Hi everyone! This blog has been radio silent for a while, because I’ve been hard at work on a project. A project I can finally announce, after two years of work! Let me tell you about Duskpunk. What is it? ⚙️ A dice-driven RPG, set in a gritty steampunk city.⚙️ Explore, survive, build your skills.⚙️ [...]
Continue reading "Announcing “Duskpunk” – play the demo now!"I made a tarot board game - and a sneak peek of my next video game... Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that a game I designed is launching on Kickstarter as we speak! Sefirot is a board game that uses gorgeous tarot cards. It's about reaching enlightenment and self-knowledge. It's from the [...]
Continue reading "I made a tarot board game – and a sneak peek of my next video game!"Hello again to the Clockwork Flock! Just a quick reminder that if you want to back my tabletop RPG, The Hidden Isle, now's your last chance! If you need a reminder, the game uses beautiful Tarot cards instead of dice, is set in the Renaissance and is about fighting tyranny and injustice. There's also a [...]
Continue reading "Only 48 hours left to back The Hidden Isle, our Tarot-based RPG!"Hey Clockwork Flock, just a quick note to let you know that our Tarot-based pen and paper RPG is finally live on Kickstarter! Here's a quick summary: The Hidden Isle is a pen and paper RPG that uses Tarot cards instead of dice, set in the 16th century on the secretive island of Dioscoria. It [...]
Continue reading "The Hidden Isle, our Tarot pen and paper game, is live on Kickstarter!"Hello Clockwork Flock, I’m afraid I have some disappointing news to share with you. To rip the band-aid off quickly, I’ll get right to it: Danny, the other founder of Clockwork Bird, has had to leave the studio. Why? The reason is simple: Clockwork Bird has always struggled to make ends meet, and we finally [...]
Continue reading "The Clockwork Bird duo are going separate ways"Hi again to all our flock members! It’s been a while. If you’ve forgotten who we are, we’re Clockwork Bird: a two-person indie game studio that made Silicon Dreams, that android interrogation sim from a few years back. This ol' thing! Sorry we’ve been so quiet the last few years! We’ve been working behind the [...]
Continue reading "New Kickstarter incoming: a Tarot-based TTRPG powered by card divination"Hey cyberpunks, it's finally here: the free Silicon Dreams content update "Fatality & Fame" is out now! You can grab it via Steam or itch.io at a 20% discount! We've talked a lot about how we think this game is ripe with stories to be harvested, in this update we're pleased to introduce you to [...]
Continue reading "Fatality & Fame is out now!!!"Hello again, cyberpunks! Time is flying by but we wanted to take just a few minutes to share some exciting news with you! The Fatality & Fame update is coming very soon to Silicon Dreams and will be released as a free update to the base game! Keep reading below to see everything that will [...]
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Salutations, cyberpunks! Danny and Jamie here to tell you what this Clockwork Bird’s been up to since we released Silicon Dreams. The short version is: critics loved it, it sold ok but not great, and we’re planning a free update with new content in the next few weeks! (More info on that to come in [...]
Continue reading "Silicon Dreams: A Micro-Postmortem"Silicon Dreams just received a major, much-asked-for update: the ability to rewind the story and replay previously seen scenes! Here's the lowdown: Rewind isn't available until you've finished at least one playthrough. (Dying counts!) A lot of players said their first playthrough was really tense, and we worried that introducing rewind might take that away [...]
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