Developer posts and news about this game.
Stop the Press! will be taking part in SimFest on Steam from 20–27 July, and I’m using the occasion to open the game’s first public playtest. The playtest will offer an early look at the opening portion of the game. This is the first time Stop the Press! has been tested outside a
It's been a busy couple of months in Guadelique, with a lot of big changes and upgrades to the game. One of those is the fonts - the placeholder fonts I was using had drawbacks with readability and localisation. Given this is a text heavy game, and the setting is all about printi
In Dev Diary #9 I went into some detail about the way the story for the game would be laid out, and how I'd been trying to find the right balance between a story that's dynamic and one that's got a real immersive depth (whilst also not taking a million years to write). This was t
A number of people have asked for the next dev diary to delve into the backstory of Stop the Press, and given that the past few weeks were spent doing code refactoring, performance improvements, and tackling tech debt, that seems like a much more interesting thing to be talking a
It's been a wild month in the newsroom at Stop the Press! When the last dev diary went to print, the Steam page had only just rolled off the presses. I had no idea that less than a month later I'd be making in-game headlines to announce that the game had already blown past 10,000
So excited to finally have the game up on Steam, and massive thanks to everyone for wishlisting. Early wishlist numbers are looking really promising! Story Design For this dev diary, I wanted to dive a little into one of the core game design decisions of the game. How detailed sh
Hi everyone, A quick update about Steam Deck support. 🟢 Steam Deck support is planned for launch. I’m a Steam Deck player myself, so want to make sure the experience is as good on the Deck as on a computer. I’ll be able to share more once the default controller layout and visual
Hi everyone — and welcome to the brand new Steam page for Stop the Press! I’m the (solo) developer, and I’m excited to finally share the first look at the game. Stop the Press! is a 2D newspaper management sim set in a fictional Caribbean republic on the brink of revolution. Thin