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Signals

Releases, patch notes, devlogs and studio notes. Written by the teams that did the work, which is why they are specific.

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Announcement / 02 Sept 2026 / 4 min / Micro Company

Ferrograde: simultaneous-turn tactics, announced for 2027

Three machines each, four minutes, and no initiative order. Here is what we are building and why the turn structure came first.

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0214 Aug 2026ReleaseAshfall Drift season two: two provinces and a rebuilt ghost systemSeason two adds the Sable Reach and Cinder Flats provinces, and replaces ghost replays with a system that records the run conditions alongside the line.
0321 Jul 2026ReleaseNull Harbor is in soft launchA limited release while we tune the decay curve. Soft-launch saves carry forward, and here is exactly what we are measuring.
0430 Jun 2026Patch notesTidecaller chapter seven: ice, and what it does to a solved boardIce changes state across turns, which breaks a lot of assumptions players built over six chapters. That was the point.
0519 May 2026AnnouncementBramble & Bone: nine cards, thirty floors, one forest that remembersOur first roguelite. The deck never grows, and the world keeps your damage between runs.
0608 Apr 2026DevelopmentDevlog: simulating ash depth without simulating ashHow Ashfall Drift fakes a deformable surface on a five-year-old phone, and where the illusion breaks.
0712 Mar 2026StudioWe rebuilt player support around one queueFour games, four inboxes and a 40-hour first-response time. Here is what we changed and what the numbers look like now.
0804 Feb 2026DevelopmentLocalising a hand-drawn game means redrawing itEvery sign in Paper Lantern is art, not text. Four languages meant four passes of the same fifteen rooms.
0915 Jan 2026StudioWe are hiring for FerrogradeSix roles across engineering, design and art, with the work model and location for each stated up front.

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Tidecaller chapter seven: ice, and what it does to a solved board30 Jun 2026

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Signals are structured blocks in src/content/news.ts, not HTML strings. Swapping in a CMS means fetching the same shapes in a server component — the renderer does not change. The README has the exact steps.