DEVLOG
Devlog
Every step of Frostwake, written up as it happens: what changed, why it changed, and what went wrong on the way.
When the weather closes in
In a blizzard the view now closes to a circle of about 8 m round the survivor, with only white and blowing snow beyond it. The last passes of the look test…
Light you carry
At night the only warm light in Frostwake comes from fire. A cabin stays dark until a stove or a candle burns inside, and away from the campfire the survivor…
Tracks in the snow
The stand-in for the survivor now leaves boot prints in the snow, and new snow fills them in over game hours. Light snow closes a trail in about three hours, a…
A fire worth sitting by
Light at night in Frostwake comes from the fires you light, so the campfire has to look alive and warm. It took four review passes and in the end a change of…
Weather comes first
We want Frostwake's weather to change from day to day, a high clear sun one morning and a blizzard that hides it the next, with the player planning around it.…
Starting over
Frostwake is a survival game seen from above, set in a frozen sub-arctic valley and about cold, hunger, fire and wildlife. We had built it twice before. On 5…