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One of our Capys is playing it on the new Steam Deck OLED! 
Hello Cosmic Friends ✨ 
There's something to be said for 2D pixel paintings, isn't there? 
As you may imagine, there's something appealing to me about the thought of someday returning to the relative simplicity of this form of visual communication, working within interesting constraints, particularly after a good long while spent wrangling polygons in deep 3D space.
JETT's out!
JETT DEV X NOCLIP PODCAST
ROCK PAPER SHOTGUN x JETT: GIVEN TIME
ROCK PAPER SHOTGUN x RANDY SMITH - A JETT SQUAD ALL-STAR
^ Randy Smith is @wavesallday_ on Twitter, and he's presently cooking up a fresh new videogame.
It's thanks to Randy that fellow Looking Glass alum Terri Brosius climbed aboard JETT Squad in 2020, plugging into Priscilla Snow
JETT: GIVEN TIME IS AN EDGE 8/10
SPARK WISPS WITH JETT DEVS THIS THURSDAY
@craigdadams 
https://youtu.be/1a12KAlwnJ8
Folks, listen: the videogame biz is a weird place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3lfq60RO90
Patrick at Pine Scented and I have been carving out the unusual genre-space and distinctive universe of JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time for a thousand years err.. I mean… a decade now. It’s a cool project and we’re plenty proud of it, and we’re so glad to have delivered on the vision, and in a satisfying style. Feels good.
To mark the moment we've lined up a Devs Launch Day Livestream from 12pm ET to 3pm ET on Tuesday, January 31 at JETT on Steam. I'll be hanging out on stream with JETT Squad folks like scntfc, Richard Flanagan aka @phosfiend, Pine Scented, Priscilla Snow aka @ghoulnoise, Sam Bradley
In any case, we hope you dig JETT's unorthodox videogame vision. 
I'm a dev and creator, dreaming dreams and then building them, day in day out for years. Plenty of practical problem-solving and production chops involved there too. On JETT I have been serving as producer and publisher, too. Like a lot of other videogame entrepeneurs working in this space, I contemplate trends and ponder success stories, and I follow the twists and turns of the dwindling ranks of the videogame press with interest and concern. It's hard to know what to think about where things are going, this is a strange future and only getting stranger. However, I've learned a fair bit, and lived to tell the tale. Grateful for that. I'm eager to put some of these learnings into practice in future efforts, when the time comes.
We've put in a fair amount of amount of honest effort in the last several months preparing and publishing some pretty solid materials intended to get the word out on JETT and Given Time, and be a positive contribution in general. This work has involved me working alongside the excellent Dan Berry, Dustin Harbin, Richard Flanagan and Nick Verge at popagenda to get things done.
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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/3642880749849543862
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/6926004339899510462
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/3625990351998747746
I haven't started/completed The Far Shore. Can I play Given Time? 
How does the story of Given Time relate to < whatever happened > in The Far Shore?
What can I expect, gameplay-wise, in Given Time?
The expansion offers a more open-world experience with a player-driven adventure, where you'll be able to explore and discover the game world at your own pace. There is much to uncover and explore, and the story will tie up some of the threads left dangling at the close of The Far Shore campaign.
Can you sell me on Given Time in just a couple sentences?
Is there any early buzz on JETT: Given Time, and if so, what is it?
Where can I find out about more about JETT?
Imagine: it's 2013, you're a small team, you've previously made a small but well-regarded game, something like Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP just to choose a random example, and now you're swinging for the bleachers with an ambitious new design.
We kept on with our vision for JETT through 2014 and into 2015, with all its Monster Hunter and Metroid Prime -inspired nuances and wrinkles, getting to know what we could and couldn't do with procedurality. 
We were working through designs that involved gathering and crafting, and figuring out what kinds of scenarios could hold people's attention, while we kept the focus on the science-discovery angle and attempted to side-step the usual extract-gather mechanics. 
We had our Destiny-inspired menu system up and running, and when we saw that's what Hello Games was up to with No Man's Sky we felt ah well, yep, that makes sense. 
