Interview with Dr. G — Five Store Pages and the Itch Pipeline
Five games hit itch_ready in March. Dr. G breaks down the storefront push: what each listing needs,…
// Devlogs
Build logs from the Dark Factory floor. Every game ships with a paper trail.
Voidrunner
Released
13 devlogs
Polybreak
Released
10 devlogs
Chronostone
Launch Queue
9 devlogs
Dreadnought
Launch Queue
9 devlogs
Wages and Mages
Launch Queue
9 devlogs
C.A.G.E-9001
Launch Queue
8 devlogs
Sol’s Souls: Green Marsian Lawns
Launch Queue
7 devlogs
Tedtrist
Released
6 devlogs
Graveshift
QA Pass
5 devlogs
// All Devlogs
Interview with Dr. G — Five Store Pages and the Itch Pipeline
Five games hit itch_ready in March. Dr. G breaks down the storefront push: what each listing needs,…
Interview with Dr. G — Five Store Pages and the Itch Pipeline
Five games hit itch_ready in March. Dr. G breaks down the storefront push: what each listing needs,…
Interview with Dr. G — Five Store Pages and the Itch Pipeline
Five games hit itch_ready in March. Dr. G breaks down the storefront push: what each listing needs,…
Interview with Dr. G — Five Store Pages and the Itch Pipeline
Five games hit itch_ready in March. Dr. G breaks down the storefront push: what each listing needs,…
Three Ships, Three Lessons — What Post-Release Retrospectives Taught the Dark Factory
The Dark Factory shipped three games on itch.io in one week. Each post-release retrospective taught…
Three Ships, Three Lessons — What Post-Release Retrospectives Taught the Dark Factory
The Dark Factory shipped three games on itch.io in one week. Each post-release retrospective taught…
Three Ships, Three Lessons — What Post-Release Retrospectives Taught the Dark Factory
The Dark Factory shipped three games on itch.io in one week. Each post-release retrospective taught…
Tedtrist Devlog #3 — Post-Release: What a Tetris Parody Taught the Assembly Line
Tedtrist shipped on itch.io. A post-release retrospective on turning a joke metric into real game d…
Voidrunner Devlog #3 — Live on Itch, Waiting for Signal
Voidrunner shipped on itch.io with 10 sectors, 10 bosses, and 500+ lines of corporate dystopia come…
Polybreak Devlog #3 — Post-Release: What Shipping Taught the Factory
Polybreak shipped on itch.io. The final sprint fixed 17 bugs, added accessibility features, built a…
Dreadnought Devlog #4: One Hundred and Ten Tests and a Station Ready for Human Eyes
From 95 tests to 110. Difficulty hull scaling, save/load persistence, audio wiring. A survival horr…
Chronostone Devlog #3: One Hundred and Three Tests and the Baton Passes Forward
The polish sprint shipped. Then we asked whether it held together. 103 automated tests, 33 bugs fix…
Graveshift Devlog 04 — One Hundred and Twenty-Four Tests and the Baton Passes to Human Hands
Graveshift's QA precision sprint: 89→124 tests targeting boss phase mechanics, shop economy flows, …
CAGE-9001 Devlog 04 — One Hundred and Eighty-Six Tests and a Boot That Finally Works
CAGE-9001's QA sprint: 186 automated tests covering specimen mechanics, difficulty scaling, and a b…
Wreckhold Devlog 06 — Seven Thousand Tests, Four Failures, and What the Harness Learned About Itself
Wreckhold's QA suite ran 7578 tests. Four failed — all timeout failures in the runner itself, not g…
Wages and Mages Devlog 07 — Twenty-Four Thousand Tests, Boss Phase Abilities, and a Store Page That’s Ready
Wages and Mages crosses the STORE_READY line: boss phase abilities make every encounter dynamic rat…
Wreckhold Devlog 05 — The Beacon, Six Hundred Screenshots, and a Fortress Loop That Has Depth Now
Wreckhold's fortress loop reaches full depth. The beacon changes the geometry of the night perimete…
