The Ringshadow blog How Ringshadow is being built, as it happens. tag:ringshadow,2026-10-14:blog 2026-10-14T23:30:00Z Ringshadow Public domain (CC0 1.0) Mercenaries: they mine while you sleep tag:ringshadow,2026-10-14:blog/mercenaries 2026-10-14T23:30:00Z 2026-10-14T23:30:00Z Hire mercenary prospectors at the Citadel: in a world day each one mines what you mine in an hour, and they keep working while the game is closed. The world runs on after you quit tag:ringshadow,2026-10-14:blog/world-runs-on 2026-10-14T23:00:00Z 2026-10-14T23:00:00Z Quit the game and the world keeps going: the local server stays up, the clock turns, meteors fall and the Brood roams, at about 0.008% of a CPU core. Coming next: guns for the realm, and a canyon to hold tag:ringshadow,2026-10-14:blog/defences 2026-10-14T22:00:00Z 2026-10-14T22:00:00Z Coming, not in the game yet: the Citadel's guns, an AA tower, a gatling gun firing red-hot ore-and-MH rounds, and a canyon the pilots defend wave by wave. The Brood: from a painting to the world in a day tag:ringshadow,2026-10-14:blog/the-brood 2026-10-14T21:00:00Z 2026-10-14T21:00:00Z The first enemies: four alien bugs, from concept paintings to blockout models to the world, where they linger at deposits, bite, dive, eat ore and raid buildings. Missions, the Journal and three voices tag:ringshadow,2026-10-14:blog/missions 2026-10-14T20:00:00Z 2026-10-14T20:00:00Z The Citadel offers missions in three tiers, a Journal keeps them, and three narrators read every briefing. The realm: shared buildings, a tax and a shop tag:ringshadow,2026-10-14:blog/the-realm 2026-10-14T19:00:00Z 2026-10-14T19:00:00Z Every building now belongs to every pilot. The Citadel takes 10% of each unload into a realm wallet and sells blueprints and supplies. How we got here tag:ringshadow,2026-10-14:blog/how-we-got-here 2026-10-14T18:00:00Z 2026-10-14T18:00:00Z Two days, seven milestones of the MMORPG mode: our own server, a world that lasts, a hundred levels, the ringshadow sweep and starfall.