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Makers, What an amazing launch day. Thanks to everyone who played and posted bugs and feedback on Discord. What was fixed: Stuck mouse when loading ammo - loading rockets into a launcher could freeze the mouse and open the engine tweak menu (if done when holding the multi tool) U
After six years of solo development, The Maker Way is out of my maker garage and into the world :) If you missed my last post about what's in this version and how pricing works, you'll find it just below this one. To sum it up, the Early Access version is a big step up from the d
Makers, are you ready? Next Wednesday, November 11th 2026, The Maker Way will launch in Early Access on Steam. I wanted to share what you can expect from this version, the launch price point and what the future holds. What's in the Early Access version If you are one of the thous
Makers, This is the first patch for Demo 3.0. It's mostly bug fixes, but a few things that came out of the bug work turned into small changes. Changes (on the small/medium level): Better enemy aim - enemy weapons now aim at a remaining part of the machine instead of the machine's
Makers, This version focuses on adding a lot of strong game mechanics and variance. It edges closer and closer to the full game vision. This will be the last demo version (except for patches for bug fixes). Major Changes: Secured Human Knowledge - the main goal of securing lost h
Makers, This version focuses on enhancing machine printing by allowing you to choose which resource is used for machine blocks. This allows more freedom on resource consumption, but also affects machine weight and strength. Apart from that, two new fun base modules were added. Ma
Makers, This version focuses on several major elements in the game: resource collection, enemy AI and simulation, UI improvements and much more! Major Changes: Resource collection - previously disintegrating a pile provided you with all the resources in it even if you only needed
Makers, Between the in-game feedback form, steam reviews and watching streamers play, I collected a lot of feedback following the release of the demo. My major focus in this version was to simplify controls and improve interactions, as well as to improve driving physics and to re
Makers, A true maker keeps their sleeves rolled up and never stops tweaking, improving and fixing. This patch, really more of a version if you will, adds some interesting game mechanics Major changes: Engine Tuning/Tweaking - Added ability to tweak engines on machines using the m
Happy Monday, Makers. Whoa, that week was crazy! Hundreds of new makers joined and played for many thousands of hours. Spent a bunch of time this past weekend to review all feedback and turn it into tasks for upcoming versions. Thank you everyone who took the time to play the gam
Hello, Makers! First, I’d like to thank everyone who has been playing. The feedback has been incredible and very rewarding. Based on feedback from players I uploaded today a patch with the following changes: Major updates: The Night Roller enemy location changed - players were en
Hello makers! The Maker Way will be making its way to the Steam Next Fest at the end of February. The Next Fest is a weeklong celebration of games and a great opportunity for players to try demos of games that are close to release. You do not need to wait though because The Maker
The first open playtest for The Maker Way starts today — come build, print, and pilot your own machines. After a successful closed playtest and great feedback from our amazing growing community, it’s time to put The Maker Way in more hands and shape what comes next. Game Mechanic
It has been an incredible experience to watch those two amazing creators play the game! Also, it's a great opportunity for our community to get a sense of how the game plays. Here's Scrapman: And here's Kosmo:
I’ve been working on The Maker Way for more than four years now. Given that I started with zero knowledge in game dev, the first couple of years were really focused on getting to learn Unity, Blender, C#, Animation, Environment Design etc… you get the point. At some point I reall
The day is here - looking for new signtups to our first community playtest! While I did ran several small playtesting sesssions, this is going to be the first playtest that is open to the community. I still intend to have only a couple dozen playtests this round but expect to gro
So excited to release this alpha demo. We tried to capture the essence of the game in it. Hope you like it! Get it here and let us know what you think: We love feedback of any kind! Please feel free to share feature ideas, bugs etc. This is a long term project and we're committed
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On October 9th, 1903, the New York Times published an article predicting that it would take between 1 million to 10 million years to achieve human flight. Exactly 2 months and 8 days later , on December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers flew for the first time. As a father, I'd like