JUNE UPDATE BLOG
We have some quite big updates to Monstrum 2 that we’ll be rolling out this Tuesday, June 1st.
DEVELOPMENT BLOG
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
Dev Blog #9 - Audio
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!
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- Oct 2, 2020
- 3 min
Dev Blog #8 - Production Insight
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.
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- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
Dev Blog #7 - Meet (most of) the Monsters
We wanted a hulking monster, inspiring fear even when at a distance, so making him stand out was important.
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- Feb 27, 2020
- 2 min
Dev Blog #6 - Character Concept Showcase
In this development blog, we will show you some of the work that went into the monster and prisoners concepts.
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- Jan 23, 2020
- 3 min
2020 Vision
What we did last year; how we're starting off 2020, and what we're looking forward to later in the year.
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- Nov 28, 2019
- 2 min
Dev Blog #5 - A Little Light Reading
This dev blog is back, and this time we're shedding a little light... on our lighting systems.
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- Oct 16, 2019
- 7 min
DEV BLOG #4 - The Secrets of Sparrow Lock
The Fort descended into chaos; unmasked, the head of Research Development changed into the de facto despotic ruler of the Fort, cutting all
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- Oct 2, 2019
- 7 min
Dev Blog #3 - Sea of Sounds
In this blog post, I'm going to go over some of the thinking behind the ambient and environmental sounds for Monstrum 2
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- Sep 18, 2019
- 3 min
Dev Blog #2 - Extreme Exteriors
This blog will be focused on early concept art for the overall environment design, so get ready for a lot of images.
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- Jun 28, 2019
- 4 min
Dev Blog #1 - The Sea Fortress
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
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- Dec 16, 2015
- 3 min
Art Blog 22 – Polish. Cut. Pour.
Interior of the helicopter now has its texture pretty far along, didn’t take long – I used that ‘Frankenstein’ method (mentioned in the...
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- Jul 23, 2015
- 2 min
Upcoming events- The Monstrum VR Tour Rides On!
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:...
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- Jun 20, 2015
- 1 min
Monstrum is 25% off for the Steam Summer Sale!
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...
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- Mar 26, 2015
- 7 min
Art Blog 25 – Hard Surface Modelling Techniques [Part 1]
📷 Hey All, So I am going to discuss my hard-surface modelling workflow in Autodesk Maya. Hopefully, this should give you insights into...
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- Feb 10, 2015
- 1 min
Programming Blog 16 – Bug fixes
Hello all! Whilst the programmers at Junkfish have very much enjoyed watching videos of people trying to complete Monstrum this last week...
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- Jan 5, 2015
- 1 min
News – Monstrum Gameplay Trailer
Ahoy! A quick update ahead of Monstrum’s Early Access release, a new trailer! Made entirely from gameplay too! Enjoy: Don’t forget,...
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- Jan 4, 2015
- 1 min
Art Blog 23 – Tour of the ship!
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...
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- Dec 18, 2014
- 2 min
Programming Blog 15 – Pathfinding Solutions
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...
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- Nov 17, 2014
- 1 min
Programming Blog 14 – Door Destruction
Hi, Andrew here! Just a quick post today. In Monstrum, doors can be knocked down by the monsters. We are currently improving how this...
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- Nov 11, 2014
- 3 min
Art Blog 20 – Take these broken wings…..
📷 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...
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- Sep 9, 2014
- 2 min
Programming Blog 12 – The Journal
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...
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- Sep 3, 2014
- 5 min
Design Blog 10 – RTFM. On Procedural Tutorials
Hey, Grant here, making another ham-fisted attempt at arranging words to form coherent sentences. Procedural games are a tricky business....
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- Jul 29, 2014
- 1 min
Art Blog 17 – Lighting Re-Visited
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...
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- Jul 9, 2014
- 3 min
Art Blog 16 – Building Unusual Paths
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...
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- Jun 24, 2014
- 2 min
Art Blog 15 – Control rooms, Containers rooms….and Sausage fingers.
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...
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- Jun 10, 2014
- 1 min
Art Blog 14 – Engine Room WIP shots
Hey Everyone, Just posting some work in progress shots of the upcoming engine portion of the ship. Enjoy! 📷 📷 📷 We also have a fuse...
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- Jun 3, 2014
- 3 min
Misc. Blog 11 – Old Man Yells At Cloud
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...
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- May 30, 2014
- 3 min
Design Blog 07 – It’s a trap!*
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...
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- May 22, 2014
- 3 min
Programming Blog 09 – A Big, Brown Deck
Greetings, dear followers of the programming side of Junkfish. I have been tasked once again with providing you all with an update on the...
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- May 20, 2014
- 2 min
Art Blog 13 – Ship expansion!
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....
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- May 5, 2014
- 1 min
Progress report: Alpha!
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!...
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- Apr 24, 2014
- 1 min
Art Blog 12 – Space to run around!
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...
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- Mar 18, 2014
- 1 min
Art Blog 11 – Cook, eat, clean.
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...
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- Mar 7, 2014
- 1 min
Programming Blog 08 – Do you want to build a ship, man?
Hello everyone! As previously mentioned, the ship in Monstrum is procedurally generated, meaning the layout will be different each time...
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- Mar 6, 2014
- 1 min
Monstrum has been Greenlit!
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...
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- Mar 5, 2014
- 2 min
Art Blog 10 – A Breath of Fresh Air
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...
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- Feb 13, 2014
- 1 min
Announcing Monstrum – The Survival Horror Labyrinth
We at Team Junkfish are extremely excited to formally announce “Monstrum” (alias: “The Artist Formerly Known as Maize”) to you all. You...
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- Feb 11, 2014
- 2 min
Audio Blog 03 – Dramatic Entry! Musical Themes and Motives!
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...
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- Feb 10, 2014
- 4 min
Design Blog 05 – Monsters!
Hello again from the design team, We are now able to reveal another intended feature of Project Maize: different monster types! We aim to...
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- Feb 7, 2014
- 2 min
Art Blog 09 – Below Deck…
Welcome to another art blog entry from the Arts. We had been working hard on the announcement trailer alongside the game the past couple...
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- Feb 3, 2014
- 4 min
Programming Blog 07 – Lighting in a Randomly-Generated game
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on trying to solve problems relating to performance, occlusion and lighting. Our main...
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- Feb 3, 2014
- 1 min
Art Blog 08 – Riker to The Bridge
Hi everyone! The bridge tile-set is well on its way to completion. Here are some current progress shots. Enjoy! We now have windows!...
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- Jan 30, 2014
- 12 min
Misc. Blog 10 – Team Speak: Our Favourite Games
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...
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- Jan 22, 2014
- 4 min
Programming Blog 06 – The Dawn of Stairkind
Good afternoon/morning/day/night, whenever you are reading this, everybody. It’s been a pleasant Christmas holiday for everyone at...
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- Jan 20, 2014
- 2 min
Art Blog 07 – Starting to take shape
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...
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- Dec 23, 2013
- 3 min
Misc. Blog 09 – Games of the Year!
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...
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- Dec 16, 2013
- 5 min
Misc. Blog 06 – Why Video Games and Tabletop Games can still be friends
With the unstoppable rise of digital and online entertainment over the last decade, one could be forgiven in thinking that tabletop games...
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- Dec 13, 2013
- 4 min
Programming Blog 05 – Ship Zones and Paint
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...
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- Dec 11, 2013
- 3 min
Programming Blog 04 – Evolution Is A Mystery
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...
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