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Howdy!

Like I said in my previous post is that I wanted to update to blog more regularly so that is what I intend to do. It already feels great to write something without it being 10,000 years since the last time.

We are working really hard right now to get everything ready for Future summer 2015. Future summer 2015 is an event hosted by Future Games and Epic Games.

Future Games is a two year long higher vocational game development education located in Stockholm, Sweden. The education opened its doors in September 2008, and the first students graduated in September 2010.

So yeah we are going to show a very early build of Bell Ringer at Future summer 2015! We have a lot of stuff to do before then. With only 3 days left we are getting a bit nervous about showing our game. But we know that it’s very important to share what you are doing and getting feedback. The hardest thing about showing your game when it’s not complete is that you have to keep quiet when you get feedback from players and resist the urge to tell them that you have thought of everything.

Basically it’s just a grind session until Friday and we are very used to grinding.

Hey!

MowHammer here with a blog post!

It’s been a very long time since we’ve updated our blog, so thought it would be a great idea to do that now.

A lot has happened at Night Node that made everything super stressful and we have not had enough time to update the site as regularly as we wanted. But things are now changing for the better! We are down to the original team plus one intern. So we have way more work to do and unfortunately the blog and our social media presence has suffered.

The next game from Night Node is Bell Ringer, a hack n slash RPG with random generated worlds. Crylar has had this idea for a while I believe he told me about it almost 6 years ago. It has changed dramatically from that initial idea but the core of it all is the same. As you can tell it’s very important to save your game ideas and design documents.

It’s so much fun that we have a new project to work on, like a breath of fresh air. It’s been awesome working on Orbital Gear but it feels great to finally move forward and to work on something different. There is still work to be done on Orbital Gear but our main focus right now is complete and release Bell Ringer.

Development is going quite smooth and our spirits are high despite that we have almost no money. What Orbital Gear has shown us is that when you make a game you really want to play it’s all worth it when we see the user reviews and smile makes it all worth it. The plan is of course to get enough money to live decent but without making games that we don’t want to play ourselves.

Well that’s all from me this time. I will try to update the blog on a regular basis from now on.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Hi there y’all!

MowHammer here with some updates!

We try to post a blog post once a week but sometimes you just have too much to do and don’t have enough time. With a couple of minutes to spare I would like to share the ongoing events at the office with you!

We’ve been having creative sessions for our upcoming project. It has been a gruesome and tough experience – but at the same time super fun and exciting! Soon we will be unveiling the next project and it will be really cool!

Besides trying to figure out our next project we are constantly working on improving Orbital Gear. Right now we are reworking the menus so they can work with controller support. Aside from controller stuff we’re also adding a local 4-player split screen mode which is turning out great!

Aside from these cool updates, I also sadly have to announce that Simon “Morbus” Borgström has left NN. But the good news about his departure is that the reason he left was to concentrate on his programming studies – and when he’s done he’ll probably return to us as a programmer! ^^

The news of Morbus’ departure left me in the spot to try to fit in his job into my schedule. It has been hard, but I think I am getting the hang of it. I wish that I had 48 hours a day instead of the lousy 24 hours.

Speaking of schedule, we will be at the Intel Buzz Workshop on the 23rd in Stockholm to showcase Orbital Gear and learn a bunch of things from some very experienced and interesting people in the industry. You can get tickets to the event here!

I hope everyone had a great start to their week! Until next time, take care.

Hi there.

Good news everyone! Night Node Software will be attending Comic Con Gamex. We are going to have a small booth together with other indie devs. This is the first Comic Con Gamex convention ever. It’s going to be interesting to see how the convention is going to play out.

For you that doesn’t know Comic Con and Gamex used to be seperate conventions but now worlds will collide and the two has joined forces. That will result in it being Sweden’s biggest games, comics and movie convention.

So come on down to Kista mässan and hang out with the Night Node Team and other fun developers. The convention is open from the 30th of October to the 2nd of November.

You can get your tickets for Comic Con Gamex here