Release 0.23
- Release Notes
Release 0.22
- Release Notes
Weeks 165 To 180 Contracting
- Contracting
Week 164 Updates
- Networked fixes
- Demo update
- Release update
Release 0.21
- Release Notes
Week 163 Holding
- Tool Quality
- Tool Material
- Move Tool Improvements
- Difficulty Progression
- Testing and Fixing
Week 162 Game Panels
- Ngram: Loam vs Soil
- View Tool default
- Job-progress update
- Task organising
Week 161 Context Menu
- Personalities, Relationships and Mood
- Context Menu
- Roguelike Celebration
- Scottish Games Week
- GameDevEd is back!
Week 160 Syrupy
- Rosehip syrup
- New font
- Personality facets and gameplay
Week 159 Holihay
- Bales of hay
- Bug-fix release
- Logo designer
Week 158 Items Contained
- The Naming of the Chest
- Items refactoring
- Item and Animal panels
- Testing
- Releases
Release 0.20
- Release Notes
Week 157 Move Selection
- Move Selection Feedback
- Tool Constraints
- Visible Depth
- Mouse Controls
- Dining Room Socials
Week 156 Treehopper Troubles
- Treehopper nests
- Networked not scripted
Week 155 Treehoppers
- Treehoppers
- Sound effects
- Nests
Week 154 Holiday
- Holiday
Release 0.19.1
- Release notes
Week 153 Learning Fmod
- Dwerg see, Dwerg talk
- Ambience interpolation
- Music and silence
- New Exon
Week 152 Planning
- MonoGame 3.8.1
- Planning
- Critical Review Tasks
Week 151 Release!
- The Enjenir
- Bug-fixing
- Testing
- Release
Release 0.19
- Release Notes
Week 150 Hold!
- Sunshine
- Ignored requests
- Bug fixes
- Dedicated-server launch
- New bugs!
Week 149 Curried Building
- Curry
- Build Tool
- Tutorial updates
Week 148 New Build Tool
- Stairs are Built
- Personality affects gameplay
- New Build Tool
Week 147 Simplifying Multiplayer
- VPN testing
- De-synch simplification
- Released
Release 0.18
- Release notes
Week 146 More Fixing
- Beer
- Feedback => Improvement
- Network bugs
- Network game over VPN
Week 145 Cymera
- Cymera festival
- Crash dump fix
- Bug-fixing
- Kingdom of Balance stream
Week 144 Merge And Fix
- Merge resolution
- Audio feedback
- Crash bug rage
Week 143 Testin N Fixin
- Merge conflicts
- Pick-up menu
- Workshop queues
- QA & Play-testing
Release 0.17.2
- Release notes
Week 142 Context
- Needs 1 finished
- Bug fixing
- Context-sensitive pick-up
- Golf Gang
Week 141 Joyous
- Neon Chrome
- Brains on the Outside
- Critical Role
- Bugs
- Joy
- Difficulty Spiked
Week 140 Bath Time
- Water sounds
- Illnesses
- Loneliness
- Planning good
Week 139 Bucketry
- Buckets and Tankards
- Liquid Containers
- Ultimate Adom Software Design
- Filling bathtubs
- UI Idioms
Week 138 Health Ui
- Extreme Hunger
- Health UI
- Test-plans
- Sockventure on Switch
Week 137 Dining Rooms
- The Enjenir
- Bugs in the Latrines
- Dining Rooms
- Critical Review tasks
Week 136 Latrine Pits
- Digging latrine pits
- Test exports for test-plans
- Hired: Athena Paradigm
Week 135 Peepee
- Communal sleeping
- Bladder need
- Buildings from file
Week 134 Sleepy
- Rooms complete
- Hiring QA Playtester
Week 133 Roomy
- Behaviour UI
- Rooms
- Bedroom
Week 132 Moody
- Irritable
- Project Management with JIRA
- Mood affecting conversations
- Bad News
Week 131 Aging
- Aging
- Extreme Needs
- Mood Behaviours
Week 130 Needs 1 Planning
- Congestion
- Busy stockpiles
- Needs planning
Week 129 Needs, Bugs, Contracting Qa
- Contracting QA
- Tool-Responsibility conflict
- Stockpile fix
- Next feature: Needs
Week 128 Ui Bugs
- Peer-to-peer OccuIT
- Named panels
- Nicer drop-downs
- Crash-bug release 0.17.1
- Context-sensitive mining icons
Release 0.17.1
- Fixes a crash bug with the Move Tool in Elevation view.
