Devlogs About Game Design
Hello exorcists!!! Act 2's CMC coding is now done!!! With the power of 160 'if' statements (wish this was an exaggeration) and redefining every single voiceline...
Hello exorcists!! The coding for Act 1’s custom character sprites is COMPLETE!! I know what you’re thinking - Ayo, you’re the goat… Ayo, what would we d...
Aditi Singh arrives in Red Hope, my Mars colony sim, with a plan: "I wanted to grow the first tomato on Mars." Before the day is out, they're borrowing dinner f...
Not All Ideas Are Good Ideas So we're deep into playtesting now, almost at the end. Editing continues at its slow churn pace, good work takes time which I'm mor...
Hi guys, small update here!! I've finished all of the (initial) hairstyles for the custom MC, and have now finished coding all of their sprites into the prologu...
Hey friends, Thank you to everyone who's been following along, wishlisting , hanging out in the Discord , and signing up for playtesting since we opened things...
Happy Halloween everyone!🎃 It's been a while since I've made any posts anywhere. I'm still alive! And still hard at work making Coagulation Station: Fleshfal...
Your dinner has reached Mars, but it's still orbiting the planet. In Red Hope, my colony survival game, keeping a small crew fed can involve discovering that yo...
Video games have always been one of my favorite hobbies. However, gaming can be an expensive hobby. New hardware, games, and upgrades aren't always affordable...
Harlequinade is based on commedia dell'arte, an entire type of play originating from the Renaissance era and is where popular clowns like the Harlequin, Pierrot...
Red Hope is my Mars colony survival game, where you keep a small group of pioneers fed, housed and breathing. This one's about the breathing. When a storm break...
Red Hope is my Mars colony survival game, where you keep a small group of pioneers fed, housed and breathing. A surprising amount of that comes down to pipes, s...
What Truly Makes People Want To Do Something? I ask this question not because I have some imperative that demands I manipulate people to my own purposes; I'm a...
Hi everyone! Here is a recap what I did this month! I'm going to divide this into sections a bit so it's easier to read:) First I want to say that a lot of thes...
Red Hope is my Mars colony survival game, where you keep a small group of pioneers fed, housed and breathing. This week it stopped looking like a tidy 3D model...
When designing a solo journaling game, I often think about how much responsibility should be given to the player and how much should be handled by the game syst...
¡Hola a todos! Estos días he estado trabajando en algunas mejoras del juego y pensando en cuáles deberían ser los próximos pasos del desarrollo. Tengo vari...
Update: New Graph! The Pokémon Survivor Burst 10.0.0 Beta is now available exclusively to all Ko-fi members! You can now download and test the game on Windows...
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An open world feels different when it isn't built entirely around the player. Townsfolk, merchants, travelers, healers, and strangers are more than figures plac...
Last time I posted a blog update, I needed to wrap up 7 new illustrations for Verdant 2.0. Instead, I started experimenting with the art style, and decided to r...
In an open-world journaling game, a fishing quest doesn't always have to be about fishing. Sometimes, the reason behind a quest is much more meaningful than the...
levelling a site should make the ground easier to read. in a recent playtest of red hope, our mars colony game, the prepared surface had loose-looking triangles...
An open world is more than a large map filled with places to visit. Its true appeal comes from the possibilities it offers and the experiences players create wh...
Backrooms1: Shawrma Escape is a first-person horror and survival game. You wake up trapped in the endless, creepy yellow maze of the Backrooms, and your only go...
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This is a recording of a talk I gave during the swedish "materialist games convention". It is actually the second time I give this talk, the first time was duri...
Alchemy can be more than mixing ingredients and experimenting with their properties. It can become a reason to explore the world, uncover its secrets, and learn...
In our previous update, we announced that our core team was assembled. Since then, we have begun to see that team work together in practice. Alongside completed...
I wake up in the morning and start asking myself a question. Not “How do I write a good story?” but “What actually makes a journaling game fun?” It is a...
A harsh reality in indie game development: Out of a hundred people who want to make a game, less than ten actually finish and launch it. Where do the other 90 g...
our old hud was mostly text. in red hope, our mars colony survival game, finding out who was in trouble often meant reading a paragraph while their air ran down...
we're a small team making a mars colony game, and most of what we build breaks the first time someone plays it. this week was no different. here's some of what...
Candela City – an overview Candela City was first introduced in SuperTuxKart in version 0.9.3 in 2017, and remained essentially the same in subsequent version...
we lost a colony in a playtest this week, and it wasn't a fair loss. a storm ruined the only home. four pioneers stood on the rubble with under two hours of sui...
0.2.1 is the version you can play right now. 0.3 is the one we're building, and it's about the most basic thing a colony does: breathe. broken supply. the 0.3 d...
Hello people! Welcome to my most amazing old idea we're starting up again for Afteruin! For my first act I will be spotlighting the more underappreciated of the...
Hey everyone! Another DAWG update is here! Since 1.2.456, a lot of the work has gone into the playback engine and how it handles changes while you're making mus...
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Hi everyone, Gaspar here, creative director of Kenzu: Shadow & Light. A darker Scrapyard, where light matters - The Scrapyard is darker now, so every light stan...
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A light-hearted strategy game inspired by art, history, celebration, and sweets.
a home runs out of air. everyone in it is wearing a suit, and a suit is a very small home with a very small clock. that clock is the whole game for the next few...
a quick tour of the first storm demo, then a look at the workbench. what the demo asks of you: four pioneers, one greenhouse dome, a storm on the forecast. buil...
Papi Commando in C++ Land Quelles sont les nouvelles ?? Nous travaillons ardemment sur tout un panel de chantiers sur l'ensemble du projet : Refonte des graphis...
founding day. the first storm is behind you, eight people are breathing in two homes, and the colony celebrates the only way a mars colony can: by setting thing...
Hallo Leute! Nach einigem Hin und Her im „normalen Leben“ habe ich mich endlich wieder an die Entwicklung gesetzt. Diesmal steht ein Customizing-System auf...
lock in gamers, game devs, and enjoyers of ludicrous art and writing progress, I've got a huge recap for September!!!!! also omg the editing trenches this month...
Hello, humans! It’s playerXT here! And today, I’m finally completing the trilogy everyone was waiting for... This is "A filler episode about music 3: The Fi...
V8.0 (10/2026) The new Halloween update is here! 13 unique themed icons, a new icon type, and a new category have been added! This is the smallest update in the...
It’s been a VERY busy month for Before We Fall . There are new environments, a town, more ways to build your party, and a lot of work under the hood. I’ve a...
🧪 Looking for playtesters — The Cozy Alchemist! I'm developing a free cozy alchemy RPG with three magical schools, a customizable tower, a sarcastic talkin...
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