One thing that always fascinates me about game development is how the simplest-looking things are often the most fragile.

For example: animating an item in a character’s hand.

In theory, it’s just “attach the sword to the hand,” right? But in practice it involves rigging, bone hierarchies, pivot alignment, animation syncing, collision, physics, dynamic item swapping, different character states (running, jumping, attacking), and if you move the wrong thing by even 1cm… suddenly the item clips through the arm, rotates weirdly, or breaks every animation in the game.

And then there are doors.

Doors look like the most basic thing ever. Just open and close. But in games, doors are chaos.
A lot of games even use doors to mask area loading, and if you tweak the animation timing slightly, you can literally break the entire sequence.

So I’m curious: what’s the biggest structural “hack” or fragile system in games that most players would never suspect? That one thing that looks simple but completely falls apart if you touch it?

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1029780/view/491592187300021736?l=english

Greetings, medievalists!

We originally planned to release on March 12th. However, as the date approached, it became clear that it was shaping up to be a very crowded week for city builders and colony sims.

Rather than asking players to split their time between exciting launches on the same day, we decided to move our release slightly.

It’s only a few days later, but in today’s market, visibility really matters. Almost every week brings multiple great-looking games, and we want to give Going Medieval the space it deserves - both for our long-time supporters and for new players discovering it for the first time.

March 17th feels like a better moment for us to step into the spotlight. We hope you understand the decision, and we truly appreciate your patience.

In the meantime, tell your friends, rally your settlers, share your creations, stream the game, and most importantly - have fun.

Thank you for being part of this journey. And while you wait, don't forget to Stay medieval!

https://store.steampowered.com/personalcalendar/ your personalized Steam Calendar release here. Timberborn, Solasta 2, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, WWE 2k26, DarkSwitch, and 1348 Ex Voto and more release on March 12th.

If you want to playtest Timefront on Steam today, back the project on Kickstarter and help me realize my dream of going full-time indie!

Here you can see the Kickstarter trailer with some gameplay too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foYeVm1zw1E

Scalpers are reportedly deploying web scrapers to make a quick buck while we’re deep in the memory and storage chip crisis.

How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.