Build notes from CropCorp, written as the work happens. Balance data, bugs worth the retelling, and the occasional thing that only broke because it was funny.
Our seventeen-year-old tester came back for a second session and played for an hour, reaching day twelve without ever dying and without ever getting stuck. That is the good news, and it is not the…
CropCorp can be put down now. A run is a persistent thing: it autosaves at every dawn, one file per run with the difficulty locked inside it, and the front door lists your open games as CONTINUE…
The last entry ended on a heat map: villagers steer perfectly well across open farmland and get stuck where the player has built. This one starts with the fix. A wedged villager now follows the face…
An eighteen-year-old played CropCorp for fifty-four minutes and said the same thing four times in his first three minutes: the text is too small. He was wearing glasses at the time. That single note…
Two people who had never seen CropCorp before sat down and played it, and their notes ran the night's work. There is no substitute for this. A build you have been staring at for a week is a build you…
Two orders landed together and turned out to be one system: the village needed an industry, and the hero needed a build. Ore feeds the guns, the smithy feeds your hands. The important call was what…
The user played twice (day 1→21 solo — survived the day-18 crisis, beat the chapter-2 boss, called it: "tougher, much tougher... dying a lot is great" ) and fed back continuously; everything below…
The morning after the day-40 marathon, the playtest notes said the same thing three ways: "with 30 guns it's hard to see quickly what's what" , "guns to show hit points left" , and — the big one —…
The turrets have been the same scarecrow since the first playable wave. From tonight they have careers. Walk up to any gun, press [E] , and its card opens over it in the ledger's paper: three tracks…
Left in charge for eight hours, the build grew its two most requested prototypes. The prologue : the game now cold-opens inside CLAUSE & CO. — COLLECTIONS DIVISION, where you are the taxman.…