Skills In previous communications, we’ve talked about some of the skills you can do in BitCraft like fishing, farming, and smithing. In today’s blog, I want to dive more into what we consider as core-skills in BitCraft, and how we think about designing them. …

This is going to be a relatively short blog post! I just wanted to talk to the BitCraft community a little bit about SpacetimeDB. …

BitCraft developer Clockwork Labs announces new database platform SpacetimeDB for multiplayer games Clockwork Labs, the video game developer behind the upcoming community sandbox MMORPG BitCraft, announces a new serverless database platform which empowers small teams to create massively multiplayer online games. SAN FRANCISCO — August 3, 2022 — fully remote…

A Game of Scales Hey Everyone, Those of you active in our Discord might know me, but to everyone else, I’m Carter (Minch) the Game Director on BitCraft. …

June 2023 Greetings, Pre-Alpha 10 has officially concluded! While the servers may be down and all may seem quiet, we are hard at work reviewing tester critique as it comes in! This test was our largest and most ambitious test to-date, and we can say with confidence that we are excited to…

May 2023 Hi everyone! In our April Producer Letter we indicated our plans for Pre-Alpha 10, and we are happy to share that we are ready to start with the first tests! To recap, we will run at least two tests: one, which we are calling Pre-Alpha 10, is primarily focused on…

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. …

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…