Wooden Nickel

A collection of 30 posts

State of the Studio Featured

State of the Studio 2020

A belated update on our year so far and what's ahead.

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Secondary Animations

WIP for Wooden Nickel.

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Behind-the-Scenes

Designing the Newspaper

A look at what inspired the design of Wooden Nickel's newspaper mechanic.

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Summer Roundup

WIP for Wooden Nickel.

Photo Essay

Recap: PAX West 2019

A look at the Wooden Nickel booth we built for PAX West.

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Wooden Nickel at PAX West!

Wooden Nickel's first gameplay trailer—and big news!

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Design Iteration, Pt. III

A look at our design iteration process for Wooden Nickel, part three.

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The Cowhand

WIP for Wooden Nickel.

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Animating the Chickens

A special work-in-progress post featuring animation from Wooden Nickel.

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Design Iteration, Pt. II

A look at our design iteration process for Wooden Nickel, part two.

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Kinda Funny Showcase

WIP for Wooden Nickel.

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Design Iteration, Pt. I

A look at our design iteration process for Wooden Nickel, part one.

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Wooden Nickel GDC Demo

WIP for Wooden Nickel.

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Background Art Process

A walkthrough of the process of creating background art for Wooden Nickel.

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Introducing…Wooden Nickel!

Public reveal of our latest project: frontier adventure Wooden Nickel.

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Game Audio

The building blocks for audio playback in our games.

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Project Reveal!

A supporter-exclusive early reveal of our project in-development.

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Background Sketch Time-Lapse (Video)

Time-lapse sketch for a scene background, drawn in Procreate.

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Dynamic Colors

How we use dynamic coloring to save time and get more mileage out of our art assets.

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End of 2018

WIP for Wooden Nickel.

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Prototype Bits II

WIP for Wooden Nickel.

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Controlling the Experience

How we're creating interactive experience across a wide array of devices.

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Creating a Prototype

Prototypes and the iterative cycle of game development.

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Test Scene

WIP for Wooden Nickel.

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Prototype Bits

WIP for Wooden Nickel.