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The Adventure of Porting The World After to Mobile and Console

Initially delayed by technical challenges and market constraints, “The World After” faced numerous development hurdles, including unsupported video formats and changing Android rules. After securing a partnership with PixelHeart, it successfully launched on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch on March 28, 2024. Future projects will utilize Godot for smoother development.


2024-09-09 0

The Cyclops Cemetery FMV Game Project: Evolution and Challenges

What’s happening with The Cyclops Cemetery? Two years ago, we told you about our new FMV game project, The Cyclops Cemetery. Guillaume had obtained writing support from the french CNC to produce a complete game design document. We worked with Lyon-based artist Hugo Charpentier to produce concept art – his work is incredible, and you…
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2024-09-07 0

The World After: the mobile port

We have great ambitions for The World After. After the release of the game on Steam in May 2021, we wanted to make mobile (and console) ports. As it isn’t released yet, you can imagine that we ran into problems. Video codecs, Linux and Windows 7 In order to make The World After, we had…
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2022-06-16 0

Our new game project: Beneath The Cyclops Cemetery

One year after the release of The World After, we can finally announce what we have been working on for the past year, our new game project: Beneath The Cyclops Cemetery. A new FMV adventure game Beneath the Cyclops Cemetery is an ambitious Sci-Fi video adventure with inventory puzzles and rail-shooter style gunfights.It is entirely…
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2022-06-02 0

The post-production of The World After

Once we shot everything for The World After, we had to start the post-production of the cinematic part of the game. Special effects and visual effects I made an article about the special effects of the game, but once you have special effects, you can improve them with visual effects. Visual effects can be made…
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2022-05-19 0

The World After – The inventory

Today I’m going to tell you how the inventory was implemented in The World After. An inventory-less adventure Since we were just beginning our transition to game development, we didn’t yet know exactly what features we could implement in the game. For the writing, Guillaume was very much inspired by a small independent German game…
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2022-05-05 0

Our team: Francois

Hi everyone! My name is François, and I’m the main graphic designer / producer of Burning Sunset and I live in Vienne, France (near Lyon). My background I started as a cameraman in 2009 for a local TV and I mostly worked on short movies and music videos as cinematographer. My career has always been…
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2022-02-25 2

Our second jam: pixel art and burning sunsets

After making our first game, we enjoyed the experience so much we decided to enter another game jam. Multiverse Justice Check the game for free on itch.io For our second jam we were a little bit more prepared, so we made this little demo in a week. It’s a platformer that allows you to switch…
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2022-02-18 0

Our first game jam

Burning Sunset was founded in 2020 by Lesly Grange and myself, François message. We’re two French entrepreneurs that weren’t working in the videogames industry at all before starting all of this. We had a common passion for videogames for a long time, we even had a Youtube Channel where we talked about indie games: Ja2b.…
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2022-02-11 0

Welcome to the Burning Sunset’s Devlog!

Hi everyone! Welcome to this new devlog, where we’ll share our progresses and struggles for all our upcoming games!Feel free to ask us any questions here in the comments or in our Discord server The first posts will introduce ourselves, so stay tuned! You can check our merch in the meanwhile


2022-02-04 0