HELLO.
IT'S BEEN THREE WEEKS, AND WE ADDED SO MUCH IN THIS BUILD, AND IT'S 3 AM.
To summarize:
- We basically doubled the amount of stores in the game, complete with new dogs and items.
- More main story content! It's not locked off yet so that you experience them in order, so have fun figuring out where in the game's timeline a given interaction with your fiancée will slot in.
- We now have a DOG MOD system. Throwing and/or using appro...
2020-11-23 10:05:48 +0000 UTC
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WE ADDED SO MUCH.
I'M SORRY IT'S BEEN THREE WEEKS SINCE THE LAST BUILD BUT WE ADDED SO MANY NEW SHOPS AND I HAD TO WRITE SO MANY NEW F*CKING DOGS AND I UNDERESTIMATED HOW MUCH TIME IT TAKES TO WRITE THAT MANY NEW DOGS ON TOP OF ADDING THAT MUCH NEW CONTENT.
Some things to keep in mind, whether you're a new player or a long-time Dog Fan:
- Gates open about 90 minutes before boarding time. If your dogs aren't there, you need to bend the fabric of time. If you'...
2020-11-23 08:52:32 +0000 UTC
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Heya, folks!
You know the drill. We've got a new comic short story--this time, exploring the consequences of a series of theme park murders, when their murderer is essentially cyberpunk Walt Disney.
The art is cool as hell, and I hope you'll find both the finalized comic (as well as behind-the-scenes content!) attached.
For the Dog Airport Game fans out there - expect a new update in the near future with story content, and more ~vendor dogs~.
--Xalavier
2020-11-10 21:05:18 +0000 UTC
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Heya, folks!
Coming very soon is our next Strange Scaffold comic - Electric Smile. In a fusion of Disneyland and Westworld that spans half of the continental United States, a detective jumps between carefully-maintained arcologies to bring the founder of this fantasy empire to justice.
With art by the brilliant up-and-comer Molpokolov, our next four-page story is a genre-bending noir ...
2020-11-06 20:43:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!
Remember how I was talking about how we needed to do a full prop pass on Elf Planet?
We did a full prop pass on Elf Planet.
It's frigging GORGEOUS, and the entire bottom level has a mushroom forest, so you can tell we're doing some next-level stuff these days. Meanwhile, Patsville added a new Dog Park, and every planet got...
2020-10-26 21:11:00 +0000 UTC
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In this build, Elf Planet gets one of the most rad glow-ups you've ever seen. It's filled with trees, foliage, and gorgeous scenery, as well as the hut of the Babayadog - if you can find it.
We also added a fully-formed Dog Park to Patsville, fixed a critical UI crash bug, put a unique, unusual Safety Dog encounter in every airport, and ensured every airport has a bespoke Information Dog to meet. A bunch of work got done last week, and y'all directly made that ...
2020-10-26 20:50:07 +0000 UTC
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We fixed several issues after the Alpha, found several more - and have a new build ready in a SINGLE WEEK after the last one, because our Alpha is that damn stable. It's rad to work on a modular game that functions between public releases, it turns out!
Some things to keep in mind, whether you're a new player or a long-time Dog Fan:
- Gates open about 90 minutes before boarding time. If your dogs aren't there, you need to bend the fabric of time. If you'v...
2020-10-20 01:33:39 +0000 UTC
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Okay, that headline is partially true. We'll get into that in a moment.
Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!
After the v1 pf Alpha, our first priority was tightening up the airports. We couldn't do a full prop pass on Elf Planet just yet, to add the range of vegetation and Chill Spots it deserves, but I'm happy to report that every airport now has a full complement of systemic elements (phone booths, stores, vending machines, ATMs, etc.). Technically...
2020-10-20 01:29:28 +0000 UTC
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Heya, folks!
A couple months ago, I started my comics career by launching a set of updating short stories. The first story, and the only one to receive multiple installments, is called Sherlock Holmes Hunts the Moth Man.
This tale has been living in my brain and heart for years. There's so much left to tell, and our final installment (for now) breaks my heart every time I read ...
2020-10-13 20:49:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!
