Hey everyone, being a solo indie and innovating within a well-established genre with your debut title is not easy, but there is one thing I find even harder than all the development and production hurdles associated with that: It’s coming up with a sentence that conjures up the right image in the mind of your…

Hello everyone, I hope this message finds you well. I’m very happy to share with you, that we secured the funding to finish the game we originally envisioned in the quality you’ve seen in the last couple of updates. After talking to a dozen publishers, looking for someone who respects our creative vision, we partnered…

Hello everyone, I hope this message finds you well and that you are enjoying the summer. This month started with me assembling a new PC. Little did I know that at the same time, Henry Cavill (the Netflix Witcher) was setting the internet on fire by filming how he assembles a gaming rig. I can…

Hello everyone, I hope this update finds you well and you and your loved ones are safe. It’s been a very busy month at poetic as we are preparing a new Steam page, including a new cover image, screenshots, and gifs. I also started the process of working on a new trailer with Doug Cockle,…

Hello everyone, I hope you and your loved ones are doing well. I’m very happy to present to you the art samples showcasing the final art quality in Sacred Fire. They say an image is worth a thousand words: And here is a full-figure shot: And another one: There you go, we are down 3,000…

Hello everyone, I hope you and your loved ones are doing well and staying safe during these challenging days. In case you are facing hard times, I wish you a speedy recovery and the best of luck. This is just a quick update, that we at poetic are doing fine, and that the development on…

Hello everyone, this month, we continued with our philosophy of not leaving any weak links behind. And so, before fully moving towards character and location art production, we polished all the UI text formatting, placement, and visibility. We also smoothed out all the text reveal and camera animations, including optimizing the scene loading code. The…

Hello everyone, last year ended for Sacred Fire with the release of a brand new Early Access build just before the Holidays to our play-testers (Firestarter tier Kickstarter backers). It was packed with all the unlocking and upgrading goodness, UI improvements and bug fixes. Trait selection UI in Character Creation It was well received, but…

Hello everyone, This month has been about the wrap-up and clean-up of all the game rules and UI implementation that emerged over the last three months. There are two big areas we successfully managed to unify: UNLOCK & UPGRADE UNIFICATION There is now a unified way how you unlock and upgrade unconscious ideas, new items,…

Hello everyone, this month has been a pleasant surprise. As we dug into the current combat implementation and all the feedback from our play-testers, we realized the changes we need to make are not difficult to implement. The checks and risk chains based structure suits the game well. All that is needed for a great…