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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 11h

This week's devlog short is how I designed a base-8 numbering system for my puzzle game. #thdawt #gamedev #puzzledesign

Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

youtu.be/_YPaarMvPhg Each week I'm releasing a track from my game's soundtrack! Today is "Clock Wisdom", a chill beat to deduce time to. Wishlist and Demo The House Dreams Along With Them now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3891660/... #THDAWT #gamedev

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Clock Wisdom [Chillout, The House Dreams Along With Them OST]

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the many inspirations for my game are the pareidolic motifs of The Witness. For my game, I've taken the tendency of our brains to see patterns and infused that into a ton of the mundane objects in the mysterious house. #thdawt #gamedev #gameinspiration

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For #screenshotsaturday, the lucid dream of the living room features a lava lamp. Sometimes, the lava escapes containment. store.steampowered.com/app/3891660/... #THDAWT #Gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

youtu.be/FzEIC-inFts Each week I'm releasing a track from my game's soundtrack! Today is "The Light Eater", a dark ambient groove to be surveilled unknowingly to. Wishlist and Demo The House Dreams Along With Them now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3891660/... #THDAWT #gamedev

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The Light Eater [Dark Ambient, The House Dreams Along With Them OST]

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/6UO_w... Masahiro Ito's striking image of two infinitely tall red dresses from the intro of Silent Hill 3 has been seared into my brain for over 20 years and now it has directly inspired one of the creatures in my own horror puzzle game. #thdawt #gamedev #gameinspiration

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For #screenshotsaturday, The realm of Abstraction is the cosmological center of unreality: thoughts and dreams. Unknowable eldritch machinery unceasingly fabricates new dreams at its borders; a process often marked by a 14 square sigil. store.steampowered.com/app/3891660/... #THDAWT #Gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/-ByHl... Here's a short about designing a bookshelf puzzle in Unreal. I swear it's more interesting than it sounds! #thdawt #gamedev

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Designing a bookshelf puzzle in Unreal (I swear it's more interesting than it sounds)

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

youtu.be/9kbe9qxytdM Each week I'm releasing a track from my game's soundtrack! Today is "Guest Bedgroove", a chill groove to puzzle to. Wishlist and Demo The House Dreams Along With Them now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3891660/... #THDAWT #gamedev

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Guest Bedgroove [Chill Beat, Groove, The House Dreams Along With Them OST]

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/s9PP7... Twin Peaks The Return is a huge influence on my horror puzzle game. Lynch and Frost's dreamlike cocktail of dread and nostalgia is a mood I aspire to invoke. In my game, I re-created the glass cube. IYKYK. I'd hate to be Cooped up in there. #gamedev

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Twin Peaks The Return inspired my horror puzzle game #gamedev #gameinspiration

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For #screenshotsaturday, Eincan pianos, compared to Collosum Common pianos, have an extra red key used to store up notes to be played with a single claw. In my game, this piano seeks to teach you inside the lucid dream of the music room. store.steampowered.com/app/3891660/... #THDAWT #Gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/JsncF... Here's a short video about my workflow for composing dark ambient music for my horror puzzle game. Tl;dw: Cubase, Spitfire LABS VST, and random notes in a B minor scale! #thdawt #gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks to the folks @devgamm.bsky.social, I'm proud to announce that The House Dreams Along With Them has been accepted into the 2026 DevGAMM awards! If the judging goes well, I'll be able to update this soon to say "was nominated in" but for now, here's a marketing approved JPEG! #THDAWT

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/r3B9-... @cyan.com Myst is one of the main inspriations for my horror puzzle game, specifically, the philosophical tension of the question, "Does Age writing create ex nihilo, or merely link to pre-existing worlds?" Does creation make you a god or an explorer? #gamedev #gamedesign

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For #screenshotsaturday, after you transform the walls into glass, the sparse liminal void that envelopes the puzzle room you're locked in is revealed. This scene is available in the game's demo available now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3891660/... #THDAWT #gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/oB2Ru... One of the many inspirations for my horror puzzle game was the ergotic (read it again, it's the *other* word that looks like that) metafiction of House of Leaves. #gamedev #gamedesign

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House of Leaves inspired my horror puzzle game #gamedev #gameinspiration

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The House Dreams Along With Them will be featured in Clemmy's Big Fall Showcase 2026! The show premieres tomorrow morning, so stop by and find some new indie games to wishlist (like mine!). #THDAWT www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3L...

