Powerhoof! Blog Archives


Monsters for Next Update

Monster time again woo! Making new monsters is the best part of my job ๐Ÿ™‚ I’m trying to put a bunch in this time, as it has been a long wait! I won’t necessarily get all these guys in, this … Continue Reading

Process and Playthrough from LD35

How to build a worm lord Just a little guided tour of our process and some behind-the-scenes stuff from Maรฎtre D’ (our silly game for LD35) and then a playthough of what we ended up with. Hopefully it’s interesting to … Continue Reading

The Maitre D

We made another silly game jam game We got a bunch of friends together and made a game over the weekend for Ludum Dare 35! As the Maitre D’ at a fancy French brasserie, it’s your job to ensure patrons … Continue Reading

Boss 3 Intro WIP

Statue Worship! Here is the work-in-progress intro animation for the boss, where the Shaman gives him life ๐Ÿ™‚ Obviously there’s a lot more work to do, but you should get the basic idea of what it’s going to look like. … Continue Reading

Still More Sketches

Some Kinda Thing Just felt like doing a dark scene in only a few colours… sometimes I daydream about making a game in this style, with much of the detail only hinted at by highlights emerging from the dark… -Barney

More Pixel Sketching

Fan Art! I hardly ever draw fan art, but kinda wanted to see if I could do Link low-res and cartoony… My main fun with Link was in Zelda 1, so I wanted to make him look how I imagined … Continue Reading

Random Pixel Sketches

Just a doodle I’ve been getting a real hankering to draw some stuff higher resolution than Crawl’s style, and also wanting to start playing around with sketching in a stylized limited colour palette… So after work I doodled this guy … Continue Reading

WIP content from Boss 3

A little glimpse at animations for the latest boss It has been a while with no updates while we work on this boss, so I thought I’d start sharing some GIFs to tide you over while you wait ๐Ÿ™‚ The … Continue Reading

NEW “Vault Seeker” update is OUT!

Yup it’s another update- v0.8 woo! We’ve been slugging away at our crazy submerged statue boss for a while now, so to stop everyone getting too bored waiting, we put together a new update ๐Ÿ™‚ Go into The Vault and … Continue Reading

Update time again

New monsters are out Another update is ready! We’ve been working on prototyping new boss ideas, but we’re taking little breaks to put out more regular stuff, so it doesn’t get boring waiting for the boss! We’ve got two new … Continue Reading