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DevBlog #2 - Pineapple Truth

[h3]Hello everyone again, Crucial Experiment is in touch![/h3]

[h3]This time we have bad news for the players who are waiting for the game. No matter how painful it was for us, but due to the lack of team and strength, we cannot continue working on the game, so it was decided to temporarily freeze the project until better times. It seems that this break will be long.[/h3]

[h3]But Crucial Experiments is not going to leave its business and, while gaining experience, will delight you with other indie games![/h3]

[h3]Links where projects will be published
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41662205
Itch: https://crucialexperiment.itch.io/
GameJolt: https://gamejolt.com/@CrucialExperiment
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[h3]Thanks to everyone who followed the development of the game and for the great support. This is the end of our broadcast.[/h3]

DevBlog #1 - The beginning of a new story

[h2]Hello, Crucial Experiment is back in touch and ready to tell you a little about the game and its development.[/h2]

[h2]We will immediately touch on an important topic now and this is the war of Russia and Ukraine, the whole team of Crucial Experiment is against this war, and we want to say that there will be no hints in the game about wars between the countries of only two important companies that are located in a fictional city Russia, Live Corporation and Durka Corporation are powerful and fictional companies.[/h2]

[h3]Now we want to tell you about changes in the price of the game from free to 9.99$. All players who already have it in the library will not need to buy it, but there is one limitation from Steam that you will not be able to receive trade cards and you will have to buy the game itself to get access to the cards.[/h3]


Response from the Steam support service.

[h2]Now let's move on to the game development news.[/h2]

[h3]Now, at the moment, the development of the game is temporarily suspended due to the war between Russia and Ukraine since our main artist (and the head of the composition of all artists) is in Ukraine and it is difficult for us to contact him somehow. You don't need to worry, soon everything will return to normal, and we will start working at full strength again![/h3]

[h3] The first point we have is the game scenario.[/h3]

We have already said somewhere that the plot of the game will be connected with several anime, we will not list them, but we will name the main one Neon Genesis Evangelion. Perhaps you will ask why Evangelion? Perhaps you have watched this anime or heard about someone somewhere and know that she is in the genre of FUR and the main message of the anime is in the concept of herself. Our story is very similar to Evangelion and The End of Evangelion maybe in the future we will show you this somehow.

The new plot of the game will tell you about two large fictional Russian companies, Live Corporation and Durka Corporation each side has its own technologies, and each side wants to achieve its own in this world. One may want to take over the whole of Russia as a whole or destroy the whole world and make it perfect. Your goal while playing as Mickey is to prevent the seizure of the main office of Live Corporation or some important documents, Durka Corporation will try to somehow destroy you, your friends or your personal robot Gordeyu-014.

[h3]The second point is drawing backgrounds, characters and other details.[/h3]

Recently we decided to make some backgrounds more lively, not just static, for example, a picture of a train (static) and a picture of the sky with the earth (dynamic and can move along the X axis), which gives our picture of the sky to move calmly and pretend as if it is alive. Such moments will make the immersion more vivid than just static backgrounds with text. There should be a lot of different movements on the stage so that you don't get bored reading just the text under some soundtrack or character theme.

Characters also continue to be developed, recently we have made 4 more new characters already by Durka Corporation, half of them will participate in battles with Live Corporation, and the other part will lead a special project. The drawing of characters will also remain in 2D style, but with improved graphics, and not with simple sticks (such as are in the build of the game from January 2022).

[h3]The third and final point is sounds and music.[/h3]

Sounds in games are a very important part and we understand this, so we will try to record them ourselves or look for suitable options on the Internet. I will immediately answer about the voice acting of the game, we do not plan to do voice acting or large-scale translation of the game into other languages except Russian and English, there are several reasons, but the main one is that the game is still under development and there will be no voice acting or translation in general before its release.

Music is also very important for games to brighten up the silence with something positive or not so positive. We make our own music for the game so that later there will be no problems with copyrights or other problems towards the game developers. Here we will immediately say that the music during the testing of the game in the future may differ from the release.

[h3]In this news, we have not touched on programming or in the code as a whole, since there is almost nothing to say or show about it, but in the future we will still have something to show you. This is where our broadcast ends with the words “There is no war!”.[/h3]

The future of the project

Good evening everyone Crucial Experiment is back on intergalactic communication!


[h3]After our last news we were able to find new employees and now we announce the continuation of work on the game! So far, the deadline for finishing work on the new first chapter is not known, but we will try to inform you about it in the near future. Now we will work out the game more carefully for you and add many new features. We have also temporarily removed the "Download Game" button on the store page.[/h3]


Author: XalliX12

Looks like this is the end... or not!?

Good evening, everyone!

[h2]Crucial Experiment is broadcasting something there again via some communication channels from Life Corporation.[/h2]

[h3]Our team is too small to continue working on The Dark in both 2d and 3d, and we decided it was time to close the project again. We wanted to do something new for you, but two people are not enough to implement our plans... We apologize for everything we promised.

You may ask why we can't find new employees? We tried, but without success. The game was supposed to be a mix of Evangelion, Death Note, Darling in the FranXX, and Shiguan Dalirent, but it looks like you'll never know what happened next... But wait! What do we hear! Mickey and Mysterious don't want to leave you! They say if we find new employees, The Dark will develop further. Yeah... Trouble-trouble, chagrin.[/h3]

[h2]Now you decide the fate of the game, will it have a future? Everything is in your hands, we need people like you![/h2]


[h2]We hope to return soon with new news... Possible :/[/h2]

Difficult days

Hello, comrades!

[h2]Crucial Experiment broadcasts via intergalactic communication from the train where Mickey is now![/h2]

[h3]We have been informed that you are waiting for new content or updates, but there are none, because MicroBroStudio has not experienced the best weeks and has turned into a Crucial Experiment, and the number of employees has not increased, we are still 4-5 people.[/h3]
[h3]But we still have something to tell you![/h3]

[h2]1. The plot component of the game[/h2]
[h3]In the 3D version, we plan to make the plot not just by reading text or viewing pictures, but a whole adventure game with a semi-open world! Our plans are to cross the plot of some anime and get something interesting. Now we have 18 (approximate number) characters that will be used in the game.
  1. Mickey
  2. Mysterious
  3. Lera
  4. Veronica
  5. Alexander
  6. Yaroslav
  7. Elena
  8. Varya
  9. Igor
  10. Larry
  11. Kolya
  12. Polina
  13. Daniel
  14. Maxim
  15. Christopher
  16. Anastasia
  17. Tikhon
  18. Gordey
We are also planning to add secret content to the game's plot, which will only be visible if the game is hacked.[/h3]

[h2]2. Design and interface in general[/h2]
[h3]Now our designer is going through hard days because he is alone, and one 3D model of the unfinished Mickey took [data lost].[/h3]



[h3]The interface will be more active than static, so you will be able to feel more than the plot of the game will give you. We are also working on scenes and initial screensavers to somehow explain what is happening there...[/h3]

[h2]3. Sounds and music[/h2]
[h3]Our team is learning how to write music so that they don't use anything with copyrights or other nonsense anymore. In addition, we will try to create sounds manually, and not use ready-made ones from the boarding school.[/h3]

[h2]Well, for now that's all we can tell you, we hope to be back soon with more news.[/h2]

[h2] Exactly, we forgot to congratulate you on the year 2022! From the entire development team of The Durka, we wish you a lot of patience and a good mood in the new year.[/h2]