On the 15th day of December we’re giving out 3 Nine Parchments game codes for Steam!
Nine Parchments is a co-op action-RPG game released in 2017. The story of the game revolves around a group of drop-out wizard apprentices, who’ve decided to skip their training for a quick path to the Nine Parchments. If you’d like to learn more about the game, check out the post here!
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Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 50!
Please note that the “Progress Notes” are different from the Starbase Alpha “Patch Notes”. Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.
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Day 14
Let’s be real – one of the best things about the holiday season is the food. Today, we’d like to introduce some traditional Finnish Christmas food for you!
One of the most common food during the holidays is baked ham. The ham is slowly baked in the oven and is usually the main dish of the dinner. If you don’t eat meat, you can replace pork with seitan, for ...
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Happy 13th of December!
Today we would like to talk to you about User Experience Design. One of the Frozenbyte’s UX Designers is here to tell a bit about their role and share a few snippets of the player experience in Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince.
User Experience Design (or UX Design) is an interesting facet of game design, which has fairly recently been split off as its own thing. Essentially the focus is on the player and their experience. So, for example, when making Trine 4 level designer focused on the pacing of the level, the difficulty of the puzzles, player skills, etc. Fight designer would focus on making sure fights are balanced, increase in difficulty, have enough room, etc. UX designer would focus on the fact that players should be imm...
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Day 12
Something that we greatly enjoy here at Frozenbyte is community-made content inspired by our games. Seeing fan art, fan fiction and videos along with all the other material made by you players always brings a smile to our face! Thank you all for your creations and thank you for sharing them with us – it means a lot!
Some time ago, we started collecting ...
Read moreIn three weeks the year will have changed and we have reached the first day of 2021. One could say the year 2020 hasn’t treated us well: the global pandemic has been on our minds quite regularly and forced us into dealing with rather exceptional situations.
Despite the unfortunate events of the world, we have kept the company running remotely and released several games! Today’s post will cover our released titles of the year 2020.
Starbase Alpha
Starbase is an upcoming space MMO, with a hybrid of voxel and vertex-based technologies, fully destructible environment and an infinitely expanding universe. The gameplay in Starbase is focused on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Starbase Alpha started officially on the 11th of May this year and has continued since. There are currently thousands of participants an...
Read more On the 9th day of December we’re giving out 3 Has-Been-Heroes game codes for Steam!
Has-Been-Heroes is a game of strategy and action with a roguelike twist, released in 2017. If you’d like to learn more about the game, check out the post here!
Update: All codes have been redeemed.
Day 7
Today we are celebrating Frozenbyte’s 19th birthday; the company was officially registered on the 7th of December 2001. Happy Birthday to us! 
On the 6th of December, we would like to commemorate our precious (and legendary) van, also known as Hypevan, that we sadly had to let go only recently.
Happy 5th of December!
Today we thought it would be nice to introduce our Discord servers to you. It has come to our understanding that some of the servers aren’t very known with our gaming communities, so we thought we would list them all here and talk a bit about them.
Frozenbyte
The official Frozenbyte Discord server is our general server for all of our games, and a good place to contact devs and ask about the company in general. The server consists of some announcement channels and game specific channels for Has-Been-Heroes, Shadwen and Shadowgrounds. There’s also a channel for all the information about the company, the servers we own and a separate channel dedicated to the information about applying for us.
On the 4th day of December we’re bringing back the long awaited Starbase Discord emoji contest!
We thought now would be a great time to fill some of those unused emoji slots that we gained from partnering with Discord. So, to participate: join our Discord server, check out the channel #emoji-contest and get creative!
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Happy 1st of December everyone!
We’re back again with some Christmas calendar hustle and bustle!
Just like last year, we will have daily uploads on the blog, all the way up until the 25th of December. Stay tuned as the posts might also include some nice surprises, such as snippets of our games in early stages, community / dev creations and game codes!
To get started, here are some wintery images of the new DLC ...
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Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 48!
Please note that the “Progress Notes” are different from the Starbase Alpha “Patch Notes”. Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.
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Read moreThe wait is over – Trine 4: Melody of Mystery, a story-driven DLC campaign for Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince, is available now on PC! Return to Astral Academy for an all new adventure with powerful skills, clever puzzles, and a mysterious slumber!
Dive into the enchanting dreamscapes for $7.99 / 7.99 € / £5.99. Available now on Steam,GOG and Humble Store!
Key Features
We at Frozenbyte, together with Modus Games are glad to announce Trine 4: Melody of Mystery, a story-driven DLC campaign for Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince, arriving soon to PC and in Spring 2021 to consoles!
Return to Astral Academy for an all new adventure with powerful Skills, clever puzzles, and a mysterious slumber!
Take a peek at the adventure ahead:
In Trine 4: Melody of Mystery, there’s trouble brewing at the Astral Academy once again. All the students are cursed, trapped in an enchanted sleep and unable to wake up. With a mysterious spirit on the loose, it’s best to call the Heroes of Trine to see what they can do to bring back Cornelius and his fellow students from their enticing dreamlands.
Key Features
• 6 all-new and exciting levels set in strange and unpredictable dream worlds
• New music tracks to acc...
Greetings to all fans of Trine series!
We have a special invitation just for you from the Master Wizardness of the Astral Academy!
We are proud to finally present the official Trine Series Discord server, dedicated only to the Trine games! Unite with other wizards, thieves and warriors to join in on your magical adventures on all of your favourite platform...
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Hello everyone!
The beginning of September marked the anniversary for the two Community Managers: ElluFB and VenlaFB, who have now been working at Frozenbyte for one year.
Oh, all the things that happened in those 12 months! There were man...
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