Sorceress Studio / Developer Diary

Built in public,entry by entry.

Every production note from across the studio, ordered newest to oldest: experiments, technical decisions, art direction, and playable milestones.

56 entries · 6 projects

Added the drivable Rust Jackal

The first wasteland vehicle can be placed from inventory, driven across the desert, loaded with cargo, damaged, repaired, and recovered as a wreck.

The surviving hero can pull Emburrn straight from a field and fund a new Command Core without a single building.

Aurelie learned to float, paddle, dive, surface, catch fish, carry them through flight, and perch in the trees above the water.

Survival progress now survives damaged save generations while a quick bar and direct movement mode make field work faster.

One selected soldier or vehicle can be driven from the mouse and keyboard, with the guns aimed separately from the hull.

A Systems Laboratory opens four research paths, and each completed study unlocks a building or a unit instead of a hidden percentage.

Windflower Cove gave Aurelie a compact meadow, palms, shoreline, and thermal where every part of movement could be learned in one view.

A lone survivor now enters a separate procedural desert, fights malfunctioning automatons, and strips their wrecks for usable components.

Loose stone, wood, fiber, scrap, and robot parts now feed recipes for tools, workbenches, armor repair, and treatment of individual injuries.