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Fighting Fire with Fire It has been a busy few weeks since Devlog #6, so this one is a proper catch-up. Night 4 has stopped being the end of the road, the whole game has learned to play on a controller, and the difficulty finally climbs the way I always wanted it to. All of it is
The Clearance Defence Playtest is open to everyone this weekend. No waitlist, no waiting to be let in. If you fancy holding a supermarket against a tide of garden gnomes after dark, you can walk straight in. Here's the situation. It's closing time, the lights are down, and the Su
A fourth night The campaign has grown by a night. Night 4 plays start to finish now — dialogue and voice acting in, its beats playing through properly. We kept its roster deliberately tight: one fresh foe, so we can tune how it plays against everything you've built up by the time
A run from start to finish v0.60.0 closes the loop. You can play the demo through to the end now — three nights, all the way through — and the game has somewhere to land you when you win. When the final wave of Night 3 breaks, a Thanks for Playing scene plays. It's quiet, it matc
Towers can run dry now. Every other change in v0.45.0 is a tool we've handed you for dealing with it. The headline change: towers run out of ammunition. Every shot decrements the magazine, and a tower stops firing when it's empty. The first time your projectile tower goes quiet h
Every night, after the last customer leaves and the lights go down, a war begins. The Easter goods — reduced to clear, still on the shelf — defend their aisles against the Summer stock pushing in from the back. Garden gnomes in makeshift cardboard armour. Waves of them, every nig
A lot has changed since the last devlog. Here's what happened. Morale Easter Defence Force units now have feelings. Specifically, they have morale — and it affects how hard they hit. Morale rises when waves go well and drops when things fall apart. Lose a tower and the troops not
This is the first weekly devlog for Clearance Defence. The plan is simple: every week, write up what actually happened in development. No polish, no spin. Just what got built, what broke, and what we learned. This week was a big one. Versions v0.18.0 through v0.23.0, and a lot of