Laserbrain Studios is an independent video game developer located in Copenhagen, Denmark. We’re currently developing our first commercial title, Hostile Takeover, an isometric assassination/stealth game inspired by classics like Fallout, X-COM and Syndicate. When completed, the game will be available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

You can follow the game’s development on our blog, where we will occasionally also write about other things.

Oh, and when I say ‘we’ and ‘our’, it’s really just ‘me’ and ‘my’. Laserbrain Studios currently consists of just me, Christian Knudsen, both designer and programmer, doing most of my game making from a couple of laptops in my bedroom. ‘We’ just sounds a bit more professional and corporate-like, don’t ya think?

Development Video #15

It’s video time again! Watch it in HD! New stuff in this video: Finished the in-game interface Almost finished the menus Tied player actions to noise and suspicion generation Particle effects to show characters growing suspicious Added pauses to character dialogue Resolution can now be changed in-game Added small thumbnail images for saved games I’ve also almost finished work on doubling the directions for the male aiming and shooting animations (from 8 to 16 directions). After that, I’ll make the missing sprites for female characters (aiming, shooting, hit, and fall/die). There’s also still a bunch of minor things, bug fixes, optimizations and tune-ups. When all that’s done, I think I’ll begin working on the AI, since that’s the biggest component missing before I can really Read more...