Friday, July 29, 2022

Release Announcement: Black Road Sky (version 0.3)

Download Black Road Sky v0.3 here!

Not sure if you're ready to part with your hard earned zero dollars? Hype yourself off the fence with this release trailer!


There's no in-game tutorial, but the itch.io page includes a basic guide to getting started and I'm about to start working on a comprehensive video tutorial series. Stay tuned to the all new Potato Clock Games YouTube channel for updates.

Saturday, July 9, 2022

BRS v0.3 Imminent Release & Tutorial Series Plans


Well, v0.3 is finally done, only two years late, and will be available to download by the end of the month. Still doing playtesting at the moment, for whatever it's worth. A one person testing team isn't nearly enough, especially when that one person already knows how to play the game. So I'm sure that plenty of bugs will sneak through, but I'm fine with that for now.

Moving the goalpost is the same thing as staying on track.

The bigger problem is that no one will know what the fuck to do or how to play this fairly complicated orbital mechanicsy game due to the complete lack of any sort of tutorial. Thing is, the game is in such an early state and there are so many big changes coming that it feels foolish to spend a bunch of time on an in-game tutorial system that I'll just have to redo any time I release a new update. So instead I've decided to create a video tutorial series where I'll basically just play the game and explain how to do shit. I have a feeling that shooting and editing videos will actually end up being even more time consuming than creating a new in-game tutorial with every version release, but fuck it, I'm doing it anyway. I think it'll be a fun break from actually working on the game before I dive back in for the next version.

Anywho, I have no idea how long it's going to take me to put the tutorial series together so I'm going to go ahead and release v0.3 in order to meet my arbitrary July release target that no one knows about and then release tutorial videos as I create them. Stay tuned!