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 big thing in roguelike deckbuilding. The recent playtest taught us many lessons about what we need to improve on, but most of all it taught us (if general buzz and play duration are anything to go by) that there is truly something special about Davy Jones Deckhand.

Results from the playtest

We had 30 people sign up for our January playtest. The valuable feedback, strategic discussions on Discord, and good vibes have made the process an absolute blast! We were so happy to see players truly enjoying it and engaging for many hours and many voyages. We even had our first streamer play the game, which you can watch here.

A sneak peak at a new enemy type

Check out character artist Nik Scarr's latest enemy creation. These morphing mermaids will catch you off guard and feature two unique phases, forcing the player to alter their approach. Watch a 1 minute timelapse of Nik drawing this character here.

The next phase

We are busy iterating on some of our designs based on learnings from our first playtest. We are also excited to be starting on the next phase of the combat loop which will introduce exciting new features, such as:

• A sexy new HUD
• Card removal
• Artefacts / Relics
• Consumables
• Currency
• Save system

We can't wait to share the next iteration with players.

Personal highlight: Tep's new arrival

We have our first studio baby! Congratulations to Cass Bay Games' environment artist/UI designer Tep and his wife on the birth of their second child over the holidays. If Tep wasn't busy enough before, we are sure he will be now.

Join the crew!

If you'd like more regular updates and to chat with the team then please join our public Discord server, we'd love to have you join our growing community. You can also follow us on social media at the links below.

Discord invite: https://t.co/sBqCnmZi9T

Previous editions of 'Below Deck' can be found on our Itch Devlog.

Playtester sign ups: Fill out this form to access the playtest 

Until next time me hearties, yo ho!

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