Jan 1, 2021@Slothwerks — Reflections on 2020It’s been a weird year! Following the Early Access release of Krumit’s Tale in November 2019, I was excited to finish it and get to the mobile release. By March or so, I had released the third hero, Mischief, and was starting work on the next hero, Muldorf. Life in…Indie Game10 min read
Sep 15, 2020Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale — Mobile Launch UpdateIn this post I reference ‘revenue’ which I take to mean ‘proceeds’ (the amount of revenue seen by the developer *after* the app store takes its cut) The Mobile Release A few weeks ago, I talked about the Steam 1.0 launch and Krumit’s Tale Project Retrospective. Since then, we’ve released Krumit’s Tale on…Indie Game6 min read
Sep 8, 2020The Localization of Krumit’s TaleI’ve gotten a few questions about localization in Krumit’s Tale, so I wanted to write up a bit about how it was done. I’ll talk a bit about the tools used, the impact on sales, and finally, some of the challenges I ran into with the localization. Using Localizor.com I wanted to…Indie Game8 min read
Aug 13, 2020Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale — The Steam 1.0 Launch 🚀Last time (Meteorfall 2019 — By the Numbers) I left off on Krumit’s Tale, we’d just launched into early access in November 2019. Since then, a lot has changed! Now that we’ve launched the 1.0 …Gamedev10 min read
Dec 27, 2019Meteorfall — 2019 by the NumbersAnother year’s gone by, and it’s time to take a look at how Meteorfall: Journeys and Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale have done this year. Meteorfall Journeys: Updates Since launching in January 2018, Meteorfall: Journeys has continued to get free content updates. In 2019, I launched two major content updates. …Gaming5 min read
Nov 22, 2019Krumit’s Tale — Steam Early Access Sales DataMeteorfall: Krumit’s Tale is my second ‘big’ game (the first being Meteorfall: Journeys) and my first ever Steam release. If you haven’t checked it out — take a look at our Steam page.Game Development6 min read
Oct 31, 2019Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale [Beginner Guide]Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale [Steam] is inspired deck building card games like Slay the Spire and Dream Quest, but plays *very* differently. As a result, much of the conventional wisdom of how to play similar games doesn’t apply in Krumit’s Tale. …Gaming10 min read
Jul 8, 2019Meteorfall: July Developer updateHi everyone! I wanted to try doing a dev log to talk a bit more about the progress on the two Meteorfall games (Journeys and Krumit’s Tale). It remains to me seen if I have time to actually to monthly updates, but let’s give it a try. Steam Page Launch In June, we…Gaming3 min read
May 8, 2019Meteorfall: Krumit’s TaleA couple months after the release of Meteorfall, while working on the Necrodude update, I started brainstorming some new designs for a game that eventually became Krumit’s Tale. I loved the universe that we created for Meteorfall, and I knew that I wanted to work on something that continued to…Gaming6 min read
Jan 28, 2019Meteorfall: One Year RetrospectiveWhat a year! This is a look back at the experience of developing Meteorfall over the past year, including sales numbers and a preview of what’s next. Meteorfall’s been out for a year (as of Jan 25, 2019) and it’s been an exciting journey it’s been. The support I’ve received…Gaming11 min read