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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.

  • Lars Doucet
7 min read
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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: October 2019

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

  • Lars Doucet
2 min read
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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!

  • Lars Doucet
7 min read
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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.

  • Lars Doucet
10 min read
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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.

  • Lars Doucet
10 min read
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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.

  • Lars Doucet
13 min read
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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

  • Lars Doucet
2 min read
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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

  • Lars Doucet
6 min read
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Defender's Quest is coming to PlayStation and Xbox in February 2018

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten DX will be releasing on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox One imminently. UPDATE: It's out now! Also -- there are some non-fatal known bugs that

  • Lars Doucet
6 min read
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Defender's Quest Deluxe Launches Today

Defender's Quest Deluxe launches right now. Our new presskit is here: http://www.defendersquest.com/presskit Our site: http://www.defendersquest.com On Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/218410 On GOG: https:

  • Lars Doucet
3 min read
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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

  • Lars Doucet
10 min read
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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

  • Lars Doucet
13 min read
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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

  • Lars Doucet
11 min read
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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,

  • James Cavin
    James Cavin
18 min read
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DQ1HD and DQ2 Milestone Plan

Some people wanted some clarification of how we're doing with Defender's Quest 2, and when they would get Alpha/Beta access. Here's a high-level overview of the release plan for the Defender's Quest:

  • Lars Doucet
3 min read
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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

  • Lars Doucet
9 min read
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Automatic Progress Tracking

I have two jobs: Make a video game 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

  • Lars Doucet
2 min read
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Doubling Down on Community

So pretty much everybody is talking about this Indie Bubble thing and how it's going to eat all our faces. I really have nothing useful to add except to agree that yes, times

  • Lars Doucet
6 min read
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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

  • Lars Doucet
1 min read
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Nobuo Uematsu to work on Defender's Quest 2

So I promised everybody some news. I was originally going to post this yesterday, but that just happened to be Liar's Day, so we decided to wait one more day.Here's the press

  • Lars Doucet
2 min read
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Defender's Quest 2 March Update

Alrighty! Time for an update on where we are in Defender's Quest 2.Those of you who follow me on twitter know I've been active, but I sometimes forget that our followers are

  • Lars Doucet
11 min read
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Defender's Quest II's "UnKickstarter" approach to crowdfunding

Kickstarter is the go-to solution for crowdfunding these days, but I'm a control freak so I designed a custom solution for our upcoming game, Defender's Quest II: Mists of Ruin.No solution is

  • Lars Doucet
5 min read
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Defender's Quest GOLD launches on Kongregate

The Kongregate version of Defender's Quest GOLD edition is now live.  If you are a registered Kongregate user, we've expanded the demo to give you access through all of Act III and

  • Lars Doucet
1 min read
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Defender's Quest GOLD launch

Hey everyone! Time for an official blog post announcing the launch of Defender's Quest version 1.0, or "gold" edition. I've finished the deployment, and the new version of the game

  • Lars Doucet
1 min read
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Defender's Quest gold launches today

Hey everyone, a quick heads up - barring unforeseen insanity, Defender's Quest GOLD will launch today!I wanted to make sure the new version of the game would be public before Anthony and

  • Lars Doucet
3 min read
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