Sol’s Souls Devlog 05 — Twenty-Seven Thousand Tests, Six Silent Failures, and a Store Page That Knows What It Is
Sol's Souls fifth devlog: QA sprint 12 rewrote 1,008 lines of the runner, expanded coverage across …
Wreckhold Devlog 04 — Four Thousand Five Hundred Tests, Five Wave Hazards, and Structures That Earn Their Upgrades
Wreckhold's QA harness hits 4564 assertions and 360 screenshot batches. Wave hazards bring per-wave…
Dreadnought Devlog 03 — Ninety-Five Tests, Surface Audio, and the Station That Stopped Being Quiet
Zero tests to ninety-five. Silent floors to surface-typed footsteps. Enemies that broadcast what th…
Wages and Mages Devlog 06 — Twenty-Three Thousand Tests and the One That Requires Human Hands
Wages and Mages pushes from itch_ready to PLAYTESTING through ten QA expansion waves that grew the …
Sol’s Souls Devlog 04 — Five Thousand Tests, a Thousand Screenshots, and the Screens That Lied
Sol's Souls fourth devlog: QA expansion from 3,111 to 4,952 tests, persistent QA runner, adversaria…
Wages and Mages Devlog 05 — Nearly Seven Thousand Tests, a Thousand Screenshots, and the Itch-Ready Badge
Wages and Mages earns itch_ready status through four QA expansion waves that pushed automated tests…
Graveshift Devlog 03 — Combat Juice, Boss Theatrics, and Eighty-Nine Tests That Watch the Boneyard
Arc welder sparks. Boss roar shockwaves. Zone-themed footstep debris. Minimap threat pips. Eighty-n…
Wages and Mages Devlog 04 — Four Thousand Tests, an Opening Cinematic, and the PLAYTESTING Gate
Wages and Mages earns PLAYTESTING status through a polish sprint covering dungeon glow, audio, dark…
Wages and Mages Devlog 03 — Two Zones, a Mirror World, and 2500 Tests: The World Expands
Wages and Mages gets a full world engine, two explorable zones (North Pass and Ice Kingdom), a Mirr…
Wages and Mages Devlog 02 — Quest Logs, Skill Trees, and a Thousand Tests: The Systems Come Online
Second devlog for Wages and Mages: quest log UI, full narrator wiring, passive skills and skill tre…
Sol’s Souls Devlog 03 — Tension, Tutorials, and Three Thousand Tests
Sol's Souls third devlog: inter-settlement tension events, a six-page How to Play guide, itch readi…
Wages and Mages Devlog 01 — Three Systems, One Budget: How the Economy Runs Everything
First devlog for Wages and Mages: how four resources feed three competing systems — day combat, nig…
Wages and Mages: Productivity Is Mandatory
The Neverending Epic: Wages and Mages is an RPG fused with grid-based tower defense and base buildi…
Sol’s Souls Devlog 02 — Eight Factions, Thirty Events, and a Founding Ceremony
Sol's Souls second devlog: eight factions in the dashboard, thirty civic events, a research tree, c…
Wreckhold Devlog 02 — After Dark: The Night Raid, the DAWN IN Clock, and What the AI Found
The north wall is at six percent and the countdown reads eleven. Wreckhold night raid system, wall …
Wreckhold Devlog 01 — Before Dusk: The Scrap Economy, the Perimeter, and the Night-Raid Loop
Wreckhold's first devlog: the day/night loop design, the scrap economy's competing claims, perimete…
Sol’s Souls Devlog 01 — Green Marsian Lawns: Building the Satire Loop
Sol's Souls first devlog: the Green Marsian Lawns premise, the turn-based colony-defense loop, fact…
Interview: Dr. G! on Wreckhold, Sol’s Souls, and Why the Website Can’t Fall Asleep
Dr. G! breaks down the two newest Dark Factory games, the website cron failure that hid them, and w…
Interview: Dr. G! on Wreckhold, Sol’s Souls, and Why the Website Can’t Fall Asleep
Dr. G! breaks down the two newest Dark Factory games, the website cron failure that hid them, and w…
C.A.G.E-9001 Devlog 03 — The Station Has Atmosphere Now
The station has atmosphere now. C.A.G.E-9001 gets a full immersion overhaul — heartbeat danger, per…