I think I've been awake for over 24 hours now, so I'm going to keep this short:
1) Dog Airport Game is OFFICIALLY IN ALPHA! As of today, we are Airport Complete, with 6 stunning open-world venues to adventure through in your journey across the cosmos. And, they're only going to get better as we fill them up with a metric ton of Really Cool Stuff, and fix issues we find over time. More polish, more usability, and more dogs - it's a bright futur...
2020-10-13 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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I HAVEN'T SLEPT IN OVER 24 HOURS AND THE ONLY THING DRIVING ME IS DOGS.
As you'll see in our update, we're stoked to be sponsoring this season of internet super sport Blaseball - and Dog Airport Game has reached Alpha!
We've got our full slate of six absurd open-world airports in the game, ready to fill with more quests, dogs, secrets, and jokes in the coming months. We're also adding further polish and content to ...
2020-10-13 15:51:00 +0000 UTC
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I desperately need to sleep, so here are the four things you need to know about An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs and the people who make it, Blaseball fans:
1) YOU CAN PET ANY DOG AT ANY TIME WITH AN INFINITE NUMBER OF HANDS
Why an infinite number of hands, you ask? Why does every press of the pet button spawn a simultaneous hand from an alternate dimension to ...
2020-10-12 16:58:04 +0000 UTC
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As mentioned in the public announcement, there's still cleanup work to do across the worlds (especially Uranus). However, we've hit the point where our final slate of airports are all implemented in-game, in some form. If you'd like a more polished version of these things, look out for our update next Monday.
Some things to keep in mind, whether you're a new player or a long-time Dog Fan:
- Gates open about 90 minutes before boarding time. If your dogs aren't the...
2020-10-08 06:00:34 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!
If you check the Patreon front page, you'll notice the text and tiers have changed - which is a good thing! All of your benefits have been expanded, there's now space for more people to get their pets put into my projects (and for patrons to get their pets in several of my projects); it's a good time. I'm looking forward to y'alls thoughts on those changes - feel free to DM me here, or 2020-10-08 05:52:13 +0000 UTC
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I've spent days trying to come up with some lovely, concise way of showing just how big of a deal this new update is. Then I realized I could just make a video. So I did!
In the video above, you'll watch me live-develop (alongside my co-developer and programmer Tom Vinita) one of the three new airports coming in the update planned for next week. Topics include the agonizing process of choosing...
2020-10-02 07:33:39 +0000 UTC
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SEND ME THE PICTURES OF YOUR PETS.
Wasn't expecting that, were ya?
I am still hounding some of y'all for photos of pups, but it has taken on the air of a game, now. I have detached from reality. I have ascended to a new area of purgatory heretofore undiscovered. Asking for pet photos (if you indeed want one included in the game and are at the appropriate patron tier) is just what I do.
It's who I am.
It's who I've alw...
2020-09-22 04:46:11 +0000 UTC
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Heya folks!
This update is a pretty short, as I am primarily, desperately begging for folks who haven't sent in their pet photos to send them in as soon as humanly possible.
You can hear the final music track for Uranus above - which is one of the airports arriving in this month's update! I've gone through the heck of a wringer in the past month, but development has quietly chugged along. It seems like we'll have the complete slate of airports that will b...
2020-09-12 17:06:46 +0000 UTC
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Hello!
Please, send me your pet photos, if you haven't already, and you're at that patron tier. Time is running out to do that. Thank you.
Just a brief update, this time. Our next expansion is dropping very soon, and includes a bunch of improvements, including an options menu (with accessibility features!), a revamped Pedogstrian system (including the addition of Pedogstrielves!), and the first version of Elf Planet, among other invisible leaps forward.
2020-08-27 05:42:23 +0000 UTC
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You saw the public announcement, filled with HOPE and BELIEF despite the WORLD BEING ON FIRE.
We've got a new build for y'all - and it's rad!
Some things to keep in mind, whether you're a new player or a long-time Dog Fan:
- Gates open about 90 minutes before boarding time. If your dogs aren't there, you need to bend the fabric of time. If you've bent the fabric of...
2020-08-05 12:03:58 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!
I'll keep this short, even though the update is very large indeed.
