Byte Lynx

Devlog

• Byte Lynx is out now!
  October 12, 2022 by The_Artful

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  #Release, #Steam, #Action RTS

  Byte Lynx is now available on Steam ! Release Trailer: Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building com... Continue reading

  
• Week 62-64
  October 09, 2022 by The_Artful#Shipping, #RTS, #Release, #Single-player, #Sci-fi

  Hello Everyone! Byte Lynx Launches in 3 days and we are super hyped! The game is in great shape and only needs a few minor tweaks before we upload the final build. A lot of stuff has come together ove... Continue reading

  
• Week 56-61
  September 18, 2022 by ArtfulGame#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hey everybody, long time no see. We've been heads down getting the game finished and forgot to update this log. A lot has happened since we last logged, but here are the highlights: All 20 levels are... Continue reading

  
• Week 54-5
  August 08, 2022 by binary6#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everybody, Over the last two weeks, we've gotten some better shaders for our buildings. Buildings have a new shader for construction. Damage has a better shader too. (The previous shader dented... Continue reading

  
• Week 52-3
  July 22, 2022 by binary6#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, We've officially worked on this project for a full year!! We've been adding some polish-related changes since the last devlog. For example, HQs now have animations! In addition, HQs ha... Continue reading

  
• Week 50-1
  July 13, 2022 by binary6#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, Since our last post, we've made a number of miscellaneous improvements. Ground pins now show cool particle effects to display connectivity and ownership. The controls menu has been imp... Continue reading

  
• Week 48-9
  June 27, 2022 by binary6

  Hello everyone, In these last two weeks of development, we’ve made some pretty good progress! For one thing, the game is now playable start to finish! On top of that, there have been some pretty coo... Continue reading

  
• Week 46-7
  June 13, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, These last 2 weeks of development have been focused on filling out all of the content for release. This means by the end of this week we hope to have our game completely playable from... Continue reading

  
• Week 44-5
  May 30, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, We released our Steam Page! Please wishlist and share with friends! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1996600/Byte_Lynx/ These last two weeks of development have been awesome! Not onl... Continue reading

  
• Week 42-3
  May 15, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone It's been two weeks of hectic game development! We've been making excellent progress on the game and can't wait to put it in front of players. Recently we've been working on the AI and... Continue reading

  
• Week 40-1
  April 30, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, These last two weeks we've been working primarily on getting more talent, game user interface, and level AI. This week we hired Kathleen Brenowitz, (They/Them), https://ksbrenowitz.wee... Continue reading

  
• Week 38-9
  April 16, 2022 by ArtfulGame#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, As we move further into development we're probably going to be reducing these dev logs to every other week. The game isn't undergoing wild changes every week anymore, most of what we'r... Continue reading

  
• Week 36-7
  April 04, 2022 by ArtfulGame#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, We've made progress on a few different fronts this week. For starters, our company now has it's very own logo! We hired a professional and I think it really paid off. We're also an off... Continue reading

  
• Week 35
  March 19, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week there was a major focus on level creation. Three new levels were created: In each of the new levels, you play as the corruption. The first is a breakout level, the second a c... Continue reading

  
• Week 34
  March 14, 2022 by ArtfulGame#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week was mainly focused on putting together materials to send to potential publishers, partners, and streamers. To that end we polished up the new level, fixed all our most embarr... Continue reading

  
• Week 33
  March 04, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #City Builder, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week in development we hired a writer! Please welcome Melody Avant ! She will be creating the game's narrative including characters, setting, and plot. I've been a fan of Melody's... Continue reading

  
• Week 32
  March 02, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #City Builder

  Hello Everyone, This week in development we added more intelligent AI platform pathfinding and added a platform movement preview. Now when you move a surge into an allied platform it will show a previ... Continue reading

  
• Week 31
  February 21, 2022 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week our AI learned how to build platforms and send them at the player, we made some changes to our wire visuals, how mines get placed, and what power flow looks like. In-game the... Continue reading

  
• Week 30
  February 12, 2022 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week we made some significant changes to how resources work and are looking into hiring some outside help for UI and narrative. The journey towards an AI that can use platforms an... Continue reading

  
• Week 29
  February 05, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week in development we focused on flushing out the dialogue system, AI platform navigation, some bugs, and code improvements. The dialogue system is now able to create chaining se... Continue reading

  
• Week 28
  January 29, 2022 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hey Everyone, This week we've got a couple new features to show off. First up, we've got a dialog system in the works. We're going with portraits on the side and scrolling text on the bottom. We've go... Continue reading

  
• Week 27
  January 27, 2022 by The_Artful

  Hey Everyone This week in development we got our minimap working! Additionally, there is an added notification system that will ping the map when important events occur. We plan to tie this ping/notif... Continue reading

  
• Week 26
  January 17, 2022 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week we did a bunch of long term planning, including our plans for looking into publishers, partners, and marketing. Actual marketing/show off documents are still in the works, an... Continue reading

  
• Week 25
  January 09, 2022 by The_Artful

  Hello Everyone, This week we pushed toward a strong playable build of the game. We are heading to Orcacon 2022 and hope to show off the game to some hardcore strategy gamers and get some focused feedb... Continue reading

