https://jagaco.com/blog Follow our development journey, get behind-the-scenes insights, and learn about our process of creating indie games. en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mon, 18 May 2026 09:40:37 GMT 1440 https://jagaco.com/2026/05/18/pre-alpha-demo https://jagaco.com/2026/05/18/pre-alpha-demo Next Saturday, we'll be showing our game's first pre-alpha demo to players outside the development team for the very first time. An exciting and nerve-wracking milestone that will give us our first real feedback on the experience we're creating. Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Quinn's Quest game-design testing https://jagaco.com/2025/07/31/the-controversy-of-using-generative-ai-in-game-development https://jagaco.com/2025/07/31/the-controversy-of-using-generative-ai-in-game-development Examining the dual nature of generative AI in game development, highlighting both opportunities and concerns, and how Jagaco Games uses AI as a collaborative tool. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren AI game-development technology Quinn's Quest https://jagaco.com/2025/05/22/a-living-world https://jagaco.com/2025/05/22/a-living-world Why our game is more than just empty space, creating a world full of people, purpose, and stories that respond to player actions. Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Quinn's Quest game-design world-building art https://jagaco.com/2025/05/08/the-temptation-of-building-the-perfect-editor https://jagaco.com/2025/05/08/the-temptation-of-building-the-perfect-editor The seductive nature of tool-building in game development and why sometimes 'good enough' is perfect. Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Quinn's Quest technology game-development tools https://jagaco.com/2025/04/24/crafting-beauty-through-limitations https://jagaco.com/2025/04/24/crafting-beauty-through-limitations How indexed rendering and a strict 82-color palette creates visual consistency and artistic discipline in our pixel art RPG. Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Quinn's Quest art technology pixel-art https://jagaco.com/2025/04/10/a-quiet-blog-a-busy-world https://jagaco.com/2025/04/10/a-quiet-blog-a-busy-world The team explains their extended silence by revealing the ambitious scope of their pixel art fantasy RPG in development. Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Quinn's Quest business game-development https://jagaco.com/2022/11/26/town-update https://jagaco.com/2022/11/26/town-update Progress on enhancing the protagonist's hometown with NPCs, daily schedules, and atmospheric details in our open-world RPG. Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Wilco Van Starrenburg Quinn's Quest game-development level-design https://jagaco.com/2021/08/03/storytelling https://jagaco.com/2021/08/03/storytelling A programmer's journey into narrative writing, carrying a story for two decades and finally bringing it to life. Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Quinn's Quest writing art game-development https://jagaco.com/2021/04/10/how-to-workflow https://jagaco.com/2021/04/10/how-to-workflow Development lessons from our new RPG project, best practices for indie game development including demos, systems, and perseverance. Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren technology game-development workflow https://jagaco.com/2021/03/14/happy-pi-day https://jagaco.com/2021/03/14/happy-pi-day Exploring the mathematical constant Pi through programming, from visualization to calculating 100,000 digits using the Chudnovsky algorithm. Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren technology programming mathematics https://jagaco.com/2019/03/25/game-developers-conference-2019 https://jagaco.com/2019/03/25/game-developers-conference-2019 Five days at GDC 2019 in San Francisco, from Google Stadia's announcement to RTX raytracing and insights from industry giants. Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren GDC technology art game-development https://jagaco.com/2017/09/21/dutch-game-awards-nominee https://jagaco.com/2017/09/21/dutch-game-awards-nominee Jagaco received a nomination for the Dutch Game Awards in the 'Best Serious Game' category for Blokje Om, a VR training tool for children. Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco awards Blokje Om VR serious-games https://jagaco.com/2017/06/22/building-an-arcade-cabinet-part-2 https://jagaco.com/2017/06/22/building-an-arcade-cabinet-part-2 The physical construction phase cutting MDF, working with acrylic, and assembling our custom arcade cabinet. Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT Thom Zeilstra hardware arcade DIY https://jagaco.com/2017/04/11/our-development-workflow https://jagaco.com/2017/04/11/our-development-workflow The team examines their development practices against industry standards, focusing on optimization and automation of their workflow. Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT Remco Brilstra development workflow tech https://jagaco.com/2017/03/23/building-an-arcade-cabinet-part-1 https://jagaco.com/2017/03/23/building-an-arcade-cabinet-part-1 Building an arcade cabinet, can't be that difficult, right? Turns out, it's more difficult than we first thought. Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT Thom Zeilstra Alpha arcade hardware https://jagaco.com/2017/03/16/the-nintendo-switch-released https://jagaco.com/2017/03/16/the-nintendo-switch-released Two programmers acquired the Nintendo Switch with Zelda, significantly impacting office productivity. The company is considering developing a game for the platform. Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren news Nintendo Switch https://jagaco.com/2017/02/18/alpha-art-process https://jagaco.com/2017/02/18/alpha-art-process We've been talking a lot about how all of the tech for Alpha works, but haven't gone into detail what the Alpha art process looks like. Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT Wilco Van Starrenburg Alpha art game-design https://jagaco.com/2017/01/31/clicker-math https://jagaco.com/2017/01/31/clicker-math Overview of the mathematical systems behind Clickernauts, a clicker game featuring weapon upgrades and exponential resource growth mechanics. Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT Thom Zeilstra tech game-design math https://jagaco.com/2017/01/17/traffic-simulation-in-blokje-om https://jagaco.com/2017/01/17/traffic-simulation-in-blokje-om Virtual traffic training game aimed at younger audience requires realistic traffic simulation. The game uses a traffic manager system to control vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians throughout the city environment. Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Blink VR tech game-design https://jagaco.com/2016/12/18/procedural-dungeon-generation https://jagaco.com/2016/12/18/procedural-dungeon-generation For the Action-RPG Quinn's Quest, the developers implemented a system for procedurally generated dungeons featuring rooms for exploration, combat, and treasure collection. Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT Thom Zeilstra Quinn's Quest tech procedural-generation https://jagaco.com/2016/12/12/custom-depthbuffer https://jagaco.com/2016/12/12/custom-depthbuffer By creating a custom depth buffer we utilize the full extent of our Spritebatch by drawing all the static objects in only one drawcall. Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Alpha tech graphics https://jagaco.com/2016/12/05/hello-world-welcome-alpha https://jagaco.com/2016/12/05/hello-world-welcome-alpha A collaborative project between Jagaco and Refreshing Security introduces Alpha, a real-time simulation game designed to enhance information security awareness through interactive professional scenarios. Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT Remco Brilstra Alpha security applied-games https://jagaco.com/2016/11/26/road-to-roads https://jagaco.com/2016/11/26/road-to-roads Blog post about the art development of road sections for a virtual reality traffic simulation. Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT Wilco Van Starrenburg art VR development https://jagaco.com/2016/08/29/building-asset-pipeline-part-1 https://jagaco.com/2016/08/29/building-asset-pipeline-part-1 An asset pipeline is the workflow used to get models, textures and sounds from Digital Content Creators like Photoshop and 3DS Max into your game. Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Remco Brilstra tech tools development https://jagaco.com/2016/08/01/rooms-in-our-editor https://jagaco.com/2016/08/01/rooms-in-our-editor To make the life of our artists easier we decided to upgrade the level editor with the ability to create rooms in a single mouse-drag Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren tools editor development https://jagaco.com/2016/07/29/flexible-effect-system https://jagaco.com/2016/07/29/flexible-effect-system Writing a flexible effect system can be challenging, especially when you have to support multiple render APIs with the least amount of work for your artists Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren tech graphics shaders https://jagaco.com/2016/07/02/resellers-channel-management https://jagaco.com/2016/07/02/resellers-channel-management They always say: 'Talk to people about your game', but as a programmer that can sometimes be hard to do. Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren business networking https://jagaco.com/2016/06/16/warcraft-the-movie https://jagaco.com/2016/06/16/warcraft-the-movie The Jagaco team took time off to see the new Warcraft film in their country's largest cinema, enjoying the movie despite some lore divergences. Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco news team entertainment https://jagaco.com/2015/07/25/first-tier-of-beta-testing-is-in-progress https://jagaco.com/2015/07/25/first-tier-of-beta-testing-is-in-progress The first tier of beta tests for Ungoverned Lands is in progress. Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT Wilco Van Starrenburg Ungoverned Lands beta-test testing https://jagaco.com/2015/07/08/beta-testing-started https://jagaco.com/2015/07/08/beta-testing-started Today marks the start of our beta testing period of Ungoverned Lands Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco Ungoverned Lands beta-test news https://jagaco.com/2015/04/06/beta-test-sign-up-ungoverned-lands-closed https://jagaco.com/2015/04/06/beta-test-sign-up-ungoverned-lands-closed The signup period is now closed and we are happy to tell you that we have many participants. We are looking forward to a great testing period. Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco Ungoverned Lands beta-test news https://jagaco.com/2015/03/01/game-developers-conference-2015 https://jagaco.com/2015/03/01/game-developers-conference-2015 Jagaco is at the Game Developers Conference! This will be a week of inside peeks in new tech, chatting with our heroes and getting inspired. Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren GDC business tech news https://jagaco.com/2015/02/02/ungoverned-lands-beta-signup https://jagaco.com/2015/02/02/ungoverned-lands-beta-signup The Beta test phase for Ungoverned lands will be starting soon, Signup to be one of the first to enter these ungoverned lands. Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco Ungoverned Lands beta-test news https://jagaco.com/2014/11/17/close-to-beta https://jagaco.com/2014/11/17/close-to-beta You would think that at the end of a project motivation skyrockets. Unfortunately this is not true. The last steps are the hardest to take, let me explain.. Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren Ungoverned Lands tech development https://jagaco.com/2014/10/21/faction-rufus https://jagaco.com/2014/10/21/faction-rufus New opponents approach the Ungoverned Lands. The faction 'Rufus' joins the fray. Find out who they are. Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco Ungoverned Lands factions game-design https://jagaco.com/2014/08/09/emulating-style https://jagaco.com/2014/08/09/emulating-style A blog post entry about how Wilco has been working towards emulating Myron's art style. Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT Wilco Van Starrenburg art Ungoverned Lands development https://jagaco.com/2014/08/05/inside-the-office https://jagaco.com/2014/08/05/inside-the-office Jagaco's new office with pictures and everything! Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco news office team https://jagaco.com/2014/07/12/our-own-office https://jagaco.com/2014/07/12/our-own-office There comes a time when your hobby is getting out of hand... We have made a big decision; we are going to rent our own office! Sat, 12 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco business news office https://jagaco.com/2014/06/24/business https://jagaco.com/2014/06/24/business Jagaco games is officially in business! Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco business news https://jagaco.com/2014/06/05/producing-with-or-without-a-game-engine https://jagaco.com/2014/06/05/producing-with-or-without-a-game-engine The decision of producing with or without a game engine can have major effects on the game, team and company. Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT Vincent Broeren business tech development https://jagaco.com/2014/05/19/faction-caeruleus https://jagaco.com/2014/05/19/faction-caeruleus An introduction to the faction Caeruleus in our upcoming title Ungoverned Lands Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco Ungoverned Lands factions game-design https://jagaco.com/2014/03/28/introducing-ungoverned-lands https://jagaco.com/2014/03/28/introducing-ungoverned-lands Ungoverned Lands is a digitally hand painted 2D isometric Real-time strategy game for mobile platforms Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco Ungoverned Lands news announcement https://jagaco.com/2014/03/19/hello-social https://jagaco.com/2014/03/19/hello-social Jagaco Games is now accessible on both Facebook and Twitter, sharing updates with the world through these social platforms. Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco news social-media https://jagaco.com/2014/02/11/hello-world https://jagaco.com/2014/02/11/hello-world The Jagaco Games team celebrates their website launch and announces they are a Dutch game development studio working on their first project. Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT Jagaco news announcement