CraftCraft News

Hello!

We will have our recorded gameplay video stream up in a moment to celebrate the oncoming release!

We will have a 15% release sale and we will also be bundling up with some awesome indies for an additional sale!

But more about that in some hours!

Enjoy the stream!
Leene

Hi again Crafters!

Leene here, JFHSFLKJSFJSK, very very extremely excited to put the game out there for everybody to enjoy!

Only one more week to the release! Releases are always positively thrilling and terrifying at the same time but we will be fine. :)

It has been a journey full of obstacles for us but also it has been such a pleasure to be creating the game, I am sure you will see the love we have poured into it from the writing, the music , the art and code pulling it all together!

It will be a big step up from the demo, we have reworked bunch of the systems in the game completely. In the demo, we have only 3 NPC-s but there will be over 30 customers coming in to the shop (with some having multiple requests). And there is an overarching story to be discovered with multiple endings! And the tavern and the multiple scavenging areas and other stuff!

If you would like a sneak peek of some of the characters in the game, you can see the role announcement posts our voice actors made on their social medias in the links below! Such a great job from all of our voice actors. Their voices really add a lot of personality to all the characters!

https://bsky.app/search?q=%23craftcraftgame

https://x.com/search?q=%23craftcraftgame

And you can see some of them here too!









The game will be out in a week but that will not mean we will be completely finished working on it! We have planned some content updates already but will not speak more about them yet, for now, we will focus on the final polishes! ^^

If you want to help our (fully indie) team, share the game with your friends who might like it and wishlists are always appreciated, especially now! Thank you for your support! ♡

Bye for now and you'll hear from us in a WEEK!

Take care!
Leene

Hello Crafters!

Brian here, good news - the time is almost nigh!
The Cosypocalypse Cometh, Praise Baby Cthulhu!

We have finally solidified our date after it saying "Quarter 2 of 2025" for some time. We learned that it is better to not make any promises when there is even the slightest chance that something bad could happen and postpone the release.

Anyways, that said...

CRAFTCRAFT WILL COME OUT ON MAY 27TH, LESS THAN 3 WEEKS!



It's been an absolute pleasure to work on. Thank you all for your patience and ongoing support.

We are super busy putting last touches and polishing the game and excited for everyone to play, and inhabit the magical town of Windspel!

I've been involved with this game for 2 years now - crafting the audio juice for the game (painstakingly design the just right clink and clanks for your listening pleasure) and also helping to find the lovely voice actors for out characters.

Speaking of Baby Cthulhu™️ here's one of our characters Zexx von Heliope with his oddly adorable charge Shaaxh'andi the Hope Ender (We promise, this is the most ominous the game gets, it is overall very cozy ːgoodestː ).




Not long to go now!
- Brian (Audio Designer for CraftCraft) and the Placeholder Gameworks Team

Hi Crafters!

Leene here,
I have another announcement and video for you! If you have played the last game I directed, Death and Taxes, you might know this lovely pirate skeleton character who sells you his wares... well he will also show up in CraftCraft! He will be your customer but also maybe... something more?????? Here is a sneek peek to the dialogue:

https://youtu.be/4UcNWqSWiOU

We are so excited about our progress and we will take a bit more time to complete the game.

Here are some cool things we recently implemented:
Aesthetic system where you can note down customers asks in your notepad.


And a pillow you can put your crafts on to give them to the customer, we added spears and axes and all kinds of fun stuff!


And here is a shop in the local tavern:


We are now 99% content complete, all voice acting, writing and audio is done, we have had to take some more time to complete all implementation and programming. This game is the first game we are making in Godot, and we are liking the engine a lot, there is a lot tho that we have to invent, having some unique game mechanics and it has taken more time at points than we thought.

The release will be somewhere in April if everything goes to plan and we have been reworking multiple of the mechanics to be more intuitive after some testing! I'm personally sorry it is taking so long but we also are happy we can afford the time to make it the best thing we can! April is also quite quiet time releases wise so we will have a good time releasing then. Fingers crossed.

I'll let you know right away when we have more news!

Take care ♥ ♥ ♥
Leene

Hi Crafters!

It is very exciting times for us, I have some news for you, both good and bad.

Let's get to the bad ones first: We need to push the release one more month to 10th March!

And I am so thankful for the patience of everybody. With small teams, if anybody gets sick or has other personal reasons, the development slows down noticeably and we have been through a lot this last half a year.

We really want to deliver you a fully done experience and we are currently full speed ahead of finishing up the game!

And now some nicer news! We have finished all writing and voice acting of all of our 37 characters that will show up in the game to ask for commissions from the crafter or some to also chat in the tavern.

And for a small treat, here is a sneak peek to one of those characters and the note taking system in the game!

https://youtu.be/o3-9GzNvDQQ

We have been making the overall feel of the game better and are very thankful for all the feedback so far. We won't be updating the demo at this moment but we will also get to that after we finish making the full game itself. The demo update will come some time before release too.



It is a lot of fun making this and we work hard (while staying healthy) to bring you an awesome game. Very excited about it! Thanks again for the patience!

Stay strong, good things are coming! ♡
Leene