The night sky is not quite as black as it seems at first glance. Light sparkles here and there, twinkling and winking as if the heavens themselves were always watching amused as those below go about their lives.
The stars see everything. They see you, when you gaze up at them from your world, giggling at the silly things you’re doing in that flickering glimmer. They loved to watch empir...
2025-10-10 14:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Every now and then, we like to crack open the cold one… and the dev toolbox. And show you something raw, straight from the craft table. Today’s treat comes courtesy of our technical artist. It’s a feature that makes our fights feel sharper, feel faster, and feel way prettier than you can dream of in your blurry dreams.
It’s called Afterimage....
2025-09-22 15:10:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Charlotte Grimm was a common looking woman by design. She was the kind of woman who you would not be able to spot out at the market, you might not even recognize the third, fourth, fifth time you met her. This was fine by her, for Charlotte was after all a spy who worked to undermine the Briar Matrons from inside their own organization.
She was a skilled and talented woman, she could ride...
2025-09-11 14:15:34 +0000 UTC View PostNew enemy type: Crossbow Knight 🏹🛡️
Destroyable objects added to Hanging Cliffs 💥🪨
Added Enemy Aggression setting in Gameplay Settings 🔧
Improved S...
2025-08-29 15:45:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The wagons clacked, clanked, and gargled. Hungry for death, blood, and glory. Covered with spears, cannons, pikes, and trebuchets. Weighed down so that their wheels stuck in the muck, churning in the rain. Dwarven built and dwarven made, the dwarves were leading the charge. It was to be the final day of the Briar Matrons rule.
“Something is wrong…” Snow White grasped Septimus by his...
2025-08-09 13:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Slippers!
You already know the Stepmothers aren’t just cruel. They’re powerful.
Their magic seeps into the world like poison, and once night falls, that poison starts to bloom.
That’s where corruption comes in.
It’s not just lore, nor just atmosphere. It’s a system -...
2025-08-07 13:35:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Life as a tapestry was not as glamorous as one might imagine. Hanging off a wall, dangling, crying softly so that the tears were soaked up by the strands that make up everything. Prince Charming had not always been a tapestry, even if he did make a very good one, but had been woven inside of one thanks to the darkest and coldest of magicks from his stepmother, the Snow Queen.
She had no l...
2025-07-25 15:14:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Slippers,
We’ve talked about the world. We’ve talked about the rebels, the queens, the curses - and will be talking more for sure. But let’s be real - you also want to know how it all plays.
This one’s for the mechanics fans, the systems diggers, the ones who want to understand what happens when you press start run. So here it is: a breakdown of the loop at the hea...
2025-07-18 14:03:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnemies now spawn & die properly 💪🛡️
Temporary enemy health bar added ❤️🔥
Temporary knockdown bar added 💫⚙️
Temporary shield bar added 🛡️💥...
2025-07-07 13:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostHey Slippers
Fairy tales are layered, messy things. They’ve been tamed over centuries, cleaned up, sweetened, stripped of their claws - you know that, we made a piece about it before. But we’re not here for sugar. We’re here for the parts that bite and leave marks.
Stories live and breathe through the tropes they carry - those patterns that light up your mind and make you smir...
2025-07-03 15:03:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s almost time to send out some Swords & Slippers merch for eligible patrons. And yeah, that includes a mousepad that’s got your wrist (and calms your mind).
Now the only question is:
We’...
2025-06-17 15:04:29 +0000 UTC View Post
On the night of a fearsome storm, a child was born as pale as moonlight on snow. The wet nurse gasped, fearing the babe to be stillborn. But the child, named Margaretha, released a cry so fierce it echoed through the stone halls of the royal castle - a cry that proved she belonged among the living.
Each year, the royal physicians warned the King and Queen that their daughter would not see...
2025-06-12 15:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We dropped build v0.0.6 into your waiting hands recently - and now we'd love to know:
We’re not asking about bugs or features - just the feel of the gameplay.
The rhythm of fights. The weight of actions. The pacing, the tension, the satisfa...
Hey Slippers! 👋
Time for another peek behind the curtain.
Here’s what the team’s been cooking lately:
Ongoing AI optimizations for smoother and smarter enemy behavior
Navigation refinements - enemies should stop getting lost in the woods 😉
First pass at a short game loop: enemy spawn > fight > win (...
