Welcome to the official Small Gray Games blog!

This is the inaugural post in a new effort to find a central place where I can publish devlogs and announcements for various different projects without being spread all over. I’ll try to categorize things and keep it organized, as I know not everybody cares about everything, but I think it should make it a lot easier for people to find things and for me to communicate in a way that isn’t fully subject to the whims and siloed audience of any given platform.

Too Many Platforms, After All

My initial thinking was mostly just to solve the immediate problem of how to post devlogs once I start a Steam page for South of the March: would I still just post them on itch.io, or duplicate them on Steam, or link between them? It made sense to me to have an independent root source that I can link to freely from whatever outside source I want, so here we go.

If you’re following on Itch, I expect I’ll still post everything there basically the same as I already do, just in a truncated form that links back here. Once the Steam page is up, I’ll be able to do the same thing without fully duplicating every post. It’s a little cleaner, I think.

The Things that Have No Home

This is also going to give me a spot to post things that don’t particularly belong anywhere else. At some point that might be writing about broader experiences in game dev (or whatever) that don’t necessarily directly relate to any specific project I’m working on. The most immediate use for it, though, will just be posting about The Idle Class. Because it’s hosted here, I really don’t have anywhere to talk at length about updates or anything else. Now I do!

The Rotting Corpse of Social Media

Finally, this should also resolve some of my (probably justified) anxiety about the state of social media and all of these various platforms. I can post long-form content on Tumblr, and I can post my devlogs for South of the March on Itch, and I can share smaller updates on Bluesky and Discord and anywhere else, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to feel with any certainty that these are going to stick around long-term. Some of them I’m not so sure about even short-term.

If any one of these places collapses under the weight of its own technocratic hubris, I’d rather not lose every bit of communication I’ve ever made, especially the detailed stuff. This is my way of trying to maintain some sense of control, I guess. We’ve all been burned before.

Thanks for reading, and keep an eye out for more updates!