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Hey everybody Lot's has happened in the past weeks. A crazy start into the year :) After the playtest A bit behind schedule, we playtested Castle Come over the second weekend of January. For this we used the internal play testing system available through Steam where people were a
The Castle Come Playtest is now live We are happy that we have unlocked the first few testers to the current version of Castle Come. If you have recieved access, have fun and we are looking forward to your feedback. It's still a early version of the game but we think several key
On the state of the playtest We are launching the playtest of Castle Come on the on the 8th of January through Steam. Initially planned for the end of November, we hit a few major issues with in person playtests and decided to fix them first. All in all it's still a sketch but al
Naming Castles What is Castle Come? We started by calling it a rogue-like mecha action game. While feeling accurate to portray a returning start in a procedural world, we are standing at a point that makes us question if that's the right choice. This newsletter is part throwing a
It is Basil writing again, and today i am going to discuss our gameplay philosophy of regarding almost anything in the game as an interactive object and especially, looking at a subset of it as collectable and buildable objects. On Castle Come Everything buildable, everything dam
This issue I'm digging a bit into our story system. I’ll try to keep it brief but there’s a lot to unpack. On Castle Come (For whom we've ever overwhelmed by trying to explain how our story system works, sorry :)) Some time back we started working with Ink , as we fell in love wi
This time it is Basil writing. I've really been looking forward to try out our newsletter and writing long form formats have always been something which is dear to me. Beautiful corner progress Last week I wrote and built up a bunch of systems and processes to push the visuals fo
Communications are online Temporarily stable, testing frequencies Are you there? Hope you are doing fine. We decided to start a newsletter to create a channel to talk and document all the things we are doing with lauflauf. Basil and I discussed a lot about ways to share progress