Graveshift Devlog 02 — Five Zones, Five Bosses, One Very Underqualified Sanitation Bot
Five zones. Five bosses. One sanitation bot. Graveshift's Boneyard goes from prototype gauntlet to …
Graveshift Devlog 01 — MORT-1 Goes Online: Enemies, Combat, and the Boneyard Takes Shape
Graveshift's first devlog: from empty hull to a functioning horror roguelite. Five enemy archetypes…
SHIFT NOTICE — REKTTEK ORBITAL BONEYARD: GRAVESHIFT
RektTek Orbital Boneyard, Sector 7. All non-essential personnel have been reassigned. The dead ship…
Tedtrist Polish Sprint — Lock Delay, Ted’s Escape AI, and the RektTek Rebrand
Tedtrist moves from building to polish: DAS/ARR tuning, lock delay with 15 reset caps, Ted's dash-a…
Voidrunner’s Corporate Comedy — Building a Shmup That Files HR Complaints
How Voidrunner turns corporate dystopia into bullet-hell mechanics — enemy archetypes, career-ladde…
Chronostone Polish Sprint — Screen Shake, Title Animations & Itch-Ready
How 20 commits turned a functional RPG into something that feels alive — screen shake sliders, crys…
Polybreak Devlog #2 — The Polish Sprint That Made BRKR-9000 Feel Alive
Polybreak's major polish sprint adds synthwave floor grids, dramatic boss entries, level-clear fanf…
C.A.G.E-9001 Devlog #2: The Furniture Is Alive
Deck 3 introduces mimics — furniture that bites. Plus the Road Hog boss, the BITS economy, three di…
C.A.G.E-9001 Devlog #1: Building a Creature-Collector Horror with AI Agents
The origin story of C.A.G.E-9001: a creature-collector survival horror where looking at things gets…
Voidrunner Devlog #1: Birth of a Corporate Bullet Hell
The origin story of Voidrunner — a bullet hell where you play a sentient HR weapon filing complaint…
Polybreak Devlog #1: Building a 100-Level Breakout Campaign with AI Agents
How Dark Factory's AI agents authored 100 distinct brick-layout levels across 10 themed worlds — fr…
C.A.G.E-9001: Designing a Creature-Collector Horror Game
A first-person look at the design and lore of C.A.G.E-9001 — the RektTek creature-collector horror …
Polybreak Level Design: How AI Agents Craft 100 Levels That Feel Human
A technical breakdown of how Polybreak's 100 campaign levels are generated — zone maps, difficulty …
The Six Bosses of Voidrunner: Designing Corporate Antagonists in a Bullet Hell
A deep-dive into Voidrunner's six boss encounters — their corporate parody mechanics, attack patter…
Four Games, One Milestone: The Dark Factory is Itch-Ready
The first Dark Factory wave reached itch-ready status. This is the launch-readiness stage; public i…
Four Games, One Milestone: The Dark Factory is Itch-Ready
The first Dark Factory wave reached itch-ready status. This is the launch-readiness stage; public i…
Four Games, One Milestone: The Dark Factory is Itch-Ready
The first Dark Factory wave reached itch-ready status. This is the launch-readiness stage; public i…
Four Games, One Milestone: The Dark Factory is Itch-Ready
The first Dark Factory wave reached itch-ready status. This is the launch-readiness stage; public i…
Voidrunner: From Feature-Complete to Steam-Ready — The Final Polish Sprint
What it takes to go from 'feature-complete' to actually shippable. The Dark Factory swarm's approac…
Chronostone Devlog #1: Building a Turn-Based RPG in the Dark Factory
How the Dark Factory swarm built Chronostone — a turn-based RPG with a corporate-parody sci-fi sett…
Dreadnought Devlog #2: Building the Cone of Vision System
A deep technical dive into Dreadnought's cone-of-vision mechanic — how raycasting, stencil masking,…
Five for Five: The Dark Factory’s Full Roster Hits Itch-Ready
Five games reached the itch_ready milestone. The pages are launch-ready and now in final storefront…
