The Greenlight Chronicles for Heart. Papers. Border.

I’ve always wanted to make my own independent, crazy and never-before-heard-of games* and in the autumn of 2016, my dream got really real: my beloved husband got fired** and he decided he likes my obsessive “optimistic strategy game about travelling, freedom and changing the world” idea enough to pick up Unity and …

Steam Direct and the Greenlight roller coaster

We are riding the Greenlight roller coaster with Heart. Papers. Border. and it is intense, it happens way faster than we hoped and we feel unprepared. I don’t think we could have ever be prepared for this, but thinking If Only scenarios is always seductive. However, Valve decided to pull the …

Heart. Papers. Border. is on Steam Greenlight

Today we pushed Heart. Papers. Border. on Steam Greenlight. Please vote for us here if you think this game is worth publishing on Steam <3 Otherwise, we greatly appreciate if you can tell us why you think other wise. We pushed the game on Greenlight because Valve will soon replace …

Open Game Design for Heart. Papers. Border.

Heart. Papers. Border. goes on. We spend each evening preparing a brand new build with new art, an impressive number of bug fixes and polishes, as well as a bunch of new features, for Casual Connect/ Indie Prize in Berlin. We REALLY want to get the tags system in!! The …

How to change the world in 5 easy steps

Don’t worry, I am not talking about the real one.* I’m talking about how to fundamentally disrupt planet Heart if you travel in our optimistic strategy game Heart. Papers. Border. You see, we are making this game out of a profound belief that borders are unnecessary obstacles against our evolution …

The Perils and Treasures of Early Feedback

The Heart. Papers. Border. prototype is OUT and we had our first round of feedback. IT HURTS. But this is crucial. I am so grateful that there are people out there who dare tell us their honest impressions. If we will ever have any sort of success with Heart. Papers. Border., …

Defining dreams – a Heart. Papers. Border. update

The bad news about Heart. Papers. Border. is that we will not be able to finish all we planned to do for the Casual Connect Indie Prize submission on December 5th (submit here). SO, Fingers Crossed! We are really struggling to see Heart. Papers. Border. at one of those tables, …

Fake it till you make it! How to dream your way to indiedev success

Hi! My name is Laura and I look like this: Your typical indie game developer   That is because in a future not so far away, I hope to live a life I never ever ever need a holiday from, funded by Heart. Papers. Border. An intricate yet utterly optimistic strategy game about …

Introducing Heart. Papers. Border.

Hi everyone! We have been away in a holiday and it feels like its been ages and just saying this makes me cringe. See, indie game developers don’t do holidays, but I did it, which means… And I want to be very clear, I did plan to work on Project: Freedom …

Game Pillars, Buyer Persona & other Project: Freedom updates

As many of you know, we are making a game. For now it is called Project: Freedom, and we are doing what no indie should do, which is, we are not talking about it. Don’t do like us! And… Here are some updates! Ze Pitch: Lots of you dear friends were …