Jasper Vice: Legends Untold

Devlog

• The Time Trials!
  October 01, 2024 by SoltorchGames

  We just added timed races to the game! Each level now contains several rings that you can fly though, activating a time trial. The faster your time, the more stars you can earn. Can you get 3 stars on... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #76: Post-Mortem???
  August 19, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Jasper Vice has been on Steam for two weeks now, so I figured I should wrap up the blog, and social media stuff for now. We'll be picking it back up next year as we start working on the sequel though!... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #75: Launch Day!
  August 04, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  It's been a crazy few years making this thing, and it's just the first step of a much larger journey. I feel a strong connection with Jasper as he's going through the initial entry tests to join the V... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #74: Game Launch Next Week! Also, a Trailer!
  July 29, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! Just a reminder that the first level of the game is up on Steam as part of the Beta! Full launch is next week (August 4th) and we have a new trailer out! --------------------------... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #73: Launch Date Approaching! Beta Update
  July 15, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! Just a reminder that the first level of the game is up on Steam as part of the Beta! We're only a few weeks from the full launch, which is crazy! (August 4th) These last few weeks... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #72: Oh no, I missed one! (And Launch Date)
  July 01, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! Just a reminder that the first level of the game is up on Steam as part of the Beta! Also, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm still alive, and things are still moving forwa... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #71: BETA Launch!!!
  June 03, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! Today's the day! The Beta for Jasper Vice is officially available. Containing Level 1 of 3. Theoretically the game is feature-complete, and now just needs a lot of tweaks and polis... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #70: Foliage, SFX & Cutscenes!
  May 20, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! Two weeks from official Beta launch! I've been keeping busy lately adding foliage to the Garden of Aska, putting in sound fx for various things, and finishing up the level flow and... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #69: Audio, and Underground Gardens!
  May 06, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! One month from official Beta launch! These past two weeks I've been trying to balance adding in new content in Zone 3, and polishing/improving existing content in preparation for B... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #68: Ancient Cities, Planting, and Tweaks!
  May 06, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! It's been a fun two weeks! Lots of variety and different tweaks and improvements, along with some major stuff. First off, I went back and polished up some of the existing gameplay... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #67: Viruses, Bugs, and Music!
  April 08, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! Well, this sprint didn't go as planned! For most of these past two weeks, I've been either down with, or recovering from that nasty virus that's been the talk of the town for the p... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #66: Animal Rescue, Audio, and Gamepads!
  March 25, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Wishlist on Steam ! The second mission on Mt. Eldur is complete! I don't want to give too many spoilers, but let's just say that Dragons can withstand heat better than baby "Moledillos". I had to prog... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #65: Rams, Owls, and a quest!
  March 11, 2022 by SoltorchGames

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• Devblog Update #64: Weights, "Moledillos", and Steam!
  February 25, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  First off, launch is about 6 months away, so we finally got a Steam page set up! Wishlist if you want it! ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1919310/Jasper_Vice_Legends_Untold/ ) It feels crazy that... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #62: Tutorials and cozy caves!
  February 11, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  One of the things that we've gotten a fair bit of feedback on is the new player experience. They're more or less dropped into the world, and left to figure out the controls for themselves. While that... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #62: Options, Alicorns and Volcanoes!
  January 28, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  Well it's been a good two sprints to kick off 2022! There were some pretty significant improvements made in this last one. First off, I added in Gamepad support , so those who want to play with joysti... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #61: Starting the next level!
  January 14, 2022 by SoltorchGames

