I’ve officially put development of The Waycross Inn on hold for the foreseeable future. And if you’ll allow me to be shamelessly self indulgent for a while, I’ll tell you why… Short answer, I lost faith in the project. It started when I was few months in and I wasn’t feeling great about it. From the beginning, I
The gameplay elements of The Waycross Inn are currently undergoing their second design pass, and some of them are starting to look presentable enough that I can cover them in detail in a dev diary. the first of these i’m going to tackle is the brewing process. Obviously, this is still very early development. Screens
Welcome to the land of Fermentale! This is the second Diary about The Waycross Inn. If you don’t know what the game is… take a look at the first one! Fairly early on in the project, I realised that I needed to design a fantasy ‘World’ in order for the story of the Waycross Inn
When people ask me what I’m working on at the moment, I tell them; “It’s an RPG about running a medieval fantasy Tavern, and It’s going to be a bit like ‘King of Dragon Pass’.” And the response is one of two things… More often than not, the response is a nonplussed expression, followed by
Hello All, Just a quick note to let you know what we’re up to at Smiling Bag right now. As some of you may have read on my Smiling Blog, I had a difficult end to 2014. Sadly, as the main contributor at Smiling Bag, if my own life hits issues, then the work stops. So I’ve decided
We’ve been tinkering around with a new concept for the last few weeks, and since its future is very much in the ‘maybe’ pile, I’d like to share the progress so far. The concept is like a side-on version of Dwarf Fortress, which is also heavily inspired by the Amiga game ‘Diggers. It’s about managing
It should come as no surprise to you to discover that I’m a big fan of the 80’s home computer era. Particularly the ZX Spectrum / C64. It’s where I spent most of my gaming youth, and where I first cut my teeth programming too. I’m Too ZXy is a webcam filter that renders you in
Hi all, this is the first post on the new Smiling Bag 2.0 website, so I though the most appropriate thing to do would be to summarise the last year and let you know where we’re aiming to go next. I went for a rummage through my old files to try and find a document I’d written