Week 127 Break To Fix
- Global Game Jam: OccuIT
- Scripting bugs
Week 126 Release 0.17
- Mining trenches
- Stockpile detour
- Mac resolution sadness
- Crash/Not A Crash
- Script versioning future
Week 125 Build Pipeline Fixed
- Combat bugs
- Build pipeline
- Various bugs
- Build pipeline fixed
- Git LFS regrets
Week 123 124 Holiday Part Two
- Next feature
- Holiday and health
- Tai Chi
Week 121 122 Happy Holidays
- Happy Holidays
Week 120 Unblocked
- Exon: Fragment
- Roguelike controls experiment
- Path-finding terrain costs experiment
- The Dwerg Army
- Building without blocking
- UI bug-fixes
Week 119 Known Issues
- Wild ideas
- Ray Harryhausen exhibition
- Crash bug not so serious
- Test-driving route-finding
- A* analysis
- Breaking things worse
Week 118 Release 0.16
Week 117 Tool Feedback
- Hunting deer
- Not-a-bug
- Tool feedback
- Region-system bugs and tests
Week 116 Play Tested
- edindies Play-test
- Parking the Collapsed Wave Function
- Hunting, Butchering, Tanning and Armourer Tutorials
Week 115 Wfc Fun Time
- Tutorial bugs
- Horribly complicated system
- Wave Function Collapse (WFC) for natural textures
Week 114 Mega Bug
- Failing-to-melee mega-bug
- Weapons & Inventory tutorial
Week 113 More Tutorials
- Playing with light
- Play-testing and bug-fixing
- Explaining the bird’s-eye perspective
Week 112 Player Led Tutorials
- Roguelike Celebration
- Crude Toolshop
- Refactoring the tutorials
- Inky scripting
Week 111 Tutorials
- Workshop Tutorial 4
Week 110 Piles Of Stock
- The Compost Heap grows
- The Bug List shrinks
- Oooh! Story-Sifting!
- Default Stockpiles
Week 109 Butchering Bugs
- Meet the butcher
- The ‘last’ path-finding bug
- Contemplating concept art
- Playtesting
- Conversational Animals
Summer Summary
- Combat
- Research & Entertainment
- Hazardous Caverns
- Bug Fixing
Week 88 Fixing
- Bug fixing
- Play-testing
- Twit-dev?
Week 83 Combat Done 1 Of M
- Balancing
- Cleverer builders
- Next: Bug-squishing
Week 82 Combat 3 Of N
- Continuing combat
- Tile-set process
- ‘Balancing’
- Watching Dwarf Fortress
- Pixel-art practice
Week 81 Combat 2 Of N
- Melee injuries
- Path to release
- Bellyfulness
Week 80 Combat 1 Of N
- Panivox contracting
- More combat work
- UI improvement and bug-fixing
Week 79 Contract Signed
- Government does not approve
- New contract
- Combat, skeletons and natural armour
Week 78 Fantastic Feedback
- Web-devs vs Apple
- Fast feedback game dev
- Contract is green-lit
- A free game
- Walk-cycle animation
Week 77 Contract Cloner
- Cloning tools
- Estimating and tracking work
- ICO registered
Week 76 Clouds And Clones
- SGNTV Interview
- Web-tech for games
- Refactoring: Early and Often
- Distribution with S3 and CloudFront
- Learning from the classics
Week 75 Skeletal
- When blocked, switch
- Skeleton definitions
- Note To Self: Tests first
- Contract III: A New Hope
Week 74 Little Bit Lost Prince
- Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care
- AWS Container start-up times
- AWS Cognito with Lambdas
- Global Game Jam - Little Bit Lost Prince
- Contracting Go! … Stop!
Week 73 Skills, Unity And Aws
- Undoing a hack
- Skills - who needs them?
- Learning Unity
- An app idea that’s already been done
- Learning AWS
Week 72 Butchered
- Butchery implementation trade-offs
- Git Large File Storage
- Butchery reconsidered
- Tree UI implemented
- Streamer research - Nookrium
- Backlogging the bladder need
- Salt caves and forest generation
- Learning LFA Tai Chi Form
Week 71 Inventoried
- Bronze vs Flint
- Weapons and Armour workshops
- Inventory instead of Guard responsibility
- Item icon tweaks
Week 70 Workshopping
- Bug-fixing tools for jobs
- New weapons and armour
- Workshop considerations
Week 69 Short Update
- Short Update
Week 68 More Combat
- The Mini, Sedan or Rolls-Royce of combat systems
- Body parts and armour
- Staying focussed by constraining details
- Future modding-support
- Pause for contracting
Week 67 Combat
- Combat system
- Combat state
- Progress and next steps
Week 66 Tangents
- Wave Function Collapse
- Minimalist tile-set
- Draw-your-own Dwerg
- Silhouette tile-set
- Vicinities and Fog-of-war
- First passing Combat test
Week 65 A Playlist
- Busily making little progress
- Cavern tweaks
- Adding friends to the clan pool
- Tools for jobs
- Wave Function Collapse fun
- Combat plans
Week 64 Copperpede Cavern
- Smelting copper, tin and bronze
- Copperpede spawning
- Real world contracting
Week 63 Prospecting
- Hiding the caverns
- Hiding the caverns again
Week 62 Cavernous
- Simple ores
- Caverns
- New World screen previews
Week 61 Tool Refactor
- Water update fiddle with Fluctuface
- Tool refactor
- Crazy MonoGame key-presses
Week 60 Stoke The Furnaces!
