After 4 years of development, Hypnospace Outlaw is coming to Steam on March 12! PLEASE RETWEET! Also, wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/844590/Hyp…

I'm quite happy to have our new studio publicly announced - possibility.co. The team's already amazing, and we're still growing - come join us!

I had a lot of fun making extra secret puzzles for Hack 'n' Slash. The big one in the game itself got solved after eight years: debigare.com/after-8-years-… Congrats to Glenn for solving it, and thanks to Guillaume Fortin-Debigaré for the lovely catalogue of puzzles.

A big part of 2weeks is doing more of the kind of work that we find most creatively rewarding in a much more public way than we've been able to in the past. It's really nice to be able to talk openly about our process. Now to get back in the habit of sharing more here!

Today's newsletter primarily focuses on the rationale for why we're developing our own engine, but Tweaks can already do some very neat tricks that I'm excited to talk about more down the road.

Thrilled to announce that 2weeks has joined a16z’s a16z speedrun 🧊 (SR003) and that we’ve closed our pre-seed round with some amazing investors! gamesindustry.biz/2weeks-raises-…

SPEEDRUN has been a true accelerator for 2weeks - the capital we needed to start building our team, the expertise we needed to hone our strategy, and the connections we needed to find the right partners. I highly recommend applying if you've got something you want to get going.

I think this analysis of why web gaming is poised for a comeback is really strong, and not just because I'm quoted in it 😅 a16zgames.substack.com/p/why-web-gami…

So..... how was Demo Day??? AAA gaming vets Foge Wan Kenobi & Brandon Dillon take us through the pitch of 2weeks, a studio building breakout hits on the open web.

@ChateauErin I missed it too. Still pretty special to me as well :)

@ChateauErin I had that one! It was embarrassingly dorky. My favorite was the atomic energy merit badge, though - got to tour Comanche Peak!

@ChateauErin oh god. That's nightmare fuel.

@ChateauErin that plan is suspiciously close to the Doom approach of harnessing the excess energy from opening a portal to hell!

@ChateauErin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(201…

@ChateauErin admittedly, that's the reboot - the originals seem like more of a "hey look we figured out teleportation... whoops!" situation.

@ChateauErin Doom famously eschewed all of its early-development world building. Original design document: archive.org/details/TheDoo…

@ChateauErin It's super nice to have but really difficult in practice. Here's how Tor does it: blog.torproject.org/blog/determini…

I’m very excited about @pervognsen’s new project. He’s brilliant, has great architectural instincts, and can explain very complex things straightforwardly. I’ll be following along for sure. x.com/pervognsen/sta…