Greetings, cyberpunks. Our new cyberpunk interrogation sim “Silicon Dreams” is launching as we speak! What’s it about, you ask? Three words: tears in rain. “The best Blade Runner game that we've gotten in years.” - TheGamer.com Silicon Dreams is a narrative cyberpunk thriller about interrogating rogue androids. In a corporate-controlled dystopian future where the lines [...]
Continue reading "Cybernoir thriller “Silicon Dreams” is out now!"We’ve been chipping away at this game about androids and feelings and megacorps for over 18 months. Now there are only 4 days left before Silicon Dreams spills its circuitry onto the Steam store, and we wanted to take a step back and look at what the game was when we began planning, what it [...]
Continue reading "Games are best when they’re weird"Followers, fans, and fellow cyberpunks, it’s finally here! We can finally announce the launch date for Silicon Dreams - and it’s less than two weeks away! Silicon Dreams is launching on April 20th! It'll be available through Steam for Windows, Mac and Linux. Here's a brand new trailer to prove it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyqbAAefpPg Or, here's a [...]
Continue reading "Silicon Dreams is launching April 20th!"Howdy cyberpunks! We’ve been keeping our nose to whatever androids use instead of grindstones, and the game is really taking shape. As we’re wrapping up this project - one of the biggest either of us has taken on - we thought we’d share our feelings about it. Jamie: Silicon Dreams is pretty much the most [...]
Continue reading "Hurtling towards launch"Wake up, Androids. Silicon Dreams has been away - but you can’t hold back progress forever. Systems booting... Sorry we’ve been so quiet, we’ve been working hard on the game! Here’s some highlights: I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe... We’ve revamped the visuals a few times but this one just *mwah!* nails the Blade Runner [...]
Continue reading "Something is rising from the server room…"Greetings folks! Gosh we’ve been quiet, sorry about that. Is that a Discord I spy? First things first, we have a studio discord! Feel free to drop by. We have channels for discussing the game, cyberpunk, other games, also stuff like economics, social justice, you name it. We’d love it if you dropped by! Jamie, [...]
Continue reading "We won some stuff!"We're excited that Silicon Dreams is part of Steam's Autumn festival - live right now! - where players can check out upcoming releases. Like the Summer fest before it, the event is completely digital so anyone can take a look. Again, this is happening right now, so feel free to click on through and see how much the game [...]
Continue reading "Silicon Dreams at Steam’s Autumn fest: new demo, new content, new visuals!"Greetings everyone! We've been quiet for a while working on Silicon Dreams and figuring out our plans since the Kickstarter. Here's what we've been up to! Visuals The game's got a fresh coat of paint thanks to brilliant concept artist Ben Wahl! We're incredibly grateful for his hard work: he brought a visual style to [...]
Continue reading "Silicon Dreams has been slumbering…"No matter how hard a creator tries to avoid it, every piece of art or media is inherently political: it was made by an individual who inhabits a political system. Whether we want them to or not, these influences seep into everything we do, say, create, or consume - video games included. While Silicon Dreams might not be a “political game” our goal is to present the player with an interesting, personal, and emotional experience.
Continue reading "Why ssooooo pOlitiCaL?"Have you ever wondered how a game goes from prototype to finished product? Before all of the fancy graphics and animations are added, before all of these incredibly detailed inter-woven systems work together, how does a game look? Today we’re going to talk about the journey we’ve taken with Silicon Dreams; how it has already [...]
Continue reading "You can polish a turd… but it’s better to polish something else."