Indie Game Studio
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.
Flagship Title
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!
Devlog
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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →Open Tools
A browser-source dice roller for OBS. Customizable skins, supports all polyhedral dice, and plays animations live on stream.
Twitch ToolPush D20 checks and quest updates to a browser source mid-session. Hooks into the Dice Roller for chat-driven rolls.
DM ToolInstant NPCs with backstories, traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws. Because I can never think of names at the table.
Open SourceSmaller experiments, utilities, and game jams live on GitHub. Everything's MIT unless otherwise noted.