'Below Deck' newsletter

Devlog

• 009. Developer interview: Nik Scarr (Character artist🎨) | May 2025
  May 21, 2025 by Cass Bay Games#2025, #roguelike, #deckbuilder, #devlog, #game art, #art process, #2d art, #indie games, #pirates

  Ahoy mateys, welcome Below Deck! This month we’re chatting to an important member of the small Cass Bay Games team, character artist Nik Scarr! We’re excited to share a bit more about Nik and his... Continue reading

  
• 008. Our second playtest: sink or sail? | April 2025
  April 29, 2025 by Cass Bay Games#Below Deck, #Devlog, #Roguelike Deckbuilder, #behind the scenes, #game development, #pirate

  Ahoy mateys, We’re just slipping through in time for an April edition of ‘Below Deck’. What a month it has been! We ran our second public playtest and it has been amazing to see so many players... Continue reading

  
• Wrapping up the Davy Jones’ Deckhand playtest 🎁 | April 2025
  April 16, 2025 by Cass Bay Games#pirate, #deckbuilder, #roguelike, #playtest

  Hey crew, What a week! It has been so exciting to share our newest build with you all. The team and I are extremely grateful for all the feedback, bug reports, gameplay clips and tavern banter so far... Continue reading

  
• 007. Playtest date announcement 🎉 | March 2025
  March 24, 2025 by Cass Bay Games

  Playtest date announcement 🎉 | March 2025 We’ve got exciting news. We’re currently putting together our very first gameplay trailer, which has meant a massive visual overhaul of the game. We pl... Continue reading

  
• 006. A huge update is coming! | February 2025
  February 25, 2025 by Cass Bay Games#roguelike, #deckbuilder, #devlog, #refactor

  Voyage overhaul We have been hunkering down over the past month. Usually we have multiple new internal builds circulating every week, but this month Ben has been buried in one of those programming ref... Continue reading

  
• 005. Eyes on the horizon! What’s next for our game? | January 2025
  January 27, 2025 by Cass Bay Games#game development, #devlog, #behind the scenes

  Here's to an epic 2025! Keep your eye on the horizon, because big things are coming! Having just run our first online playtest, we're all feeling inspired to work even harder to truly deliver the next... Continue reading

  
• 004. Become a beta tester! 🎮 | December 2024
  December 18, 2024 by Cass Bay Games#2024, #December, #Below Deck, #Devlog, #Roguelike Deckbuilder, #Playtesting, #Beta test, #gamedev

  A great start to our maiden voyage Since we started development of Davy Jones Deckhand in late August we have playtested at two public gaming events, received a $40,000 CODE grant, and built over 80 v... Continue reading

  
• 003. 🎉$40,000 raised for Davy Jones Deckhand | November 2024
  November 20, 2024 by Cass Bay Games#2024, #below deck, #November

  Davy Jones Deckhand receives $40,000 CODE grant I am more than a little excited to share this news! After months and months of hard work on our application, followed by several more months of waiting,... Continue reading

  
• 002. Our first public playtest | October 2024
  October 30, 2024 by Cass Bay Games#below deck, #2024

  Welcome to the second issue of Below Deck! October playtest event It has been a big month for Cass Bay Games, culminating in our first ever public playtest of Davy Jones Deckhand at an event run by th... Continue reading

  
• 001. Introducing the 'Below Deck' newsletter | September 2024
  October 29, 2024 by Cass Bay Games

  Hi and welcome to the very first issue of Below Deck! The team at Cass Bay Games are all very excited to finally start talking about who we are and what we've been working on. In this newsletter I'm p... Continue reading