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• Announcements·25 Jul 2026Official

  Pendulum Meadows Gazette

  　Welcome back to the Pendulum Meadows Gazette. This week the whole platform is riding the rails — Steam Train Fest is on, July 20 through the 27th, and the discounts run deep. Now, I know not everyone here is a train person. Neither am I, not really. But that's exactly why I want to point you toward it. Every so often a festival like this drags a genre into the light and you find something that has nothing to do with timetables and everything to do with feeling.　Case in point: RUNNING TRAIN | 走ル列車！. I clicked on it half out of curiosity, and it genuinely caught me off guard. The graphics are good, sure. But that wasn't the part that got me. It's how real it feels. Not "realistic looking" — real. Sitting there, hands on the controls, I wasn't watching a train. I was driving one. That gap between looking at a thing and being inside it is a hard one to close, and this one closes it. Go see for yourself.　Anyway. That's enough rambling from me. Let's get this week's Gazette rolling.　　#1 Arcade Mode Tier 3 & Tier 4 Polishing : This week I polished two Tier 3 stages and two Tier 4 stages. The bulk of the work went into the text-generation area — the space where letters appear for you to type. For these mid-to-upper tiers, that area is the lever that directly controls difficulty, and getting it right was harder than it sounds. The off-beat stages fought me the hardest; a small change there ripples straight into how fair or brutal a stage feels. After a lot of back and forth, I got it to sit where I wanted. Relieved is the word.　　　　　　#2 Social Media & Carousel Devlogs : I've kept the social media habit going. Coming back to it after a while, I've been treating it as a chance to learn new formats and try things I haven't before. Last week I posted a carousel piece for the first time — telling a devlog as a series of panels instead of one image — and it actually landed some interaction. Honestly, it's fun. There's something satisfying about shaping a devlog into that shape. So...
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• Announcements·11 Jul 2026Official

  Pendulum Meadows Gazette

  　Welcome back to the Pendulum Meadows Gazette. The Steam Summer Sale has been in full swing, and I hope you managed to snag something you'd been circling for a while — you know the feeling, the one you keep hovering over but never quite commit to. I did my own damage this week, no regrets. But sales come and go. What stays is the work, and this week the work went well. So settle in — I've got good news to share, same as always.　　　　　　#1 Level Polishing — Tier 3 Lineup : I polished four more levels this week, all from the Tier 3 lineup. This tier is where the difficulty starts to climb — syncopation, split-letter generation, the kind of rhythm that trips you up if you're not paying attention. My job here was a balancing act: let that challenge come through honestly, but never let it spike into something unfair. I got granular with it this time. One example — the moments where you have to press two inputs at once got repositioned, spaced out so they land cleanly instead of tangling your fingers. Small change, big difference in how it feels. Look forward to it.　　　#2 Two New Social Videos : Last week I put out two videos on social media. It's been a while since I made original content, and I had a genuinely good time with it. Here's the thing — I care less about selling copies than I do about getting the vision across. I want to hand the people who love games a doorway: to mine, sure, but to all the indie gems sitting just out of sight, too. That's the whole point. I'll keep iterating, keep reading the feedback, and keep making these better one by one.　　This week, four games that ask you to stay a while and dig.About Fishing : Still water, a quiet line. Each catch pulls up something the lake would rather have kept — and the calm only holds until you decide to go deeper. (Link)Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell : A toy village frozen since its bell was stolen. Notebook in hand, you weigh twenty alibis and press until one lie finally cracks. (Link)Moss: The Forgotten Rel...
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• Announcements·4 Jul 2026Official

