Author Archives: Krom

1k Anniversary

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Krom

NextGame was born around a year ago. It’s time to summarize a little.

Posted in Live progress, Sidenotes | 2 Comments

Praise to automatization tools!

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Krom

Search files by mask and contents with Agent Ransack Open 326 text files in Notepad++ at once Replace tool working on all opened files Save all Commit!

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Painting stones

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Krom

Been doing Sawmill textures this whole week by evenings and I must say – painting textures is my new passion 🙂  

Posted in Artwork, Live progress | 3 Comments

What level of graphics will NG try to achieve in the end?

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Krom

TL;DR: It’s hard to say. I don’t think there’s a game which style I could name a 100% reference.

Posted in Early plans, Ideas | 11 Comments

Painting textures is a hard work

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Krom

Spent around 8 hours drawing these painted wood planks for the sawmill roof (or some other roof if we change it to be thatched).

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School sketch

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Krom

Last few weeks I’ve been busy contracting freelancers to make us some more sketches. So let’s see how house design process goes on example of School.

Posted in Artwork, How things work | 11 Comments

Camp sketch

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Krom

Since I don’t have enough time/skill to do everything by myself, from time to time I try to find someone to help. This time I’ve found a couple of sketch artists.

Posted in Artwork, How things work | 6 Comments

Live progress #28 – CiderMaker house sketch and apple orchard

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Krom

Here is something new, green and tasty 🙂 For in-game screen and details, proceed inside ..

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Live progress #27 – Woodcutter and Sawmill update

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Krom

Woodcutters cabin got improved. There’s new roof and some tree plants on the back. Sawmill scale updated to better fit the units scale.

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Live progress #26 – Font Generator tool

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Krom

Font generator tool has been upgraded to work with font presets and effects.

Posted in Live progress, Tools | 2 Comments