The Third Game.

There is a third game in development at Violet Arc. Its working title is Project Alchemy, and unlike the other two, it didn’t start with an idea that refused to go away. It started with a problem in how the studio works.

Conquest and Skybound Sanctuary are long games. They answer their questions slowly, and a process that only ever runs against a long game never gets tested from one end to the other. This one was assembled in reference to a project: ELVTR.

So Project Alchemy is the small one. A tower defence game, mobile first, with short runs: quick to mix, quicker to go wrong. That shape is deliberate. Short runs mean a change can go in and show its results the same day. A mobile build means the pipeline has to be genuinely tidy, not merely functional. And a small game means actually reaching the end of the process, rather than stopping halfway and calling it a milestone. Whatever it teaches goes straight back into the other two, which is rather the point.

What it’s really about is combination. Two towers can be fused into one, and the one you keep becomes the chassis: it decides how the result aims, how it fires and what it’s fundamentally for. The one you give up changes what all that does to whatever it hits. Same two ingredients, a different machine, depending on which you kept. So fusing is a decision about identity rather than a straight upgrade, and it packs strength into fewer positions, which leaves a gap somewhere else on the board. That trade is the game. How far the recipe goes beyond that stays in the lab until it’s stable enough to show.

The other reason it exists is mischief. Conquest asks you to read a place carefully before committing to it, and Skybound has an elegant, calculated feel to it. This one hands you something unstable and asks what you intend to do about it. It’s louder, messier and considerably less dignified than anything else on the slate, and building it has done wonders for morale. That wasn’t in the formula either.

The usual rules apply. No date. Nothing is announced before it runs, and this runs. The world page carries everything currently fit to say.