diff --git a/content/en/news/003-one-year-already.md b/content/en/news/003-one-year-already.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4be36aa --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/news/003-one-year-already.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: Frog Collective is just over a year old! +date: 03/31/2025 +--- + +It's been one year already since we started working on Frog Collective. +So it's time to make a quick recap of what we did last year and what we plan to do next year. + +As described in the last posts, we started to work on Frog Collective last year in April. +We worked on our first game [Coldridge](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3052500/ColdRidge/) and published it seven months later. + +After the release, we continued working on balancing things and adding some content to offer to the community. +Then we took some rest and enjoyed the holiday season. + +Going back to work, we wanted to test new things, leaving board games to test first person exploration. +We did know that the topic was ambitious, specially knowing that we were only two people in the team. +So we put ourselves a deadline of three months to see what was achievable in reasonable time span. + +We worked a different prototypes, some were very convincing, others needed a lot more work to be playable. + +
+ Screenshot of outpost prototype +
+ +At the end of this research phase, we were quite happy with what we did, but realized that we will not finish anything in years. +So we made the hard choice to stop working on it (and put it in a freezer for later) to go to another idea (a more reasonable one) we had. +We'll start working on it next week, so stay tuned, the next blog post will tell you more about it 😉. Just for teasing, we can say that we are coming back to some roguelite stuff! + +*PS: if you want to know more about what we did and, Aurel talked about it in [a conference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uYOMKb-QM) (in french).* diff --git a/src/assets/img/the-outpost/screenshot.jpg b/src/assets/img/the-outpost/screenshot.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e726cdd Binary files /dev/null and b/src/assets/img/the-outpost/screenshot.jpg differ