How it started
My name is Petru, and I am the solo developer and creator of BaleYc Studios and INFLUXIS. As a kid, I used to love going to aquariums and obsessed over sea creatures, especially deep-sea ones which I found really cool. My second obsession was making games. I suppose it was only natural and a matter of time till I would have worked on INFLUXIS.
I first had the idea of this game in 2015, doodling and sketching various alien sea creatures in my notebook. It took me however 5 more years, till 2020, for me to decide to actually start making a game out of all these ideas.
How it developed
It took me 4 months to create a quick prototype of the game, and so INFLUXIS Alpha 0.1 was born. It was bad, really bad, but somehow people did play it, and I learned from my mistakes, first of many to come. Next update was going to be called Crystal Wonders and was going to add the first deep biome: the crystal caverns: and it was out, and the game was a bit better, and my motivation and skillsets only improved from there, getting better with every update.
2 years into development, I decided I wanted to create a discord server for the game. That was one of the best decisions I ever made. It allowed me to directly communicate with players and like-minded individuals, share my progress and develop the game with the player’s needs in mind. As I am writing this, the server has more than 250 members and is a vibrant tiny community of joy.
How it's going
It’s been more than 5 years since I started working on the game, and it has been an adventure. It is not finished, but I am getting there. With INFLUXIS 0.2 we are entering the final versions of the game, many assets and features are finalised and just a few more updates await till completion. It’s been an amazing journey, and I hope you get to join me in it, let me know what you think of the game, the world, what do you dream of.
You can join our discord and help make the game and community better. It starts here.