Last few weeks have been very busy,especially with the puzzles…I’m still struggling hard to make them be different…really don’t know how successful I’d be in that. Thats why currently can’t post many games on my site every week like I used to do. But yes, every week, there will be at least one new RPG game for you, that is for sure .

Anyway, coming back to the game updates, work had been a bit slow. But I’m trying my best to get everything ready for beta testing by the first week of September. Thats a hard deadline I kept for myself . So far I also had to take care of a couple of things, like getting a new logo and website layout for my site.. Oh yes, if you got my newsletter than you must be knowing that I was thinking of a major overhauling of my website. But I’d been postponing it only for one reason- I don’t want the existing links to each page change. Redirections and 404 errors can slow down things, so I’m really contemplating what I should do. Also I’d be changing servers as my current server isn’t able to cope much with the traffic (strangely). Any way, I’d prefer being cautious this time then be sorry because I won’t get much time to redo much once the game is out. Read the rest of this entry »

Hiya friends! As I was going through some of my older blog post, I recognized an unmistakable tone of whining in them….the realization became more clear because I had been reading Juuso’s blog  and that he discussed with examples how the game developers are master whiners LOOOOOL! It was a good and funny read and I was alarmed by the fact that I’m becoming one that perfectly fits into this definition! So I instantly thought of focusing on the positive things in life – for example zombies can’t eat cheesy pizzas but I can! And that I can poke and disturb my sister to wake up from sleep but she cant’ (mainly because I wake earlier than her Muahahahaha), and so and so forth. I was amazed by the mood lift I received on thinking how I had an advantages on many aspects of life like these and that definitely contributed to some intense working last few weeks.

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Finally I have progressed to a satisfactory extent when I can show you some screenshots, sneak peaks and the introduce to the story of my game.Though normally I discuss everything here,this time I have posted the game snapshots on the main site for others to view it as well.Here’s a link to that page- http://www.overcloud9.com/games/our-games/arevan/

You can discuss what you think about the game in the forum or in comments here,whichever you wish.As this is my first game,I thought my customers deserve a treat in here.So I have launched a “Customer Loyalty” program which offers to offer this game for free to our recurring customers. To view more information about it,click here.

And I have another small news-we’ve launched a newsletter system by which we can keep you updated about the latest games releases,updates,etc at Over Cloud 9.I’ve planned of setting it up as a monthly notification service whereby one can receive a summary of the games and walkthroughs released on the end of each month.If you wish to subscribe,visit this page. Let me see how I can keep up with that.I’ll remain crazy busy this week as I have loads of pending stuff to finish and speed up the development process.By the way,I have received all my character images from my artist Niki,and they are beautiful.Niki has become my sweetheart,she did an awesome job and will be working on our title screen from this weekend.What else?…umm…nothing more for now,got loads of stuff to take care of.

For those who had read this topic ,will understand what I’m talking of.I discovered the one, who posed as a threat at that time, just a month back but I’m writing this now because at that time was I was busy in getting the essentials of my game done.But let me share this interesting story with you friends.Most of you might end up not believing it,some bored because it’s long and detailed…but if you have observed and studied human behaviors and it’s peculiarities at any point of your life,you’ll understand what I’m talking about.

I won’t name the person nor disclose his identity as he is a good person…must sound strange because he threatened my project and everything and caused me to lose sleep at that time.But in reality,how a normal person can become a threat is something that is worth interesting here.And after realizing ‘why‘ he did that,my reaction was more of a surprise than of shock because I couldn’t believe that he could do this for a reason like his.And the truth is he didn’t confess it,I just discovered it.I don’t even think he even realized that I had discovered the truth.But I know that it is true.And facts abide by that too.But before I start narrating how I discovered it and why did he do all that,I need to replay a little bit of back story from my life so that you can understand what is happening. Read the rest of this entry »

I would rather call my general update than game progress update as it contains more of my blah-blahs than game related news.Yet…

Finally I have been able to proceed to a part where I’m satisfied,if not happy.There is a lot more to finish and I’m not content with my pace of progress.But they say ’slow and steady wins the race’…

