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Hello, Kindred!

Today we will tell you about a very exciting topic. It is the creation of music and soundtrack for Dogma: Eternal Night.


The one and only Emileigh Rohn, also knows as Chiasm, will take part in providing musical score for Dogma: Eternal Night!

Chiasm's tracks are well known to the Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines fans and it’s thanks to them that we remember that game’s incredible atmosphere.

A couple of months ago we managed to get in touch with Emileigh. We have reached a certain agreement to use Chiasm tracks in our project. All that’s left is to successfully fund the Kickstarter campaign.


The bulk of game’s musical score is being provided by the Russian composer and sound designer Misha Dioxin (Mikhail Bespalov), famous for his work in some of the movies and games. Perhaps you heard some of his music in the platformer Anoxemia, single player RPG The Traveler’s Notes or in a soon-to-be released fantasy noir movie “Something for nothing[zadarom-film.ru]”, based on the novels by Robert Sheckley.. Mikhail has already created a couple of demo tracks and you can hear some of them in our previous dev blogs and demos.

https://soundcloud.com/misha-dioxin/neo-dogmat


But we’re not limiting ourselves to just one composer. Right now, we’re looking to partner up with other authors and musicians willing to share their work with us.

As you know, the game universe will be filled with all sorts of clubs and night establishments. We want them to have not only music created specifically for the project, but also scores from real musicians and bands. That would make the setting more varied and immersive.

Recently, several authors has already given us their permission to use their work in our game.

Project Hypoxia and Darkmind Project is an experimental Russian music projects from Saint-Petersburg, with a very unusual and hypnotizing sound.

https://soundcloud.com/hypoxia_koenig/totentanz

https://soundcloud.com/darkmind-project/night-over-the-city

If you would like to offer a partnership, or know some musicians who could be a part of Dogma universe, just send message for us, and we will reply you as soon as we can.

Support Us On Kickstarter[kck.st]

https://youtu.be/noPEniUccj0

In March we will present a short dev blog and a short video. The team continues its transition to Unity 5 and this process is still ongoing. We are also preparing for the launch of crowdfunding campaigns and all of this takes up a lot of time and effort.

https://youtu.be/-yT4eyzNLmQ

I think this is what you’ve all been waiting for all this time. Of course, the first gameplay images are far from being perfect or well executed. And the main cause for that is the lack of appropriate animation levels for the character. As we’ve mentioned before, we were fortunate enough to get some professionals in this field join us, but the process of recording has been delayed for several reasons. It’s this lack of animation that doesn’t allow us to prepare full presentations and we can’t afford our own equipment for this.

Other than that, the work on the main gameplay elements almost over. This includes movement, interaction with objects and enemies, close and ranged combat systems, various locations and other components. Now all that’s left is to correct the bugs and fill everything with content, animations and effects; this is the most taxing part of our job.


As mentioned by many other developers, the process of switching to Unity 5 ended up being not that easy. New API elements, that replaced the previous ones added more work on the scripts, some of which had to be overwritten and fixed. The updated scheme of engine license has directly influenced our character editor and made it work slower, like slowing the speed of changing the body types. The implementation of new lighting tools also required extra work on game scenes. New shaders need a lot texture replacements, which is something we will have to do. Added to that is a sizable list of bugs within the engine itself, which the authors started to fix only halfway through the month.

So now we have to work on two versions of Unity at the same time. This will last for some time, until we can be sure that all the elements properly work with new systems. Right now we can say that new Unity boasts a significant improvement of the shadows’ quality (especially on characters), there are now built-in and fast effects of objects reflections, the lighting has improved and finally there’s a big jump in quality when it comes to new shaders. We will definitely demonstrate how they work, but that will have to wait.


Our team has contemplated and decided that we shouldn’t stay nameless developers. After braving the thorny path full of conflicts and confrontations, we have finally chosen the name and the logo that you can now see.

Image[projectdogmat.com]

Don’t ask us how we did it. There’s no secret meaning or divine providence, but we now have our very own company name ;)


This month we received twice as much in donations. However, it’s far from the required amount that we need to fully go to Kickstarter. That’s why we decided to try and get the project on crowdfunding step by step, by using various other platforms. Not the best course of action, we would have preferred to organize the campaign once to demonstrate all the project’s capabilities, but we can’t do that in our current state.

First of all, we are going to try and collect the minimum sum here in Russia via our domestic crowdfunding website, Boomstarter. This will become our starting point and a possibility to advance in the West. Further events will be organized based on the results of this campaign.

Why do we need this, why can’t we just go on Kickstarter? The project of this size requires significant financial support which is almost impossible to collect in Russia alone. And we’re not too keen on using the services of large investors, as the core ideas of our work are still the principles of indie-development and that this is a project “from fans to fans”. Moreover, the Kickstarter DOES NOT work in Russia. And in order to get there, we need account details of a foreigner and a bank account in the foreign bank. Those can be granted only by a specialized company which requires a payment of $1500 for its services. This exact sum, with all the taxes, we need to collect on Boomstarter.

Furthermore, as a stretch goal, we will set something like “acquiring help of professional PR-specialists”. They can help us prepare a successful campaign for Kickstarter and carry out preliminary work with foreign game publishers and communities. And we will be sure to include various rewards for you, our sponsors.

We didn’t forget those who have already supported the team via special page on our website. You will receive rewards equal to your donation (same rewards will be put on Boomstarter).

Expect news about the release of our project on these crowdfunders, that’s where we will reveal a lot of new and interesting stuff.

Source Link[projectdogmat.com]

In about month and a half we will celebrate our one year anniversary since we formed our team and began this project. The February devblog ended up being quite massive and we will talk about themes significant for the community. Of course we won’t forget about the video, discuss feature set, our problems and a bit about game mechanics.

Read More[projectdogmat.com]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaThM4tLaWs

Hello everyone who is not sleeping! We are back! With the new devblog and new demo video!

Read More[projectdogmat.com]

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=PTS28GMnVCA