TYLER Projects | the blog

Haven’t blogged on the TYLER blog since Blogger destroyed the last incarnation I started almost 3 years ago.

Decided to start again because I hate to repeat myself on the discussion boards or waste time to dig up a thread where I made an announcement. Next time I’m tempted to make an official thread I’ll try to mirror it with a blog post containing a link to the thread. Not going to blog on a separate blog for our different games. Too much trouble.

Anyway, we’ve got quite fair bit of things in development right now, this month has been dubbed “the month of development”.

Most of it we can’t show: like the comic; don’t want to give away the story through the sketches but 10 out of the 22 pages for the first issue have already been sketched. Intervened a bit in the character conceptualization; we received the first color tests from IFS after which we decided we want to more or less completely overhaul the characters. Hope they don’t hate us to much for that.

This is the color test for Rhea. We felt the outfit was too red, after which we decided to change her outfit completely.

Finished the layout for new revamped Mafia Empire main page last week. We should have the new jobs/quest system for ME in a testable state by next week. Was supposed to work on

1. Island base system layout
2. Defender console interface adapted for live server done
3. Captain page layout with skill selector

but keep getting side-tracked with operational issues (yes, this means the stuff to do with Clan War, IMBAness of Tier S, etc)

2 new team members joined us this month. A warm TYLER welcome to Evan (new programmer) and Kenneth (new artist). Still looking for 1 more programmer, a marketing exec and 1 more artist.