The time has come. The GemCraft Legacy Collection is now out on Steam! If you played the old GemCraft chapters back then, I hope it will bring back some good old memories, exploring and discovering again, and if you only ever played GC Chasing Shadows or Frostborn Wrath, you can see how the series started back in the golden era of Flash games. And if you are totally new to the GC series, now is the best time to give it a try, as the entire series is on sale to celebrate not only the release, but that the whole series can live on and be playable on Steam.
I’d like to say a huge thanks to you, the players, who kept us alive with your support by purchasing GCCS and GCFW, and with your heartwarming and many times touching feedback, it’s an awesome feeling to see and hear how much these games have meant to many of you.
And, I’d like to say another huge thanks to Armor Games, the team behind making the GC Legacy Collection possible. They approached me more than once about doing a revive of the old games, I was reluctant at first as I had some vague future plans to remake them myself someday, but eventually I had to admit that I would never have the time and energy to take on such a project alone. So, we agreed, and the fellows at Armor Games did an amazing job, with pure enthusiasm and dedication to this project. This release is not a mere “plug the old games into Steam” quickpatch, but a true revival with lots of improvements.
Let’s dive in and face the hordes of monsters, I hope you’ll have a great time playing!
p.s. I’ll write about my plans for 2027 in a later post by the end of this year.
GemCraft Legacy Collection will be launching on October 21st at roughly 2pm GMT. The game will be $9.99 and discounted in a bundle with Chasing Shadows and Frostborn Wrath. Get ready to dive deep to earn all 385 achievements!
The list of quality of life features, bug fixes, and performance improvements is too massive to list… but be prepared to experience GemCraft Chapter 1, GemCraft Chapter 0, and GemCraft Labyrinth like never before.
The time has come to travel back and begin your journey anew. After working together with Armor Games, I’m happy to present you the first three GemCraft games together in one ominous package. Experience Chapter 1, Chapter 0, and Labyrinth again (or for the first time) on Steam!
And yet another year passed. This time though, I can finally show a screenshot of the game I’m working on as a detour from the GemCraft series, and as an experimental and study project getting comfortable with the Godot engine. It will be a culinary incremental game about gathering ingredients, collecting recipes to have those ingredients made into dishes during the outcome panel after each run, getting rewarded with coins, buying various upgrades, and getting better each cycle to eventually conquer the upgrade tree.
It’s still early in development, but the scope of the game is not that huge and the Godot engine is developer friendly, versatile and powerful, so I have high hopes for both a release next year, and for paving the way for the possibly final GemCraft chapter.
Have a peaceful winter holiday season, see you next year!
And another year passed and still nothing to show about the ever eluding “next game”… But to bring you at least something this year, I’ve made a compilation of illustrations related to the former games, mostly the GemCraft series.
In case you or someone you know wanted a GemCraft mug or t-shirt for the winter holiday season, there’s still time to make it happen. You can download a zip file from the front page of gameinabottle.com, and use any of the images within, modify them if you like, and bring them to the local printing shop to get your own merchandise. There is a text file in the zip that tells more about the images, but here is a showcase:
I’ve also had some sample merch done to show you:
Sorry for still nothing more next-game-wise… Until next time, have a peaceful winter season and new year.
It’s been a year since my last post of sign of life. Many of you asked about my health, and thank you for your messages, the liver I got fortunately works fine, I keep taking my meds and visit my doctor every three months.
I’m sorry but I still haven’t progressed enough to bring you screenshots of the next game. I could come up with all sorts of excuses from chronic fatigue to microplastics, but my main debuff is that I’m a black belt procrastinator, I have to work on that as well as on the game itself.
In the mean time, I wish all of you a peaceful holiday season.
Just wanted to wish every one of you a happy and peaceful holiday season and next year. Sorry for the pile of unreplied emails… I’ll write as soon as I have something ready to show about the next game.
Sorry for the long absence. I was in hospital for 3 months over the last year. In a nutshell, I had PSC and needed a liver transplant. After some rough times, it seems I’ll live and can keep on making games. 🙂 My priorities are still making a non-GemCraft game next before returning to the series, possibly including remakes of the old chapters. I have tons of unreplied emails, I’ll try to get to them as well. I’ll write again when I have something worth showing.
The Iron mode, known from the previous GemCraft too, is now added, giving veteran wizards a new flavor of playthrough with the rules tuned for challenge. All previously missing trial fields have also arrived for Frostborn and Chilling game modes.
A great bunch of bug fixes and QoL updates are included too, you can see the full list in the main menu.
GemCraft Frostborn Wrath has finally arrived to GOG.com! Also, the Steam Summer Sale has started! You can get GCFW on both GOG and Steam with a 25% discount!
