Reviews and what not

Down here in the very south and sunny part of Sweden we have had a quite snow free winter, until today… For some reason a “blizzard” is roaming outside today and what could be better to do on a day such as this than to read a couple of reviews?

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A penumbra soup of mixed news

For a while we have been only two people here at Frictional Games, but since last week we are back to the norm of being three. Marc has been working with us for some time, but now he is a steady member of our company fiddling away on the graphics side. If things go as planned we might soon extend the employee list further!

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Penumbra: Black Plague website, game final, latest previews and more!

At the beginning of January we sent the final version of Penumbra: Black Plague to Paradox Interactive, so indeed the news about the 12th of February for a North America release is correct and the 15th of February is set to be the European date. Exactly what part of Europe this is remains to be seen, we personally have our fingers crossed for Sweden!

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‘Penumbra: Black Plague’ Developer Diary #3 – Screens

One of the main features in Penumbra: Black Plague is the physics. This is a feature that adds a lot of immersion and gives new opportunities for gameplay. However, it has not been without problems to implement it and that is what we will focus on in this diary entry. We will go through some of the different problems we encountered and explain how we solved them.

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