Hammerting is released! It feels amazing. We have been at this for five years. Did I ever mention how scope management is the hardest part of game development..? There has been some delay due to the fact that we have built our own engine, but now we have it, and the next game will require less effort. It started out as a rather small game, but as the team grew, we wanted to incorporate their strengths into the design as well, and we have always felt it was the right choice in the end, the game is so much better [...]

Hammerting is out in Early Access since October (Steam and Epic etc) and this image above are some of the things we plan to  add during the period until the full release! Besides all features, we are constantly ironing out bugs, fixing crashes and adding small things to make the game more fun. But we do have a few bigger themes as you can see in the image above! Now, I'll tell you some more details on two of them. Expand Cave Life and Exploration This has been expanded upon a lot, but there is more we want to do, [...]

So, I have to admit that we've had a devlog over on Steam for quite some time. You can flip through there for some more neat screenshots and info. Today though, we are going to discuss: Items Items, items, items. Any game with extensive crafting really does revolve around them, and it is therefore of the essence that the underlying systems governing and presenting them to the player rest on solid foundations. Ours, we like to think, do. Items in Hammerting are defined primarily in two ways, through their "Modifiers", and through their "Classifications". Rather than being hard [...]