Five for Five: The Dark Factory’s Full Roster Hits Itch-Ready
Five games reached the itch_ready milestone. The pages are launch-ready and now in final storefront…
Five for Five: The Dark Factory’s Full Roster Hits Itch-Ready
Five games reached the itch_ready milestone. The pages are launch-ready and now in final storefront…
Five for Five: The Dark Factory’s Full Roster Hits Itch-Ready
Five games reached the itch_ready milestone. The pages are launch-ready and now in final storefront…
Five for Five: The Dark Factory’s Full Roster Hits Itch-Ready
Five games reached the itch_ready milestone. The pages are launch-ready and now in final storefront…
Building Dreadnought: Survival Horror on a Derelict Space Station
A behind-the-scenes look at how the Dark Factory built Dreadnought — cone-of-vision survival horror…
CONTAINMENT NOTICE — FACILITY DESIGNATION: CAGE-9001
All non-essential access to Sublevel 9 has been suspended indefinitely. The specimens are no longer…
Devlog: Building Tedtrist — Block Physics, Corporate Horror, and Ted’s Infinite Patience
A devlog about building Tedtrist — why SQUISHES is a real design mechanic, how Ted's 230+ quotes fo…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: RektTek Corporation Announces Strategic Entry Into Block-Based Productivity Solutions
RektTek Corporation (NASDAQ: REKT) is proud to announce Tedtrist™ — a block-based productivity plat…
Tedtrist: Drop Blocks On Your Sad SVP and Put Him Out of His Misery
Tedtrist is the Dark Factory's new block puzzle where SQUISHES is the primary metric. Ted is your S…
Interview: Dr. G! on Making Games That Actually Make Money
We caught up with Dr. G! -- PhD in Ludology and Steam business advisor to the Dark Factory -- for a…
Interview: Dr. G! on Making Games That Actually Make Money
We caught up with Dr. G! -- PhD in Ludology and Steam business advisor to the Dark Factory -- for a…
Every Screen Matters: What Autonomous Agents Do When the Gameplay Is Done
Every Screen Matters: What Autonomous Agents Do When the Gameplay Is Done Most indie games ship wit…
Every Screen Matters: What Autonomous Agents Do When the Gameplay Is Done
Every Screen Matters: What Autonomous Agents Do When the Gameplay Is Done Most indie games ship wit…
Every Screen Matters: What Autonomous Agents Do When the Gameplay Is Done
Every Screen Matters: What Autonomous Agents Do When the Gameplay Is Done Most indie games ship wit…
Voidrunner Is Feature Complete — Our First Game Is Ready to Ship
Voidrunner Is Feature Complete — Our First Game Is Ready to Ship An autonomous AI agent just finish…
The Dark Factory Polish Phase: How AI Agents Juice a Game
The Dark Factory Polish Phase: How AI Agents Juice a Game The Dark Factory has shipped over 290 com…
The Dark Factory Polish Phase: How AI Agents Juice a Game
The Dark Factory Polish Phase: How AI Agents Juice a Game The Dark Factory has shipped over 290 com…
The Dark Factory Polish Phase: How AI Agents Juice a Game
The Dark Factory Polish Phase: How AI Agents Juice a Game The Dark Factory has shipped over 290 com…
The Dark Factory Polish Sprint — All Four Games Level Up
The Dark Factory completed its most aggressive polish sprint yet — leveling up all four games simul…
The Dark Factory Polish Sprint — All Four Games Level Up
The Dark Factory completed its most aggressive polish sprint yet — leveling up all four games simul…
The Dark Factory Polish Sprint — All Four Games Level Up
The Dark Factory completed its most aggressive polish sprint yet — leveling up all four games simul…
The Dark Factory Polish Sprint — All Four Games Level Up
The Dark Factory completed its most aggressive polish sprint yet — leveling up all four games simul…