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DOGVELOPMENT LOG #12: PupperDex Incoming!!

Once upon a time, I had a dream. A dream of a new way of handling quest tracking, in interstellar airports run by dogs.

A PupperDex.

2020-05-16 05:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #11: The Candy Plane Rises

LudoNarraCon ended a couple weeks ago, and boy are my arms tired! 

No, but seriously.

Why are my arms so tired.

LudoNarraCon wrapped up a couple weeks ago, and as part of that event, I streamed the creation of the Candy Plane - something that'll actually exist in the game w...

We're in LudoNarraCon (+ Build Update News)!!

I'll cut to the chase - we're a part of LudoNarraCon this year!

In case you don't know what LudoNarraCon is, it's a showcase held through Steam. Developers show off footage of their games (and even full demos) - all from ...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #10: Harbinger of the Haunted Horse Plane

For my day job, I make games. On weekends (and nights, when I can manage it), I also make games - this game about dogs in alien airports, to be specific.

To no one's surprise but my own, that means I am often tired.
However, this week, it has had unexpected dividends.

I learned how...

GRAND OPENING - Phobos Airport Build! [Expansion #4]

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!

With all the changes and updates that have occurred since our last non-incremental build, I think this might be our largest revision yet. Fortunate timing, to...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #9: New Build Incoming!!

It's 3:42 AM in El Paso.  We just announced the delay of SkateBIRD to 2021 (I've been the story/narrative director on it!). The world is on fire - and every time I work on this game, I forge...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #8: Candy Plane's Fate

I spent an agonizing series of hours extending the plane system yesterday. Every time you board a flight in Dog Airport Game, there's now a chance you could encounter one of four airlines. 

2020-03-09 22:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #7: Steamy Events!!

Okay, that headline promises a bit more salacious content than I'd like. However, today, we made a giant announcement:

Dog Airport Game is 2020-03-04 16:03:51 +0000 UTC View Post

THIS IS THE PAX EAST BUILD SHHHHHH

One major shift in this build captures the kind of changes we've been making to Dog Airport Game this month.

Remember how you couldn't read your boarding pass in shadow? The darkness would obscure...

IT'S MIDNIGHT IN EL PASO AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT DOG BIGGADOME

2020-02-21 07:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #6: Can You Keep a Secret?

You can keep a secret, right?

As of 4 AM this morning, all music in the game is part of the original soundtrack now being created for An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. I'm delighted to announce that our chosen composer is 2020-02-20 00:21:05 +0000 UTC View Post

THIS IS THE TRAILER BUILD SHHHHH

It has been nine days since we last spoke - and I come BEARING GIFTS!

In the previous build, looking in this direction would drop the average framerate from over 100 fps, to roughly 15. We called it the Bad Direction, and feared its presence, while also acknowledgi...

MEGA-SIZED Post-PAX South Build! [Expansion #3]

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators! 

It has been a hell of a time since PAX South. Folks went absolutely bananas for our boarding passes, and the game in general. I did a 2020-01-30 04:12:20 +0000 UTC View Post

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #5: Post-PAX Plans! Key Art!

You know what's really cool? When everything clicks, and you see something that perfectly encapsulates the world you're creating. That's what Ben Chandler (of 2020-01-23 06:28:57 +0000 UTC View Post

THIS IS THE PAX SOUTH BUILD SHHHHHHH

Heya, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!

I have to fly out for PAX South in like 24 hours. Attached, you'll find the information sheets I'm bringing to the show (including the controls, which actually aren't needed because they're now listed in-game!), and the link to the build that'll be in Sa...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #4 - Rodney the Cursed Dog Man

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!

The results of the poll came through, and we're getting the next Patreon build after PAX South, when the issues have been fixed and I am slightly less panicked. I wanted to be chill about this, but uh: t-thank you for doing that. You have spare...

PAX South Reveal + Build Poll!

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!

I'm going to be at PAX South, in the newly-announced PAX Together showcase on the main floor!  Attached to this poll is an exclusive look at the boarding passes we'll be giving out! It's a very exciting time for Dog Airport Game, and I'm extremely ...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #3: In Which Scott McCloud Validates My Existence

Happy Almost-New-Year! I'm finally reading Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, and it's validated both this project and my entire existence.

One chapter of the book focuses on the power of the c...

New Build Day! [Expansion #2]

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators! 

I thought this would be a small update. A little mid-month refresh of the airport as we go into the holidays. Maybe a couple new shops. A few new plane ...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #2 : Asset Flip

Yeah, that's a bit of a clickbait title, but it's the same quiet criticism that runs through my head every time I use a purchased package to improve a part of Dog Airport Game.

What if people write off my game, because they recognize that starscape, or that pair of shoes, or that character ...

The New Build is Here! [Expansion #1]

Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!

I promised monthly (or more!) updates, and here we are: less than a month after a busy Patreon launch, and I've got a build for ya that represents a pretty dan...

DOGVELOPMENT LOG #1 - New Build Coming Soon!

Hello, Dog Fans!

As was prophesied in the part of your patron tier description that said " updated monthly (or more)! ", a big update to An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is landing in th...

Dogvelopment Stream Announcement + Poll

Hello, Dog Fans!

I'm doing the very first Dogvelopment stream of Dog Airport Game via this Twitch link on Wednesday, November 20th, at 10AM PST/1PM EST/6PM GMT!

That's tomorrow!

Go...

BARKSTORY #1: What Dogs Mean to Me

I'm a cat owner, but I love dogs. I'm making a game about dogs, in airports. I have lost too many nights of sleep looking through public domain stock photo libraries of Extremely Good Boys and G...

It Begins

This is the first post-No Quarter build of Dog Airport Game!

- Get a ticket!
- Find your gate!
- Successfully take a flight!
- Do it all in less than 15 minutes, because this is still a timed build!!

You'll find the attached controller map (also adjusted post-No Quarter) use...

Hiatus = Started

Hey folks!

I've got an uber-busy period ahead of me.
Hypnospace Outlaw, which I narrative designed, is launching March 12th. It was nominated for 3 IGF awards, s...

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (season 1, 2001) = Finished

I'm writing this at 1 AM and I have to be in class in like 4 hours but I don't CARE because I have been ENLIGHTENED

HARVEY
FREAKING
BIRDMAN

IT HOLDS UP 

He's a character ...

Velvet Buzzswaw (2019 film) = Finished

It is so damn refreshing to watch a horror movie without a point.

I've seen a lot of mixed critical reaction to Velvet Buzzsaw over the past few weeks, and I think it's due to a fundamental break between what people wanted this movie to be, and what it actually is....

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017 game) = Finished

I'm going to say something that sounds a lot like hyperbole, but I promise that it isn't.

Resident Evil 7 is the best first-person game ever made.

I don't know why this game - in a series that I always struggled to understand on a fundamental level - clicked with my brain SO HARD, but...

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018 movie) = Finished

This movie chosen by a "Fennelsher" patron.

SOLO FRICKING ROCKS, ACTUALLY

Can we talk for a second about how much of a miracle this movie is? 

It was essentially handled by two distinct creative teams (three if you count the scriptwriters, who had their own vision ...