Developer posts and news about this game.
NPC Honesty Most of this stretch went into NPC conversations. When an NPC was asked about something it had no knowledge of, it invented an answer. Across thousands of recorded conversation turns, it never said it didn't know. It would produce a relative who doesn't exist, a promi
Just over 260 commits landed in this stretch, and the biggest piece of it was a ground-up rebuild of how the world itself works. The old system painted locations as flat tiles. The new one gives every place real extent, real memory of what happened there (only what was genuinely
The year is 4305 and Valdara is a unified kingdom. Tsarigrad’s soaring marble basilicas and textile mills in the east, Karlingrad’s workshops and ceremonial knights in the west, Ikosium’s shrines and spice markets on the southern coast. Steam-driven looms are replacing hand work,
We recorded our August dev chat earlier this month and it's now up — come watch us talk through some of the systems we've been building out this summer. Here's what we covered: Interior Spaces We walked through the interior design work underway for Dagmar's Tavern and showed the
For a couple of years now we've talked about emergent narrative as the heart of this game — a world that generates its own story out of what people actually do inside it, rather than one that hands you a script and asks you to follow along. The foundation for that is built. The A
You finally found a night everyone can play. Then somebody gets called into work. Somebody's kid gets sick. Somebody has family plans. Somebody simply can't do Thursday anymore. "How's everyone looking next week?" Your weekly campaign becomes monthly. Then every six weeks. Then e
In-Testing Our Alpha testing continues, and we are still accepting applications in Discord for Alpha Testers. Bukenstrand and the NPC Body Pipeline The town of Bukenstrand reached its full location roster of 23 authored places. Each NPC's specific body and pronouns were wired thr
Grimmloch: Early Alpha Playtest Applications Open We’re opening up early alpha playtesting for Grimmloch, running from around the Fourth of July weekend through the end of the year. A quick, honest note on what “early alpha” means: this is genuinely unfinished. Early on, you may
This Wednesday, March 11th, our lead architect David Rivera is presenting Grimmloch's distributed server architecture at the official Akka.NET Community Standup -- an invitation from the framework's creators at Petabridge to show how we built a persistent single-world MMORPG on t
Hey everyone, We just checked 25 language boxes on our Coming Soon page, and we want to tell you what that actually means — because for Grimmloch, localization is not just menus and buttons. Grimmloch is a collaborative storytelling game. The words players write to each other are