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A collection of 52 posts

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Fun vs. Balance: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for July 2020

In previous months we've talked about how we ensure that DQ2 is balanced.Today we're going to talk about how we ensure that DQ2 is fun.

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Independent once more: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for June 2020

Notes on ending my contract with Valve, and a progress update for June

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Back in the Saddle: Defender's Quest 2 / my life progress report for May 2020

Time for an extremely overdue update on everything going on with Defender's Quest 2 development and my life in general.

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Extra Quarantine: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for April 2020

Progress report for May 2020 -- quarantine is hard, but we still did some stuff.

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Balancing Quarantine: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for March 2020

Quarantine sucks, but DQ2 is still making progress. Learn all about balancing careful intro stages for our hero units.

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Laser Lightning Bugs in the Spotlight: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for February 2020

This month, we're working on visual design language and gamefeel.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: January 2020

Defender's Quest 2's progress report for the month of January.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: December 2019

December progress report for Defender's Quest 2

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Collecting Power -- Defender's Quest 2 Progress: November 2019

It's mid-November, so here's the latest progress report for DQ2. Details on the "Collector" and "Eliminator" classes.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: October 2019

Mid-October's Defender's Quest 2 progress report.

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Steamy Bees -- Defender's Quest 2 Progress: September 2019

Let's talk about angry intelligent bees in Defender's Quest 2 in this month's progress report!

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: August 2019

It's the ides of August, which means it's time for another infodump progress report for Defender's Quest 2. Skill trees and character classes and a bunch of other stuff.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: February-July 2019

We're starting something new -- Defender's Quest 2 monthly infodump progress reports.

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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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DQ2 alpha/beta access is now available.

Defender's Quest 2 now has alpha/beta/tester access available! Instructions inside.

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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 [https://discord.gg/S9VAyBh] 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

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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. 1. Physical release with Limited Run Games 2. Nintendo Switch 3. Final list of platforms for DQII 4. PSVita version of DQDX 5. Patch for PS4, XB1, PC 6. Haxe Summit Talk 7. OpenFL console targets Physical

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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 1. DQDX engine Controller support 2. DQII progress tracker 3. New DQII tools 4. Have some free open source board games 1. DQDX engine Controller support So back in November I helped give

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Defender's Quest II: Uematsu Music, Battle Art, Story!

LARS: We've got a treat for you all today, a new Defender's Quest II story post courtesy of our writer James Cavin, a preview of the latest art, and -- the first of several tracks composed by legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu! Yes you read that right, several. Our

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Defender's Quest II: The City of Ennekar

LARS: As the Defender's Quest II engine and Defender's Quest HD get further along towards completion, we've been building up a huge internal backlog of story and art materials as our writer, James, keeps churning on. He's currently up to his fifth draft of the DQII story and we figured

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Automated Transparent Development

Every game developer has a dilemma -- you need to make a game (development), and you need to tell people about it (marketing) so they'll get it when it comes out. The more you do one, the more you neglect the other. If you just keep your head down and

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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 [http://www.defendersquest.com/2]. I have three big things to talk about today: 1. General updates 2. Announcing Defender's Quest 1 HD re-release 3. Progress on Defender's Quest 2 General updates So those of you who

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Automatic Progress Tracking

I have two jobs: 1. Make a video game 2. Tell people about it I'm much better at the former than the latter. Until recently, the "news" section of Defender's Quest 2 was conspicuously bare, not exactly a huge vote of confidence. That didn't mean we've been idle, though --

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Will that crowdfunded game ever actually ship?

So you come across a neat-looking new game on Kickstarter. It's got fancy concept art, it has some big names involved, and their pitch is really convincing! Surely this will be the game of our dreams? Well, maybe not. The failure of the Yogscast game [http://www.polygon.com/2014/

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Defender's Quest 2 Engine progress - resolution!

A big thing I'm trying to work on for the DQ2 engine is robust support for multiple resolutions, particularly HD. The previous game was hard-locked to 800x600. Here's a screenshot from today's build of the DQ2 engine, using the DQ1 data set: [http://www.bugs.fortressofdoors.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/