  Pendulum Meadows Gazette

  　Welcome back. This week ran long — I started social media. Development pushed harder than usual. Curation kept going. A lot moving at once, but I wanted to share where each piece landed.　　　　　　#1 Level Polishing — Type Spawn Zones : I worked on four levels this week, all focused on the spawn area of letters. None of these are the hardest levels in the game, but they're not throwaways either. I wanted them to feel readable — not chaotic, not flat. So I gave each one a quiet rule of its own. A rhythm to the spawn pattern you can sense before you can explain. Hope it lands for you.　　　#2 Social Media Content — First Videos Coming : My first videos drop soon. Nothing grand. I studied a bit about how short-form actually travels, then made something. The plan is to test formats, watch what players respond to, and keep adjusting. Honestly, it's been more fun than I expected.　　#3 Curation — Still Going : Kept pulling games into the curator list. More on those below.　　This week, four games about who you become when no one's watching.　What Awaits, Aleksey? : A sealed bag each morning. Coded messages, wiretap recordings. The state trusts you. They do not. Save them or expose them. > Link　Abigail : Coming home, the old friends feel like strangers. A coastal town, a folk card game whose rules shift block by block. > Link　Imagine We Were Human : Twelve small stories of people who meet, miss, and pass each other — hand-drawn moments you might carry longer than you expect. > Link　I'm Making a Monster : A mage runs from grief by building a monster while friends keep knocking. Each part chosen, each visit declined, shapes who you become. > Link　　Each of these quietly asks who you're becoming through the small choices. None of them are out yet — wishlist them while you can. More on my curator page.　　For a while now, I'll be focused on three things: final polishing, curation, and social content. Three lanes, one direction — better things to put in front of you. Hang tight.　　　Curation is...
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• Announcements·26 Jun 2026Official

  Pendulum Meadows Gazette

  　　Welcome back. I'll be honest with you — most of this week didn't go into my own game. It went into Steam Next Fest. Over 4,200 games this round, and I spent days digging through them, looking for the ones that stay with you. Did you find yours? The one you didn't even know you were waiting for? I hope you did. There's a particular joy in that kind of search — and it's the same joy I try to fold back into everything I make and share here. Anyway. Let me tell you what did get done.　　　　　　#1 Arcade Mode Polish & Font Clarity : I polished all four levels of Arcade Mode — the lower-difficulty ones. Coming back to them after a while was more fun than I expected. The font legibility had always nagged at me, so I gave it a proper pass this update. The difference is bigger than I'd hoped, and I'm genuinely happy with it.　　　#2 Social Media Asset Overhaul & Curation : I rebuilt every social media asset from the ground up. The old icons were a little vague, so I swapped them for clearer ones, and updated all the title art from the old version to the new. And as some of you know — I'm not just keeping curation on my Steam page. I post each pick across my socials too, with my own words on what makes the game worth your time. If you've got a platform you live on, come find it there. Same picks, wherever you're comfortable.　　This week, four games where the surface isn't the whole story.Shutter Story : His family photos need a closer look. Adjust the exposure, shift the filter — and something that was always there comes into focus. You won't forget what you find. (Link)DEPERSON : No memory, a city kept obedient by fear. Every choice bends who he becomes — kinder, crueler, or broken — while the world quietly stops feeling real. (Link)Apple Crumble : Grandma's 84th birthday, cozy on every surface — but someone at the table wants her gone, and the tea has started counting down. (Link)Beyond The Plastic Wall : A box of letters from a woman he never met. Enough to cross a dying world, f...
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• Announcements·20 Jun 2026Official

  Pendulum Meadows Gazette

  　Last week, the second demo went live. After rounds and rounds of feedback, it's genuinely energizing to see how far the game has come. Every bit of that progress traces back to you. None of it would've happened alone, and I mean that. Thank you. I'll keep folding your feedback in, chasing a better experience with every update.　Three things left on the road ahead: polish the game until it's launch-ready, get serious about marketing, and start building toward the long-term vision of this one-person studio. Here's where things stand on each.　　　#1 : Arcade Level Polish — Two Levels Done : Both early-game arcade levels got a visibility pass this week — readability is noticeably better now. The second one was an extra treat to work on; it's one of the very first sketch levels I built for this game.　　　#2 : Social Media, Waking Back Up : Reactivating channels that had gone quiet. New social assets are coming sometime next week.　　　#3 : Telling You About the Games I Love : I love indie games — the ones that drop you into a new world, or make it feel like you could reach out and touch it. I've started actively sharing my picks across Discord, X, and YouTube, not just tucking them away on the curator page. Still finding my footing here, but I'm working on sharpening both the eye and the voice behind these recommendations.　　This week, four worlds that don't let go easily.Tukoni: Forest Keepers : A hand-painted forest for brewing tea, tending small creatures, untangling gentle puzzles. The kind of quiet that arrives exactly when you need it. (Link)DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain : Every descent into the drowned abyss runs on borrowed time — oxygen counting down while something stirs below. Topside, survivors wait on choices that could sink them all. (Link)T.W.I.R.L. : A dark house at 3 a.m., its halls reshaping with every loop, a childhood secret rising to the surface. What's following you might not be the scariest part. (Link)RadCity: A Post-Apocalyptic Adventure : Forty days of...
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