In the wake of No Man's Sky emergence, attention was drawn to the enigmatic singularity of procedural generation through 2014 and 2016, the whizbang of it and the endless possibilities and such, and I found myself remembering playing and enjoying Frontier: Elite II back in the day, a miracle-work in hyper-ambitious interstellar procgen that ably demonstrated to me both the allure and some of the limits of this approach. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJdz7x9hpUA
With my Frontier: Elite II experience in mind, and my 'proc-gen is an endless miracle' expectations securely in check, I'll admit that I found a great deal to appreciate in the vibe, style and craft of No Man's Sky when it shipped in 2016. Those colors! That music! The pizzazz! It's a pretty magnificent thing, no doubt. Still, as anticipated, I struggled to find my footing in the actual videogame experience. 
For one thing, I learned that as player, I tend to prefer experiences that are more curated and feel contained and completable, even if they feel vast at times. Or, put another way, from a designer's point of view, I identified that my player type, whatever type that is, needs an immediately engaging on-ramp -- hook me!! -- and then I need some meaningful-to-me structure to motivate my continued engagement, and ideally at some point I could use some characters to start to relate to and begin to care a bit about. These reflections helped me recalibrate my feelings about what JETT could and should be.
Something else I spent a lot of time considering relates to the underlying narrative/mechanics in science fiction / space fantasy exploration games.
FROM PROCGEN TO STORYTOWN
In any case, as we continued to explore JETT's design space we had plenty of other avenues to consider, and we began to shift and narrow our focus. At some point in 2015 or 2016 we ended up jettisoning crafting entirely, and pretty drastically limiting the gathering, in part to avoid having to accommodate things that felt extractive, in part so as not to have to bend our fiction too much. (Another upside: less UI work for the two of us to get bogged down with, haha.)
walking around Ground Control's habitation room, circa 2016
At this time we were looking towards Blendo Game's 30 Flights of Loving (2012), which we had as our reference point for narrative-first DIY first person, with its smash cuts and clever lo-fi staging. We looked over at the interest in first person narrative experiences, with the A/V focused Proteus and the more literary Dear Esther coming up in early conversations, then Gone Home, and then Campo Santo's Firewatch, announced in 2014 and released in 2016. We asked ourselves: if we aspired to a high level of care for a few of JETT's on-foot spaces and sequences, in what ways could that deepen the overall experience?
One thing the Campo folks wisely did was avoid encountering living characters up close in game, similar to Gone Home. This avoids a lot of complexity. I seem to recall there being a fair bit of talk about 'forensic storytelling' around this time. However, for JETT I thought: damn it, let's commit to encountering characters who are living their adventure alongside us. Sure, it's a type of madness for a tiny two-person team to aspire to tackle all that, but we had a 'maybe we can figure this out' spirit. 
My bet was that we'd find our way to a good enough level of animation and emoting, but stylized enough to be feasible. I figured we could problem solve the scope and production processes. We had a plan of attack on how to avoid the kind of complexity that would come with English voice-over, by relying on written dialogue primarily and working out our own distinct VO path. 
It took a fair bit of honest effort from a lot of folks on a lot of sides to deliver on JETT's on-foot narrative ambitions, but I'll admit that I love where we landed things. I feel JETT: The Far Shore is a distinct and interesting work of science fiction, and I like that some of the characters and their concerns come through, as they overcome obstacles and stumble reverently forward. I'm psyched about what's in store for people in the JETT: Given Time campaign, with its distinct premise and approach to narrative, as it progresses, deepens, reveals and concludes things.
EVERY ATOM 
In any case, the path we set out on from ~2016 to 2021/2023 was one where we kept the things that felt would make the best and most distinct JETT, and this involved some streamlining of doodads and fussiness, while keeping the action, expansiveness and imagination, while we made efforts to raise the bar for our first person spaces, pulling in people to help, and putting some pressure on our collective storytelling chops. We figured this unorthodox synthesis of design elements might have a decent shot at carving out a genre-space all its own, something that could be familiar enough for people to hook onto, while being distinct and interesting enough to linger in their minds.
OVER AND OUT, FOR NOW
sworcery symbology, yuletide edition by Cory Schmitz
#sworcery fan art from the AV jam
When I painted the pixels for this scene in #sworcery, I'll admit I got a bit choked up. It was strangely moving to be laying The Scythian down to rest so soon after getting to know her. Then, a year later, I revisited the scene with a tablet in Photoshop. This time time I was taking my leave of sworcery's pixel style, and I was contemplating how to go about mounting a videogame production involving 3D characters and locations. This was a daunting prospect, given the depth of my experience at the time, and given the tiny-team-size constraint I thought it prudent to work within. 