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Best Indie Games Fall Showcase 2026

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

youtube.com/shorts/BcJSp... Here's a short video on how I made a Weeping Angel type creature in Unreal for my game that only moves when the player isn't looking at it. #THDAWT #Gamedev

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How I made a Weeping Angel creature in Unreal [Devlog] #gamedev #horror #puzzlegame #ue5tutorial

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

youtube.com/shorts/CF0sZ... For the living room puzzle in my game, the main gimmick is that the floor is lava! Here's 5 quick steps I used to make the effect as well as a very important rant about my love for FIREBLU. #THDAWT #gamedev

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The floor is lava and looks like FIREBLU [devlog]

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

youtube.com/shorts/Xxf_p... Here's 12 increasingly specific tips to get an Unreal 5.3 first person puzzle game running at 60 fps on a Steam Deck. And if you're wondering what a sundowner is, please play the edutainment masterpiece Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. #THDAWT #Gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

www.youtube.com/shorts/yrxHh... When adding an arachnophobia mode to your game, if you don't add accessibility options for both fewer *and more* spiders, you're a coward! Or reasonable. Could go either way honestly. #gamedev #devlog #THDAWT

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The demo for The House Dreams Along With Them will be unavailable for a few weeks while a special press demo is pitched to folks by the wonderful Tom from Strange Signals! #THDAWT #Gamedev store.steampowered.com/news/app/389...

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The House Dreams Along With Them - Public Demo Unavailable - Steam News

The House Dreams Along With Them Demo will be unavailable starting today so that I can pitch a press-specific build for a week or two

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#THDAWT #Gamedev The demo for my game now runs smoothly on a Steam Deck! It took a lot of tweaking light radii, selectively disabling shadow casting, reducing shadow intensities, and setting Unreal Engine scalability cvars but we got there! store.steampowered.com/news/app/389...

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The House Dreams Along With Them - The Demo Performance Update - Steam News

The (likely) last major update to the Demo's puzzles and a bunch of performance optimizations

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

#PitchYaGame folks, Manually control your breathing and blinking to solve puzzles inside lucid dreams in my atmospheric horror game, The House Dreams Along With Them. Demo available now on Steam! Similar vibes to Myst, Blue Prince, House of Leaves, and The Lost Room. #thdawt #gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#THDAWT #Gamedev In Unreal Editor, if you unlock a group actor, then deselect and reselect one of the actors, you can rotate the whole group using that specific actor's pivot. This is handy when you don't want to use the *group's* pivot or when aligning to the grid.

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

#THDAWT #gamedev The House Dreams Along With Them Demo has been updated! A few minor tweaks are here such as (hopefully) the mouse no longer leaving the game window when using either fullscreen windowed mode or multiple monitors! store.steampowered.com/news/app/389...

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The House Dreams Along With Them Demo has been updated

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

ImNikklePickle will be streaming the demo of my horror puzzle game, The House Dreams Along With Them, tomorrow night around 9:30 PM PST! Come watch at www.twitch.tv/imnikklepickle if curious. #THDAWT

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A new short trailer for my game The House Dreams Along With Them was included in the pre-show of the Wishlisted April 2026 stream (happening right now as of posting)! The trailer is live here: youtu.be/_TcjCytDASg #thdawt

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The House Dreams Along With Them [Wishlisted 2026 Trailer]

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My game is *not* a soulslike. But that doesn't mean I won't spend a few days superficially recreating part of the soulslike formula to get @ironpineapple.bsky.social to feature my puzzle game in an episode of Steam dumpster diving. And yes, the barrels *do* break when you dodge into them! #gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I just released the latest gameplay trailer for my game, The House Dreams Along With Them! Control your breathing and blinking and solve surreal puzzles while lucid dreaming in a strange house. Demo and Wishlist now on Steam. youtu.be/hZmUZo3MXkY #THDAWT #Gamedev

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The House Dreams Along With Them [April 2026 Gameplay Trailer]

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My horror puzzle adventure game, The House Dreams Along With Them, will be participating in the Rising Tide 3 competition from @blueoceangames.bsky.social! Kindly vote for me on April 7th when the first round opens up. #THDAWT

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

#THDAWT #gamedev I'm excited to announce that I'm releasing a brand new gameplay trailer for my game, The House Dreams Along With Them, one week from now! Here's a 10 second teaser for the curious.

