https://violetarc.io/log/ Build notes from Violet Arc, an independent games studio: what we made, what broke, what we cut. en-gb Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://violetarc.io/log/committing-blind/ https://violetarc.io/log/committing-blind/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project Alchemy You choose where a tower goes before you know what it is. https://violetarc.io/log/about-the-pictures/ https://violetarc.io/log/about-the-pictures/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Studio The concept images on this site were made with AI. They're stand-ins until we can afford an artist, and the games themselves won't be built on them. https://violetarc.io/log/shape-the-wave/ https://violetarc.io/log/shape-the-wave/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project Alchemy Most tower defence games ask you to survive the wave. This one asks what you'd like it to be. https://violetarc.io/log/order-matters/ https://violetarc.io/log/order-matters/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project Alchemy Fusing two towers isn't a sum. The one you keep decides what the result is, and the one you give up decides what it does. https://violetarc.io/log/counting-out-loud/ https://violetarc.io/log/counting-out-loud/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Studio Every world page now shows which of the six steps its game is on, and the build it's running. Plus a week of small things that move. https://violetarc.io/log/alchemy-private-build/ https://violetarc.io/log/alchemy-private-build/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project Alchemy Project Alchemy is at Prototype and has the lab to itself. A private build should be ready by the end of the month. https://violetarc.io/log/phase-loop-in-ink/ https://violetarc.io/log/phase-loop-in-ink/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Phase Loop An endless tower defence in sumi-e, where what you break keeps the loop alive. It's on paper, and staying there for now. https://violetarc.io/log/two-on-hold/ https://violetarc.io/log/two-on-hold/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Studio Conquest and Skybound Sanctuary are paused again. Project Alchemy gets every hour we have. https://violetarc.io/log/a-third-game/ https://violetarc.io/log/a-third-game/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project Alchemy Project Alchemy is in development. It exists to test how this studio works end to end, and to build something volatile while the other two are being careful. https://violetarc.io/log/conquest-systems-pass/ https://violetarc.io/log/conquest-systems-pass/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Conquest Conquest has moved from Paper to Systems. The maths and logic are close to locked, and of the marks we were weighing, one made the cut. https://violetarc.io/log/skybound-document-and-plan/ https://violetarc.io/log/skybound-document-and-plan/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Skybound Sanctuary A future that went badly wrong, then moved upstairs. The design document is in progress and the pillars are being finalised. https://violetarc.io/log/conquest-core-locked/ https://violetarc.io/log/conquest-core-locked/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Conquest A real-time strategy game set in a mythic past, where roads are permanent and control is not. The design document is close to final and the pillars are locked. https://violetarc.io/log/studio-note/ https://violetarc.io/log/studio-note/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Studio Two games have lived as concepts since October 2024. They now have a studio, a website and six steps to walk through, in order.