Getting Medieval: An Interview with Innkeep Contributor James Baillie
Hail and well met! How farest thou? Ahem. As you probably already know, Steam is hosting a medieval festival , and Innkeep is participating! This seems like a good opportunity to chat about Innkeep and things medieval with our narrative consultant and song writer, James Baillie. James is a bonafide academic medievalist, specialising in Byzantine and Georgian history, as well as a game developer…
Hi everybody! Pull your belly up to the bar, and let me get you a drink. Because it’s time for another Innkeep developer update. Last time, we had a big picture overview of the kinds of things that we’ve had to work on now that we are moving from a prototype to an actual game. Check out that post if you haven’t already to see what we’ve been up to the past year! Next I think it would be cool to…
Hi everybody! It’s well past time for another developer update. Work progresses on the game as always! There’s a lot I’d like to share real soon. However, I thought it might be a good idea to first write a post where I talk more broadly about what I’ve been up to, rather than focusing on any particular element. For most of the past year or so I’ve been working on bringing Innkeep from a concept…
Hi everybody! I'm very pleased to announce that over 50,000 people have now wishlisted Innkeep on steam! Wow. It's a dream come true to see this level of support and interest in the game, especially after working on it in the relative wilderness for such a long time. It might be a small thing for each person to hit that "wishlist" button, but the cummulative effect has effectively changed my li…
Hi everybody! Now that Innkeep has funding and extra support, it feels like a great time to reboot my old dev diary series, now referred to as "devlogs". I'm starting out at #1, talking about my own story, and the 10 year journey it's been getting to this point. As well as the way in which classic RPGs like the Ultima series was a big inspiration, leading into a core design ethos of the game: b…
Greetings everybody! For this month's update, I thought it would be cool to have a chat with our composer, Filippo. Because music is so integral to the experience, a good composer can really help make a game into something special. Fortunately for us, we have a great composer! We’re super excited about what Filippo has planned for Innkeep on the music front, and thought it would only be fair to…
Greetings everybody! It's time to see what’s new in the world of Innkeep ! March was another very busy month for development. With the locking-in of some core game mechanics surrounding eavesdropping and conversations a few months ago, we’ve shifted to working on an early build of the game that internal playtesters can get their hands on. This has meant writing a lot of dialogue that uses the n…
Greetings! Welcome back to the Weary Pilgrim. Draw up a chair and let me pour you an ale. It’s time for a little February update. Today we're going to get into a little bit of lore. :-) Innkeep is more than just a job simulator, or a management game. It’s also a narrative adventure set in a fantasy world. Although for the most part you stay within the walls of the Weary Pilgrim, the people and…
The Innkeep team would like to wish everybody a happy Chinese New Year! We hope you’ve had plenty of good food to eat with your family! We’ve been so happy to see so much interest in our game from China. Your support has made a huge difference! 在新的一年里，福气满满，好事连连，事事如意，蛇年行大运！
Greetings everybody! It’s January, and we’ve been back to work on Innkeep for a couple of weeks already. In fact, a few core gameplay systems have recently firmed up through further prototyping, and I thought it would be nice to share some details about them. In Innkeep , the fantasy of being an innkeeper has a few different components. Yes, you’re serving food and drink, cooking, putting more…
Greetings Tavern Dwellers! It’s been a super busy year for the development of Innkeep , and I wanted to get an update in for you all before we hit 2025. There is a lot to cover in today’s update, so hunker down and grab your tastiest brew, in your finest tankard of course. Wishlist Milestone We recently reached a major milestone for Innkeep with 35,000 wishlists (and at time of writing this is…
Greetings future innkeepers! Today I’ve got two pieces of news to share. One is pretty cool. The other is, dare I say it, fantastic! Let’s start with the pretty cool thing. Recently, I set up a little game studio to develop Innkeep . It’s called Boot Disk Games. The name is a nod to the old boot disk I’d use to play a certain classic RPG back in the 90s. It’s supposed to evoke a bit of nostalgi…
Greetings everyone! The last few months have seen a lot of progress on Innkeep. In fact I’ve been so busy with development that I forgot to make time to post an update! I’ll work on writing something semi-regularly going forward. One major milestone reached is that I’ve finished writing the dialogue for the demo / prologue of the game. It still needs editing down, but it’s basically all there,…
Hi everyone! It's December already, and I thought it was a good time to write a blog post on recent Innkeep news. This one covers... - What happened with the recent wishlist tsunami (could be of interest to other indie devs!) - Recent discussions with publishers (quite a few!) - Progress on (and future current roadmap for) the alpha build. If you like dev posts or you're just curious about some…
Hello everybody! I'm excited to announce that over 20,000 people have now wishlisted Innkeep on steam (now over 22 thousand to be more precise!) Thanks to this wishlist surge, Innkeep is now in the top 1000 most wishlisted upcoming games on Steam! Not bad hey? :-) Thank you everyone so much for hitting that wishlist button. And I want to give a shout-out in particular to Chinese streamers who h…
Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your interest in Innkeep! It's time for a dev update. If you follow me on socials you may know I had some health problems for the past year that forced me to take a break. Fortunately I'm now well on the mend and I'm back to regular development . I have a lot of really cool stuff in the oven that I can't wait to show you in the future. Right now my focus is…
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Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.