I’ve found the process of retreiving artworks from an elusive concept artist to be quite tedious. These people, ‘the creative people‘ as the politically-correct term seems to be these days, tend to turn into ostriches whenever a situation revolves around their previous creations, presumably because they see it as a flawed thing from the past, an ignomous monster they’ve spawned and are terribly ashamed of.

If you ask me tho, there’s nothing wrong with it. In fact I quite like the first version of Father Richiardo, the nun’s mentor.

In the updated version of Twin Blades Father Richiardo will be the central hub not only for the story as he gives indications to the nun, but also as a 24/7 convenience store as he’s now holding the shop accessible anytime between missions. That’s right, no more waiting until the End of Day to buy new weapons!

Next up we have a tree who’s role isn’t as central in the storyline, but is a nice tree anyway.

All that green stuff (along with many others) fit particularly well in the forest level, which has a certain eerie touch that make it particularly charming (if you take no notice of the zombies).

Feel free to send us your comments if you’d like to see more artworks!

I love fanmail.

It’s one of these things that make me happy when I get up in the morning and find some of you guys’ food for thoughts in our internationally renowned inbox info@press-start-studio.com.

Carlos sent us a couple mails (and comments on our blogs, and on our facebook page, and on our twitter too) because he’s very enthusiast about the nun using a katana or a chainsaw (and wearing a nurse uniform).

But before I bring this to the attention of my fellow co-workers at the next deliciously weird and exagerately long monday afternoon meetings (codenamed ‘Weekly Code-Graphics-Design-Finance-Business-Planning Round Table’), I really wonder about the relevance of the katana thing.

See if you ask me katanas are way overrated. Picture yourself in the street fighting for your life against zombies. Now would you rather have a stylish katana or an giant scythe in order to give you as much reach as possible and keep the brain-suckers away from your own grey matter?

Besides, everyone uses a katana these days. Take Highlander for instance, why would scottish Mc Leod use one of these instead of a more traditional claymore? And thus the filling scene where he explains that he felt in love with a Japanese girl who died in his arms and voila, katana.

Nowistanding my confidence that Bruce Willis would have picked a badass scythe if he could in pulp fiction, I appeal to your reason with this shiny new poll which may or may not be broken because it’s the first time I experiment this plugin.

Update: Aymar provided us with this really cool proof-by-image link, check it out!

The trailer is live with footage of the update content of Twin Blades, showing off slaaaaaash combos! (applause) The mini map! (applause) New environments! (applause) The story mode! (applause) Badass bosses! (booo)

Let us know what you think of the new content in the comments!

Twin Blades’ update is coming end of march (of this year) on XBLIG and the App store, and we’ve got a screenshot to prove it, featuring the second boss in its dedicated arena!

The scenario gave us a hard time, but it’s finally over with and we are satisfied with the outcome. You guys asked for a storyline and you are gonna get it, hard!

All of the graphic assets are now complete and it is up to Jeff & Fab our two code monkeys to finish the thing (which should take a couple of weeks because of all the stuff we kept adding into the game design while they were asleep).

More screens and vids coming in very soon!