Legend of Grimrock Dungeon Editor Update and More

There’s a new blog entry up on the official Legend of Grimrock website today, in which our friend Antti shares the news that the small independent studio has hired an additional graphics designer, that shirts and other merchandise are now available for purchase, and that the much-anticipated dungeon editor continues to be worked on (and will support custom assets!). Word is:

Almost Human made a big leap and we did our first hire! Let’s all welcome Jyri, who’s an old colleague/friend of ours. He has previously worked on Trine 2 and Shattered Horizon, among other things, and his special skills include ZBrush and mucking around on an electronic drumset. He already started working on some 3D objects that will certainly find their home in a dark dungeon somewhere but right now as I’m writing this, he’s having fun by assembling some Swedish furniture which incidentally will also find their home in a dark dungeon somewhere (e.g. our office).

We also opened a Cafepress store where you can buy Legend of Grimrock and Almost Human shirts, hoodies and pet bowls! Tell us what you think and if there’s something you would like to see in the store, do let us know and we’ll take a look if it’s doable!

The dungeon editor is also progressing well. I know there’s a lot of folks out there who have been asking if using custom assets, like new environment graphics, monsters, sounds, items etc., would be possible and I’m glad to say that we have now solved all remaining issues with those! I’m sure we’ll see a lot of awesome new fan made graphics and other things of immeasurable beauty 🙂 . There’s also a handful of usability improvements like better filtering of the asset list (no more scrolling, yay!) and we think we could call the editor pretty much feature complete. This means that it’s now possible to do everything necessary with the editor to create functional custom dungeons but there’s still a few improvements we want to make and we’ll also have to update the game itself a little so you can load the custom dungeons there. But all in all, we’re very close to the finish line here!