Hello developer’s log!
So I am the current QA-guy here at Shortfuse, pointing out the many flaws and faults of pre-release Colosseum. Naturally there are a lot of ’stuff’ in the game right now that needs fixing, but we’re making steady progress (really!).
This week we finished my first focus group test of Colosseum and a lot of interesting feedback was gathered, concerning the natural habitats of cacti among many other things. It’s really interesting to be the QA guy actually since you talk to so many different people, and sometimes someone points out something really special, such as the fact that our in-game cacti doesn’t grow naturally in the Middle-East (being somewhat of our ‘main theme’ for Colosseum). This of course is perfectly true, no one here just ever thought about it, but we should! Knowing is half the battle, yes?
Regarding the inclusion of the cacti, the jury is still out on that one.
Seriously though, I would like to thank all the testers again for helping us make Colosseum a better game, we really appreciate it!
Right, as you may or may not know I am also Community Guy here at Shortfuse and would like to remind everyone that our draw-a-sword contest is still open for business, if someone could send in a set of cutlery it would be nice, thank you (altough I doubt our art department would go for that, still… it would be an awesome unlockable for our dual wielder…).
We have actually gotten some pretty interesting submissions for the contest so far, which is very nice, thank you all! To tell you the truth I was kinda worried about how much interest a contest such as this could garner, our small company being new in the industry and this being our first game and all. Needless to say I’ve been positively surprised, you can be rest assured that more contests will follow for our later games! We’ll also try to involve ‘the community’ more actively in the whole process as soon as we get some forums and such. For example, it would be nice to have a poll for a community-decided returning character in Colosseum 2, such as Capcom had for the console-version of Street Fighter 4. And no, we’re not working on Colosseum 2, one of them is quite all that we can handle at the moment ;D. Anyhoo…
It’s a beatiful Friday afternoon here in Sweden and QA needs beer badly so I’m going to go home, to be frank. There’ll probably be some ingenious post with pictures about the Leipzig Games Convention on Monday if all of our bosses can be bothered to get around to it.
Fission mailed! /Henke