Krautscape Development Blog

• 2012-02-24

  Hello San Francisco!

  Big announcement folks! Come and play the latest alpha version of Krautscape at the Swissnex game exhibition “Swiss Game Arcade 2012” in San Francisco. Approximate 10-15 min from the Game Developers Conference. There will be cool prices for the best racers! And also a big premiere for the official Krautscape Band: Cäsèr L. Böndelöder!

  Experience the Developer Team of the game playing the soundtrack live on stage! Phil McCammon on Drums, Mario von Rickenbach on Guitars, Andi Bissig on EWI/Keys and Michael Burdorfer on Bass.

  So, if you are around on the 6th of March we will be happy to show you our game personally. More informations:

  http://swissnexsanfrancisco.org/Ourwork/events/swiss-game-arcade-2012

  There will be a presentation before the gig so make sure you come on time.

  Other games at the exhibition are the award winning and igf nominated Mirage from Mario, location based mobile games by gbanga, an online card trading game Moonga, the augmented reality game Quest.li and last but not least the social game Shadow Government which is based on real world data and models.

  Hope to see your there (for a beer or two), take care and cheers! 

• 2011-12-21

  Participate an Online Survey and win a signed KRAUTSCAPE POSTER

  Hi Krautscape-lers, help us to improve the game!
  
  Just fill out our online survey and include your email address at the end to be included in the draw for a large limited edition Krautscape Poster signed by the Krautscape Team.
  
  This will take 10 minutes of your valuable time so we really appreciate your feedback!

  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/krautscape_en_web

• 2011-08-26

  Birds

  This is a video of a first try to implement flocks of birds for Krautscape. It’s easy to see them from far away, so they will probably be used as an indicator to call attention to important places and objects in the game.

• 2011-08-25

  Krautscape has been awarded!

  

  Good news for the Krautscape team! Krautscape is among the 7 winners of the “Call for Projects: Swiss Games” from the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. That means we have the honour to exhibit the game at the Fantoche Animation Film Festival in Baden (CH) from the 6th to 11th of September. So, why don’t you join us for a beer or two? Baden is quite a beautiful city and we will be hanging around there during the whole festival.

  The other winners are: Daina: The Herbarium, Feist, Jump’n’Roll, Macrocosm, Mokmok and Pop. Congratulations from us… we did it!

  Well, I also want to share a few updates from our development department with you. We were working on the GUI for the last few days and Mario did some kick-ass redesigns of the racetrack and scene environment. That means the posted posters from our last post (what a sentence!) are somehow not up to date anymore! That’s one reason more to come and visit us in Baden and check out the latest version.

• 2011-08-15

  Still Alive!

  Well it’s been a while since the last update, but we are working on it, really, really hard. We’ve got two brand new posters made from our latest version for an upcoming event!

  

  

  We also successfully moved into a new studio last july which is located in the heart of zürich (district 4). It’s a great place with a lot of good lunch opportunities, very close to the main station and our studiomates are just perfect! Why don’t you just drop by for a quick coffee and some playtesting if you’re around?

  We now have finished developing Game-Modes (incl. a tutorial), redesigned the pick up system, added splitscreen modes and polished the main vehicle. Phil was also very busy and created some very great music tracks. Stay tuned for more infos soon!

• 2011-07-02

  New Trailer!

• New stuff everywhere

  There are many things going on at Krautscape HQ (that corner between a bookshelf and the window in an obscure junk-room). After weeks of hard work, we updated the website with some new content: Finally, a list of recent blog posts is available in the sidebar. You can also find some new screenshots in our Gallery and an updated version of the original Krautscape Story.

  We focused development on a big update for a submission for the Gameculture.ch call for projects, where we’re trying to get some funding. We took our old Prototype and recreated the whole thing from scratch in a more professional manner, so we now have a much more organized code base and project structure to go on. Due to a paragraph in the Gameculture submission agreement, the submitted prototype must not be publicly available, so we can’t put it here on the website. We apologise to everyone who has been anticipating a public Alpha 4 release.

• 2011-02-27

  Alpha 4?

  For everybody who’s wondering when the next alpha will come out: We’re planning to release alpha 4 in mid-march, so stay tuned if you’re interested. We have reworked many parts of the game, including the track generator and the network code, and we’re hoping to fix the stability issues until then.

• 2011-01-07

  Phil McCammon - Into The Well

• Status update & new team member

  It’s a bit quiet around here because we’re a bit busy in our non-krautscape lifes. Don’t worry, we’re still working towards a next alpha release, restructuring the whole network code and track generator.

  We’d also like to introduce Phil McCammon, who will support us on the audio side. He’s a great musician and we’re happy to have him on board.