  2022 has begun! Or, as some people like to put it, 2020 part 3. As a team we took a break over Christmas, to enjoy time with family, and get a fresh inspiration and perspective on the game that you ca... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #60(!!!): Releasing Demo #2!
  December 17, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  60 devblogs... That's 120 weeks, or 600 work-days that have gone into this game so far. That's insane! Granted, it hasn't been full-time, and we essentially re-booted the project when we switched to U... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #59: Wrapping things up!
  December 03, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  Crazy to think that we're in December already! We've been working on Deilen Fel (Level 2 of this game) since June 7th, and it's really come together well. The plan is to work on bugfixing and polish t... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #58: Colors and Tones
  November 19, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  If last Devblog was all about flashy explosions, this one is more about ambiance. The Watcher chamber, and the Vault below it is meant to evoke a different feeling than the rest of Deilen Fel. Up abov... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #57: Dodge the Beams!
  November 05, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  This past sprint has been focused pretty much entirely on programming the Watcher. I finally have a design I'm running with for the gameplay/implementation, so now it's just a matter of getting it don... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #56: Back to Code.
  October 22, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  I'm having to work the rust off my coding skills. It's been a few months since I've done much of it! Moving forward I'll have to get used to balancing my time between design, art, and coding again. Ge... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #55: Doors are for people to come and go.
  October 08, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend!!! This sprint we have the sad news that our main programmer for the past several months has decided to step back from the project for the time being, due to person... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #54: Moving to the Vault!
  September 24, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  This sprint there has been significant progress made on the save system. I dare say it's pretty much done! While getting some of these core back-end systems in place isn't glamorous, it sure is essent... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #53: Gus and more Fungus!
  September 10, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  Progress continues! I feel like I begin pretty much every update like that. But it's true though! Progress is being made! On the visual side of things, I got inspired and made some new plants to add t... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #52: Two years in and Plants
  August 27, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  Well, this devblog marks two years of working on this game! Wow. We certainly have come a long ways. In some senses it feels like we've only been working on the game for a little over a year, since la... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #51: Maydrig and Journals?
  August 13, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  One of the significant things I've been working on this past sprint was making a creature who lives in Level 2. This is a Maydrig. They may look fragile and beautiful, but they're actually quite hardy... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #50: Cottage and Caretaker!
  July 30, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  Progress continues! The caretaker NPC of this zone now has a place to live. The idea is that with the giant plants and such, she would have made her home out of some of the available fungi. I look for... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #49: Mist and moss!
  July 16, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  The inside of the giant tree is really starting to come together! We decided to focus entirely on the interior, and not allow the player to fly outside the tree. The scope to do the exterior as well,... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #48: R&D & Giant Tree!
  July 02, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  The second Island is slowly taking shape. There's a lot to think about and decide, in terms of how to use the feedback we've received to make the game better. We met as a team the other week and talke... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #47: Bigger and (hopefully) better things!
  June 18, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  With three weeks between us and the launch of the demo, we've had a chance to get and process some helpful feedback on the game. We've also been doing a lot of background work, R&D, and planning. Also... Continue reading

  
• The week after Demo Launch
  June 04, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  Well, the demo was launched last week (as you can tell by the title)! There were a few bigger quality-of-life improvement feedback pieces which we focused on implementing this past week. All in all, t... Continue reading

  
• The Demo is now available!!!
  May 28, 2021 by SoltorchGames

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  As has been so famously said: "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." Well, I'm not completely embarrassed, but I do know there's a lot of work lef... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #45: My wife broke the game...
  May 21, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  To be fair, she was the one who suggested I use that title. ;) We've spent a lot of these past two weeks polishing features in preparation for a demo launch today . I made the mistake of waiting to do... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #44: Final statue done. Demo launch next?!
  May 08, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  The final (big) piece of the first zone is done! The statue of Tayrin now graces the final chamber of the Vault in the Plains of Epheroth. May her memory live on. A lot of work has gone into fixing bu... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #43: Final Vault Room, and more help!
  May 06, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  (For some reason this didn't publish. So it's two weeks late. My bad!) This sprint I got the final room in the Zone 1 Vault completed! With that, there's only one asset left to make and this first lev... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #42: Camera Modes, Jackalopes and Big Squishing Rocks!
  April 09, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  Despite having some technical issues with our file server, and some other things that came up IRL, there are some fun developments to report! I've been wanting to get multiple cameras modes working fo... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #41: Dialogues, Quests, and UI, Oh my!
  March 26, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  There's not a whole lot of exciting visuals to show off in this devblog, unfortunately. But I'll start off with the ones I have. The Second "Challenge Room" of the Vault has been made! It's essentiall... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #40: Introducing someone new
  March 12, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  This is Skye. A young gryphon who has a knack for inventing things. The airship he made, "The Hummingbird", suffered a malfunction and he landed it on the island the first level takes place on. Not be... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update #39: The next stage is beginning
  March 03, 2021 by SoltorchGames

  (Note, this was originally posted at https://www.soltorch.com/post/devblog-update-39-the-next-stage-is-beginning ) First off, I had included a screenshot of the inside of Skye's cave in the last post,... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update 2.3: Slight change in plans
  May 25, 2020 by SoltorchGames#Unity, #Unreal

  (Copied from our official blog: https://www.soltorch.com/blog ) So the refactor of the code went well, and the wearables system was implemented smoothly! It was great fun to be able to change the loo... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update 1.1: Bug smashing time!
  February 17, 2020 by SoltorchGames

  Well, we put out a rough demo last week, and got some feedback from it! Thank you to those who playtested and gave your thoughts/critiques. There were quite a number of bugs, some big and some small... Continue reading

  
• Devblog Update 0.93 The time is upon us
  February 04, 2020 by SoltorchGames

  I'll make this update short and sweet. This is the week (unless something completely unexpected happens and it gets moved to next week) of the demo launch. We just have a few bugfixes to deal with. Do... Continue reading
• Devlog 0.2: Just starting out
  September 21, 2019 by SoltorchGames

  Well, two weeks in, and the bones are taking shape. I've been working on getting the flight system working well, while at the same time maintaining cleaner code than there was in the prototype. As you... Continue reading

  
• And so it begins
  September 09, 2019 by SoltorchGames#Starting, #Jasper Vice, #First

  I don't want to take too long here, since I'm staring at a blank project, and still have a long ways to go. Figured the blog should be updated though, since it's Day 1 of dev. The plan is to have an u... Continue reading