2025-06-04 15:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We know you're here - and we know why. And honestly? We’re glad as hell.
Something in this project got your attention - the design, the vibe, the story, the attitude.
Whatever it was - it worked.
You’ve heard of dragons, maybe a talking wolf or big-ears grandmas. But what about a gnome... riding a snail?
Since today is a Snail Day (you can check it), it feels like the perfect time to introduce two of our most unconventional travelers: Bombastus, alchemist-merchant of flexible ethics, and Dublo, the snail whose shell is a softshe...
2025-05-29 14:32:19 +0000 UTC View PostMassive performance boost (shaders & rendering) 🚀
AI tweaks for Hulk Knight and Spike Knight 🤖🪓
Additional SFX: traversal, attacks, ambient sounds 🎧
Navigation improvements in Hanging Cliffs 🧗♀️🌫️ 2025-05-27 15:55:18 +0000 UTC View Post
New heavy enemy type ready to whoop your ass - Hulk Knight 💪🛡️
New testing grounds to keep the fight more interesting - Hanging Cliffs 🏞️
Major improvements in battle system ⚙️
<...
2025-05-22 19:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Let’s talk slippers. Yep, slippers. If your mind immediately jumped to fuzzy bedtime shoes, you’re not alone. But here’s the deal - historically, slippers weren’t exactly comfy or cozy. They were symbols of luxury, power, and even a subtle kind of rebellion.
And since slippers have a sneaky-but-essential place in Swords & Slippers, we took steps to clarify it ...
2025-05-20 15:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Sunlight moved slowly over the Frostborn Mountains. It always took a leisurely pace over the dangerous cliffs, but once it reached the peak, it rushed into a gallop down the mountainside and into the valley proper. On this fateful day, the light tripped.
The light tumbled clumsily down into the valley of Everland. It flowed past the pixies in the woods, just as it flashed past the dwarves...
2025-05-11 17:06:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Slippers! 👋
The end of April tends to be a bit slower due to the holiday season (Easter, National Pride Days here in Poland). But despite all the breaks and time off, we've hit some solid milestones - and here’s what the team’s been up to lately:
Our focus has been on adding a new enemy type, while continuing to refine combat...
2025-05-05 20:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
If you think fairytales were always about talking mice, shiny dresses, and soft morals, well… that version came a little later.
The stories we now associate with childhood - Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel - were originally passed down orally, by women. Nannies, midwives, village storytellers. These tales weren’t entertainment - they were moral codes, warnings, rituals, ...
2025-04-24 15:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostImproved battle system responsiveness ⚔️
Better character physics 💃
New VFX test in combat scenes 💥
Camera shake test for added punch 🎥
3D audio test 🎧
Enemy behavior tweaks for smoother combat 🧟...
2025-04-17 16:58:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Slippers!
This is the first of many development updates - a periodic post that will let you know how, what, and when.
Our main goal for the nearest future is to make the basic battle system feel nice, clean and exciting. Responsiveness, precision, and general power fantasy is our main goal. So what are the devs working on gamepl...
2025-04-04 15:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Slippers. It went viral, innit?
We wanted to build something nicely and organically - no huge media push for starters, no paid campaigns with empty viewers, nothing fake, all -tru- players. Just a really sharp game with a twist, a team with a vision, and a growing expectation that someone out there would get what we’re going for.
What we didn’t expect?
That som...
2025-04-02 13:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post
…and how we almost called it Ironellas (which we liked actually).
Hey Patrons! 👋
We thought naming a game would be easy. It wasn’t. Turned out - at all.
This post is all about how we ended up with “Swords & Slippers”, the logo, and...
2025-03-28 15:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there, rebels! ⚔️
If you’re reading this, you’ve stumbled into a tale that’s been brewing for over a decade - one that’s seen ideas rise, fall, get scrapped, resurrected, mutated, and now, finally, take shape as Swords & Slippers.
This isn’t a devlog, and it’s not a "We’re so thrilled to be on this journey!" post. This is more of the real story - w...
2025-03-07 11:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Be part of our community! Join our → [Discord] ← !
Welcome to the Swords & Slippers Patreon - our newly claimed (slightly twisted) corner of the internet where fairy tales get d...
2025-03-06 14:11:34 +0000 UTC View Post