Dispatches · 5 posts

News and devlogs

What we changed, why we changed it, and what it broke on the way. No roadmap theatre.

Two years of hex math, one very stubborn combat system, and a board we rebuilt four times. Fortress is playable now.

Reinforcement caps out lower, the Keep is slower to flee, and dropped connections no longer forfeit your match.

We tried sequential combat for eight months. It made the game worse in a way that took us most of those eight months to name.

Every prototype gets two weeks and one question. If we can't answer the question, the prototype dies — and that's a success.

A tactics roguelike where every floor of the tower rewrites the rules you just learned. Targeting Q3 2026.