Indie Game Studio

Making
worlds worth
rolling for

Crit20 is a one-dev indie studio building tabletop-inspired digital games and the open tools to play them with. Currently heads-down on Hearthcraft.

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Hearthcraft

Build your hearth community. Forge your stories.

Hearthcraft is a game in a new type of genre where all viewers to live streamers on platforms such as Twitch can actively play the game. Hearthcraft specifically has streamers and their communities building their own settlements, with each player creating their own character from, contributing their own story to the overall of the settlement. A D&D-like experience for all!

  • Engine Unity
  • Genre Community RPG
  • Platform PC — Windows & Linux
  • Status Pre-alpha · Active dev
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What's cooking

Hearthcraft

Laying the foundations — world gen & biome logic

Spent the last month wiring up a chunk-based world generator. The village spawns in a cleared clearing surrounded by three distinct biomes, each with their own resource tables and ambient events.

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Hearthcraft

The Hearth System — why your fireplace is a game mechanic

The hearth is your hub. Crafting, NPC relationships, and the day/night loop all orbit it. This post breaks down why centralizing everything around one physical object makes the whole game feel grounded.

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Devtools

Building an NPC dialogue graph editor in Unity

Hand-writing dialogue trees in JSON was going to kill me. So I built a node-based editor right inside the engine. It exports clean data, supports branching on dice outcomes, and has dark mode obviously.

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Stuff I built along the way