  
• Week 24
  January 09, 2022 by The_Artful#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week we worked on some major feedback visuals in the game. A primary addition is the power flow particles seen below. These particles flow away from a building's source of power t... Continue reading

  
• Week 23
  December 29, 2021 by The_Artful

  Hello Everyone, This week the development team has been on vacation. We are resting up for the new year so there isn't anything to announce this week. Happy New Year, Micah Rust... Continue reading
• Week 22
  December 20, 2021 by The_Artful

  Hello Everyone, This week the development team has been on vacation. We are resting up for the new year so there isn't anything to announce this week. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, Micah Rust... Continue reading
• Week 21
  December 11, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week's theme could be roughly summarized as "that was harder then we expected". We've been working on adding saving and loading to the game, and a cool new effect to show how powe... Continue reading

  
• Week 20
  December 05, 2021 by The_Artful#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This last week of development has been focused on refactoring parts of the game's codebase to meet our performance targets. As our game gets more complicated and the graphics improve w... Continue reading

  
• Week 19
  November 27, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, This week as mostly been a break for the holidays, but we did get some playtesting done and add in this neat lightning effect: Credit to Jeff Johnson ( https://www.digitalruby.com/unit... Continue reading

  
• Week 18
  November 20, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, This week we've put together a pair of brand new levels to test out the new Corruption mechanic. The first level is an open ended fight in an open area to give the player a chance to f... Continue reading

  
• Week 17
  November 17, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, This week we've been working on adding a new kind of opposition for the player: The Corruption. The Corruption can take over your buildings just by building next to them, and any it ca... Continue reading

  
• Week 16
  November 16, 2021 by The_Artful#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, This week, we've been working through a variety of growing pains as we transition into 3D. There have been various technical designs that need to get changed in order to support the mo... Continue reading

  
• Week 15
  November 08, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, This week we've continued working on transitioning the game to 3d and added some new visual effects to help with that. Here's a prototype of the new shields And here's some of our new... Continue reading

  
• Week 14
  October 28, 2021 by The_Artful#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello everyone, This week we started work on our transition into a 3D game! As such we've been working on converting our game logic to work for 3D. Pictures: This is our first pass on the buildings an... Continue reading

  
• Week 13
  October 16, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hi everybody, This week we did some play tests, and they went pretty well! We may have made that Surgers only level... way too hard, but it still created some compelling experiences. It should be much... Continue reading

  
• Week 12
  October 09, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer

  Hello Everyone, We've made some big levels and fixed a ton of bugs. Our first brand new level shows of the surger... by not letting you use anything else! Here's what it looked like in the concept art... Continue reading

  
• Week 11
  October 07, 2021 by The_Artful

  Hello Everyone, A little late on the update this week because we've been taking a small holiday after our last playtesting milestone. The playtesting went extremely well and we are more excited than e... Continue reading

  
• Week 10
  September 20, 2021 by The_Artful

  Hello everyone, This week we added all the features! After all the refactoring of previous weeks, we were ready to add many new buildings and features to the game. New Buildings: Surger New Building:... Continue reading

  
• Week 9
  September 13, 2021 by The_Artful

  Hello everyone, We are now 9 weeks into development and have made great strides in the game's development. This week was spent working on fixing various bugs and installing the needed framework for on... Continue reading

  
• Week 8
  September 04, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Tower Defense

  Hello everyone, This week we added a mechanic to the game to make it more fun to steal your enemy's stuff: Auto capture Capturing enemy buildings one at a time was tedious, so now you can take control... Continue reading

  
• Week 7
  August 28, 2021 by The_Artful#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Tower Defense

  Hello everyone, This week we worked on 4 main features that we decided to add based on feedback from our playtests. The first is build time. Players found it frustrating to have so little time to reac... Continue reading

  
• Week 6
  August 22, 2021 by The_Artful

  Hello Everyone! This week we did a lot of planning. After the substantial effort to push out the playtesting demo, we are now looking to the future. The primary focus is to determine our next mileston... Continue reading

  
• Week 5 - Playtesting
  August 21, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Tower Defense

  The focus this week has been on Playtesting. We've been doing a lot of little UX improvements to smooth out the playing experience, and we put together the two tutorial levels you can see here: In add... Continue reading

  
• Week 4
  August 06, 2021 by ArtfulGame#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Tower Defense

  We've made our first map. Here's what it looked like in the concept "art" phase: "Art" Now we've got it in engine and playable! We're thinking about having a lot of levels where the enemy starts out w... Continue reading

  
• Week 3
  July 31, 2021 by The_Artful#4X, #Hacking, #Real time strategy, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Tower Defense

  This 3rd week of development has been very exciting as many of the game's main systems and mechanics are now becoming functional. We are planning on the game being playable sometime early next week. T... Continue reading

  
• Week 2
  July 24, 2021 by ArtfulGame

  Development continues! We've added a second "player" who will hopefully grow into a menacing antagonist. No plans for multi-player at the moment. We've made plans for our first AI antagonist and getti... Continue reading

  
• Starting development
  July 17, 2021 by ArtfulGame

  We've just started development. This is our week-one screen-shot. The first week had gone by with great success! We started on Monday (July 12th) and set out to make an innovative real-time strategy g... Continue reading