At the moment Therefore team is working on the demo we would like to show you soon. Our design companions, Diego and Rodrigo, are preparing the characters that will appear there, as long as their animations. You can see as an example this festive girl. She is one of the Masters (maybe we should say that she is just a part of them, or… well, better not telling too much).

On this subject, we are also making some concept art of the scenes planned, and designing a few interfaces and cursors. We made some dialogue corrections too (they never end).

On the other hand, our programmer Nicolás is developing three aspects about the internal functioning of the game:

• The Wanderer movement (very important, the Wanderer is the leading role). There was some troubles walking near the edges of the road. Now we use a Unity tool to control it. We apply a “speed vector” that obeys the keys we press.
• How to control the cursor on the screen. What it can do, what it can’t do. We can’t let the Wanderer do whatever he pleases.
• The pathfinding, to control the Wanderer movement with the mouse. That refers to how to move our character from a point to another, just clicking on the place we want him to get. It was a difficult thing to make. The Wanderer has to go just through the indicated way, at the same time that he avoids the objects from the scene. We followed some steps to get it perfectly as we wanted:
  • We had to define a group of points from the scene, to get some kind of a grid. The points mark the valid positions of the character. It’s very important to define a maximum distance between them because it helps the search algorithm to calculate the adjacent points and make it works. You can define the grid automatically, but it could carry some problems. If you do it by hand you get very good results on the movement of the character.
  • The Pathfinding uses A* algorithm to stablish the way from a point to another passing through the needed points on the grid. This is the most used algorithm for pathfinding on the videogames world. It always gives you the best solution (the shortest way) and it’s very good on efficiency terms.
  • We move the character progresively through the way or group of points finded by the algorithm. It is as we would join the dots, as the children, to make the shortest way between two points.

Nothing more today. Soon you’ll have more news about the game.

The Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for Therefore has ended. We didn’t achieve the expected funds. However, we are glad to say that we had a great media diffusion and good reviews. In parallelism to the Team Crunch mates, Team Therefore is ready to produce a playable demo, that will be used to enforce future funding options.

We want to thank all the backers that trusted us. It really means a lot to us. Thanks to the media guys too. You have treated us great, specially the spanish press and its everlasting support for autochthonous projects. We will also collaborate with the article about the crowdfunding campaign and we will share our own experience about it, so other designers can take advantage from it.

So as our Wanderer we also know how to use the Memento Mori and reset opportunities. That is just what we are going to do: produce a piece of this world that will allows you to taste the Therefore experience and let us being able to get close to what we want to express through it. So let’s go for it and don´t lose sight of us!

After the teasers, Therefore official trailer is here at last. There you can see all the mysterious world, the vivid reign where time flows as well as the weather, with living fauna and flora, a surreal world full of symbolism.

And this is not the only announcement for this week. We are working very hard with Crisis Crunch promotion through the internet and the social media, as well as we are going to start to do now with Therefore. This is the first step to start the crowdfunding campaigns. If everything is right, we will start at Indiegogo with Crisis Crunch this friday and with Therefore this monday. We will tell you more then.