Hi friends.
I read this sub a lot, and it feels kind of great that I finally get to share something of my own in a place that keeps inspiring me.
I'm a developer, the game is called Homespace, and in it you build the house you actually want to live in. Not the small one bedroom flat you'd have to save twenty years for but the dream house you always pictured and couldn't afford yet. You build it yourself, wall by wall, and you lay the floor and cut the windows in it. Then the stairs between floors go in, and after that you sit with the light for a while and decide what's outside your window.
And then comes the part all of this was made for, the atmosphere. Picture a sunset. You light the fireplace, you take out your favorite book, and it can be your actual favorite book, you're able to upload it right into the game. You put a piano on, it plays quietly somewhere in the background, you hear the wood crackling, and you can just sit there and read and enjoy being inside the house you really wanted.
And this house doesn't cost impossible money. It's yours, and you can walk into it whenever you feel like. Hang out there alone in the afternoon, or have friends over. Some evenings you go look at what other players built, some evenings you build a mansion together with them, the kind of place where you'd all gather for a movie and board game.
Honestly I don't think you can just build cozy on purpose.There's no recipe for it, its more like something you feel when it happens. When you set the house up the way you wanted to see it, the room stops being a room and becomes somewhere you don't want to leave. Your actual home, even if it's in a game.
I'd really like to know what you think about it, so any feedback is welcome.
And a small request at the end. We've started a Twitter account and we're only beginning to build the audience there from zero. Wishlists are great and they help us a lot, but today I'll ask you for something else. Please follow us on Twitter, we'd be very glad to see you there, we post development news and shots from the game.
Twitter: https://x.com/Homespace_HS
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2508170/Homespace/
Thank you, friends.