⛄ Happy 13th of December! ⛄ Today we would like to talk to you about User Experience Design. One of the Frozenbyte’s UX Designers is here to tell a bit about their role and share a few snippets of the player experience in Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince. User Experience Design (or UX Design) is an interesting facet of game design, which has fairly recently been split off as its own thing. Essentially the focus is on the player and their experience. So, for example, when making Trine 4 level designer focused on the pacing of the level, the difficulty […]
❄️ Day 12 ❄️ Something that we greatly enjoy here at Frozenbyte is community-made content inspired by our games. Seeing fan art, fan fiction and videos along with all the other material made by you players always brings a smile to our face! Thank you all for your creations and thank you for sharing them with us – it means a lot! Some time ago, we started collecting Starbase-themed player-made content and started publishing it on the Starbase Forum, creating Starbase Community News. Starbase Community News is a monthly article series, where we take a look at what players have been […]
In three weeks the year will have changed and we have reached the first day of 2021. One could say the year 2020 hasn’t treated us well: the global pandemic has been on our minds quite regularly and forced us into dealing with rather exceptional situations. Despite the unfortunate events of the world, we have kept the company running remotely and released several games! Today’s post will cover our released titles of the year 2020. Starbase Alpha Starbase is an upcoming space MMO, with a hybrid of voxel and vertex-based technologies, fully destructible environment and an infinitely expanding universe. The […]
🎁 On the 9th day of December we’re giving out 3 Has-Been-Heroes game codes for Steam! Has-Been-Heroes is a game of strategy and action with a roguelike twist, released in 2017. If you’d like to learn more about the game, check out the post here! ❕ Update: All codes have been redeemed. ❕ We will be hiding the keys on our platforms throughout the day. Keep an eye on the following platforms: 1. Frozenbyte Discord server (any channel) 2. Has-Been Heroes Announcement Trailer (description + comments) 3. Any of our blog posts with a tag ‘Has-Been Heroes’ The first code […]
✨ Day 7 ✨ Today we are celebrating Frozenbyte’s 19th birthday; the company was officially registered on the 7th of December 2001. Happy Birthday to us! 🍰 Several years ago, we shared a post showing some pictures of our offices and telling you a little bit about how Frozenbyte’s journey started. A lot has changed in a few years between 2016 and now, but of course some things have remained the same, such as our passion for creating amazing video games ❤️ What are the things that have changed, then? Well, we’re currently using two offices! Although, due to the pandemic, […]
On the 6th of December, we would like to commemorate our precious (and legendary) van, also known as Hypevan, that we sadly had to let go only recently. Hypevan served us for many years and became very known to all the Frozenbytians and even to our game communities! Somewhat unreliable van was a familiar view, and very difficult to miss among the traffic with its stunning (and maybe slightly tacky) paintjob. Hypevan and its deliver personnel have worked really hard along with the catering team to provide food and drinks for the employees. This year, especially, has been rough for […]
✨ Happy 5th of December! ✨Today we thought it would be nice to introduce our Discord servers to you. It has come to our understanding that some of the servers aren’t very known with our gaming communities, so we thought we would list them all here and talk a bit about them. Frozenbyte The official Frozenbyte Discord server is our general server for all of our games, and a good place to contact devs and ask about the company in general. The server consists of some announcement channels and game specific channels for Has-Been-Heroes, Shadwen and Shadowgrounds. There’s also a […]
✨ On the 4th day of December we’re bringing back the long awaited Starbase Discord emoji contest! ✨ We thought now would be a great time to fill some of those unused emoji slots that we gained from partnering with Discord. So, to participate: join our Discord server, check out the channel #emoji-contest and get creative! THE RULES: • All of the server rules apply to submissions. • Submissions need to be original and related to Starbase. This means that all the submissions need to be made for Starbase specifically and they are not allowed to violate any copyright laws. Drawings […]
🎁 It’s time to share some holiday spirit! 🎁Today, we are hiding 3 Steam game keys for Boreal Blade on our platforms. The game is currently in Early Access on Steam. More information about Boreal Blade can be found here. ❕ Update: All codes have been redeemed. ❕ Keep an eye on the following platforms: 1. Boreal Blade Discord server (any channel) 2. Our YouTube channel – Steam Early Access Trailer (description + comments) 3. Any of our blog posts with a tag ‘Boreal Blade’ The first code drops at 9 AM UTC. When you find the code, you have […]
❄️ For the 2nd day of December we’d like to share a Trine 4: Melody of Mystery-themed wallpaper! ❄️ Clean your desktop and celebrate the start of the month by changing your old wallpaper to this new & magical desktop background. Check Imgur for more resolutions. Trine 4: Melody of Memory is a new story-driven DLC campaign for Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince. If you’d like to learn more about the DLC, check this post out!