- Test-driven development
- Addressing difficulties
- Patreon changes
Week 59 Holiday
I’m taking a break this week, hope to be back fresh next week.
Week 57 Stoked
- Bug-fixing
- Short stockpile tutorial
- Stoker sprite
Week 56 Fluctuface
- Fluctu(ant Inter)face
- Videos
Week 55 Next Feature
- Next feature
- Rabbit-warren of related features
- App for in-game variables
- thatguybgreen
Week 54 Squishin Bugs
- Stockpile bugs
- Routine changes
- Release schedule change
Week 53 Holiday And Reflection
- A question for players.
- Tutorial promises.
- Three directions for the year ahead.
Year 1 Release 0.15
- Dwerg Saga is officially One! Happy Birthday Dwerg Saga!
- Release 0.15
Week 51 Beware The Flinty Worm
- Ramp fail
- Seasonal tiles
- The Flintworm
- More GDC videos
Week 50 Ramped Up And Down
- Job-failure feedback
- Quitting vaping
- Fixing ramps
Week 49 Workshops
- Items from workshops
- Seasonal tile-sets
- Tree and grass planting
- StikkzMedia dev stream
Week 48 Release 0.14
- Building workshops
- Too much excitement
- Workshop UI
- Release 0.14
Week 47 Dreaming Of Dragons
- Chris Crawford’s StoryWorld
- Building materials
- Scope reduction win
- Adding fun
- Ramp rendering
- First workshop
Week 46 A Maze. Ed
- Camera zoom
- A MAZE festival
- New world screen update
- Off-piste weekend
- AWS cost calculations
- Farewell to Frans
Week 45 Watching The Grass Grow
- Flora refactor
- Farming tutorial progress
- Cart sprites
- Twitch appearance
- Procrastination
- Stockpile fixes
Week 44 Release 0.13
- Job-system refactor
- Flex-box (over?) simplification
- The ‘King’ sprite
- Fun with cellular automata
- Build pipeline fun
- Release 0.13
Week 43 Sowing
- Job-system refactor
- Combat audio balancing
- Flex-box with TDD
- Music update
- Three crops for farming
Week 42 Triggered
- Resolved to fix the pipeline
- Opt-in analytics
- Twitch debut
- New UI sounds
- Script triggers
- Dawn chorus
- Play-test request
Week 41 Release 0.12
- I’ve been wrestling with Azure pipelines for most of the day. #broken
Week 40 Touchy Macs
- Virtual play-test session
- Mac woes
- Softening the pan
- Winter (music) is coming
- Testing and bug-fixing
- Release next week
Week 39 Gather!
- On words
- Mood modifiers on death
- Stockpile constraints
- Summer music
- Attenuation and Spatializers
Week 38 Snoozeworthy
- Overlapping rectangles is hard(!?)
- Elevation view is done
- Dwergs get some sleep
- Thesis complete 🤞
Week 37 Elevated
- Ramps in elevation view
- Autumn, winter and battle music
- Sockventure: Prologue
Week 36 Release 0.11
- Elevation view fun
- Settling water
- Water, wind and bird ambiences
- Mining, harvesting and farming sound effects
- Release 0.11
Week 35 Move!
- Contemplating the future
- Move tool
- Pets
- The sweet sound of industry
- Elevation view for stairs
- Sockventure
Week 34 Eat, Drink, Avoid Dire Wolves
- Eating and drinking sounds
- Personality fiddles
- Tutorial nearing completion
- Live guitar recordings
Week 33 Dwerg Burble
- 4-month re-retrospective
- Dire Wolves attack!
