Many years ago, Cogmind’s predecessor X@COM pioneered the idea of using a pop-up label system in an ASCII game to identify objects like items, beneficial both to help teach new players as well as a natural quality of life improvement. This allows players to more quickly know exactly what an item is, useful when there are […]
Last time I shared how Cogmind’s special ARG event for Halloween 2020 was conceptualized, built, played, and received. Now it’s time for a deep dive into the puzzles themselves! That also means SPOILERS! Basically here I’ll run through most of the steps to the ARG and add a bit of commentary on each where appropriate. […]
A few months ago as I was planning out the rest of the year, naturally it was about time to start asking myself what kinds of special events we might have for Cogmind. The major Beta 10 was released in September, so there was once again an opportunity to spend some time playing with different […]
And another year of development whooshes by! Okay, so no surprise there, Cogmind has now been in continuous development for over seven years, and it’s once again time for the usual end-of-year annual review. Building Cogmind is still very much my full-time job at the moment, though as we’ll see in the review, this year […]
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