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BattleJuice Alchemist
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This week's devlog arrives a day early. "Why?" you ask? Because I have some news to share that I am extremely proud of: BattleJuice Alchemist won the award for Best Visual Art at DevGamm! Let me tell you all about it !(article below)


Hey folks,

I am super proud to tell you that BattleJuice Alchemist won the award for Best Visual Art at DevGamm Vilnius 2023. For those of you who are not familiar with it, DevGAMM was born in the Ukraine in 2008 and has been uniting game industry professionals from Eastern Europe and beyond for over 15 years now. Each conference features multiple networking opportunities, great speakers, and new games from all over the world.

Having taken part in DevGamm last year, I would have loved to go there this year in person myself. But although I could not make it, our producer Alex from ESDigital went and represented us and our game very honorably. We had a booth there where players could play BattleJuice Alchemist:

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I still have to debrief Alex whether any hardware was destroyed out of frustration or if everything went smoothly.

We already knew BattleJuice Alchemist was nominated for the Best Visual Art award, but we were not expecting to actually win.

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The visual style of our game has always resonated quite well with people when I posted about it, but about two years ago, it was still quite rough around the edges (literally, the lines were way too rough). I think we could never have won a visual art award, if it wasn't for our art director Felix and our 2D/3D artist Patrick, who ironed out our art bible with me and made essential changes so the game could look how it does today.

So everyone here at Alchemical Works and ESDigital is very proud Alex can bring home this heavy beast of a trophy.

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Thank you for reading! In our next bi-weekly devlog I'll return to normal and tell you more about what we are currently working on inside the game.

Alain

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