'Who's your favorite video game character?' A difficult question for any game dev....but that's why it's the best kind of question to...

Ess Climbing Test While many aspects of MEMORIES is still in 'work-in-progress mode', it's been so fun testing out Ess' climbing skills...

While it's not necessary to play games in order to make games, many devs at one point or another have popped a game into their console,...

Close your eyes - Imagine this... While it might’ve taken a while for 1982 to get it’s engine revving, appointing Bertha Wilson as the...

Close your eyes - imagine this... The year of 1982 begins quietly. For once, the planet seems at peace. Nothing earth-shattering has...

Ess doesn't have time for slow and careful climbs along her journey, which is why we gave her this fun, lightning fast way to slide down...

Being able to cover a distance quickly and efficiently is one of Ess' most basic abilities - which is why she had have a sick slope...

We've been working hard on completing Ess' block-out animations the past couple weeks and we're loving the look of her movement style!...

We've been working on designing and integrating a lifelike rope asset that will be featured in MEMORIES' gameplay. It still has some ways...

We've integrated Ess' crouch animation! Her movement style is coming together and soon we'll have all of her animations completed!

Our level designer, Greg, plays around with new ways to make our climbing realistic...

Over the weekend, we encountered a bug with our pipe swing and a nearby statue - check out how our level designer, Greg, went about...

While we all love hanging out as a team, there always comes those quieter moments of the day when the studio falls silent and everyone...

We're finally getting close to the intro we envisioned for MEMORIES...with a few more bugs to fix and the eventual addition of...

In this dev diary, we've begun to integrate some swing animations for Ess - She'll be looking like a parkour pro in no time with a bit...

Goodbye Capsule, hello Ess...er Ess 1.0! Though we're still working on finalizing her animations and making her motions more fluid, it's...

Showing off our first integration of the Skeletal model of our main character ESS...soon we'll be able to have her properly running...

In this video, our art director Marc shows off his progress in creating the character model for the main character of MEMORIES. Later...

Though we're hard at work prepping early levels and polished character art, we really wanted to give you a look into our upcoming...

A little update on how Ess' design and animating is coming along!

In this dev diary, we test movement and navigation of one of the enemies in Memories, the spiders!

As we start to animate Ess, we test out some jumps and finalize the way she'll move!

Whether it be games, movies, books or tv shows, artists are constantly consuming art. It’s our imagination fuel, our brain food. Most...

What's it like being an indie dev? We chat about the best and hardest parts of development, as well as the little, irreplaceable moments...

Exploring a unique solution for better AI navigation...

Our first dev video! As a new indie studio with team members of all different professional backgrounds, we decided to talk a little bit...

Testing some ledge movements and playing with the idea of rest spots!

Testing flow of movement through a WIP level -- How's it looking?

Hey there and welcome to the Dissident blog... My name is Melissa and I'm the producer and community manager here at Dissident. I've been...

Whether it’s because of inspiration from another game, a childhood dream or hopping on the train of latest trends, there are many reasons...

For the past couple years, we’ve been working hard at creating and designing our platformer adventure, Memories. But today, we wanted to...

Here's a quick render of ESS's rain poncho. Still need lots of polish but a good first pass.

Our initial Memory interaction prototype. The player reaches into a character and retrieves one of their memories.

We recently added in pipes and swinging as a new movement state. Check out our current progress in the video below! Creating the pipe...

Rope and constraint system!

Memories has gone through many changes in direction, narrative, and structure. With it came a drastic shift from our initial vision to a...

This week we started implementing a prototype character and animations. These will help us as we progress with our climbing mechanics and...

a quick screen shot for the game . The vista is a block out that will be fleshed out soon

As we progress in our development, it was important to ensure all levels and assets were being created with fully dynamic lighting...

Created and added in a stamina meter to the character's back so it is easy to see and understand. We also have been adding in different...

Our original prototype for Memories and its core movement and interaction systems.