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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 432 | The Making of Tri-Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey

Hello! It's me, Colin. Please help me in welcoming a couple of familiar faces back to Sacred+, as well as a pair of newcomers making their first appearance: Barry Johnson, Lachlan Pini, Josh Davis, and Joshua Gossage. I've assembled this particular crew because these four guys are the creative team behind Tri Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey, the newest game from the indie studio I co-own with Barry, Lillymo. It's a direct sequel to Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure, which we first released on PS4 and Vita back in 2020, and as the name suggests, it stars the cast of Sacred Symbols, this time in an unusual, time-bending ordeal. As usual, Barry designed and programmed the game, but we got lots of help from the other guys, too, with Lachlan's and Joshua's pixel art and Josh's (also known as Lazer) chiptune soundtrack. As for me? I wrote it, constituting about 1% of the work that went into making Tri Breaker a reality. These guys are the real heroes! So join me as I pick the team's brains about the origins of our newest title, the serious work that went into it, the inspirations we drew from, and even discuss some of the mistakes we made along the way. As usual, I hope these kinds of conversations give you interesting insight into the often-mysterious world of game development, warts and all. I know I for one am grateful for the context my forays into game dev provide... so why not spread the wealth?

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 432 | The Making of Tri-Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey
Sacred Symbols+, Episode 432 | The Making of Tri-Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey Sacred Symbols+, Episode 432 | The Making of Tri-Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey

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Thanks, I try.

Dry jelqing to the 8 HOURS RICH PIANA THEME ARM WORKOUT MUSIC video

Amazing username

Glen Yelenovic

I love that there's a track called Goon sesh on the soundtrack 😂 Just listened through the whole thing, got megaman vibes but mixed with gothic undertones. Love it

Yalingo

Great, very interesting episode with amazing people. Why are they all great at podcasting, wtf haha. Just bought the game aswell, let's get those numbers up 🫡

Robin Meyer

This talk inspired me to get back into game dev this year! I have put it aside for too long

latenitecali

Have you hired a consultant, some proven expert, at least to be an outside set of eyes for a post mortem? It seems extremely frustrating to toil away only to have no sense of market success.

Hugh Jalode

Yeah, if they just targeted a few hotter genres like a roguelike, I think they’d get a hit.

Diddy’s Dong Quest

I definitely agree that the less-than-hoped-for sales of Tri-Breaker is down to it being a brick breaker. Putting in my request for a Colin Moriarty written visual novel.

Dry jelqing to the 8 HOURS RICH PIANA THEME ARM WORKOUT MUSIC video

Feel awful for Barrie. My dog has cancer right now, 7.5 years old. It’s the hardest thing you could do

The Rose Experience

Neat! Bring on the RPG

Robbie Agnew

Awesome, congrats on the release! Pumped to check this one out

Joe Perez


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