- Dwergs discuss forestry
Release 0.10.1
- Fix crash on launch
Week 32 Release 0.10
- UI overhaul
- Tutorial progress
- Sound and Music
- Release 0.10
Week 31 Positioned Sound
- Listener position and velocity
- Scrum planning
- Combat music
- Wind
- Dire Wolves in the tutorial
Week 30 Sound
- Scrum over-process
- Job-indicators and sprites
- Tutorial: Marking the map
- Frans Hipponen
- Initial audio work
Week 29 Pathloser
- Losing time in Pathfinder
- Job Indicators
Week 28 Release 0.9
- Sprites and buttons
- Release 0.9
Week 27 Folding Proteins
- Audio tooling
- Preparing for first employee
- Folding@home, Rosetta@home and Foldit
- Official Dwerg Saga website and market research
Week 25 Serendipitous Storylets
- UX in games
- Storylets
- Research aka playing games
- Grammar
- Oodls
- Official website
- Games, Drinks, Edinburgh
Week 24 Release 0.8
- Creative Bridges gets me thinking Lean
- Stockpiles, iteration One
- Release 0.8
Week 23 Dog Sittin
Most of this week I was looking after my sister’s dog, Rita.
Week 22 Pitchin
- Ramblings on the problem that games solve
- Marketing personas
- The Sims and Factorio players: I need to interview you
Week 21 Jammin
- Global Game Jam in Clojure
Release 0.7.0.0 Ac Tu Al
Release 0.7.0.0 is available now for $3-tier patrons from itch.io.
Week 20 Release 0.7
- Creative Bridge and Lean Canvas.
- Game-recording spike.
- View-modes and UI layouts.
- Elevation view anyone?
- Release 0.7
Week 19 Refactor
- Refactoring
- Play-testing with a non-gamer
Week 18 The Pits
- Context-sensitive tools FTW
- Reflections on testing
- View Modes, not View Tools
- Refining my pitch
Week 17 De Confuse, Shaders And Mining
- Addressing user confusion over vertical levels
- Shader experimentation
- Making mining work as users expect
- More work from play-test feedback
Week 16 Happy New Release
- Four-month retrospective
- Continuing with first tutorial
- Buttery smooth scroll and zoom
- Release 0.6
Week 15 Teach And Entertain
- Core experience reflections
- Controlling the game world from Ink scripts
- Refining the first tutorial/story
Week 14 Scripting The Tutorial
- Learning from a grand-master of games, Will Wright
- Integrating with Ink
- Writing the tutorial and first in-game story
Week 13 Prologue Cancelled
- Prologue writing cancelled
- Starting on Will Wright’s Masterclass
Week 12 Prologue Pains
- Struggles with writing a story
- UWP regrets
Release 0.5.1.0
- Fix crash on Windows when copying while the app is in the background.
The Dwerg Universe Is Live
Throughout the world there now exists a parallel universe inhabited by … mice … and your Dwerg clans! If you’re a $3-tier patron or higher download the app for Windows and Mac from itch.io and build your castle in the clouds today!
Week 11 Launch Tomorrow
- Documentation of cloud architecture
- Development stack is complete
- Patrons are now in the game credits
Week 10 Binding Of The Keys
- Enable key re-binding
- Pretty in-game messaging
- Legal shenanigans
Week 9 Cloud Re Arch
- Cheaper, faster game servers
- Game jam at Edinburgh University
- Concurrency headaches and writing tests
- Release in ten days!
Week 8 Version 0.4
- The dedicated server is included in version 0.4.
- Give your clan chief your own personality.
- Text-input and UWP fun.
- Dwerg Saga Cloud to be released next week.
Week 7
- World generation in the cloud.
- Why I love unit tests.
- Launching games in the cloud. Nebulous.
- User-interface for connecting to cloud games. Concrete.
- Music!
Week 6 Location, Location, Refactor
- Ask the user to use their geo-location.
- Set up a database to store world and running-game state.
- Testing the cloud game in the wild (cafes).
- Thai red curry.
- Extracting terrain generation from the simulation.
Week 5 Punching Nats
- Networking at the Creative Edinburgh awards ceremony and Creative Circles Leith.
- Building and running a Dwerg Saga dedicated server in the cloud.
- Meeting game-developers at Game Dev Edinburgh.
- T-Shirts for my fantastic Patrons.
Week 4 Version 0.3
- LAN game host and client lobbies. “LAN Games” from the launch screen.
- New water and solid terrain sprites
- Crash bug fixes around rendering
- Bug fixes around network game syncing
Week 3 Lan Development
- Networked game development
- Credits
Dwerg Saga On A Lan
- Video of a networked game with 5 clients
Week 2 Story And Personality
- Dwerg individual stories
- Personalities, Big-5 model and musings on long-term possibilities
- Mac version works with cloud service
- Hunter Dwerg sprite in progress
- Start on dedicated server
Week 1
- Continuous integration setup
- Game-dev meetups
- Bug-fixing and UI improvements
- Chef sprite in progress