September 2023 Devblog
DevBlog: September 2023 Update Roundup
Highlights: First Gameplay Videos + Event Submissions
The last month and a half was an whirlwind as we raced to get Advent ready for a couple of live event submissions! In August, the Advent team became aware of the HashtagCon Indie Showcase through social media, a local(ish) event hosting about 20 indie games in a live setting at the end of October. We decided to make a push to get into this showcase, which involved getting the game build to a more presentable state and recording gameplay footage.
Just a few days after we learned about the HTC Indie Showcase, an email went out for submissions to the Super MAGfest 2024 MIVS in January - MAG for Music and Games, MIVS for MAGfest Indie Videogame Showcase. A couple members of the Advent team have been attending MAGfest for years - a huge, four-day event with 20,000+ attendees - and getting into MIVS was a goal for Advent of the Reaper since the project first started to take shape. As it just so happened, the deadlines for both the HTC Indie Showcase and MIVS were the same date - so we went to work preparing dual applications. Part of the preparation was expanding our internet presence, which including creating this site as well as our game's Instagram page!
By the deadline, although we hadn't gotten in everything we had hoped to, we had a solid gameplay video and functional build to show off. Here's the link to our gameplay build that went in with both event submissions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBotrMJu18g
From there, we thought we'd earned a short breather - but that was not the case! Another email came out the day after the admission deadline announcing that MIVS had extended their submission window by an extra week. We got back to work right away and implemented a whole chunk of additional items from our fix and polish list, and produced an updated gameplay video 9 days later!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygX1QGEQ0s8
Updates between the first submission and second submission video’s builds
Amidst the second crunch to update our MIVS submission, we received the exciting news that we had been accepted into the HashtagCon Indie Showcase! What a crazy momentum this process has kicked off! We are hard at work digging into our mountain of development goals to achieve by the October event. As it just so happens, the event is exactly four weeks from today - the pressure's on!
October Event Dev Timeline
Dev Timeline - January 2024 (Aligns with MIVS)
Thanks for reading! I’m going to try to do a monthly devblog roundup - Look forward to October’s post!
~Doug