One More Shift - A journey of Character and Juice

the gameplay.

And I wanted to create my Steam page, which is still in progress because of the verification process. So, I had some time to work a little bit more on the game and it completely escalated... in a good way \^\^ But one thing after another:

# The Steam page

Yup, this takes some time. And man, it's a science.

Capsule art, pictures, text... that's a lot, with a whole business field behind it. Capsule art seems to be extremely important. A real artist can charge over 700 euros for this...

To be honest, right now I am not willing to spend that much on capsule art. I would prefer to put the money into the game. Maybe for the final release I will evaluate it again.

I buy games because I like the idea. I never really read all the text or decide based on the capsule art. I just click through some pictures and watch the video.

# The Juice

Before I start with the next level, I wanted to do a juice round.

What is this? Good question. \^\^

It's tricky for me to explain. I can tell if a game has it or not. It's the small details. A short sound. A click. A movement. Nothing huge. But if it's there, it triggers something in our brain \^\^

I was working on it and hopefully nailed it.

And while I was working on it, I thought I would give the UI another try...

# The UI... or better, the character of the game??

It escalated really fast.

I started with 4 new concepts. Then another round. And another. And another.

In the end, I had 13 different concepts.

I distilled all the good ideas out of them to create a final version. It was great. I tested it in the game and man... it was MUCH.

A lot was going on and I had no idea what it wanted from me \^\^

So the next round was a cleanup.

And during all of this, something emerged which I didn't have in mind at the beginning...

I am using Sol or Astra on Ultra for visuel content. So far it always delivered the best. But for the UI i gave Opus a shot on ultra and it nailed it. 

This alone was 2 days of nearly non stop work and was eating a lot of my plan.

# The character of the game

The first idea and version of the game was heavy industry.

Dark on dark. Dirty. No mercy.

Now it's something different.

A company. Coworkers. A boss. A