Today (yes, these guys work quickly …), I had an interview with Chris Priestman from Indie Game Magazine. Questions varied from information about Triangle Studios to in-depth information on the gamplay of CotD. It’s the first interview about Cross of the Dutchman on a website reporting purely on Indie games, let’s hope there will be [...]
The Frisians are proud of their heritage. Several initiatives like Afuk and Praat mar Frysk have taken up the task of maintaining and promoting the Frisian language. When we started prototyping Cross of the Dutchman, we came to the topic of music and voice acting. One of the main goals we had set for ourselves [...]
Just this weekend, a topic was created about this very subject. I won’t deny that it gave me a reason to push this item to be written, but it was also something I was looking forward to blogging about. In the legend of Grutte Pier, there are a couple of important battles that are fought [...]
Earlier this week, we posted information about our source for visual inspiration, de Tresoor. In this article, we’re expanding that vision, and will show you how we are designing the villages and towns that are featured in CotD. The game world of CotD has a wide variety of different areas; from villages to harbors to [...]
Subjects this week from left to right: Frank, Remco, Jildert and Erik. We’re doing short team meetings every morning to discuss which tasks will be worked on for that day. Although they are meant to be short and serious, they still leave room for some office humor. ;)
We’ve read them all. All the Books, Fan-sites and Wikipedia articles about Pier, the 16th century, weapons and so on. But none of those were able to give us a good picture of what the world of Medieval Frisia actually looked like. Fortunately, we found ‘de Tresoor van Jacob Jansz Poortvliet‘, a tremendous book drawn [...]
“Grutte” Pier Gerlofs Donia The main character in Cross of the Dutchman. The man who decided to take up arms for the Frisian people after a band of Saxon mercenaries burned down his beloved village Kimswerd and killed his wife. He was well known for the huge sword he wielded in battles. Because of his [...]
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands – September 20, 2011 – Dutch independent game developer Triangle Studios is proud to announce their next project: Cross of the Dutchman. Cross of the Dutchman is an action-adventure game based on the folk legend of “Grutte” Pier Gerlofs Donia. In Cross of the Dutchman, you as the player take the role [...]
A new week, a new update! A lot has been going on the past few weeks. Not only have we launched this community website, but we also have been preparing for the next stage in the development of CotD. Erik, our senior developer took a late summer holiday, giving the rest of the the team [...]
We’re ending the week on a different note, with our first Picture of the week article. This week, our victim is Pascal who was “willing” to pose for us while drawing the art piece for yesterday’s article. Who will it be next week? Don’t know, but it will be either CotD or Triangle Studios related, that’s for [...]
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