when you’ve been working on the same area for 14 years, it becomes so familiar that each new object added becomes a foreign invader. it must justify its encroaching presence or be erased!

it can make the whole process take rather long. back in 2012, when my plan was to make my take on ‘zelda x demon’s souls‘, i wish i’d realised what an undertaking that might be 😀

with that said, i’m getting close to finishing the overworld. it’s a game where, having beaten the introductory level, the world opens up and you and your companions are free to explore in any of four main directions.

so then the hub world becomes especially important. believe it or not i’ve probably spent over a year just working on the right music for it alone. and then recently i went on a nostalgic trawl through all i had attempted over the years and realised a lot was usable, it was just that i needed to seed a variety of songs, given that a huge amount of your gameplay time will be spent around this central hub known as the Temple of the Silent Gods. it was more that i was spending so much time with each song developing it that nothing could ever live up to that amount of scrutiny. i realised i had done some decent work maybe. it was just how best to present it…

this week i’ve been working on a ‘set piece’ area that i’m really excited about, inspired by re-reading Lord of the Rings. i love those memorable encounters with the things that lurk in the dark, unexplored corners of the world.

i’m actually so into this right now. i hope i can maintain this momentum until the finish line.

just wanted to say that it’s going really well and i feel like there’s even a slim possibility of seeing the end of this thing next year

… LONE WARRIOR

thankyou to those who’ve played and supported super lone survivor. i’m glad some of you enjoyed it, thankyou to those who took the time to give feedback, and share their stories, and those who painstakingly discovered all the secrets and wrote / filmed walkthroughs.

i’m now back in development mode on a new game in the series, with a different protagonist. it’s going to be a bit different in gameplay terms. this time it’s less of a focus on stealth and survival and more of a focus on action / panic scenarios. aliens to lone survivor’s alien, if you like. there is more of a range of combat options, but not really anywhere to hide. it’ll probably be a shorter but (hopefully) more intense game than lone survivor.

i actually started this before super lone survivor before deciding it would be more sensible to rerelease the original game first. i’m still not sure if that was the right choice but i’m glad to be back in the flow of making this.

hey friends. it gives me great pleasure to share with you this new teaser trailer for SUPER LONE SURVIVOR on this day, the 10th anniversary of the original game. happy birthday, LONE SURVIVOR!

i remember this day very well, a decade ago, having been up all night fixing last minute bugs, watching the sales and reviews come in with excitement as people seemed to really connect with the game. i was down to the end of my funds, was recently made redundant from frontier developments, and had a 2 year old daughter. it HAD TO work out.

somehow it all worked out! it’s still the last game i released, despite working on another for over 8 years. it is my biggest regret in life that i was not able to release that game yet. i want to talk about it publically for the first time soon, but it is a somewhat raw subject for me. i do still want to release it after LONE WARRIOR (it’s basically my life’s work at this point) but i feel like i might need to expand from a solo operation to do so … we’ll see … anyway, it shows to what extent LONE SURVIVOR has kept my family going over the years, along with my music. so thankyou all so much for your support.

SUPER has been over two years in the making now, it’s rebuilt from the ground up. it really is more of a remake than a remaster at this point. though i have tried to keep the main experience very true to the original game for purists, there is a lot more to discover and the presentation is subtly enhanced all the way through, from the remastered audio to the improved shaders, lighting and scrolling. it should both be more accessible and challenging through the difficulty modes, something i feel improves the game (my views were quite different a decade ago.). i look forward to seeing people rediscover the game, and hope it finds a new audience too. most of all i hope people feel as i do that this is the definitive version!

once again, thankyou for sticking with me over the years, I hope that LONE WARRIOR (the followup which is half complete) will be coming out in less than a decade!

and who knows, maybe even <SECRET_GAME> too.

~jasper

Super Lone Survivor is a remake of the original game, with a whole new scenario, ‘Ascending’.

it has been rewritten from scratch in a modern engine, to support gamepads on PC, to work with high refresh rate or ultrawide monitors, and to work in 64-bit only systems. it will have ultra smooth scrolling and support for 4k effects. it’s already up and running in 60fps on Switch.

i’m considering difficulty modes.

the Ascending scenario is new content i’m currently making, using some of the features of the new engine, such as shadows, new effects, and parallax scrolling.

i still have no idea how long Ascending will be, i don’t want it to spiral, but then again the story feels relevant right now. by packaging it with the original game, it removes the pressure to do a full sequel, something i never intended to do.

the whole trailer was made in-engine with no edits or post-processing.

more details to follow.