Alien Hermeneutics

Devlog

• sHow I learned to commune with an alien - postmortem (Part 4/4)
  November 12, 2025 by Valeriy Petrov#game design, #sound design, #development

  Part 6: Sound juices Last but not least, a few words about the sounds. I knew from the start that to create a convincing underwater environment I had to rely heavily on sound design. Early on I made a... Continue reading

  
• How I learned to commune with an alien - postmortem (Part 3/4)
  November 12, 2025 by Valeriy Petrov#game design, #development, #systems design, #narrative design, #gameplay loop, #feedback

  Part 4: Expanding the gameplay loop My game design was somewhat unconventional. The look and behaviour of the fish would imply some sort of reward and punishment system, like, the player loses HP from... Continue reading

  
• How I learned to commune with an alien - postmortem (Part 2/4)
  November 12, 2025 by Valeriy Petrov#game design, #systems design, #development, #environment design, #juice

  Part 2: The aquarium and beyond I am a very insecure person and have a bad habit of leaving my projects unfinished because I lose confidence in them half way through. I am also a very visual person, b... Continue reading

  
• How I learned to commune with an alien - postmortem (Part 1/4)
  November 12, 2025 by Valeriy Petrov#game design, #development, #narrative design, #environment design, #systems design, #procedural rhetoric, #prototyping, #juice, #gameplay loop

  Short answer: I didn't. The alien was largely numb and silent, staring at me through the virtual glass of my imagination. One night, while lying in bed and oscillating between dream and reality, I not... Continue reading

  
• Stable web version
  November 02, 2025 by Valeriy Petrov#web

  Optimized visual effects to prevent web version from crashing... Continue reading
• Story bug fixed!
  October 19, 2025 by Valeriy Petrov

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  #bugfix, #story

  After some tinkering and beating my head against the wall, I've finally managed to fix the bug that prevented the story from moving forward. Now you can swim through the experiment to one of its dark... Continue reading