As far as the story part is concerned,almost 50% is done.But,but,but…there are a few side quests left,the insides of the houses of most towns are not done yet,only two and a half of the 8-9 dungeons are done (yeah didn’t put too many dungeons in here as I’m not the all-battle person) and most importantly the battles are totally left out as I told I’m going to take them up at the end(i.e. after completing everything else).I’m still not sure whether I should include the puzzles as I thought of before because that may increase the time required to complete it.Don’t know what will be the finished product like,but being cranky about perfection may slow down the process.I’m really concerned as to how casual gamers will take the story,because we all have our own likes and biases.Not everyone may appreciate it if they judge it morally or normally…but it’s a story that is all I can say…and based on true emotions. Read the rest of this entry »

Indinera(developer of the game) liked the free walkthrough that I had written for Asguaard and proposed to make it an official strategy guide! So it would be available at $4.99 from now onwards both at Aldorlea and at Over Cloud 9.I know it may disappoint some of few who like my free walkthroughs.But it will justify my hard work and the 3 months of my time spent into it.Those who got it for free the first time,if you think that the walkthrough had really helped you playing the game,you can buy the walkthrough as a token of your appreciation.I’d be really grateful .There are many more updates that I have to tell you friends.But for today let it be this much.

I think a better heading to this post would be ‘Life without my laptop’ xD .Today I got back the system,everything is working fine now.Loads of emails to reply,things to update and check,etc,etc.These few days felt different without my loyal companion though.There was a time when absence of a computer in life really didn’t mean much in our lives.And that was mainly because we didn’t have a computer or laptop to work it back then .But now the scene was much different.Work has become so much easier with these machines doing half of them…I mean I sound like an old person,but I can’t help but observe the difference that I felt in the absence of something so mundane.

But without my laptop I could do things which I normally don’t find enough time to. Like spending time with my loved ones,reading newspaper,watching a TV(in absence of youtube),hanging out with friends and all these really didn’t feel like life can be boring without gadgets.All right,let me cease my age old rantings and get down into doing something fruitful

The game progress has been halted because my laptop is giving me troubles .When I bought it three years ago,it was shipped with original Vista.But few days back suddenly a pop up comes up saying ‘Activate license’ and the wall paper turns black with this thing written in one corner of the screen-”‘This copy of Windows is not genuine”.I was shocked because in these years it didn’t give me any operating system related troubles.I spoke to the people at the service center,they said I have to submit the laptop and the recovery DVDs there for them to check.Now I won’t be able to work for around a week .Very disappointing…but at least I can complete the dialogues of my game in my diary.Ok ok I admit I have to put things into pen and paper because I’m not left with any option.I’ve got to visit the internet parlour to check mails,so won’t be able to reply to mails as promptly as I used to. Read the rest of this entry »

Umm…I’ve got to get over whatever disturbing that happened this month and continue my work.The game is now 25% done,which means there’s much left to do.

The walkthrough writing is quite affected because of this.Since this site specially devotes itself to the walkthroughs,I thought totally pausing strategy guides composition would affect what my site is well known for.So thought of completing the ones which I had already promised to some.Currently I’d be doing Myth Xaran when ever I find some free time,little by little.After that I would do Dark Souls 2.Sorry to those who had been expecting The New Queen-Truth be Told guide because that would be an episodic game and if I do the walkthrough for it,then I have to do for all of it’s parts.This would take up a lot of time(around 3-4months),which would prevent me from creating walkthroughs of other games.I mean it is better to have 7 walkthroughs of different games than for one game…what do you think?I had promised Delmaschio that I would do one for The New Queen and had requested a skeleton guide as a head start.But since I changed my mind,I’ll make up by doing a walkthrough for his other game.That clears my commitment part I hope .I won’t be taking walkthrough requests for the time being,until I finish my game.

All right,coming back to the context,let us see how far we are through the game development. Read the rest of this entry »

This had been bugging me for few months.Someone copied my facebook profile information and created a fake account in impersonating me few months ago.I notified facebook about it and they deleted that fake profile.

Now some “well wisher” of mine (at least he/she says to be that) has been randomly posting obscene comments in my website.I don’t know whether this person is the same person who stole my facebook information or not.Fortunately I can moderate my comments,but he/she is growing to become a major threat.From what he/she wrote,I think he/she knows me.I don’t know why he/she is doing this,but if I keep ignoring,he/she will soon become a major threat.I don’t remember harming or doing anything bad to anyone,why does these things happen to me?Oh god,I’m trying my best to recuperate from my recent break up,I don’t have enough strength to go through these crap. Read the rest of this entry »