29 Oct

Spooky Dwellers on Windows 7

If you’re having troubles running Spooky Dwellers on a Windows 7 PC, please verify that your Windows 7 is updated. Specifically, note that the minimum requirement for Spooky Dwellers is Windows 7 with Service Pack 1. Your graphic drivers should be updated too.

Here are some links to update your Windows 7:

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Platform Update for Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Update for the d3dcompiler_47.dll component on Windows 7

It’s also important that your graphic card drivers are updated. These updates should let the Spooky Dwellers games run properly on your Windows 7 PC.

Finally, remember there is a complete guide for Spooky Dwellers here.

13 Feb

Updating older games

We’ve finished updating several of our older titles, specifically, The Rainbow Machine, DragonScales: Chambers of The Dragon Whisperer and DragonScales 2: Beneath a Bloodstained Moon. These games were originally built with versions of LibGDX <= 1.6, so we took the chance to update them to the latest LibGDX 1.9.9. As expected, updating LibGDX broke a lot of things: several functions had been altered or simply removed, support for LWJGL3 was added, and plenty of other details we had to address. Once we managed to fix all the projects, we were able to create new Windows and Mac versions.
Extra steps were taken on Mac, as we had to produce a bundled Java app, code-sign it and resubmit the games to iTunes and other stores. Little by little, we’ve been getting the games live on iTunes again:

Our next goal is updating DragonScales 3: Eternal Prophecy of Darkness too. But this time we’ll also try to integrate the game with Steamworks 🙂

17 Aug

What we have been working on

Since the launch of DragonScales 3 in May we’ve been very busy handling all the distribution process, replying to customer emails, attending the accounting side, etc. In short, we’ve been handling the business part of IKIGames. However, we also started tackling the design of our next title: DragonScales 4. Yet more, we’ve also worked on a few subtasks mostly related to updating several games of ours. Specifically, this is what we’ve been addressing:

  1. Revamping of DragonScales internal engine.
  2. Design of DragonScales 4.
  3. Design of a special version of DragonScales for advanced players.
  4. Localization of the original DragonScales into Japanese.
  5. DragonScales 3 for Android (complete, but yet to be released.)
  6. Production of a new build for The Rainbow Machine (German version.)
  7. A new build for NagiQ 2 which fixed a few issues (already live here on our site.)
  8. Yet another build for NagiQ 2 suitable for localization (this localization of NagiQ 2 is currently a work in progress.)

The original DragonScales in Japanese!

In the next weeks we’ll keep working on the first 3 tasks.