After lasts year’s positive reception to 8monkey’s release of Toolbag, we’ve decided to make some major additions and updates. Behold:
For those of you who don’t know, Toolbag is a realtime material editor and presentation tool, based on our Marmoset engine. It’s a quick way to preview your work in a realtime engine (and we do mean quick). We think you’ll find it presents your work in a most flattering way. v1.0 has several new features not present in the previous release, most notably:
For all the European fans who have been paitently waiting, we’re happy to announce that the PC version of Darkest of Days is now available on Steam for all of Europe!
Pick it up through Steam here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/37700
We received a great opportunity from Gamasutra.com to release a postmortem on the making of Darkest of Days. It’s a great 4-page read that dives behind-the-scenes and shares the highs and lows we experienced through the development process on our debut title.
Check out the full article on Gamasutra here: Darkest of Days Postmortem
The Darkest of Days v 1.05 “Instant Action” patch and the Darkest of Days Developer Tools are both now available for download!
Download the tools and create your own levels to wreak havoc inm, using Marmoset Engine’s level editing software, Habitat. Also included in the tools release is Toolbag, Marmoset Engine’s very own real-time model and animation previewer.
Download the Darkest of Days v 1.05 PC patch and unlock Instant Action mode, allowing you to travel back to your favorite missions after completing the story campaign. Wield weapons from any era and experience different gameplay styles by trying out various weapon upgrade modes!
Get the Darkest of Days updates here: DoD v 1.05 PC Patch & Developer Tools
View the full press release here: DoD PC Updates Press Release
StrafeRight.com recently sent us over some developer interview questions. We were more than happy to oblige, and let the gamers out there check out what’s going on right now at 8monkey, what’s coming up next, and shed a little more light behind-the-scenes of the making Darkest of Days.
Check out StrafeRight.com’s interview with 8monkey Labs’ Director, Mark Doeden, at the following link:
We’ve released the first patch for the PC version of Darkest of Days. It includes several new options for custom key bindings as well as some hardware specific optimizations. For full details and download link, visit the darkestofdays.com forums here:
