Hello everyone,Welcome to our latest Flashing Lights update! Today we are announcing that the Flashing Lights Closed Alpha will kick off on 15th March. Take a listen to my lovely colleague Chris explain all about the Closed Alpha in the new video below:With the Closed Alpha beginning on 15th March, you have just under one week left to apply before the sign up form closes. To apply, scroll down to the bottom of Flashinglightsgame.com and fill out the form. Please do be...
Hello everyone,Today, I'm pleased to reveal that Flashing Lights - THE police, fire and EMS game - will release in Early Access on 18th May 2018, at a price of $14.99. (We will also likely run a launch week discount.)We also have a brand new trailer for you!If you have been following Flashing Lights already, you may notice the police officer model has changed. In time, the fire department and EMS will also have new models and textures. But this...
Hello Keepers!Welcome to the launch of the Shoppe Keep 2 Character Creator Preview! A free app which will allow you to experience the joys of some of the character customization available in Shoppe Keep 2! Many more customisation options will be available in the main Shoppe Keep 2 game, but this should give you a nice taste of the character creator! This is after all just a preview. Expect at least minutes of enjoyment* as you dress up your Keeper in...
The original Shoppe Keep has an Xbox One release date, marking the unique game’s debut on a Microsoft console. The fantasy business management game will release on Xbox One on 2nd March – and you can pre-order right now with a 10% off pre-order discount. Shoppe Keep tasks you with running an adventurers’ Shoppe – a serious business in a fantasy environment. You stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions. Pesky thieves and dangerous...
Hello Keepers!We're back in full swing! Shoppe Keep 2 has been played and tested internally by the dev team for hundreds of hours, and soon we will be letting a small batch of Closed Alpha players join in and help us bash out a few bugs that we missed. We'll also add in some quality of life additions prior to the Early Access launch of Shoppe Keep 2 on 26th April. Now, let's get into the features of this week's...
Hello everyone,We hope that everyone has had an excellent start to 2018. We've come back from the holidays fully charged and eager to hop on to develop the game. Over the past few weeks we've been working on the AI traffic and the parking ticket system. Traffic AI AI drivers were previously a menace to society, ignoring any designated rules of the road and causing a selection of disastrous vehicular collisions which not only caused some vehicles to probably be...
The much-anticipated Shoppe Keep 2, with all new online multiplayer, is fast approaching. Today, we are announcing that the game is set for an Early Access release on 26th April 2018, and we are delighted to be able to share a brand new trailer. Take a watch to see two business hopefuls set up Shoppe, in the game’s multiplayer. Shoppe Keep returns bigger and better than ever! Build a business empire, battle mobs and monsters. It’s merchandising mayhem as you attempt...
Hello everyone. We have quite a number of things to talk with you about today, in our last Flashing Lights update of 2017. We believe 2018 will be a very exciting year! Flashing Lights will enter Early Access and, by the end of the year, we hope to have implemented many suggestions from the community.But let's get this year out of the way first and tell you what we've been working on for the last couple of weeks. First Person Driving View...
Hello Everyone.Tracks - the Train Set Game's delightfully festive Winter Update is here! Queue the fireworks! Some of you may realize that the silhouette of the train is a little different. Good eye! This new train is part of our largest and first seasonal update to Tracks - The Train Set Game. We've also got a new environment, new objects, some lighting & fog customization, and some bug fixes.You can check out a new trailer for the Winter update right...
Hi everyone, We're prepping an awesome announcement which will be posted within the next week that shares brand new development details and progress on Flashing Lights.But recently we've been placed in the top 100 games in IndieDB's Indie of the Year awards, and we need your help! If you want to vote for the game, head on over to IndieDB's top 100, scroll to the 'Upcoming Games' section and open the 'Role Playing' drop down. You will then see Flashing Lights...
Hello everyone! The GIF above will surely make more sense as you read further into this post.Over the past few weeks we have been working on the visuals for Flashing Lights. We are in negotiations with a character modeller to improve the look of all in-game character models. We are also still moving towards populating the map. Therefore any images currently shown are subject to change and are likely not final. So please stick with us as we continue to...
We need your help to make one of our games IndieDB's... It's that time of year again - festivities, celebrations and awards! IndieDB have launched their 8th annual Indie of the Year Awards, and the winners are decided by YOU, the players. You can even vote on more than one game, so please do vote for all of our games that you've enjoyed! You do not need to be signed in to vote, but IndieDB members do get a chance to...
With the recent launch of Tracks - The Train Set Game's Nighttime Update, we've been in the mood for fireworks. So we went out and brought some to set off alongside our very own toy train set! So, with that, we say happy bonfire night from the Tracks team! If you're yet to create your own train sets in Tracks, you can jump in at just £6.29, from this website! The game tasks you with building your own wooden train tracks...
It's been a good few weeks since we offered you all an update on Flashing Lights, so it's great to be able to show off something new today! The game's developer, Nils Jakrins, has been hard at work expanding upon and enhancing Flashing Lights' open world - and today we wanted to take a look at foliage! High quality foliage is the sort of detail that you wouldn't see 'on the back of the box', but it's crucial to the...
With the recent announcement of Shoppe Keep 2, the developers over at Strangefire haven't calmed down a bit. In fact, they've been working incredibly hard to bring new features to the game, from a semi-open world to online multiplayer. But it's the more minute details that are also interesting to discuss, which is why the developers have begun a detailed dev blog over on IndieDB. The first entry delves into crafting and farming (there's some strong language in the first...
For those of you who haven't heard of Tracks - The Train Set Game, it's a delightfully nostalgic wooden train set simulator. And it's almost certainly the next indie management game that you'll sink lots of time into! Why not get lost in Tracks, and build your own sets, transport passengers and more? And, as you can see in the screenshot above, the toy sandbox is ever growing, as an Early Access game should. Coming soon to Tracks are bells,...
