In September of 2019 Krzysztof Kluczek (aka KK/Altair) reveals to the world his secret project,
code named 'Dread Zone' and shocks the Amiga community to its core!
An unimaginable first person shooter engine, capable of fullscreen resolution,
textured walls, complex level geometry, sector lighting, outdoors areas,
running with smooth frame rate on a humble, vanilla a500!
Soon after he is joined by John Tsakiris (Pixelglass co-founder, artist and game designer)
and together they start working on a major visual upgrade with customised assets and new engine
features and with the plan to do a demo release and kickstart a new community around the project.
The work takes almost one year but pays off (while in the mean time artist 'PixelShade' also
joins the effort) : at December of 2021, the team behind 'Dread' announces the release of the
very first tech-demo and a proof of concept for an upcoming full game and also launches a new
discord server for the project.
Fast forwards to October 2022 and almost another year of development has passed.
The engine has seen an influx of new features including major upgrades to the available ram
and custom maps functionality, while at the same time a series of new SDKs have been
released, enabling the community to join the fun and create custom content.
On the assets side we went from a handful of textures to more than 200 (!),
including a lot new enemies, anims, fx, objects, items and sounds.
And while most of these assets were kept public and available to our mapmakers and
contributors, our team kept working on brand new ones, planning for a final game with a
clearer stempunk and lovecraftian direction and refferences.
Which brings us to today. The plan we had for a final commercial game with high quality,
custom pixel art and an original setting and story, has been seperated into it's own
project named 'Grind', while the Dread-engine (and possibly a free game with different
assets) is gonna kept being developed by KK.
And so the GRIND begins! :)
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