A Home in Darkness

Devlog

• Version 0.9.04 released with MacOS build!
  August 31, 2024 by Martin Senges

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  Hey everyone. As you can see I finally got around making a MacOS build for the game. I tested it on an old Intel based Macbook Air, but it should also work on newer ARM based ones. The game can now be... Continue reading
• Version 0.9.03 released
  August 10, 2024 by Martin Senges

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  Hi you might be wondering why there is already another version of the game available. I'm currently trying to get the game running on lower end hardware and need to make changes frequently. Making a n... Continue reading
• Version 0.9.02 released
  August 08, 2024 by Martin Senges

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  Hey everyone. I tested the last version of the game on some older hardware. I found out that the game didn't work on low end hardware. Even some desktop PCs from the last decade. Because my game emula... Continue reading
• Version 0.9.01 released
  July 27, 2024 by Martin Senges

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  Hey everyone I'm going to do more frequent updates. In turn the changes in those updates will be rather small in comparison. Today is such an update. Here's the changelog for version 0.9.01: - Reduced... Continue reading
• 0.9 Release - but not the kind you think of
  July 12, 2024 by Martin Senges

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  Hey everyone! You might be surprised, but I decided to update the public build of A Home in Darkness. While this is technically the version 0.9, it is NOT the kind of 0.9 version I wanted to release i... Continue reading
• Thanks for all your help
  June 10, 2024 by Martin Senges

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  Hello everyone. Thank you to everyone who helped during the recent itch.io campaign. We've reached about 150$. I'll try to get the 0.9 version of A Home in Darkness out as soon as possible. Though as... Continue reading
• Price increase, Page update and potential release date of version 0.9
  May 19, 2024 by Martin Senges

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  Hi everyone As you might have noticed I finally updated the game's page to reflect the current state of development. Sadly I'm not yet done with version 0.9, but I am getting close. I've changed so mu... Continue reading
• Source code available
  March 10, 2024 by Martin Senges

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  Hi there! As you may know, I'm currently developing the demo version for A Home in Darkness. Up until recently this involved redesigning various different systems and rethinking the gameplay loop. I'm... Continue reading
• Where is version 0.9?
  November 04, 2023 by Martin Senges

  Hello everyone I know it has been a long time since the last update. For those who don’t know I have a Youtube channel where I talk about the latest new on the game. However I figured it’s about t... Continue reading
• Version 0.8.0 is out!
  November 23, 2022 by Martin Senges

  Hi everyone! I know it has been a while since the last update. A lot of stuff happened this year. In addition A Home in Darkness needed to be reworked in many aspects compared to the previous version... Continue reading
• Another post, game update is still taking a while
  July 07, 2022 by Martin Senges

  Hey everyone. I just wanted to assure you that the project isn't dead yet! I'm still working on it. But progress is slow due to various reasons. More on that in this video: Thanks for your patience. A... Continue reading
• New devlog for the game
  April 03, 2022 by Martin Senges

  Hi everyone! I uploaded a new video regarding the current state of the game. Progress is slow, but steady :) Thanks for your support, I try my best to get the next game update out as soon as possible,... Continue reading
• What I've been working on...
  January 21, 2022 by Martin Senges

  Hi everyone! It’s a new year and I haven’t given any updates on A Home in Darkness for a while. At least on Itch. I do most of my devlogs on Youtube, as I prefer the video format to give updates o... Continue reading
• Changing my Early Access strategy...
  October 01, 2021 by Martin Senges

  Hi everyone! I'm sorry to announce that the game's 1.0 release won't happen this October. I'm not yet happy with how the game feels and the amount of content it has. I'm also going to stop uploading n... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.0 released
  August 15, 2021 by Martin Senges

  Hi there! Yes your mind is not playing tricks on you. The game jumped from 0.3.0 to 0.7.0 in the version number. As I've talked about in my last post, I made a lot of changes in regards to what kind o... Continue reading
• Changing the direction...
  July 03, 2021 by Martin Senges

  Hi everyone! I have been working a lot on the game over the past weeks. Not just in terms of asset creation and programming, but also in terms of story development. Sadly I came to the conclusion that... Continue reading
• Version 0.3.0 released!
  May 24, 2021 by Martin Senges#version update

  Hey everyone, I got exiting news for you! I just updated “A Home in Darkness” to version 0.3.0! A lot has changed with the underlying systems of the game. The game has a new and improved ritual sy... Continue reading
• Has been a while
  April 26, 2021 by Martin Senges

  Hi there! It has been a while since I made a written devlog on itch for the game. Don't worry, I'm still working on the game as much as possible to bring you the next update. Just in case people don't... Continue reading
• Version 0.2.0 released!
  February 13, 2021 by Martin Senges#version update

  Hi there I just uploaded version 0.2.0 of the game! I've made a lot of progress developing the game. Some of it is easy to spot in the new build. Other stuff has been hidden, because it's not yet pres... Continue reading
• A video on monster design!
  January 17, 2021 by Martin Senges#video, #monster

  Hi there! This time around I don't have a new release version of the game. Instead I made a devlog for those who want to have a sneak peek at some of the monsters in game. Have fun!... Continue reading
• Version 0.1.1 released!
  December 16, 2020 by Martin Senges#version update

  Hi everyone! I just uploaded version 0.1.1 of “A Home in Darkness”. I’ve reworked a lot of the underlying systems, allowing me do add new features to the game. I’ve tried my best to already ad... Continue reading
• Redoing the level
  November 28, 2020 by Martin Senges#horror, #gameplay, #level, #level design, #release

  Hello everyone! Here’s another devlog for the game. I have been working primarily on recreating the level mesh in Blender. Before I used the Gripmap feature of Godot to create the level from various... Continue reading

  
• In-between-updates
  November 06, 2020 by Martin Senges#horror, #update

  Hello everyone! Just wanted to give a quick update on the game’s progress: I’ve fixed a couple of bugs by refactoring major parts of the code. Things should now be much more robust and new stuff s... Continue reading
• Early Access Road Map
  October 25, 2020 by Martin Senges#early access, #road map

  Hi there! As promised I made a road map for the game's development and published a small video about it: I'm not entirely sure if I should make many small updates on the game's exe or a big one for ea... Continue reading
• Early Access Release! But...
  October 14, 2020 by Martin Senges#release, #pre-alpha, #early access

  Hello everyone! Today's the day! You are now able to buy a pre-alpha of my game "A Home in Darkness". But before you do, I need to make some things clear: This version of the game is not playable by... Continue reading
• Making reading interesting
  August 22, 2020 by Martin Senges#reading, #book, #gameplay

  Hi there! I figured I do some devlog articles talking a bit more about the gameplay features. In this case specifically reading books! Yeah I know reading books doesn’t sound like a particular inter... Continue reading
• Official Project Announcement
  August 08, 2020 by Martin Senges

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  #early access, #horror, #game, #release date

  Hi, I finally published the page for my horror game "A Home in Darkness". I've been working on that game for a while now and have shared my progress on Youtube via devlogs. But the game is in a state... Continue reading