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

#THDAWT #Gamedev The model I was using for the guest bathroom's shower didn't have a commercial license, so I got a new asset from CGTrader that *did* and customized it with a lore-appropriate shower curtain material. Remember to double check your asset licenses!

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thanks to @plushebola.bsky.social playing my demo earlier, I was able to fix a game breaking bug that *only affected older GTX video cards when using Medium graphics settings*. It's fixed now (at least on the GTX 1070 I tested) and the demo is updated! (Technical details as reply) #gamedev #THDAWT

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tonight at 8PM PST, Blair (www.twitch.tv/blair) has kindly agreed to play through the demo for my game, The House Dreams Along With Them! #THDAWT

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

#THDAWT #gamedev It starts with one event dispatcher to have the piano key Blueprint actors communicate the notes to the background visualizers. In the end, it doesn't even matter to solve the puzzle but I think it looks neat!

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

@latenightcandi.bsky.social is going to be streaming the demo for my game The House Dreams Along With Them in just a few hours! I am the normal amount of excited. #THDAWT

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A big thank you to @shelboo.bsky.social for playing through the demo for The House Dreams Along With Them today! One of the bug's I need to fix from watching the stream: have puzzle solutions recheck themselves when first entering an area in case they're *already* solved. #THDAWT #Gamedev

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

In just a few hours at midnight (CST), my game demo is being streamed out by the lovely Sandy on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/sandy #THDAWT

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Switch 2 has been ordered + RE9 + Sponsor game @ midnight CST! !dreams

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#gamedev #THDAWT I've added a bunch of sizes and colors for the center dot accessibility setting at the request of one of the viewers of @warwickisonline.bsky.social!

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#gamedev #THDAWT After watching PixelxKitten stream my demo, I fixed a bug where the garage lights weren't occluded by the garage door if Global Illumination was set to "low". Tl;dr: Remember when testing in UE5 that Lumen and emissive lights are disabled on low and medium GI scalability settings!

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

#gamedev #THDAWT Thanks to a suggestion during @kingargaroth.com's stream, I've now added helpful *notification dots* for unread deduction entries as part of the UI revamp for The House Dreams Along With Them.

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

#gamedev #thdawt I've updated the UI for The House Dreams Along With Them to have nifty animations! The pieces of the UI slide into place to reinforce the motif of reification and to match the dream pillars that oscillate endlessly in the black void of the lucid dream worlds.

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Excited to announce my atmospheric horror puzzle game, The House Dreams Along With Them, has received an *honorable mention* in the nuovo award category for the 2026 Independent Games Festival! Now I can use the fancy pixelated laurel PNG for my marketing! #gamedev #THDAWT

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

#gamedev #THDAWT The laptop in the guest bedroom for The House Dreams Along With Them is now functional. You can change the wallpaper! This uses a material instance array set on the player controller to cycle through the options.

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

#gamdev In UE5, *sometimes things just crash*. The culprit *could* be blueprint corruption; check if your character BP has blank details panel for components like Character Movement. If so, reparent the blueprint to Actor then back to Character or revert in source control, AKA learning to Git good.

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

#gamedev For #THDAWT, I made a fully functional electronic drum set and drum sequencer for puzzles (and fun)! This video shows off the controller experience where the d-pad snaps to the drums and automatically zooms into the sequencer when hovering over it.

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Caranthos Mori @caranthosmori.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#gamedev In UE 5, when Global Illumination settings are medium or low, Lumen is disabled so you can't use emissive lights to fill a scene. But I added a blueprint to dynamically activate hand placed non-Lumen fill lights to compensate on lower end hardware for #THDAWT!

Unreal Engine 5 in-game screenshot of The House Dreams Along With Them comparing high GI settings that includes emissive lighting and medium GI settings that have hand placed fill lights to make up for the lack of emissive lighting.

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