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September 28, 2026

Plug In, Hitch Up, Stay Alive | Dev Log Week 39

One thread this week: what it takes to settle somewhere and keep going, from energy and trailers to the garden, a companion drone and a forest drawn from real data.

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September 21, 2026

Rooted Dev Log Week 38: A City, One Block at a Time

City generation reached the point where what comes out is a place you can walk through, five generators fill it in at the building and room scale, and the state work keeps a block from being filler.

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September 4, 2026

Rooted Weekly Dev Log: Week 36, 2026

Real Oregon terrain stitched into one open world, mods on Steam Workshop, a new audio architecture, wildlife with contamination, dedicated servers, and building, combat and AI work.

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August 29, 2026

Rooted Weekly Dev Log: Week 35, 2026

A short week, back from a break on Wednesday: the in-house menu and session layer with crossplay-ready online, a first voice chat layer built on Vivox, input rebinding on keyboard and controller, and the open world running on PS5 hardware. None of it is in the public build.

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August 14, 2026

Rooted Dev Log: One Last Update for the Current Alpha

The update announced over the last dev logs is done: a current engine, the new infrastructure, a real performance pass, 25 languages, and a few interface touch-ups. Most likely the last one for this alpha.

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August 13, 2026

Headlight Studio is now a PlayStation and Xbox partner

Both console programs are approved, Rooted already has a foot in the door.

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August 13, 2026

The infrastructure move is done

The plumbing I described in last week's dev log is now in place. Here is what it changes.

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August 7, 2026

Rooted Weekly Dev Log: Week 32, 2026

This week went to the current public alpha rather than the new build: moving it onto the new studio infrastructure, richer crash reports, a better first grip for new players, and a narrow performance pass.

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July 14, 2026

Rooted Weekly Dev Log: Week 28, 2026

Base building gains its full player loop with a collapse preview on demolition, wildlife gets tuned for coop hunts, human enemies gain combat animations and voices, and the heatwave turned into a design research week that confirmed the current directions.

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July 3, 2026

Rooted Weekly Dev Log: Week 27, 2026

Wildlife week: animal senses, daily routines for deer, bear, wolf and eagle, blood-trail tracking, a fully data-driven survival balance, and powered devices you can claim and repair.

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June 26, 2026

Rooted Weekly Dev Log: Week 26, 2026

A week that started on the engine: Rooted moved onto the latest engine version, then a fresh pass on building, the bear that now lunges into its strikes and tracks you, and smarter human enemies.

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June 20, 2026

Rooted Weekly Dev Log: Week 25, 2026

A lighter week on code, since I was at Game Camp in Lille for a talk on solo development with UE5. Around that: storms with more presence, sharper 3Cs, the open-world terrain and vegetation moving in, and enemies that feel more alive. None of it is in the public build.

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