Here's the first draft of the "Ballistics" train carriage for Persevere, our narrative strategy game. When added to your train, it gives you access to basic projectile towers. Train cars aren't just for tower defense though, there will be cars for research, medical, training, scouting, and more.

I recorded a dev log for Persevere, giving an introduction to how crew traits are used to generate personality profiles, and how those personality profiles are used in our narrative scripts to fill roles, and adjust behaviour, within the story.
youtu.be/0IDsIvnasz0
#narrative #strategy #gamedev

The Necromancer's Tale is in the #ChooseWiselyFestival this week, celebrating branching narrative games where choices matter! Thanks @studioephua.bsky.social for hosting!

20% discount this week... time to dabble in the occult and raise an undead army 💀💀💀💀💀

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In the early hours of yesterday morning, we completed the prototype of Persevere, our narrative strategy game. I'd like to introduce you to it!
Starting with arriving on the level with your train, containing five crew, who we'll get to, and a Ballistics train car. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

In Persevere, your crew gain Stressors, from the environment in combination with their Traits. The Stress of each character adds to the Strain of the crew, and Strain leads to narrative Crisis events. Here is a first look at a Crisis event in the Persevere prototype! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSu...

Working on the last elements of the Persevere #IndieDev prototype, the focus now is on exposing the crew simulation to the player; here is the crew person profile popup. Stress is gained from Stressors, and contributes to the Strain on the crew, which leads to crisis events. #gamedev #narrative

As well as working on the final Persevere IndieDev prototype build, we're also preparing for the IndieDev wrap event being hosted by @ardan-ie.bsky.social next week. As part of that, we've created a graphic for a pull-up banner, which I am loving. #indiedev #gamedev #stategy #narrative #prototype

We are doing the final content and polish pass for Persevere's prototype. He's a sneak peek at the locomotive, and the crew leaving to it collect resources... More media soon! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #strategy #narrative

We're closing in on the completion of the Persevere #IndieDev prototype, 3 weeks remaining! I'll share info then, including how to playtest! In the meantime, here is the final master of the Persevere theme, by our brilliant composer John Vallely. #gamedev #gamemusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7nW...

On September 1st we started production on the prototype of our narrative strategy game Persevere, with the goal of having the first playable build on November 19th. Alongside the prototype, we are building a studio. Today, the studio and game website went live. One step at a time.
perseveregame.com

We've just started production of the Persevere prototype, after 8 months of (part-time) pre-production. Today we hit a milestone, testing a "full" train (your mobile base) in-game (using mostly placeholder assets). My one concern was if the scale and length would feel right, I call this a success!

So excited to be part of IndieDev 2025! Our prototype, which will comprise of a single complete level of Persevere, will let us prove out our gameplay, art, writing, and production pipelines. We are so grateful to
@ardan-ie.bsky.social, @imirt.bsky.social, and Screen partners, for the opportunity!

My #gamedev team and I created a pitch deck for Persevere, our #roguelike #strategy #towerdefense #game, as part of an application to a local arts fund. I thought it'd be interesting to share some of the slides for #screenshotsaturday.
If there's interest, I'll share more slides later today.

Oh hey, it's #ScreenshotSaturday , here's the latest mockup from the video game adaptation of Battle of Tarot I'm working on with some lovely people.

Everything is still a work-in-progress and not final at all, but trying to get the visual style nailed down.

#GameDev #IrishGameDev #BattleOfTarot

Persevere is an in #gamedev genre-blending #strategygame that fuses #survival #management with #towerdefense, creating an experience that’s greater than the sum of its parts.
Core to the game is crew management, and today, for the first time, you can manage crew in-game! youtu.be/OTdYDfgK_Is