Somnova Studios

Hi all, There's not a whole lot of significant news to report or anything like that - I just wanted to make a post because I don't like going too long without one. Recently, we picked up two editors and an additional programmer, just to lighten some of our collective workload. Sprites continue to chug along at a pretty good rate. By my estimates, we have 4 or 5 more side characters and one or two more main characters who need sprited. After that, it'll be time to work on CG's. We're not really aiming for a super high CG count, simply in the interest of time. There might be an updated version of Act 1 released later on with more CG's, but that's not a certainty. On a side note, I'd like to personally apologize to anyone who applied or otherwise contacted us and didn't hear back. We only recently finished going through yet another rough patch in our development period, and were bad about responding to inquiries. If you had questions or comments tha...

We're flattered that you could pull yourselves away from the 50 Shades premiere to be with us here today. After all, nobody loves us like you do. Because we believe that relationships should be equal part give and take, we've got a couple gifts, coming from Honitsu and Sendo respectively. Natasha by Honitsu Isolda by Sendo There's also a bit of good news to share today. Our art roster has once again grown: we've a new background artist named Zion joining up with us. This doubles our number of background artists by bringing us up to two. I'll post some samples of his work once there's more of that. Here's hoping that you have a lovely holiday, whether you're spending it alone or with your significant other (2D or 3D - we won't judge). If you'd like though, come chat with us on the forums . See you 'round!

We've been pretty quiet since Christmas. It's not really a bad thing - there just hasn't been much to say. Editors gon' edit, and all that. Sprite production is going along pretty well, which is something that I haven't been able to say with confidence for too long. So, the question that oughta be on everyone's mind is: how much longer? Or in the eternal words of some our IRC regulars: "Demo when?" December. We've been hoping for December release dates for a couple years now, and a couple Decembers have since passed by. I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift even wrote a song about it. Things are going to be a bit different this time around, though, because we're going to be emphasizing the "dead" in "deadline." If by the start of 2016, the demo content isn't at least 90% done, we're going to just call it quits. Because at that point, we won't really be able to make excuses any longer, or pretend that we're g...

Well folks, it's been a long year. Three hundred and fifty-nine days so far, to be exact. It's been an important one for us here at Somnova, though. We made a tremendous amount of progress, and it's been our pleasure to share it with you all. In case anyone is joining us late here, I'll recap a couple important things that happened with regards to Missing Stars. -For one thing, our art team grew three sizes larger. Now consisting of Angry Evil, Hexagod, Honitsu, Lian-Ne, Mike Inel, Morthiasik, and Sendo, we've been crankin' out art at a pretty consistent pace. And it looks better than ever before. -We showed off some of our sprites, and went into the process of their creation. -The world at large got its first look at Missing Stars in action, while also revisiting some of the earlier concepts. Bit of an update to that last one, too. The very next day after posting that blog, Sendo, being the all-star that he is, cranked out a couple updated versions ...

While we try to be transparent about a lot of our development process, one thing that we haven't really ever shown is our UI, or any actual "gameplay." Time to change that, while also giving you guys a short tour down memory lane. In addition to a brief sample of what Missing Stars currently looks like, we also decided to show you guys some of our older iterations of the UI, so you can see how it evolved. We hope you enjoy this little preview . (Click the link to view it on Youtube, or watch it below.) Love it, hate it, or feel indifferent about? Come tell us on the forums .