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Factbook: Weapon Production

April 10th, 2014

Here is a new Factbook video on how most of the weapons in the world of Overgrowth are made: There are rare cases where other races make weapons, like how the swords in Lugaru were made by a rabbit! Because the steel is harvested from the crete, there is no need to melt iron ore in a blast furnace and ...

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The Monk Comic

January 14th, 2014

There is a new Overgrowth comic that you can read here! I have been trying all sorts of things to improve my skills as an artist in the last 6 months. Part of that was learning a lot of new tools, but another aspect was to reevaluate the skills I was already good at, like painting, and to continue to ...

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Overgrowth is now on Steam!

December 17th, 2013

Overgrowth is now available on Steam, at a temporary sale price of $24.99! Check it out here. document.getElementById('hs-youtube-UTJX-YY23b0').outerHTML = "\x3Ciframe width='520' height='381' allowtransparency scrolling='no' frameBorder='0' style='border:none;' src='http://www.humblebundle.com/store/video/overgrowth?youtubeid=UTJX-YY23b0'\x3E\x3C/iframe\x3E" Be sure to watch it in HD! If you have already ...

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Factbook: Useful Animals

November 26th, 2013

Here is a new Factbook video on the subject of normal animals, and how the humanoid species of Overgrowth interact with them: Working on the Factbook videos has made it clearer to me that there are still a lot of aspects of the Overgrowth universe that could be fleshed out, which has given me a reason to look into some ...

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Art Asset Overview #42 and Factbook: Rabbit Habitation

November 18th, 2013

Since starting on Overgrowth, I have committed myself to some long-term goals when it comes to being an indie game developer. As I learned more about indie games it became obvious that there are areas that I need to work at to improve. One of the first things I identified as a pressing need was that I should learn how ...

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Receiver VR mod!

November 12th, 2013

Ever since we released Receiver, players have been asking us about supporting the Oculus Rift headset and the Razer Hydra controller. The gun mechanics and exploration gameplay seemed like a natural fit for VR! We were planning to try it out at some point, but didn’t feel like we could take the time away from Overgrowth to work on ...

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Art Asset Overview #41

June 7th, 2013

In this Art Asset Overview, I show the concept for the main menu UI and talk a bit about some new software I'm using. For a couple of years, I've been interested in trying some alternate workflow methods, but I was concerned that the new assets wouldn't match up well with the older ones. However, I thought ...

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