Ascending: Peaks Beyond

Devlog

• Ascending: Peaks Beyond v0.0.3 Patch Notes
  December 19, 2025 by devalminer

  NOTE: This version is actually playable now! There may be bugs still, as expected for a game in v0.0.3. A known bug is that sometimes the bars will not load correctly and would be at 0/100. Reloading... Continue reading
• Game Aesthetics
  December 19, 2025 by Visorra

  Hello, this week I spent most of my time making the game look like more aesthetically pleasing and on the climbing animations as well. As the Lead Designer I did not have much work done code-wise. But... Continue reading

  
• Checkpoints and HUD System Integration
  December 19, 2025 by KYEWOLF

  Author: Kye Langer-Freeman Posted on: December 18, 2025 Part 1: The Problem This week, I ran into several problems as I continued expanding the player systems and UI in the project. As I added new fea... Continue reading

  
• AI Decision Making
  December 19, 2025 by bLemons89#AI, #behavior, #wolf, #animal, #decisions

  Author: Breanna Lemons Posted on 12/18/2025 Since I am supposed to be focusing on AI, I found myself disappointed in how little time I've actually gotten to spend on it so far. The first couple of wee... Continue reading

  
• Fixing Item Interaction During Demo Crunch
  December 18, 2025 by devalminer

  Hey everyone. This past week was focused on getting our project into a playable demo state. Most of my time as lead QA and assistant gameplay programmer went toward making sure core systems behaved co... Continue reading

  
• Load Game/New Game/Play Game Causing Player To Fall Through Map Fix
  December 18, 2025 by D3adMaNxAAAx

  Problem: After implementing the new save and load system I began my testing process on it and found some unsavory results. Whenever the player would press play game or new game, they would load in fal... Continue reading
• Ascending: Peaks Beyond v0.0.2 Patch Notes
  December 13, 2025 by devalminer

  Warning: v0.0.2 is not playable past the main menu! We are sorry for this inconvenience and a patch will come out some time in the near future to fix this. Time constraints and concerns have pushed us... Continue reading
• UI Functionality Issues and Improving Menu Systems
  December 13, 2025 by KYEWOLF

  Author: Kye Langer-Freeman Date: 12/12/2025 Part 1 — The Problem During this week of development, most of my work focused on refining the game’s UI. One of the major problems involved the Objectiv... Continue reading

  
• Boundaries Are Important
  December 13, 2025 by Visorra

  Author: Joshua Pulliam Posted on 12/12/2025 The Problem: I was tasked with creating a kill plane and a level blockout. Currently, the only way to lose is by interacting with the truck and deciding to... Continue reading

  
• Audio System Implementation and Issues
  December 13, 2025 by bLemons89#audio, #issues

  Author: Breanna Lemons Posted on 12/12/2025 I am supposed to be doing AI for this project, but we haven't gotten to the point where it needs to be implemented. Therefore, I volunteered for a task that... Continue reading

  
• Staying Productive When Dependencies Blocked QA and Programming Work
  December 12, 2025 by devalminer

  Challenges of the Past Week During this phase of production, my primary challenge was less about a broken system and more about timing. As quality assurance and an assistant programmer, much of my wor... Continue reading

  
• Menu Runtime Errors On Pressing Pause
  December 12, 2025 by D3adMaNxAAAx

  The Problem: When going through some testing of the new confirmation, and win lose menu's I kept running into these runtime errors when trying to press pause inside of the confirm leave / win / or los... Continue reading

  
• Ascending: Peaks Beyond v0.0.1 Patch Notes
  December 11, 2025 by devalminer

  Warning: v0.0.1 is not playable past the main menu! We are sorry for this inconvenience and a patch will come out some time in the near future to fix this. Time constraints and concerns have pushed us... Continue reading
• Organization and planning
  December 08, 2025 by Visorra

  Author: Joshua Pulliam Posted on 12/7/2025 Hello! I am the Lead Designer and Assistant Gameplay Programmer. During this first week of production there was some confusion as to when we were supposed to... Continue reading
• Asset Hunt & Style Determination
  December 08, 2025 by D3adMaNxAAAx

  The Problem: I was trying to determine the overall style and assets we will be using for Ascending: Peaks Beyond, but the main issue was that we did not have much in terms of available assets. Things... Continue reading

  
• Getting Started
  December 08, 2025 by bLemons89#setup, #organization, #planning

  Author: Breanna Lemons Posted on 12/7/2025 I am the Lead AI Programmer and Assistant Quality Assurance Programmer for this project. There have been many steps taken already to get the game ready for d... Continue reading

  
• Main Menu Implementation And Tight Time Constraints
  December 08, 2025 by KYEWOLF

  Author: Kye Langer-Freeman Posted on: 12/07/2025 Part 1: The Problem This week, as the lead UI Programmer, I started on building the Main Menu for our game and getting the Play and Quit functions work... Continue reading

  
• The Setup Process of Ascending: Peaks Beyond
  December 08, 2025 by devalminer#v0.0.1, #Week 2, #Project, #Setup

  Good evening! I am the lead Quality Assurance and assistant Gameplay Programmer for Ascending: Peaks Beyond. I'd like to recount the setup process and highlight challenges I faced between finding a te... Continue reading