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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This month we've added Taverns and Docks. Huge shout out to @davesmith00000.bsky.social for his patience and guidance while I bombarded him for feedback! Find more on our (free) Patreon: www.patreon.com/purple_kingd... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This month we've been working on saving and loading islands - just another step forward on the path to getting our demo ready! More details here: www.patreon.com/purple_kingd... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This month we've been working on creating islands from scratch! You can now build an island, and place trees and rocks! More details here: www.patreon.com/purple_kingd... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This month I've been learning shaders and focusing on the waves for our game - they're aren't perfect yet, but they're looking pretty good. As always - more details can be found on Patreon (for free) www.patreon.com/posts/shady-... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This month we've added ambient sounds to our game! We've also added some player acknowledgements... you can find a sample of that in the usual place 🙂 www.patreon.com/posts/sounds... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pirates, trees and mini-maps... oh my! This month has been working on just that.. more info, as ever, on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/pirate... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

We're updating our graphics! So far it's just the island, but the rest will follow soon. As always, there's more here: www.patreon.com/posts/island... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is why I love game dev.. the bugs are much more interesting than API work 😛 Combat system is done now though 🎉 You can read more at www.patreon.com/posts/147789... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This month we've been working on the combat system... only to realise it's not fit for purpose ..frustrating, but these things happen 🙃On a positive... new graphics are coming! More details can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/145502... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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Zen and the Art of Combat Rewrites | Purple Kingdom Games

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We've recently added some Navy ships to our pirate colony sim, to really stir things up.. and some pretty graphics! Find out more here: www.patreon.com/posts/pretti... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A few more buildings this month - the Inn (for tempting Pirates to your island), and the Tavern (where your pirates can buy drinks) Find out more here: www.patreon.com/posts/inns-t... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

An island scene in an Atari-era art style. There are 3 different coloured people, that all look like pirate characters, in white, blue, and light blue

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Our little Pirate colony sim just got a raft of new buildings that can be built, and a new unit to help you along the way 🙂 You can find out more about them at www.patreon.com/posts/landlu... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

3 buildings in pixel art on the left, with a black background. The black fades into an island with 4 characters, one farming land, all in pixel art

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

After a bit of a re-factor to our game, we're back on track again! We've also managed to sneak in a new feature, so you can start ordering your crew around. Check out the full details on our free Patreon page www.patreon.com/posts/from-a... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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From the Ashes of Disaster | Purple Kingdom Games

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davesmith00000 @davesmith00000.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

📣 New Blog Post! Fellow OSS authors! Drowning in hopelessly outdated code snippets and misleading docs? I’ve been there. This post is about the idea that helped us recover — shared in case it's useful to someone else. 💜 purplekingdomgames.com/blog/2025/07... #Scala

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Example Driven Documentation · Purple Kingdom Games

Providing documentation for open source projects is a necessary support activity for any library author, but it comes with a heavy maintenance cost, particularly for large projects.

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Progress on the game has hit a stumbling block this month, but in the interest of transparency (and because set-backs are as important as successes), we've written a blog post on it: www.patreon.com/posts/month-... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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A Month of Set-Backs | Purple Kingdom Games

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We've been working hard on the UI elements of our pirate colony sim, and this month is the turn of crew stats! You can check out more about this (and keep track of thee development) on our Patreon page (www.patreon.com/posts/crew-s...) #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We've been tweaking our AI for crew members! They now wander aimlessly around the island looking for things to do 🙂 You can check out more updated on our Patreon page (www.patreon.com/c/purple_kin...) #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

An Atari-esq island with pirate crew members wandering around

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Just finished revamping our island generator! Pretty happy with the results of this, and had a lot of fun with implementing Wave Function Collapse 🙂 #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

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davesmith00000 @davesmith00000.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🕹️ Indigo 0.20.0 is out! Many thanks to the contributors involved in this release! A small smorgasbord of quality of life improvements and a wacky Waypoints demo. What's not to love? github.com/PurpleKingdo... #Scala

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davesmith00000 @davesmith00000.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Indigo's UI system is dead. Long live the UI system! The UI system released last month did not survive first contact with the real world, and has been overhauled. New releases of all Purple Kingdom Games #Scala libs, containing the revised UI and many other improvements, are now available.

A color palette rendered using the UI system via the roguelike starterkit.

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Changing the graphics to 1-bit so we can focus on game-play for a while. Wasn't sure I'd like this art style, but actually quite enjoying it 🙂 #indiedev #pixelart

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David North @davidnorth-pkg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Still very early days, but I wanted to share our progress on a the quirky pirate colony simulator we're working on 🙂 Getting NPCs to make choices has to be my favourite part of the game dev process 🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rriZ...

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Work in Progress - Fight and Flight

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