So, what’s been happening? Pivot has been progressing well, although we’re in a bit of a strange spot. Development is continuing, but as we’re nearing the last part of the game, we’re less and less inclined to post screenshots of our work, as to avoid spoilers (we have over half a dozen stages which we haven’t shown off yet). But what the hey, have a peak at a little something we’ve been working on for the past few days:

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This is undoubtedly the smallest stage in the game, but it’s an exceptionally important one too.

Moving along! On to film,we’re currently working on a little short film, tentatively titled Happenstance Heroes. It’s been going well so far, excluding a few scheduling difficulties. We can’t say much now, but we look forward to showing off some stuff soon.

Finally, we’ve joined the 21st century and got ourselves one of those fang-dangled Twitter accounts, so Follow us and stay posted!

Until then, here are some things we may have forgotten to note as of late:

• We have a snazzy new 404 error page.
• Multiple chat conversations now exist in Pivot. People say multiple things!
• “The war has arrived at the gates of Hillys.” According to Petter, anyhow.

• Redesiging the Woods to make the gameplay less illogical, as well as adding an additional challenge
• Adding some extra detailing and fixing a bunch of bugs
• Replacing the sound engine with sinBass, since the old one wouldn’t work with our extensive saving system (which was covered in an old post)

In addition to this, we’ve started adding in various sound effects. Up ’til now the game has been quite bare of sound (apart from music), but now we’re bringing more life to the world by adding sounds. This includes rewarding jingles when you solve a puzzle, or small ambient noises like birds, rain and branches crunching as you walk through the forest. We really like adding a lot of detail to Pivot, and sound design is a big part of that. A cavern might look like a large, damp cavern but if it also sounds like a big, moist cavern, then you can suddenly feel the hugeness and moisture as well. Just my poetic thought of the day.

Keep your eyes open for more updates on the most anticipated platformer of 2010/2011/whenever it’s done!

Today we welcome a new chunk of visual content to Cheese Media, The Galaxy Song!

Experience an out of this world adventure through millions of light years of space! And remember: Not wanting to learn about the galaxy is not an option!

For more information, check out the official web page!