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Dev Log: 2026-07-12

"The confirmation dialog was always going to say yes. The point was never the answer, it was making sure the player saw the question."

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Dev Log: 2026-07-05

"You can now press Back on a tutorial step and actually go back, gauge, position, shield state and all, instead of the game politely pretending you did."

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Dev Log: 2026-07-03

"Your queued units now know where their friends are going, and your save file is no longer one badly-timed browser refresh away from oblivion."

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Dev Log: 2026-06-30

"The game now has a proper extras menu, the Chapter 6 boss fight exists, and Iron Curtain finally does what everyone assumed it already did."

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Dev Log: 2026-06-26

"Today I made every stage slightly easier, fixed some very rude drone behavior, and made the editor slightly less annoying. Making the game more accessible."

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AI art: the latest end of civilization

Oh, for the love of Renaissance paint fumes, here we go again.

Listen up, noble guardians of the sacred brush, you valiant sentinels of hand-crafted pixels and oil on canvas earned through 47 hours of suffering and mild existential dread. How dare a solo developer use generative AI to create character portraits for their reactive turn-based strategy game? Don't they realize true art demands carpal tunnel, unpaid commissions, and the quiet knowledge that your portfolio will be seen by roughly twelve people before the heat death of the universe?