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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
This is an article I’ve been looking forward to personally. One of the biggest issues we faced when writing the story of Pier, is how we would portray him. Would he be a savior and liberator…
Ah, finally an article about the development of CotD. But what’s that, it’s not written by one of the programmers! Fright ye not, I may not be responsible for the programming side of CotD, there is…
Europees Landbouwfonds voor Plattelandsontwikkeling (ELFPO), Europa investeert in zijn platteland.
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