Ryan J. Slattery's Blog

Since the last update in July, I’ve had the honor on working on more background artwork pieces courtesy of sketches provided by Karl Dupere-Richer’s many sketches. Above are the colored versions That I completed and below you will see Karl’s sketches. I did my best to bring Karl’s wonderful drawings into the world of 16-color EGA vector art.

In August and September with the startup of school I took some time off the project to focus on getti...

This July I had the pleasure of having Karl Dupéré-Richer spend a bit of time working on some artwork for the project. I gave him a handful of unfinished backgrounds and he set himself to working on some sketches based on the scratch pre-alpha “art” I had in the game.

Karl took these images with a small dose of direction and very quickly put together some sketches.

From these images I set myself to transposing them into EGA Vector graphics using SCI Companion....

If you haven’t yet joined the Slattstudio Discord, I’d love to have you out to come and chat. It could be about Betrayed Alliance, but it could also be about Space Quest or Peasant’s Quest or modern games like The Crimson Diamond. Okay, you could even talk about non-EGA-palette games (if you have to!)

For those of you who have already joined the discord in the past, I invite you also! You may or may not have noticed the old Slattstudio Discord has suddenly and uncerem...

What’s new in the Verlorn forest since the March? Let’s find out!

First (and please forgive the simplistic nature of the artwork – it’s not in final form) is a puzzle room that Leah finds herself in. This puzzle, like the cosmic maze area shown last update, takes place in a “space” a bit outside of the forest. More to share on this as it progresses. Right now it’s kind of like looking at scaffolding as opposed to seeing the complete building.

Speaking of things not in their final form,...

Last Update I mentioned that I was moving to a new stage of development with a goal to Alpha by the end of the year. I put pencil to paper and mapped out the work and it looks feasible (at least on paper!)

February was a busy month in my life and didn’t have a particular goal. During that time I was working on some miscellaneous things, like a vendor and some bracer upgrades for our hero:

The goal for March was to get a certain puzzle area up and running. Here a...

In 2023 the demo for Book 2 was made available, in 2024 the BIG update to Book 1 was finished, and I have an ambitious goal for 2025: I want to get Book 2 to a playable alpha state. I’ve started posting short (almost) daily updates on progress to the “Book 2 daily updates” channel of the Slattstudio discord. If you are wary of spoilers, however, probably best not to check that out as I cannot guarantee that daily work is spoiler free.

So, here’s a b...

Hello! It’s been a couple of months since the last update, so let’s take a peek at what we’ve been up to!

At his point, it’s all Book 2, all the time!

I’ve started logging my daily work onto a daily work log on the Slattstudio discord. There’s a lot there that will be considered spoilery, though, so be advised!

In the past few months, I’ve worked on a handful of backgrounds, but most of my efforts have been focused on programming and making animations for backgrounds already made. That ...

Hello everyone! I hope everyone has had the time to enjoy the revamped version of Betrayed Alliance: Book 1. We released it in May and spent about a month or two fixing up various bugs.

If you haven’t had a chance to play it yet, get it here FOR FREE!

Now 100% of attention is on completing Book 2! We’ve recently picked up a new team member on the crew who has set us up using github and put together a discord server to help with team communication. This will help make testing more strea...

Greetings everyone! With the recent release of the huge update to Book 1 of Betrayed Alliance (now patched to 1.3.3.1 – the final patch for a LONG time!) I wanted to refocus on a few things on the creative front. Finishing Book 2 is the BIG focus moving forward, but I also wanted to reorganize some things about Patreon.

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For Buckle Wolbruk stealing was easy; the getaway was the hard part.

Pain shot up his right leg as he ran—well, at least from his knee up. Everything below that was a wooden peg, strapped and latched to a nub, all that remained from an accident long ago. Each stride brought tears to his eyes. It was okay, though, it wouldn’t last forever.

Buckle’s friends were all out of sight now. Not a one stayed back to help him evade capture.

“Hold it right there,” a voice bellowed from a short dist...