Game Design Blog — April 17, 2023 I’d like to talk about a game design topic which has long been a point of frequent, deep discussion and differing opinions within Clockwork Labs: free trade and its many implications. The point of this article is to present four key points which I believe are crucial to the design…

April 2023 Hi everyone! Pre-Alpha 9 is officially over! We are currently hard at work analyzing the feedback and internal data, as well as fixing the bugs that showed up during the test. A special “thank you” to all the testers for providing feedback and sticking with us during the inevitable server…

March 2023 Hi everyone, If you read the Pre-Alpha 9 Producer Letter you already know what we have been working on over the last months. To recap, our set main goals for Pre-Alpha 9 have been a revamp of the “discovery system”, the introduction of “enclosed spaces” and the addition of the…

February 2023 The Bitcraft developers are active on the official BitCraft Discord server and often answer community questions. To join the conversation and to read new answers first, join https://discord.gg/bitcraft What software are you using to create the world biomes/ terrain, and is the world fully processual by the world-generating software? The…

Pre-Alpha 9 Hi everyone! First of all, from all of us at Clockwork Labs, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped us playtest pre-alpha update 8. It was absolutely wonderful to finally see so many of you in-game; your hard work and creativity is truly humbling and we cannot wait to…

November 2022 Hi everyone! As you know from the previous Producer Letter, we’ve been hard at work on pre-alpha update 8 for a while now. I wanted to give you a quick update on where we’re at, but more importantly, how and when we’ll be testing it. A quick reminder, the goal…

September 2022 Hi everyone! Quick introduction: My name is Stoffer and I was recently hired as the EP of BitCraft. I also play a lot of video games. Like a lot. One thing that frustrates me about new games I’m excited about is radio silence and not knowing what’s going on. I…

August 2022 The Bitcraft developers are active on the official BitCraft Discord server and often answer community questions. To join the conversation and to read new answers first, join https://discord.gg/bitcraft Hi, was wondering if there are going to be secret skills you can get by doing specific tasks? Proficiency in any skill…

Game Design Blog — June 27, 2022 Note: I’m going to try to keep this as brief as possible. A lot of players have recently joined our community who are interested in cryptocurrencies, so I thought I would write this blog post as a reference for new players who would like to know what our thoughts are…