If you’re reading this, the game must have finally been announced. Today, we unveiled Everbrink, a 4X roguelike deckbuilder. We’re far too small a company to give it the full-scale marketing and promotion the big studios can, but we want to keep doing what we can, bit by bit.
Starting with this post, I plan to write an occasional series called Devlog to introduce Everbrink and talk about its concept and why it matters.
First, what is Everbrink? It’s a word I coined myself. Taken literally, it means “the eternal brink.” A looser take might be “back against the wall.” The game’s big theme is how you fight and survive while the ground keeps crumbling away. I named the game “Everbrink” for that ever-shrinking situation and the desperation that comes with it. I love the sound of “Ever” so much that I once considered an “Ever-something” title for an earlier game I worked on.
In other news, I wrote in an earlier post that we were developing the game in Unity, but we’ve since switched engines to Godot. Godot has a GUI, but the big thing for us is that it can be launched from the command line, so Claude can operate it directly. The engine is still very much evolving, but it starts up quickly too, and I’m happy with it. It’s also thanks to the move to Godot that we made it in time for today’s reveal.
I think the announcement is the bigger news today, so I’ll keep this one short. Next time, I plan to share my thoughts on Everbrink’s genre.