Map Map - A Game About Maps News

Hello everyone,

Aside from getting excited for our upcoming workation, we’ve also worked on:

[h3]🎮 Gameplay[/h3]

• Level design for new islands 🏝️
  
• Set up more playtesting sessions
  

[h3]🎨 Art[/h3]

• Started with a new character design 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
  
• Updated the steam page visuals (custom award badges & text headlines) ✨
  
• Created the designs and set dressings for the different tribes
  

[h3]🖥️ Programming[/h3]

• Added new UI screens
  
• Adjusted UI to work with various screen resolutions
  
• Improved the radial menu
  
• Polished the tools
  
• Fixed issues with the world map 🌍
  

[h3]💬 Other[/h3]

• Exhibited at Baltic Games Fest in Neumünster, Germany
  
• Exhibited at Reboot Develop Blue in Dubrovnik, Croatia (we were nominated for several awards, and
• drum roll please* won Best Audio!! 🥁🔥)
  
• Participated in a playtesting session at Media Markt
  
• Preparing something pretty big, can't say what it is just yet, but trust us, it's going to be awesome! 🤫
  

And don't forget our weekly-geoguessing challenge on Discord, what better way to start your well-deserved weekend? 🗺️📍
Enjoy your day! 🌞

Hello everyone,

this is what we’ve been up to in the last month:

[h3]🎮Gameplay[/h3]

• Worked on the level design for the starter island 🏝️
  
• Set up more playtesting sessions
  

[h3]🎨Art[/h3]

• Created decoration for the 3D ruins
  
• Polished our sticker collection
  
• Finished the ✨new key✨ art
  
• Updated the Steam capsules
  
• Created visuals for a new character (Say hello to Milo. He's a bit shy, but he's always up for a talk when you ask him about history📚)
  

[h3]🖥️Programming[/h3]

• Improved and polished the radial menu and tools
  
• Updated the demo for new events (are you coming to the Baltic Games Fest this weekend? 🤗)
  
• Implemented a new character
  

[h3]🎶Audio[/h3]

• Added new UI sounds
  

We wish everyone a great and sunny day! 🌞​🌻​🍨​

Hello everyone,

this is what we’ve been up to in February:

[h3]🎮 Gameplay[/h3]

• Erik, our new level design intern, had his first week and started work on the swamp islands (welcome to our team 🤗)
  
• Reworked the onboarding
  

[h3]🎨 Art[/h3]

• Added the ruins shaders
  
• Created 3D windows and arches for the ruins
  
• Created new UI elements for the map
  
• Worked on a new key art (coming soon✨)
  

[h3]🖥️ Programming[/h3]

• Added the option to mark stickers as favourites
  
• Improved and polished the map UI
  

[h3]💬 Other[/h3]

• participated in a playtest session at Game City Hamburg
  
• Exhibited at Mag-C in Erfurt, Germany
  
  
  
  
• Won the 2nd place in the Game Design award, which we shared with our good friends over at Glintseeker Island 🥳🧡
  
• We got our first fan art, thank you so much! 🥰
  

Have a wonderful Women's Day tomorrow! 🌞​🎉​

Hello everyone, 🤗

Time for another monthly dev log. This is what we have been up to in January:

[h2]🎮 Gameplay[/h2]

• designed more levels for new islands
  
• tested new puzzle mechanics
  

[h2]🎨 Art[/h2]

• added a modular world map background
  
• started a new key art and updated the steam page text and screenshots (both still WIP)
  
• updated the UI for the map tools (pencil case, camera, sticker box)
  

[h2]🖥️ Programming[/h2]

• implemented two new islands
  
• added new animations
  
• fixed some bugs after playtesting
  
• optimized the map UX
  

[h2]🎶 Audio[/h2]

• added voice-overs to dialogues (kinda, you'll see)
  
• created more sound effects for the main character
  

[h2]💬 Other[/h2]

• Laura and Lukas were invited by their former university to give a presentation about the founding of our own company
• Pipapo Games*, the development of our very first title ‘Map Map - A Game About Maps’ and our whole journey so far
  

We hope you all have a fantastic day! 🌞🌻

Hello everyone,

hopefully your year has started as cozy as ours 🥰
That's why our monthly is a little late this time, but we're back now! This is what we did in December:


[h3]🎮 Gameplay[/h3]

• designed the level for the playground island
  

[h3]🎨 Art[/h3]

• created 3D ruins for modular kit
  
• worked on set dressing for two new islands
  
• drew additional island maps
  
• created UI elements for the world map (e.g. fog for undiscovered parts)
  
• designed the UI for the star rating and treasure
  

[h3]🖥️ Programming[/h3]

• finished the basics of the world map
  
• added the treasure UI
  
• implemented the star rating for completed missions
  

[h3]🎶 Audio[/h3]

• created music for menu
  
• created music for world map
  
• added sound effects for tools
  

[h3]🗨️ Other[/h3]

• continued story design
  
• created new dialogues for the demo missions
  

Last but not least, we were selected for the Draknek Puzzle Grant!! How amazing is that? 🤯🥳

We wish you a fantastic day! 🌞