One game at a time. Everything else we've built so far lives in a folder called /maybe.
A word game shaped like a journey. Every word you find moves your ship one island further, and the letters you leave behind wash up as the next island's puzzle. No timer, no lives, no daily streak to protect — you sail until you want to stop.
Join the playtestEvery game goes through the same three gates, in order. Most of them stop at the second one, and that is the point.
One week, one mechanic, no art. If the idea isn't fun as grey boxes, no amount of animation is going to rescue it later.
7 days · 4 peopleThe build goes public on itch the same month. We watch twenty strangers play it before anyone on the team argues about scope.
30 days · open buildIf it still holds up, we commit two years. If it doesn't, it goes in /maybe with its notes and we start again on Monday.
2 years · or noneFour people, no producers, no meetings longer than the build time.
Gets the prototype running in the first 48 hours, then spends a year arguing with it about jump height.
Draws everything at 32×32 first. Believes a walk cycle is a personality test and is usually right about it.
Records rooms, radiators and one very specific door. Every soundtrack starts as a field recording, not a synth patch.
Runs the playtests, reads every itch comment, and is the only reason anything ever gets a release date.
We write one of these every time a build changes in a way we can explain.
Dead ends used to vanish. Now they wash up on the next island as extra letters, and playtesters started guessing on purpose.
Without a clock people stopped guessing at random and started reading the board. Average session went up, average score went down. Good trade.
One mechanic, grey boxes, no art: find a word, move one island. It was the tenth idea we tried this year and the first one nobody wanted to stop playing.
Playtesters, composers and publishers are all welcome — as is anyone who just wants to send us a bug report at three in the morning. We read everything.