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, how to price a factory-built game, and why itch comes before Steam.
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Interview with Dr. G — The Factory Goes Multiplayer
Dr. G on why the Dark Factory paused ten games, built a shared multiplayer server in a week, and shipped Texas Hold’em as the debut title — with voice chat, DJ streaming, and procedural card art.
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 a different lesson: accessibility and automated QA (Polybreak), scope management through comedy architecture (Voidrunner), and shareability as a distribution mechanic (Tedtrist). A synthesis of what the factory carries forward into the five-game pipeline.
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 design, building Ted's escape AI, the RektTek consolidation, and what the Dark Factory's third release taught the assembly line.
Voidrunner’s Corporate Comedy — Building a Shmup That Files HR Complaints
How Voidrunner turns corporate dystopia into bullet-hell mechanics — enemy archetypes, career-ladder sectors, bosses that steal your budget, and a shop where you can quietly quit.
Chronostone Polish Sprint — Screen Shake, Title Animations & Itch-Ready
How 20 commits turned a functional RPG into something that feels alive — screen shake sliders, crystal title screens, and what itch_ready actually means.
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 wide-ranging conversation about genre strategy, autonomous game development, and a spontaneous new game idea.
Games That Play Themselves: Building Attract Modes with AI
How AI agents built attract modes for four games simultaneously — paddle tracking, battle AI, bullet dodging, and corridor patrol across the Dark Factory studio.
Procedural Audio Synthesis: 2,445 Lines of Sound With Zero Audio Files
How an AI agent built a complete horror game soundtrack using nothing but math — waveform synthesis, spatial audio, and psychoacoustic layering in Love2D.
Procedural Level Generation: How AI Agents Build 4 Different Game Worlds From Pure Code
Four games, four generation strategies — from 100 hand-designed breakout layouts to a 2,495-line dungeon generator with 11 atmospheric layers. How the Dark Factory builds worlds without a single map editor.