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Oh, don't worry, I'm going to have a pronunciation list for all the weird names I threw in

Here's a couple of interviews from AdventureX! Guess which one was done at the end of the conference when I was very tired

A couple of new spooky screenshots!


Not the best place to go trick-or-treating.


How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

Official promo art!


Done by the amazing Karen Petrasko, whose portfolio you can see at www.karenpetrasko.com

[Application Systems]

Selmiak is right!

After a long few months, I'm excited to announce that Lamplight City will be published by Application Systems! You may know them as the publishers of Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet as well as the upcoming Unforeseen Incidents.

Thanks to everyone for their continued support, and look for the game in mid-2018!

Sadly, these dead animal heads don't come to life and teach you about John Muir.

Also, some exciting news about the game will be announced next week!

It really depends on what style you're going for. If it's pixel art (like the recent ones posted in the Kate and Shelly thread) then it's best to do them at the game's resolution. If you're going for a more "painterly" look, like Ilyich's work, then you might want to paint them between 2x-4x the game size and then downscale them.

Did another dev stream today!

Mark Benis, the game's composer, has released a preview album of music from the game's prologue. You can pay what you want now, and receive the full album free when it and the game are released next year!


Track Listing:
1. Lamplight City
2. Partners for Life
3. The Slums of Cholmondeley
4. The Stakeout

Check it out on Mark's Bandcamp page!

Uploaded a dev livestream from last week on YouTube!

That's some serious level of detail, your old characters would have looked VERY out of place here.

Old characters? What are you talking about?

- Now for the feedback: The scales display on the left seems to be oval. How is the arrow supposed to go all around?
- Shouldn't the brain in the jar be submerged completely? Or does the upper half not need to be conserved?
- At first I thought the coroner didn't have a left hand, the glove could be a shade more different from the wood of the cabinet. Might be worth it if that's where he stands all the time.

- The scale is turned at an angle, but I'll add some rim lighting to make that more obvious.
- Probably, but I think it looks cooler half-submerged
- He does stand there, but not in that position the whole time.

The NBPD Morgue is not for the squeamish or faint of heart.

Full Throttle - Ben's Motorcycle
Grim Fandango - Sproutella gun
Space Quest - Golden Mop
King's Quest VI - Genie Lamp
Fate of Atlantis - Orichalcum bead
Sam and Max Hit the Road - The DeSoto
Blade Runner - Spinner
Gabriel Knight - Schattenjager Talisman

Nah, for now Dave's workaround is fine. Since not all the icons are visible at the same time, it's not a problem to just re-position them and change their graphics.

I doubt it'll be very common for anyone to have 40 objects in a room, so this isn't a high priority issue, but it might be something to consider for the future (and I'm glad it's no longer a 25 object limit like it was in the old days!)

Fair enough! Could it maybe be fixed in a patch or the next update?

Is it possible to increase the number of objects per room? I've hit the 40 object limit (map screen with several location icons) and could really benefit from bumping the limit up. It would make it a lot easier than using characters for icons, or making a duplicate room!

Episode 112

Knowing when to give up.

Visiting the University Greenhouse.

Episode 111

Community relations!

Thanks! I wound up finding a pretty simple solution. It turns out the format of the first string just adds a space after the last word before it cuts off to wrap, so manually removing both strings works perfectly.