Forged of Blood launches on Steam
Hello and welcome! We are so pleased to welcome you to the world of Attiras. A world, Forged of Blood, is now […]
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Notes from the making of Forged of Blood
August 2019
June 2019
Forged of Blood Feature Overview and Beta now live!
We’re pushing our Steam updates and blog updates together now, so without further ado: This is it! We’re finally pulling back the […]
January 2019
January 2019, Progress Update
2018 came and went so quickly, and before we knew it, it’s 2019! I know that we’ve been so very quiet this […]
May 2018
May 2018, Progress Update
Hello everyone, Our last update was over three months ago and we’ve been noticeably quiet for awhile – so much so that […]
February 2018
Critical Forge Turns 2 & Progress Update
Happy Lunar New Year! Interestingly enough, this year’s date nicely aligns with the studio’s two year anniversary. Two years ago to the […]
December 2017
2017 Wrap-up & Personality System
Hey guys, The studio will be going on break for the winter holidays but with the updates we just rolled out on […]
November 2017
Fog of War. What is it good for?
Hey everyone, I’ve been super lax with these updates – the schedule is getting tighter and the pressure is definitely on to […]
August 2017
Events, and events, and more.
Hey everyone, We wanted to do a quick check in this week to update everyone on the events we’ve been going to […]
June 2017
Behind the Map: “Mirlitas Ruins”
Hey everyone, Igor here. We’ve been pushing this update back for a bit to make sure we have everything we need to […]
May 2017
Cover Object Visual Updates
We’ve got a quick follow up to Ken’s post on the UI updates and the visual changes we’ve made to our cover […]
Tactical UI Overhaul
Foreword: Hey guys, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming (blog schedule) as we formally close our crowdfunding round. While the outcome […]
April 2017
Devtalk Series Videos #1 & 2
With PAX East a few weeks ago and Kickstarter in full swing we’ve been a little bit more lax with the blog […]
February 2017
Environment Design & Set Dressing
Hello, this week, we’ve got a triple tag team blog post from our artists: Lienny, Jennifer, and Ken. Ken, you’ve already met. […]
Spell Creation & Design
This week, I’d like to discuss one of the more exciting, as well as intimidating, areas of the design of Forged of […]
Weapon Design Philosophy
Hello, Milo here. I’ve been lead game designer here at Critical Forge over the last year while we worked on getting Forged […]
Long overdue check-in, and narrative design breakdown
Hello and happy 2017 everyone! It’s been a long while since our last post – my bad – so I’ll try to […]
December 2016
2016, Development Year in Review
As the year draws to an end, I thought it would be appropriate for me to look back at what the studio […]
Designing the World of Attiras
In the beginning. When I was first contacted by the studio, I was informed very briefly about the world that they are […]
November 2016
Game Prime Asia 2016
Hey everyone, We’ve got our end-of-the-month source footage to share as well as some exciting news below. So October has been yet […]
October 2016
Forging the world of Attiras
So this post is one that is long overdue, and one that is a little out of the intended order, but here […]
Progress Update #2
We’ve been a little lapse with our updates lately as production has been ramping up at the studio, but we’ve made a […]
August 2016
Progress Update #1
Well, I can’t believe we just celebrated our first six months as studio. We went from a few guys shooting the breeze […]
July 2016
Design Pillars – Part III: Narrative Choice, & Consequence
Stories often take the backseat in games, and more often than not, people don’t play games for their gripping stories – Planescape: […]
Design Pillars – Part II: Fun in depth and approachability
In game dev it’s easy to say, “we want to make our game fun.” However to do that, we really ought to […]
June 2016
Design Pillars – Part I: Meaningful Choice
The interesting aspect of player choice isn’t the choice itself. The interesting thing – the only interesting thing, really – is the […]
Setting up the Studio
“Kingmaker” – as the project was codenamed in our formative days – was my idea for bringing to life a childhood dream […]
May 2016
Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Hello everyone, Joe here. As you know by now, we’re making a Fantasy Turn-Based Tactical RPG (we’ll just go with what Igor […]
Hello & Welcome
Hello everyone, I’m here to welcome you readers, browsers, and tactical enthusiasts to the Forged of Blood website and blog. Here you’ll […]