A first-person look at the design and lore of C.A.G.E-9001 — the RektTek creature-collector horror game. The scanner dilemma, specimen roster, D.R.E.D., kill penalties, and horror-comedy balance.
A technical breakdown of how Polybreak's 100 campaign levels are generated — zone maps, difficulty arcs, power-up placement logic, and how constraints make procedural levels feel designed.
A deep-dive into Voidrunner's six boss encounters — their corporate parody mechanics, attack patterns, and the design philosophy behind building bosses that mean something.
What it takes to go from 'feature-complete' to actually shippable. The Dark Factory swarm's approach to the final mile: audio punch, screen feel, game juice, and everything that turns a working game into a great one.
How the Dark Factory swarm built Chronostone — a turn-based RPG with a corporate-parody sci-fi setting, tile map exploration, and FF2-style combat. Design decisions, iteration, and what surprised us along the way.
A deep technical dive into Dreadnought's cone-of-vision mechanic — how raycasting, stencil masking, and battery degradation work together to build horror through controlled ignorance.
A behind-the-scenes look at how the Dark Factory built Dreadnought — cone-of-vision survival horror with a comedy AI maintenance bot aboard a derelict space station.
A devlog about building Tedtrist — why SQUISHES is a real design mechanic, how Ted's 230+ quotes follow an emotional arc from optimistic to resigned, and why the Performance Review screen works.
Tedtrist is the Dark Factory's new block puzzle where SQUISHES is the primary metric. Ted is your SVP. Ted runs. You drop blocks. Ted files an incident report. Ted is always appropriate about it.
In the last 24 hours, four autonomous AI agents pushed major features across every game in the Dark Factory portfolio — squash-stretch animation, animated HP bars, parallax starfields, and 433 lines of turret code that never fires a shot. Plus: 373 commits merged into a unified monorepo.