The other day out of the blue, an old friend sent me a message of Facebook. He was looking for a transcription I did 6 years ago and was wondering if I could sell him the parts so his college band could perform it. Having not looked at the piece in several years, I pulled open the file on my computer to find… awfulness, complete awfulness. The formatting was horrible, the chord voicings were rusty, and the attention to detail…
Some three years since it all began, here I sit, looking back on the journey that has been Shadows of Adam. So it seems appropriate to look back at some of the important lessons I’ve learned along the way. 1. Good dialogue doesn’t just write itself, except when it does. 2. You really need a team you can trust. And I do trust in my team. All zero of them I have met in real life. 3. You can’t be…
Welcome to the 53rd installment of our (occasionally) weekly content blog! To celebrate this special occasion, I am going to go over a couple of backer specific bonus areas! The Arena On the bottom floor of the infamous Artifactor’s Guild lies the arena, where the bravest of warriors test their luck against a variety of foes. In practical terms, there will be a series of challenges to choose from, each presenting a series of battles based on locations you…
The last three weeks I’ve been working my tail off to bring the wonderful quests created by our Kickstarter backers to life in Shadows of Adam. This is no small task. A Kickstarter survey can’t always capture everything you truly need. So I ended up having some late night chat sessions on Skype and Facebook. One of our backers was in the middle of a vacation in Europe, but he still made some time (what a guy!) to make sure…
Hey everyone! In just under three years, Shadows of Adam is nearing completion! This post is going to be a brief look at what’s new, what’s left, and the future of Shadows of Adam. ================= What’s New ================= Credits: Finishing our credits sequence was a big accomplishment because it finally hit me that the game was nearing its end. It also includes one of SoA’s best compositions, a 7 minute long melody of Shadows of Adams themed timed out to…