Hello everyone!

First, a big thank you to everyone who has subscribed since the July newsletter!

Last week marked my first week working on the game full-time now that summer break is over and I’m not full-time parenting. This has let me do some faster prototyping to answer the questions “What even is the game I’m making? What part is fun?”

I shared before that I’m building an incremental game inspired by Cookie Clicker and Unfair Flips. The gimmick I have in mind is applying the “ruthless probability” of Unfair Flips to another game of chance: Rock, Paper, Scissors. My working prototype title is “Project RPS", although iterating through my prototypes will crystalize if that’s the right angle to actually make something fun.

Regardless of where I land, I wanted to put out my first draft of a development timeline. This is half to inform all of you, and half to hold myself accountable.

I’m sweating just putting this in the newsletter since now you-all will have expectations, but I’m amusingly looking forward to future newsletters where you can see me draw red lines through the dates while saying “What was I thinking?” It’s intentionally pretty aggressive to keep myself in line, which is something that really helps me self-motivate.

What’s new since the last newsletter:

• Read about the math of incremental games to help figure out balance and progression.

• Discovered my new favorite hobby: trying out different free fonts in my game. (This is surprisingly very satisfying).

• Created main menu, credits, and main game scene (sorry, no screenshots yet), with navigation between them.

And lastly, some beautiful drawings of rocks in digital-art and pixel-art styles:

That’s all for this newsletter on the last day of August!

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Thank you as always!

Matt

Founder, Kuhanten Games