I won't sell time.
No daily login bonuses. No fear-of-missing-out timers. No premium currency you spend faster than you can earn it. You buy the game once. That's it.
v1.2.3 · May 18, 2026
Independent games · solo dev
We make games about doing nothing faster.
An independent studio building slow, deep-systems titles. Quiet engines for long hours. One person, shipping when it's done.
1Title shipped
25Bosses
5Zones
3Prestige layers
§ 01 / watch
The trailer.
90 seconds of gameplay. No marketing voice-over.
§ 02 / currently shipping
The first one.
A deep-sea idle dungeon crawler. Out now on Steam.
§ 03 / latest
What changed.
The three most recent ships.
§ 04 / what I won't ship
The principles.
Things I'm not willing to do for growth.
I'd rather sell fewer copies than nickel-and-dime.
No microtransactions, no battle passes, no cosmetics stores. If it ships in the build, it's in the build.
I announce things after they ship.
No roadmaps. No 'coming soon' chips. If it isn't in version.json, it doesn't exist.
§ 05 / note
From the dev.
Hand-edited per significant moment. Not a blog.
Today I shipped v1.2.3 — a Linux launch fix one player flagged from Hyprland on an NVIDIA card. Two issues in the godot_wry stack: a GTK panic under native Wayland, a black window from WebKit's DMA-BUF compositor. The whole patch is a four-line launcher script that sets two environment variables.
Aaron sent me the stack trace, then a workaround he'd found himself, then a screenshot of the black window — all before I'd replied. That's most of the work; when a player iterates the evidence three times, the fix is small. Nine weeks past launch and the long tail looks like this — someone on a setup I'll never own, finding a corner I never thought to test.
— EthangoneIdle · solo dev · shipping when it's done