blog), but that might be a convenient place for people who like real-time chat and

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DQII: platforms announced, DQI: Vita, Limited Run, Switch, OpenFL Console Targets

Hey everybody, A quick info-dump update on everything I've been working on lately. Physical release with Limited Run Games Nintendo Switch Final list of platforms for DQII PSVita version of DQDX Patch for PS4, XB1, PC Haxe Summit Talk OpenFL console targets Physical release with Limited Run Games# We're doing

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MAKING A VIDEOGAME COVER THAT DOESN'T SUCK

We just made a new cover for our game's upcoming console release, and that got us thinking about making covers in general. Ooooooh so shiny! There are many ways to design a videogame cover. Most of them suck. We stumbled across one that didn't. Here it is. Hi, my name's

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December's Quest

Hey everyone! Let's talk about what we've been up to lately. Stuff I'm gonna talk about today DQDX engine Controller support DQII progress tracker New DQII tools Have some free open source board games 1. DQDX engine Controller support So back in November I helped give a talk about the

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Supporting a single-player Indie RPG for Four Years

It's hard to believe, but on January 19th 2016, four whole years will have passed since we first released our game Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten. What's even harder to believe is that we're still actively supporting it with patches and updates, with the biggest one of all soon

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Doing an HD Remake the Right Way : FFVI Edition

So Final Fantasy VI -- a beloved classic that contends with Final Fantasy VII for the title of best Final Fantasy game of all time -- is releasing on Steam this Wednesday. This game is the crown jewel of the SNES era of JRPG's and deserves the utmost care and

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Defender's Quest HD Demo, initial public test

Hey everyone! Defender's Quest HD now has a public demo. It's not 100% polished as of today, so I'm not going to put this out on the newsletter or give it much more than the laziest amount of attention I can, but I do want to get this out so

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Doing an HD Remake the Right Way

This is part 1 of a series. Part 2 (regarding Final Fantasy VI) is here. Final Fantasy V just came out on Steam. This is a beloved classic game, but the way they've done the HD upgrade just makes me cringe. This particular version is a port from the mobile

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DQ2 Update and DQ1-HD Announcement

So, it's been a while since we last talked about Defender's Quest 2. I have three big things to talk about today: General updates Announcing Defender's Quest 1 HD re-release Progress on Defender's Quest 2 General updates So those of you who follow this blog will know we keep a

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Steam Launch Date: October 30th

Quick blog post because I haven't done one in a while.Defender's Quest STEAM launch date:October 30th, 2012That's pretty soon. We will also be launching on Desura, Impulse, GamersGate, and GOG. We will launch at $9.99 USD and equivalent conversions in local currencies. This will be a 33%

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Defender's Quest coming to Steam!

Before I give you guys the big announcement I've been promising, first thing's first - yes, we've heard all about Steam Greenlight, in fact you've all been emailing us pretty much non-stop about it :)Now for the announcement.Turns out, we won't be submitting Defender's Quest to greenlight this August,

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Defender's Quest: By the Numbers

So, in case you haven't heard yet, Gamasutra posted our first ~70 days of sales stats as a featured article today:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/168303/defenders_quest_by_the_numbers.php Read the full article for details, but here's the TL;DR version:~$70K / ~14K sales in

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Details on upcoming GOLD version

EDIT:For everyone who's been asking, YES! If you have bought any version of the game so far, you will most definitely receive the GOLD edition as a FREE udpate. With Level Up Labs "Free Updates" does indeed mean free updates :) Hey Defender's Quest fans!Monday is when

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Version 0.8.9 is ready!

Hey everyone! We've got a new patch out today and some news!First off, we're trying to commit to a patch schedule of one new patch every Monday. This will usually be a bug-fix patch, but eventually as we finish new content and features we'll be releasing those, too. The

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New patch 0.8.4 coming today!

Just sent out this newsletter:Dear Defender's Quest fans, An auto-update patch is coming later today!We've tested this feature extensively prior to release, but never with so great an audience. There's always the chance something bad might happen so I want to alert you all in advance.For

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Defender's Quest is RELEASED

You can buy defender's quest RIGHT NOW at:www.defendersquest.comWe have a new demo version out too at:www.defendersquest.com/play_demo.htmlAlso, please note we're also selling the soundtrack for the game, for 99 cents when bundled with the game! This soundtrack was lovingly composed by our

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Nearing Release

Sent out this newsletter just now:*************************************Hey Defender's Quest Fans!We've got some news!The game is basically finished - while we clean up a few things on the technical side, we're waiting on our lawyer to finish the paperwork that will allow us to legally sell the game. The

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Lessons in Demo Launching

EDIT: Hillariously enough, my host's servers just went down. You can still play the demo with these links:Windows torrent (dropbox)Linux torrent (dropbox)Browser demo (mochi)Cross-posted on gamasutra (which usually gets more comments)An important phase in marketing any game is launching a playable demo. We produced two

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RPG's, challenge, and grinding.

Cross-posted on gamasutra.As part of an ongoing series on our upcoming tactical RPG Defender's Quest, I'd like to talk about RPG's, challenge, and "grinding." Let's start with accessibility.AccessibilityAccessibility is about expanding your game's audience by removing barriers.The word "accessibility" immediately brings disabilities to mind,