Realm Creation Studios

Realm Creation Studios is one person making games in the tradition of the '90s BBS door games. First up: Legend of the Ultimate Dragon, a single-player RPG. 30 days, one dragon, and something underneath that remembers you. www.realmcreationstudios.com

A week into the first LOUD playtest. Testers found a crackle my laptop speakers had hidden, and a rule the game barely explains: one stayed at Level 1 for days before finding out how to level up. What other people taught me: www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #godot #BBS #retrogaming

One thing I miss about older RPGs is how a small decision could stay with you long after you made it. Not every choice needs to change the world. Sometimes it just needs to matter to someone in it. That's part of what I'm trying to preserve with LOUD. #IndieGames #RPG #RetroGaming

Anyone else remember logging into a BBS just to see what happened while you were gone? The rival who passed you in the rankings, the tavern news, the one more fight you could squeeze in. Those little daily rituals stuck with me longer than most of the big victories. #BBS #retrogaming

After 2,5 years of development Hungry Horrors is out now on Steam. Thank you to everyone who supported us on this journey, and now finder crossed that Steam gods gives us any visibility on the insanly crowded market. If you want to help us out, buy it, play it, share it, stream it, review it.

Two weeks ago I stopped adding things to my game. Serious since January. Since spring, 80+ hour weeks, weekends too. Now it's built, and it needs players who aren't me. I'm looking for a handful of early testers. Free, Windows: #gamedev #indiedev #godot

There's no Save button in my game, and there won't be save slots. One save that moves forward with you. If it's ever damaged, the game won't patch it up. It'll tell you. Why, and what it took to trust it: www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #godot

65 test boards. 3,403 checks. All green. None of them can tell me whether the tavern list looks like it ends where it ends. On what tests catch, what they can't, and the balance pass that promised "hard but solvent" then killed me. www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #godot

First look at my game (LOUD) moving: seven seconds of one ordinary fight. Aggressive enemies have to telegraph a heavy hit before it lands — and the warning turn still swings at you. A free warning is a gift, not a threat. Devlog #4 @ www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming

Something happened in LOUD this week that I've been waiting a long time to see. I'm really tempted to show it. Not yet. Soon. 😏 #IndieDev #GameDev

The town square in the old door games was one paragraph. Same at dawn, same at midnight, same every visit. Mine is five layers, reassembled every visit — and the hardest rule was "look at the picture before you write the room." www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming

How do you convey emotion when your character's entire face is two pixels? Cutscenes and a killer soundtrack!

Spent an hour chasing a mismatch. Same number written in two places. I'd updated one. The bug wasn't the number. The bug was that the number existed twice. Rule I keep relearning the hard way: one fact, one home. Everything else points at it.

A weekly devlog with modest updates seems to build more trust with wishlisters than one big flashy reveal every few months. Steady presence over spectacle, even if the individual posts are less impressive. #indiedev #gamedev

Been quiet a few days — was heads-down building this instead: www.realmcreationstudios.com A recent devlog got stuck in itch's moderation queue for days with zero way to reach anyone about it. So the studio has its own home now. Devlog #2 is already live there. #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming

Devlog #2 is up. I found a bug in LOUD's encounter tables that had never once broken anything — four wrong rows in a key nothing was reading yet. Deleting the key was the fix. Correcting it would have kept the real problem. www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming

It's #WishlistWednesday and my game has been TBA on Steam 1 year this month! Please consider sharing my game with your friends and in return I will eventually someday finish it so you can play! store.steampowered.com/app/3919080/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Did you grow up playing The Oregon Trail your school's Apple II? Here's the team you should thank. :) From left to right are Charolyn Kapplinger, John Krenz, Shirley Keran, and Philip Bouchard

Shares are greatly appreciated 💖 #gamedev #indiedev

Devlog #1 is up - what LOUD is, and why a 30-day BBS door game still works in 2026. I ran a BBS called Realms BBS out of Montgomery, Alabama when I was 13. This is that, 30 years later. Follow Realm Creation Studios on itch: realmcreationstudios.itch.io #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming