Jul 17, 2025

The Drifter is OUT NOW

The long wait is over!

I’m so happy to finally be able to get The Drifter into your hands. It’s been a long road working on this game, but I think it’s something special, hope you do too!

You can grab it on Steam below, or on GoG– and there’s a special discount for the launch period too!

The Drifter Original Soundtrack is also available as DLC- Mitchell Pasmans and I worked hard on getting it to be a fun experience to listen through- intercut with little bits of radio-play style dialog. There’s a bundle with an extra discount if that sounds up your alley!

Reviews are warmly welcomed, positive or negative, they help people find our game, so let me know what you think!

– Dave

May 29, 2025

The Drifter Launches July 17th

Release Date Announced!

The Drifter’s finally jumping a box car to your home town, arriving July 17th!

Check out our gnarly new trailer while you wait-

And of course go wishlist it on Steam! There’ll be a new demo up for the upcoming Next Fest too!

– Dave

Jan 10, 2025

Wrapping up 2024

Bring on 2025, the year of The Drifter!

Another year down, and The Drifter’s getting real close! Still a lot to do though… I’ll be head down working on it, casting actors, recording and editing VO, getting art and sound in for the final few climactic scenes and bugfixing and polishing the whole thing up. The next time I pop my head up for air it’ll probably be when we announce a release date!

Anyway, here’s a little 2024 wrap-up video I made-

– Dave

Nov 22, 2024

PowerJams

Powerhoof PowerQuest Game Jams!

Over on our discord we’ve got a good bunch of folks together making games with PowerQuest, and early in the year we decided to run a little game jam, dubbed PowerJam, to encourage people to get something out, no matter how tiny or silly.

We ended up doing three of them, and I made a couple of games myself-

For PowerJam1 I made DUMB HEIST with my son Tom, he came up with the idea and concepted the art, and I put it together, the main objective being to make my kid laugh-

For PowerJam2, instead of making a game, I took the week to add some classic text parser tools to PowerQuest.

And so “Text Parser” became the theme of the PowerJam3 where I made TERMINAL CITY– a text parser adventure where you can’t stop moving.

The Drifter’s getting closer now, and it’s unlikely I’ll run any more PowerJam’s until we ship. I’m looking forward to getting it in your hands and having more time to devote to little side projects like these. They’re a lot of fun!

If you’re interested, jump in the discord, and check out the jam and other entries here!

– Dave

Jan 12, 2024

The Telwynium – Book Three

The Shadow of Spring

Welp, we’re really neglecting this blog ha ha! But I’ve wrapped up the next instalment of The Telwynium! So what better excuse to update you here 😀

Another year to look back on… I’m still full time on The Drifter, and its still coming along. Finished the writing pass and started recording voices and working on SFX. About 1/3 still needs artwork so that’s the big thing. But we’ll see how fast we can make progress this year!

If you’d like more updates (I just noticed a bunch of comments in here that I ignored all year, sorry), there’s our discord where we’re chatting daily, and I’ve been doing youtube dev diary entries periodically too!

Well, until next time, have a great year!

– Dave

Dec 19, 2022

The Telwynium – Book Two

The Summer King

I’ve wrapped up the next instalment of The Telwynium! Just in time for Christmas!

Looking back on the year, we’ve still mostly been working on The Drifter and Acid Knife. Both are slowly but steadily coming together (still). The Drifter’s been play-tested through from start to finish by testers now, so that was a big milestone! Lots of art and sound to do but it’s happening! And Barney actually let me play Acid Knife last week for the first time since the early combat demo, it’s got an amazing level of depth and detail to all the mechanics, and a huge amount of interesting ideas, and I’ve barely scratched the surface of it so far!

Have a great new year!

– Dave

Jun 30, 2022

The Drifter Dev Diaries

Youtubey goodness

Ok, I guess I’ve done enough of these that it’s worth sharing! Been doing these dev diaries on youtube the last couple of months, I just record them at the start of a dev stream, so they don’t take a bunch of time away from development. (You can also check the stream out at https://twitch.tv/duzzondrums)

In each entry, I say what I’ve been working on, and then briefly chat about a topic, related to what I’m working on, or to adventure game development in general.

Check ’em out!

– Dave

Jan 4, 2022

PowerQuest

A nifty 2d adventure toolkit for Unity

I posted here aaaages ago about PowerQuest in it’s early stages, but haven’t really mentioned it since. However, I’ve been working on it steadily, alongside The Drifter, and it’s pretty fully featured now. It even has its own itch page!

There’s a bunch of others using it now, hanging out on our Discord. So if you have the urge to make your own point ‘n clicker, now’s the time!

– Dave

Sep 28, 2021

Blog update!

Comments are back!

After years of neglect I (Dave that is) have finally fixed wordpress so that comments show up on pages again! WordPress keeps updating automatically on me and breaking things, and I’ve been pretty lazy with fixing it. This site was really hacked together back in 2013 and it’s showing the signs! We haven’t exactly been writing much on this blog for the last few years either, poor thing’s been lonely.

Tshirts are back!

We have a new Tshirt Store! Thanks to my wife Clare for getting that sorted for us! Go grab some powerhoof shirts!

Infrequent updates are back!

So what else’s been happening? Well, we’re still going strong, just haven’t posting much here. We’ve been mainly hanging out on Discord (https://discord.gg/powerhoof) and sharing things there. Barney shares a lot of nice Acid Knife gifs on the twitter too.

So check out either of those places if you need more powerhoof in your life!

Read on for an update on The Drifter…

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Jun 28, 2021

The Telwynium

A cosy 90s Fantasy Adventure

I got all nostalgic for Adventure Jam this year. With an EGA game inspired by the games and fantasy novels I grew up on.

It seemed to strike a chord with a bunch of other devs, because it was voted #1 in the Jam!

The long wait is over!

Release Date Announced!

Bring on 2025, the year of The Drifter!

Powerhoof PowerQuest Game Jams!

– Dave

The Shadow of Spring

– Dave

The Summer King

– Dave

Youtubey goodness

A nifty 2d adventure toolkit for Unity

Comments are back!

Tshirts are back!

Infrequent updates are back!

A cosy 90s Fantasy Adventure

– Dave

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