03/21/2017
Dex combines an RPG system with action combat in the style of arcade beat’em up games from the 80s. But what grabs eyes most of all is its unique artstyle, which was brought to the project by lead artist Prokop Smetana. A significant chunk of inspiration for the game came from the book Neuromancer by William Gibson, a founding work for many archetypes of the genre. Our game characters were created in a Pixel-art style, hand-drawn and animated frame-by-frame so […]
02/21/2017
Dex began its journey as a game for Windows, controlled by keyboard and mouse. Although we promised in our Kickstarter campaign to ultimately bring Dex to more platforms, at the beginning we were focused almost solely on this PC version. One of Dex’s strengths is its vast hand-drawn locations of the city of Harbor Prime. Every corner and every facade is unique. Our intention was to avoid a patterned repetition of the environment so it was necessary to use a […]
01/24/2017
Dex was developed over several years. Just like its titular character in the story, the game was subject to a lot of iterations and experienced a lot of useful improvements along the way. The first publicly accessible version was Early Access on Steam. In that build, you could run amok through shabby parts of the city of Harbor Prime – from the Scrapyard to the Centre, and from the Chinese Quarter to the area of the Sewers where an old […]
11/16/2016
Since the summer release of the console version of Dex, our very own cyberpunk RPG game, we’ve really enjoyed bringing you a weekly blog-based article on the richly engrossing and forever-relevant cyberpunk culture. What did we cover? Take a look back yourself – it really was a whole lot of ground: From defining cyberpunk as a genre to the world’s most seminal cyberpunk works that gave us inspiration during the development of Dex. We also wrote on the topics […]