Game Design Overview: Ambience and Music Part of setting the atmosphere of a cheerful town, desolate ruins, and fierce boss fights is nailing audio design. In older projects, we would often use free sounds online and a mixture of soundfonts for music without much attention to balancing or theming. None of us were experts on audio
Game Design Overview: Solving Special Weapons Apologies for the long delay between articles. I've been working on a lot of writing projects and made a lot of great progress, but unfortunately crashed and burned out before I even realized it. But now it's time to get back into action with one of the most interesting problems
Game Design Overview: Combat and Reaverbots Mega Man Legends, and especially Mega Man Legends 2, were designed right before the era of the modern third person shooter. As such, the combat in the games still feel fairly unique, if not a bit dated due to being replaced soon after. Mega Man Legends 2 even has a
Engine Status Report Unlike a lot of modern games, Project ASH uses a custom game engine. That isn't to say that every little thing in ASH is custom - there are a couple of off-the-shelf solutions used for input (such as SDL) and we currently use Steam Audio as our 3D audio solution.
Announcement Announcement - Upcoming 2022 Playable Demo + Website Updates! Hey everyone! It's been a while since we updated the website. It hasn't been due to a lack of progress on the game - we've been hard at work getting ready for the next release the past year and a half. Unfortunately, due to issues like Covid and major surgeries
Help Wanted! As with any project with ambitious goals, we're not going to be doing it alone. As a fangame, we don't have the budget to pay for a ton of artists, graphics designers or anything like that. In fact, right now most on the people contributing to the project are covering
License Test Demo Release! After a very long, arduous road, we're proud to announce our first public release of the ASH project: The License Test! Announcing our first public demo!We know it's been a while and this may not seem like much, but the project went on a long hiatus and we've only
Site Under Construction Things might look a bit barren for a while as we set things up. Our initial focus has been on getting the game itself up and running and a lot of things like Social Media, Website Infrastructure, and just about everything else was put on the backburner. Now that we
