The Zone: Stalker Stories
Steam News 30 March 20261mo ago

Game State - March

Development continues to grind onward! I've been working more on environments, including -- since I had the assets -- this experiment that might look familiar: (I wonder where we've seen these things before...) It's bee…

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addedIt's been kind of a pain in the arse to do, since the engine wasn't really set up for large isometric environments with a lot of overlapping stuff, but as a proof of concept it has confirmed that we can make the old top-down stuff a thing of the past. We'd just need new art.
addedThe last part of the Cinema is still coming along, the final boss should be done sometime in April, and I hope to get the last bits of Cinema writing finished up then too. In addition we've got at least one unique new enemy for the jungle area coming soon as well.

Development continues to grind onward! I've been working more on environments, including -- since I had the assets -- this experiment that might look familiar:

(I wonder where we've seen these things before...)

It's been kind of a pain in the arse to do, since the engine wasn't really set up for large isometric environments with a lot of overlapping stuff, but as a proof of concept it has confirmed that we can make the old top-down stuff a thing of the past. We'd just need new art.

(As always, if you know any competent artists who'll work for budget indie rates, tell them to get in touch!)

The last part of the Cinema is still coming along, the final boss should be done sometime in April, and I hope to get the last bits of Cinema writing finished up then too. In addition we've got at least one unique new enemy for the jungle area coming soon as well.

That's all I have to show off for now. Stick around for the next update, and I'll see you in the Zone...

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Steam News / 30 March 2026

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