Studio Coldstream

Perhaps now is a good time to reveal our next project – Waste Works or “Wäjste Wörx” as the original title reads. Mainly its an exploration of several concepts baked into one. Its a casual resource management game with some puzzle and RPG elements added to the mix.

You work at the recycling centre, taking things apart and sorting out components. Sometimes something useful turns up or something more valuable. It’s a click-to-disassemble and avoid dangerous items, while pocketing (long-click) items to your inventory. From the inventory you can inspect items closer. If it looks wearable you can put it on and investigate its effect on your abilities. From there anything can happen. Explore, investigate and shred through the piles of waste.

Rarity is a big thing. For items it ranges from common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary to mythic. For valuables it goes from copper, silver, gold, platinum to obsidian. It’s tough to find the really good stuff! And there is always new things to find – its just a matter of persistence. Collect and sell for funds while trying on larger and larger piles of waste.

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For the final part I followed the next part from the #blenderguru tutorial and made a glass cup with coffee. Not bad considering lack of talent in this area.

It’s this time a year again when we play catch-up with hands on skills and just playing around. This time by following the very good tutorial on Blender by #blenderguru. It’s a lot of fun especially working out and perfecting the texture and looks of the bread part.

In a series of unfortunate events, we never managed to upload the app to Windows App Store. The process was everything but smooth. There is a number of reasons for why this is unusually complicated, but it all boils down to that using the specific command for probing processes that prevents the computer from entering sleep requires administrator privileges. While it is perfectly possible to make an app and even build a working public executable – this drawback basically makes it virtually impossible to publish it online via Windows Store or similar. Perhaps Universal Windows Apps are easier to make and get published, but these specific Windows apps written in C# that requires anything special must to go through a very complicated signing process that is impossible to debug. We initially thought that the AppX container would work for this but it now seems like a dead end. Project is put on ice for now.