TOWD

Devlog

• Food Poisoning!
  July 22, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  At times like these, I pause to reflect on my life choices. Today, the feature worthy of an update and a dev log deals with eating raw food and the food poisoning you can get from it. These are the ga... Continue reading

  
• Fully Functional Web Build
  July 20, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  There is a new web build based on blazor from the same code base as the text versions. Everything is fully functional, including saving and loading. Which took a bit of doing, because in order to "sav... Continue reading

  
• A Dialog/Quest System!
  July 11, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

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  Today marks a completely new feature: the dialog system. It allows for complex interactions between NPCs. And the first such interaction is, naturally, an inside joke that combines a fleeting misspell... Continue reading

  
• There's a Stats Screen!
  July 06, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  And other internal changes and minor changes to ui, but mostly: stats screen!... Continue reading

  
• Web Version Canceled, but Map Screen!
  July 05, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  One, I don't want to port all of the code into javascript. So, web version dead. RIP web version. Two, I added a map screen. Yer welcome. Three, the verb screen has been reworked so that from the game... Continue reading

  
• I shipped the web version
  June 29, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Unbeknownst to me (well, so I forgot, k?) I had a web version of this game that I was working on before I left for my break! And so here it is!... Continue reading

  
• Add Fuel, and all Recipes become Verbs
  June 27, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  This is a larger change. Mostly, the concept of "verb" has been merged with the concept of "recipe", to make one big list. Which is its own problem, because crafting stuff and foraging for stuff don't... Continue reading

  
• Infrastructure Changes
  June 24, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  In the latest version, I have some infrastructure changes that won't impact gameplay in the slightest! So why devlog about it? These changes caused me to reconsider OTHER things in the game, which wil... Continue reading
• Knapping Skill and Quality of Life Improvements
  June 21, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  In this version, I did the following things: Added a message when I can no longer craft the thing I've been crafting. Added an autosave slot Fixed some stuff about the save and load screens Added cont... Continue reading

  
• Crafting Recipe Quality of Life
  June 20, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Hidden in this update is the ability to close out of almost everything with the mouse. But that's boring. Also, on the crafting screen, I now have two tabs. One for the recipes you can craft right now... Continue reading

  
• Context Sensitive Verb and Item Type Help
  June 19, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  I now have Verb and Item Type context sensitive help working. It is colorful text that is generated by grok. Occasionally, it is completely accurate, but as I don't give grok a lot of intimate details... Continue reading

  
• Better Navigation, and Help Topics
  June 17, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Today I added improvements to how you can navigate about the world. You can see neighbor locations, but you will only see detail once you have visited that neighbor. The location is described in part... Continue reading

  
• Saving and Loading
  June 16, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Today, not a sexy change, but the ability to save and load the game. Long overdue. Also allows scum saving/scum loading. It just feels more full featured this way... Continue reading

  
• Hiatus Ends - Quality of Life Begins
  June 15, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev

  It has been more than three months since my last work on this. So the first part of resuming this was figuring out what my past self was up to. Naturally, he was up to his same old shenanigans, so I w... Continue reading