We've got more dogs for ya, as always. More shops. More items, and item effects. More conversations. More existential dread. A dog gives you a gun. However, perhaps the greatest milestone of all, is that you can finally meet your fiancee and fellow human: Krista Marshall.
At the edge of the Marinara Trench Interstellar Airport, you'll meet the only other human being in th...
2020-08-05 11:52:17 +0000 UTC
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In case the headline worries you - I'm not doing it immediately.
To make sure each pup (and cat) gets the attention they deserve, I'm closing off all new applications to the Dog Devotee and Cat Conspirator tiers in two weeks. About 1 month after that, I won't be able to accept any further pet pictures from patrons (even if you're entitled to it!), for the sake of the game getting finished in time.
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2020-07-28 21:20:08 +0000 UTC
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You know how the game is about the last two human beings in the galaxy, meeting and departing from each other like two generous, loving, orbiting stars as they pursue their individual lives in a universe of dogs?
You, the player, are one of these beings.
...This is the other.
This is the animation set for Krista Marshall - your in-game fiancee. She exists, now, and you'll...
2020-07-23 00:12:37 +0000 UTC
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Hiya, folks!
I've been a bit more quiet here as I try to share progress more frequently via Discord (you can join the Discord here for exclusive updates and late-night questions about what I should name a dog or something!).
Did you know we have a Safety Dog system now? Bring an illegal or dangerous item to Safety Dog, and he'll give you an exclusive reward associated with the airport you're currently occu...
2020-07-16 21:49:10 +0000 UTC
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You saw the public announcement! We've got a new build ready for y'all, and, yet again, it's our biggest one yet.
Some things to keep in mind for the awesomeness you're about to encounter:
- Gates open about 90 minutes before boarding time. If your dogs aren't there, you need to bend the fabric of time. If you've bent the fabric of time properly and t...
2020-06-25 11:29:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Dog Fans and Cat Conspirators!
In my biased opinion, the wait has been worth it.
I am so, so delighted to say we're finally at the point where we can fully claim to have a simulated universe of airports. You can wait for a flight for eight hours, in real time, travel between a network of three interconnected airports (each with unique scenery and logic), and you can bend the fabric of time itself as a dog howls in the solar winds.
You know.
N...
2020-06-25 11:23:13 +0000 UTC
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Hiya, folks!
Thank you for your ongoing support of my work - in particular, An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. We're right on track for the release of the next major expansion (a couple months in the making!) this week, complete with usable items, a new airport, oodles of neat features and improvements... and *more dogs*.
That said - I've got a surprise for y'all.
I've got a new game launching next week, on June 30th, called 2020-06-23 22:11:34 +0000 UTC
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okay, it is late at night, and i think the Marinara Trench airport is finally complete. also, you can drink sodas and stuff.
that said, I do not trust mine own eyes to behold the game and say "okay yeah that's ready to shout about".
if you want to bang on the build and let me know if anything catastrophically bad happens
i'd deeply appreciate it
2020-06-16 09:25:01 +0000 UTC
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So, you might have noticed that the link to download Pre-Alpha Build 7 is now broken. This is because I was so confident that I would have Pre-Alpha Build 8 finished by the end of today, that I cleared the Google Drive space in advance.
That was a horrible mistake.
See, I thought I found a way to build the physical layout of an airport across 2-3 full-time days. Above, you can se...
2020-06-11 08:33:05 +0000 UTC
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The world was already on fire when I wrote the last patron update. If possible, it has gotten even more on fire. That has slowed progress a bit.
However, progress is still occurring in Dog Airport Game land, and I am therefore delighted to introduce you to the track for our in-development noir airport. I have been looping it for days, because this is genuinely one of the best pieces of game music I think has ever existed. And it's appearing in this project! In an airport called...
2020-06-04 10:04:05 +0000 UTC
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Heya! Above, you can listen to some extremely good vibes, courtesy of a preview of our Elf Planet music.
A few pieces of big news:
- The next airport is nearly ready! It's a flooded desert environment known as the Marinara Trench. You'll have to cross between the terminals using a regular network of speedy trams. Ignore the floating, crimson chunks in the liquid below. That's just marinara sauce. It's edible! Everything is fine.
Trust me.
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2020-05-27 06:07:29 +0000 UTC
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