Development diary of Celso Riva

Archive for January, 2010

Flower Shop released + making of

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Posted in adventure games, postmortem, the flower shop, winter wolves games | 3 Comments »

First of all, in case you don't know, the game is now out! You can get more info at the official page here: http://www.winterwolves.com/theflowershop.htm Then I want to give a brief background history on this game in case someone is interested. ...

Who really is Vera Blanc?

Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in Vera Blanc, adventure games, tycoongames, winter wolves games | No Comments »

After I posted the first images I realized I created a bit of a mess. I forgot a simple rule, that the first images you show of a new game will also reflect what people think/expect from it. First of all ...

Game art styles

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in Vera Blanc, adventure games, development screenshot, planet stronghold, roleplay games, tycoongames, winter wolves games | 2 Comments »

After posting my last sketch about my upcoming mystery / detective game Vera Blanc, I got some comments from people about the artstyle. Everyone seems to love the new style, and I'm a bit relieved since it was a bit a ...

Who is Vera Blanc?

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Posted in adventure games, development screenshot, sketches, winter wolves games | 6 Comments »

In the picture on the left you see a sketch for another project of mine in progress right now. As I said several times, I always start many projects at once because is normal that there are some "dead moments" between ...

Planet Stronghold new artstyle

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Posted in planet stronghold, roleplay games, sketches, winter wolves games | 4 Comments »

Today I've received from the new Planet Stronghold artist the sketches for the characters. She worked already on a few enemies for the game, like the famous RoboAnts :) But now I decided to use her also for all the ...