Early on after my move from Toronto to the woods of Quebec, starting in 2013, I set to work sketching and building up the foundation and conceptual scaffolding for a dream project called 'the future'. I was reading up on science fiction (revisiting Dune, Clarke's The Deep Sea, Asimov's Foundation, LeGuin's Vaster Than Empires...) as well as relevant science and space race history books. Meanwhile, my old pal and JETT's co-creator Patrick at Pine Scented in Japan was in touch, getting his life to a place where he was ready to commit to build something together with me.
Common sense suggests that one shouldn't attempt to go from 'scope-limited 2D mobile game' (sworcery) to 'vast 3D PS5 videogame with unorthodox immersive sim elements and characters emoting and speaking' (JETT). Both Patrick and I knew we would have to learn a whole lot to actually deliver on the kind of maximalist vision we were cooking up with JETT, and we knew it would take a great deal of time and effort, and you know what, we were right, haha. 
For me, an inspiration for JETT's gameplay is how fun 3D motion can be, outside of the context of controlling a person walking around on-foot. 
Thatgamecompany's fl0wer had a feel that was an occasional reference point for us on JETT (eg. see 'hopping on ghokebloom'). 
BABY JETT
We had a tone, a style and a feeling of motion that we liked and that we were intrigued by. We found that we were interested in creating something substantial enough to interest people for a long period of time, so others could enjoy the experience we were having playing around and getting good.
METROID PRIME
As for the kinds of videogames we were talking about in those early days, well, we invoked the Metroid Prime series a reference more than once, I can safely say. 
Another series that we talked about a fair bit in those early days was Monster Hunter.
In 2001, Fumito Ueda and SCEJ's Ico was released, and it had a tone all its own, similar only to Eric Chahi's Another World or Heart of Darkness. In some ways it felt like an indie acoustic cover of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarinia of Time, with a plucky young hero saving a princess from a fairy tale castle, but with all the cute kid stuff pulled out. Playing it felt like looking through a window into a world, with living people running about, people with hearts and souls.
a pic from a 2012 Japan trip
THE FAR SHORE FOOTAGE + DEV COMMENTARY
So yep, when we laid the foundation for JETT's grand design in ~2014 we had in mind Metroid Prime's Samus Aran zipping around on a jet ski, inside a Shadow of the Colossus inspired world, scanning things and gathering them, and learning to survive encounters with large, interesting Monster Hunter inspired creatures. 
Hey hi hello there. How're you?
@craigdadams on Twitter (RIP?) and Instagram
COSMIC FRIENDS FOREVER 
Oh, and worth a mention: Nathan Vella, who was the head of Capy back in #sworcery days, is now co-running the show at Annapurna Interactive, publisher of amazing videogames like Outer Wilds, Simogo's Sayonara Wild Hearts, Stray, and many more gems.
As for maestro Jim Guthrie, he has been keeping it real in Toronto in his 'shedquarters', his backyard recording studio, belting out great scores for videogames like Nobody Saves The World
Note: Before and after Jim's song you'll be hearing JETT's epic musical score by composer scntfc
At cosmodrome z-13 you'll meet the characters who make up your scout unit, from the leadership -- Misha, Pasha -- to Jones, jett ace and commander.
Eventually, the time comes for Mei to lapse into torpor -- JETT's version of cryosleep -- and for her and her fellow scouts to be put aboard a rocket.
The short comic Carry Me by Dan Berry can be read in a handful of minutes at the following internet website. http://www.thingsbydan.co.uk/2017/04/read-carry-me/
I hope you enjoyed the above!
we will meet again at the appointed time 
Oh hi–I didn’t see you there. I was just putting the finishing touches on JETT: The Far Shore’s new campaign expansion, "Given Time," due early 2023.
I'm Craig D. Adams, the bozo who founded Superbrothers A/V
Now in fall 2022 -- the future! -- I'm here to tell you that JETT is coming to Steam in early 2023, including a free new expansion that adds a full length campaign, called "Given Time." Personally, I'm elated to be delivering on the total vision for JETT with this release, after all these years.
pic from @superbrothersHQ on Twitter
What's this? Well, it's a little slice of a playable something special related to sworcery that will surface at the appointed time, a few moons hence.
Laden
