Battling the Blob: How We Ruthlessly Cut Features to Save Our Indie Game It was a drizzly Tuesday evening in our cramped London flat, the kind where the cost of living crisis makes you hyper-aware that every kilowatt-hour of electricity is burning through a rapidly dwindling budget. We were staring at a build of our […]
The Great Engine Debate: Powering Our Two-Person Devlog Project We were sat in a cramped Brighton kitchen, two empty coffee cups between us, when the penny finally dropped. The prototype for our new browser game—a weird little physics toy we’d been sketching on napkins—was already on life support and we hadn’t opened a code editor […]
Writing a Devlog That People Actually Read: Our Team’s Hard-Won Lessons Let’s be brutally honest: our first six devlog entries received exactly zero comments. Not a single “cool prototype” or even a spam bot. Just deafening, soul-crushing silence. We’d publish a detailed breakdown of our latest browser game mechanics, close the laptop, and wait. Nothing. […]
How We Triage Bugs as a Tiny Indie Team: A Devlog Postmortem It was 11:47 PM in our Manchester flat-turned-studio, and the tea had gone cold again. We were staring at a browser game prototype that had decided, with spectacular timing, to hard-crash Google Chrome every single time a player touched the inventory icon. A […]
Crafting a Zero-Budget Art Pipeline: Our Indie Game Devlog Postmortem We were three weeks into prototyping when the email landed. “Your Creative Cloud trial expires in 7 days.” Our lead artist stared at the screen, then at our barely-functional browser game prototype, and uttered a phrase that still echoes through our Manchester flat. “We’re buggered, […]
