Developer posts and news about this game.
The Steam Demo for 5YN-OS is now available! If you have any questions feel free to reach out on the 5 Years Now Discord server: For FantasyLang documentation check it out on the official website here: If you encounter any issues, bugs, or crashes please let us know either in the
Newly Unlocked Updates app is now accessible in the demo. Theme Builder app is now accessible in the demo. General Allow manual game window resizing, capped at a minimum of 1200x800 resolution. (Suggested by I'm an issue ) Logs app now displays a desktop notification when you pre
Three lines get a chromeless window running on your desktop. A dozen more make it visible. About a hundred make it a registered widget that draws, remembers where you put it, has a right-click menu, and can be published to the Workshop. Read Dev Log 10 in full here:
A roguelike, an idle guild sim, an autobattler, tower defence, poker, a logic simulator, a desktop pet, noughts and crosses, and a Doom-like. Eight of the nine are written in the operating system's own language, and they are sitting in your file system right now. Read the full bl
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A Start menu is a list pretending to be a place. I wanted an actual place - so the launcher in 5YN-OS is a web you navigate outward from a centre, and the window manager underneath it had to be good enough to justify the decision. Read the full blog post here:
Dev Academy does not give you exercises. It gives you a machine, a reason to use it, and fifty-three steps that add up to one working full-stack project - an app, a website, a server, a database, and a commit history. Read the full blog post here:
The 5th blog post does a deep dive into the puzzle game
The 4th blog post does a deep dive into the in-game Terminal
Developer log 3 discusses the FantasyLang programming language and it's in-game implementation and standalone implementation that lives outside of the game. You can read the blog here:
You can read about the in-game Darknet feature in the second developer log here:
You can check out the first developer log here: