Heads up everyone!
We wanted to give a heads up, you may have noticed that the past 2 weeks updates and progress had been slow, and unfortunately we will need to postpone this months dev update, as familial obligations, day work, and holiday travel has made it near impossible for us to get substantial content re...
2025-12-16 04:49:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's update we want to talk a bit more about some of the progress we’ve made with implementing some of our world planning, updates to level structure and how that affects our asset pipeline, and introduce a few exciting new concepts!
As mentioned before, a lot of our base mechanics are functional, with the las...
2025-11-18 02:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's update We take a deep dive into wrapping up our weapon systems, and the introduction of a new weapon type, Gadgets.
The month of October tends to be a bit hectic for us, as we both have alot of personal affai...
This month's update is a little narrow in scope, as the majority of the work the last month was focused on getting a lot of backend systems refined, various bug fixing, and paying off a good chunk of technical debt. So th...
2025-09-17 03:07:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we are excited to showcase some further work on Residential!
“ Concourse is our big high priority item at the moment, but a bit more time is needed to showcase substantial updates. So as Tekka continues his work on ...
We are in full swing for getting the first wave of our campaign level assets ready to go!
Last month we took a look at Maintenance, and the direction we’ve decided to go with that. As those modular assets are nearing comple...
The past month we have been locked in almost exclusively on getting out assets for maintenance done. So we are a bit sparse of new raw content, or significant bug fixes, to show off.
Regardless, it's still good to keep thi...
2025-06-18 03:52:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we want to show off our process for creating modular world assets.
One of the biggest bottlenecks we’ve come across when it comes to the game dev process is levels. This makes sense, as it's arguably the star of ...
This month we want to take a deep look into one of the main campaign levels we've been hard at work on lately.
The residential / commerce sector serves as the main living space, market, entertainment and cultural center of t...
This month We want to share with you all some progress on world planning, and give a deeper look into our thought process and goals for how we want to present the world, specifically, the playable spaces of Absent Log!
As we s...
2025-03-16 01:21:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month we talked a little bit about our puzzle and level structure and what we want to accomplish with that, and hopefully you’ve had a chance to try out a small taste with the playtest build. Since the last update, our fo...
2025-02-17 01:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a new year and time for a new update!
This month, it's all hands on deck and we are jumping right into the thick of it. Our big focus is finally getting a playable greybox demo out the doors so that w...
Christmas is fast approaching, and we are counting down the last final weeks of 2024!
Looking back at the start of 2024, It marked a fairly important time for us. It was the official launch of our community discord, and us goi...
2024-12-17 00:16:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we're gonna get a bit more technical than usual.
Being that the holidays are coming up, it's going to be a bit harder to get a lot of pure content knocked out quickly, and to tackle big development items that are ...
DING DING DING!
New poll coming around! we've asked you, our top tier supporters, to vote on which design for the Overlande Gardes short sword you'd like to see in game!
Now be open and be honest! we cant have ties here. ...
In this month's update we give some much needed love for our boys in blue, getting our AI closer to a viable state!
Looking back at our previous build from last year, we thought long and hard about what we had originally deve...
This month we started taking a hard look at one of the mechanics we discussed early on when we first started the project: zero-G, space walk sections, as well as a new room for our first opening level, which is nearing its level...
2024-09-16 03:18:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we have made tremendous strides in a number of development areas. Most notably Enemy AI, combat mechanics, animations, and further progress on some of our opening sequences and levels.
A Lot of work for an...
2024-08-16 03:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we continue our focus on fleshing out the starting area of our campaign, with a key emphasis on establishing the tone and mood for this area. The starting area, temporarily dubbed “TW & Huey’s ship”, not only ac...
2024-07-16 03:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we finally get back into our regular flow of updates and progress. Recovery has been completed and we have been able to grab everything which could be salvaged from our old build, which was nearly all of our art assets, b...
2024-06-16 19:27:07 +0000 UTC View PostABSENT LOG Dev Update 5/15/2024
Well. It’s been a week, hasn't it.
I’m sure you’re all wondering what had happened, and why we’ve been reluctant to disclose much about it until now.
But after triage, assessment, and recovery, we have a decent idea of what had happened and ar...
The main focus for this past month was to really nail down the workflow for levels and related assets. A lot of different specialist skills stem from this key area of development. Being that the entire game takes place in an enclose...
2024-04-16 16:32:41 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's update, we decided to pivot from bug fixing and mechanics implementation to get a few steps ahead in our level design and asset endeavors. The main focus for this cycle was to nail down a finalized plan f...
2024-03-16 03:04:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We march onward in our perilous development Journey! Since our last update, we’ve had a rough go of it, lots of sickness has ravaged through the team and we have been a bit held down as a result, so a few items we wanted to make in...
2024-02-16 04:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostPlaytest build has been updated and is now accessible
You can play here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a3UMc9jBZlsmLTLkBl6oYXAwkvMXLLMy/view?usp=sharing
Attention!
There was a catastrophic failure on my part where i had assumed Patreon saved my changes to the dev update post last night, apparently it didn't and almost ll the content we were working on was missing.
Ive edited and fixed the post and all that content should be viewable now.
I apologize for ...
DING DING DING!
Our first official round of voting! To christen this spectacular event, we've asked you, our top tier supporters, to vote on which design for the Spark Jack you'd like to see in game!
Now be open and be...
The holidays are finally past us, and the new year has begun! We are excited for a productive and positive year, and we hope you all had a great time with your family and friends.
Now that we are starting to get more situated ...
We are excited to present our first official Dev update!
Christmas is fast approaching, and we at Brian Box 015 would like to get in early and wish everyone a merry merry Christmas! We hope you are looking forward to warm times with friends and family!
Due to us launching our schedule late into our update cycle, T...
2023-12-16 01:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post
