We have some quite big updates to Monstrum 2 that we’ll be rolling out this Tuesday, June 1st.

A quick write up on what our plans for the music and music systems are, and a little sneaky peeky of how it's sounding!

As we come to the end of the first phase of development and get ready for an Early Access launch, let's talk a wee bit about our journey.

We wanted a hulking monster, inspiring fear even when at a distance, so making him stand out was important.

In this development blog, we will show you some of the work that went into the monster and prisoners concepts.

What we did last year; how we're starting off 2020, and what we're looking forward to later in the year.

This dev blog is back, and this time we're shedding a little light... on our lighting systems.

The Fort descended into chaos; unmasked, the head of Research Development changed into the de facto despotic ruler of the Fort, cutting all

In this blog post, I'm going to go over some of the thinking behind the ambient and environmental sounds for Monstrum 2

This blog will be focused on early concept art for the overall environment design, so get ready for a lot of images.

This is the first dev blog, so I’m going to tease a bit about the environment of Monstrum 2 to get things rolling: specifically the sea fort

Interior of the helicopter now has its texture pretty far along, didn’t take long – I used that ‘Frankenstein’ method (mentioned in the...

Ahoy! Just a quick recap of what we’re up to and what we’ll be doing in the upcoming weeks! Monstrum! Most obvious and first up:...

Ahoy! You read the headline and that’s exactly what it is. Lots of people jumped into the Steam Summer Game and… 📷 Ding ding! You all...

📷 Hey All, So I am going to discuss my hard-surface modelling workflow in Autodesk Maya. Hopefully, this should give you insights into...

Hello all! Whilst the programmers at Junkfish have very much enjoyed watching videos of people trying to complete Monstrum this last week...

Ahoy! A quick update ahead of Monstrum’s Early Access release, a new trailer! Made entirely from gameplay too! Enjoy: Don’t forget,...

Hey everyone! Hope you are all looking forward to the upcoming early access release at the end of the month. In the time up to release, I...

Hi, it’s Stephanie here and today I’m going to talk about our pathfinding! (It was supposed to be Bean, but he forgot his password!) The...

Hi, Andrew here!  Just a quick post today. In Monstrum, doors can be knocked down by the monsters. We are currently improving how this...

📷 Helicopter Hey guys. Hope you’ve all been doing well and had a good Halloween/Bonfire night as well. So we’ve been working on our 3rd...

Hi guys! Today I thought I’d explain how the journal system in Monstrum is implemented. The journal is our equivalent of a quest/mission...

Hey, Grant here, making another ham-fisted attempt at arranging words to form coherent sentences. Procedural games are a tricky business....

Hey everyone! Time for another art blog. This week we are working on ship lighting! With the new fuse system in place players are now...

It’s time again for another art blog post! 📷 Now that we have the basis of our container section working in the game I can talk to you...

Hey all, In our last art blog we showed you sections of the engine room that we had been working on. Since then we have been finishing up...

Hey Everyone, Just posting some work in progress shots of the upcoming engine portion of the ship. Enjoy! 📷 📷 📷 We also have a fuse...

We’re all busy working on the new traps and areas that the rest of the team mentioned in some previous blog posts, and hopefully we’ll be...

Sorry for lack of design blogs recently but we’ve been busy working on some important mechanics for the game, which may or may not...

Greetings, dear followers of the programming side of Junkfish. I have been tasked once again with providing you all with an update on the...

Hi Everyone! The art team has another big update for you all! Upper Deck We’ve been adding more variation into the upper deck rooms....

In case anyone’s been worried about us apparently dropping off the face of the earth, we’ve got some pretty good news: We’ve hit alpha!...

So we’ve completely re-designed one of the ways we escape the ship to make it a lot more in depth and interesting. Without giving too...

So two of our lovely team members are away to GDC. Good luck to both of them. In the mean time, we are preparing our game for REZZED. I...

Hello everyone! As previously mentioned, the ship in Monstrum is procedurally generated, meaning the layout will be different each time...

Ahoy! A quick news post, but we’re really happy to say that Monstrum has been voted through Steam Greenlight :D! We’re all really happy...

Hey there folks, Hope you’ve all heard the news that we’ve been Greenlit. Again, thank you for all your help and support if you voted for...

We at Team Junkfish are extremely excited to formally announce “Monstrum” (alias: “The Artist Formerly Known as Maize”) to you all. You...

Ahoy! So if you recall my last blog I mentioned a little graph that shows the plan for the music system everything fits together. Today...

Hello again from the design team, We are now able to reveal another intended feature of Project Maize: different monster types! We aim to...

Welcome to another art blog entry from the Arts. We had been working hard on the announcement trailer alongside the game the past couple...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on trying to solve problems relating to performance, occlusion and lighting. Our main...

Hi everyone! The bridge tile-set is well on its way to completion. Here are some current progress shots. Enjoy! We now have windows!...

Ahoy! With our new little blog set up we decided that we should try and do a series of related posts for certain things, so you can see...

Good afternoon/morning/day/night, whenever you are reading this, everybody. It’s been a pleasant Christmas holiday for everyone at...

Hi everyone! We’re preparing to show some footage of the game in the near future, we thought it’d be a good time to talk about some of...

Things have wound down for the year at Junkfish Manor, so I figured it’d be an idea to wrap up the blog post with the team’s games of the...

With the unstoppable rise of digital and online entertainment over the last decade, one could be forgiven in thinking that tabletop games...

You’re all gonna get another helping of procedural generation chit-chat. This time, I’ll go over the system we’re using to create a...

Since my last post all that time ago it seems to be apparent that my little secret about the monster I was working on has now been made...