Hey Everybody!

It’s been a quiet month but we’ve been hard at work! As we’ve mentioned before, To The Rescue is a project we’ve been working on for a while. Our first source control push was almost 3 years ago to the day! In a lot of ways, this has a been a learning project for us. We wanted to take a project as far as we possibly could and push ourselves to learn more about game design, programming, and Unity3D.

And the project just kept working, all the way up to a super successful Kickstarter! We’ve learned a lot since we started. Olivia and I both finished our undergraduate degrees in that time and we are only a few minutes from finishing our masters. Needless to say, there are a lot of improvements we can make to the game under the hood.

So, we are taking a step back and doing some major refactoring of the project. We are swapping to a two-branch system where one version of the project is an active development branch where we can experiment and break things and the other is a production branch where we make sure that everything that goes in is something we definitely want in the final version of the game. This means we can refactor and improve code as we move it over and reevaluate some of our game design decisions.

Making this swap has taken a little bit of time, but we are actively working on both branches now so some more visual updates are on the horizon. Especially because we are in the process of adding an animator to our team! More details to come.

As always, thank you for your support and interest!

Hey Everyone!

The past few weeks have been a bit slower than usual. We’ve been wrapping up some prior obligations in the form of external contracts and trying to get the college semester finished up early.

But, of more relevance to To The Rescue!, we’ve been talking with potential publishers who reached out because of all the wonderful support during our Kickstarter campaign. The excitement that generated was enough to at least open some doors for discussion. We don’t have anything to announce yet, but the whole concept is too exciting for us not to share. This is our first full game. We managed to double our goal on Kickstarter and generate enough support that it at least got publishers to take notice. Even if we end up self publishing, this experience thus far has been a valuable opportunity and a pretty cool one at that!

On top of publisher talks, we’ve also been working on some Kickstarter related aspects like the backer survey’s that should be going out soon and starting the process of ordering the physical rewards.