Hello detectives! There’s just under a week left to go until we launch on Steam Early Access on April 24th! Things on the dev side have been what you would probably expect; hunting down as many bugs as possible before we press the big green button on our first publicly available version of the full …

Hello everyone! Thank you to all of you who played the demo over the course of Steam NextFest. It was a massive success, with more people playing, wishlisting, and joining the community than we could have ever hoped for. As you may have expected we received a tonne of feedback, and we’ve been processing it …

Hello folks, it’s been a while so for this update I thought I’d keep it simple this time and just write a general update for how things are progressing with the game, and also use this as an opportunity to talk about random bits and bobs of the game that don’t really fit into any …

Hello everyone! Welcome to a fresh new edition of the Shadows of Doubt dev blog. This month I’ve put together a list of some of the most challenging aspects of creating the project so far. I should probably note this doesn’t include challenges for writing, voxel modelling or audio work, ie the stuff I largely …

Hi everybody! It’s time for a 2021 retrospective, where I’m going to wrap up all the fantastic progress we’ve made on the game in 2021… Where were we this time last year? Looking back in my source control commits reveals that I had just finished a revamp of the way the citizens were put together. …

Hi everybody, time for another dev update from us! Continuing the theme of hearing from the rest of the team, we’re learning about the process behind some of the writing in the game from our talented writer Stark Holborn. Without further ado… One of the best parts of working on Shadows is the world-building. Luckily, …

Hi everybody, welcome back to our more-regular-than-ever dev blog! This time we’re continuing to talk about the citizen visuals; Miles the voxel artist will take you through his workflow of creating clothing. Take it away Miles… Intro Last blog I talked about making voxel faces for the citizens in Shadows of Doubt and the challenges …

Hi everyone! In this month’s dev blog I’m going to hand the reigns over to Miles, the talented pixel and voxel artist who’s now behind a lot of the new models you now see in Shadows of Doubt. This year one of the biggest challenges has been revamping the citizens: Part of the game’s appeal …

Hello everybody! I hope everybody is enjoying their summer; we here on the Shadows team have almost finished collecting all the feedback and data gathered from our limited closed alpha at the time of writing. We’ve learned a lot and there’s so much to talk about that I thought it was probably time for another …

2021 is here! It’s that time where I look back on the previous year to see how badly I missed my targets! I’m going to avoid being too harsh though, the game is going well and we’ve achieved a lot this year: The game has been signed by Sold Out, Featured in the PC Gamer …