Hello detectives! Welcome to the latest instalment of the dev blog. I’m writing an update today to talk about progress and what you can expect from the project in the near future. It’s continued to be really busy; I’m really pleased with the number of bugs we’ve been able to fix since the initial launch …

Hello detectives! Wow, what a crazy few weeks! The early access release has gone a lot better than I think any one of us was expecting, which is of course fantastic news. I’ve loved seeing the reactions to the game but mostly I’ve been working really hard to get the bigger fixes in place for …

An incredible 48 hours – thank you, detectives! Hi detectives, Cole here from ColePowered Games. I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has already jumped into the game and made Shadows of Doubt a success. The game is off to an incredible start with more players in the first 48 …

Happy launch day detectives!! It’s really fantastic to see all the enthusiasm around the project (and it’s been there since I’ve started sharing stuff about it) so I really can’t thank everyone enough for the support. Without it, I don’t think this project would have been possible. It’s difficult to really know what to say …

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, …