BREAKINGSCORESLIVE
DEVWarden's Lantern alpha stream tonight — keeper journals get a new shapePATCHPrototype build 0.2 — fog rework, six new puzzle tilesSTUDIOWe moved to a bigger kitchen. Same two people.COMMUNITYPlayer-made puzzle packs now accepted in the community portalPAPERLINEPaperline — 1920s text roguelike is the next thing on the deskTIDEGLASSTideglass first concept sketches leaked in the devlog — glass creatures incomingNOTENewsletter goes out every first Friday. No spam, no roadmap promises.DEVWarden's Lantern alpha stream tonight — keeper journals get a new shapePATCHPrototype build 0.2 — fog rework, six new puzzle tilesSTUDIOWe moved to a bigger kitchen. Same two people.COMMUNITYPlayer-made puzzle packs now accepted in the community portalPAPERLINEPaperline — 1920s text roguelike is the next thing on the deskTIDEGLASSTideglass first concept sketches leaked in the devlog — glass creatures incomingNOTENewsletter goes out every first Friday. No spam, no roadmap promises.
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— ABOUT THE DESK

Two people, a kitchen, three games.

Maxonice is a small indie studio working on short, warm games that you can finish in a weekend and come back to next month. We write things down on this desk because we like to show work in progress, and because we'd rather talk to ten readers than ship in silence.

What we're working on

Three games — Warden's Lantern (cozy puzzle-adventure on a fogged-in island), Paperline (a 1920s detective roguelite told in ASCII), and Tideglass (a quiet dive into a stained-glass sea). They release one at a time, roughly a year apart. The devlogs on this desk track all three.

How we publish

One dispatch a month, first Friday, more or less. Sometimes it's a devlog; sometimes it's a patch note; sometimes it's a short essay about a thing we learned. No roadmap promises. The ticker up top is faster — small notes, build numbers, community picks.

Contact

Write us at desk@maxonice.com. We read everything. We answer what we can.