Zeitgeist 1980 Prototype

Devlog

• A return to Twine
  March 16, 2021 by Michael Coorlim

  The kickstarter for the Godot version of Zeitgeist 1980 reached $1600, a bit short of its $2500 goal. As a result I don't have the budget for art and music - instead I'll be shifting the project back... Continue reading

  
• Godot Release
  November 02, 2020 by Michael Coorlim

  Hey hey! The Godot version of Rascal and the Boxer is live here: https://mcoorlim.itch.io/rascal-and-the-bandit Featuring art, music, and a different story format. Go check it out... Continue reading

  
• Implementing placeholder art and music
  September 10, 2020 by Michael Coorlim

  Latest devlog is a short one, going over the art direction I'm choosing for the project... Continue reading
• Porting from Twine to Ink
  July 28, 2020 by Michael Coorlim

  I also yammer on about narrative philosophy and show off some of the pixel art I've been working on... Continue reading

  
• Implementing an ink reader in godot
  July 21, 2020 by Michael Coorlim#godot, #inkgd, #Fog

  In which I discuss the development of an ink interpreter in godot using inkgd as a base. Guest starring my cat... Continue reading

  
• Step by Step UI design
  July 21, 2020 by Michael Coorlim#Tutorial, #UI

  I've been working on porting Zeitgeist 1980 from Twine to Ink via Godot. In doing so I had to essentially come up with a new user interface - here's how I used my technical limitations to guide that p... Continue reading

  
• Zeitgeist 1980 - Moving Forward
  February 03, 2020 by Michael Coorlim

  There has been sufficient interest to develop Zeitgeist 1980 further, so here’s the plan going forward. First off, I’ll be developing the game into an ongoing serial. New episodes will be added re... Continue reading
• 1.0 Public Release
  January 27, 2020 by Michael Coorlim#Release

  Today marks the public release of Zeitgeist 1980's version 1.0. This marks the end of development, aside from any bugs discovered after the fact - hopefully after weeks of beta-testing we've caught th... Continue reading
• Zeitgeist 1980 in open Beta
  January 03, 2020 by Michael Coorlim#Beta Testing

  Zeitgeist 1980 is a Twine game I started working on in November 2019 for National Novel Writing Month. Heavily inspired by the action-comedy films of 1980, most directly Smokey and the Bandit II and A... Continue reading
• Devlog 5: NaNo Release
  November 30, 2019 by Michael Coorlim

  Zeitgeist 1980 started as a project for National Novel Writing Month and the NaNoTwiMo game jam. While I’d done a bit of planning with the general concept of a story involving 80s movie elements pri... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 4: A whole new look
  November 25, 2019 by Michael Coorlim

  There’s a week left to NaNoWriMo, and I’m at 20,000 words. Not saying that reaching 50k is impossible by the end of the month, just that I’ll need to hit 7k per day to do it. If it was just pros... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 3: Scope gonna Creep
  November 18, 2019 by Michael Coorlim

  The past week’s effort have focused on code moreso than story, implementing relationship tracking mechanisms. One of the primary choice mechanisms tracked within the narrative is the player’s rela... Continue reading
• Devlog #2
  November 12, 2019 by Michael Coorlim

  We’ve hit the 10,000 word mark. Story-wise we’ve covered the events of New Year’s Eve the night before the story really begins, giving the player four options as to how they spent the party: Dri... Continue reading

  
• Project Rundown
  November 06, 2019 by Michael Coorlim

  Zeitgeist 1980 is a NaNoWriMo project for 2019. Normally National Novel Writing Month projects are – well – novels, but in this case I’m stretching the definition to include interactive fiction... Continue reading