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Has it really been sixteen weeks? Time flies when you're eating mushrooms in the depths of a dark, foreboding maze full of mystery, secrets, large stone serpents, an assortment of pointy objects, a non-zero amount of sets of sentient armor, weird lizard things, unnaturally-shaped
Pathfinding. It's exactly what it sounds like. When you play a game, something has to decide how things get where they're going. How does an enemy work out where you went? How does a creature cross a room without walking into a wall? How does anything navigate a space nobody plac
Crossroads Two weeks of playtesting, two more of analysis, revisions, and continuous work. We sat down and played Rinthine, and something about it isn't clicking. That can be an uncomfortable thing to notice about your own game, but it is something we have prepared for, and we ar
Playtesting has been going great. There's a pretty sharp contrast between showing our game publicly for what is now the third time, and showing it for the first time. Certainly, the energy is different, and there was a much different pressure as we prepared for GDC. This latest p
Biomes, Migrations, and Playtests, oh my! The last two weeks in Rinthine land have been completely consumed by three things: 1. new content 2. preparing for playtests 3. migration Lets start with the brass tacks: New content and features. Art courtesy: Spider Archivist, in our Di
Imagine having so much cool stuff to share, but you can't talk about 90% of it. This will have to suffice. Visuals an' ART We kicked off the week diving deep into UI animations and effects, including animated flourishes for various tools and UI elements. Let us know what ya think
This two weeks just sped by! Have you made the most of your year, so far? We can safely say we have, and as we approach the halfway point of 2026, our entire focus has been on preparations for our second round of playtesting, which we are planning to host in the first half of Jul
Slowly, then all at once. A lot happens in two weeks. There was a time not long ago when yours truly was playing an early build of Rinthine - navigating our little virtual spaceman through a giant digital maze, taking notes to forward to the team. It's a beautifully odd experienc
Rinthine Playtesting Begins. Finally. We have had playtesting in mind since the moment we shared even our very first news of what you knew then as, "Project R" - and since then, we have been overwhelmed by your support. From the thousands of you who wishlisted the game to those o