Digital Sagas shares the full post mortem for Shape Swarm, covering development, Steam Next Fest, launch results, and lessons learned from shipping the studio’s first commercial game.
This week was less about building—and more about figuring out what comes next. After several weeks of focused development, I took a step back to evaluate the direction of No One Leaves the Field. While there weren’t major new systems or features added, this week was critical for planning the next phase of the game. … Read more
This week’s focus has been preparing Lost Colony for its upcoming marketing relaunch. Our current demo build is nearing completion and represents a major step forward from the original version. Since the first demo released, the game has evolved significantly based on player feedback. What began as a straightforward twin-stick shooter is now a deeper … Read more
After three years of building Digital Sagas, our studio has officially launched its first game. Shape Swarm was created with a few clear goals in mind: Establish our publishing catalog Work through the entire Steam pipeline end-to-end Launch a clean, fun arcade experience to kick off our Arcade Series At the time of writing this, … Read more
Shape Swarm is officially ready for launch on April 14th. Achievements are complete. The build is stable. Curator outreach is finished. Our social media push is already underway. In short, everything is lined up and ready. This release marks a major milestone for Digital Sagas. Shape Swarm is the first game we have taken from … Read more
With the April 14, 2026 Steam launch of Shape Swarm quickly approaching, development is entering its final polish phase. This fast-paced bullet heaven survival game challenges players to hold back an evolving geometric swarm while the colony fleet escapes. This week’s updates focus on achievements, scoring improvements, and final gameplay tuning ahead of release. Separate … Read more
Devlog — March 30, 2026 Another exciting week for Shape Swarm. Valve has officially approved the game for release on Steam as we prepare for our April 14 launch 🚀 This week also marks a major milestone: Architect Mode has been added as a launch-ready play mode. That brings the total to three distinct ways to play at release: Save the ColonyA … Read more
This week marks a major milestone for Shape Swarm. The Save the Colony main game mode is now complete and fully playable from start to finish. Stage-based music has been integrated across the run, and the full gameplay loop is functioning end-to-end. This gives us a stable backbone for the release build and lets us … Read more
Shape Swarm’s main game is getting very close to completion. This week was about closing the loop on the core experience and making sure the game runs the way it was always intended to. We added a few new shapes, refined enemy behavior, and pushed the full gameplay loop into a state where a complete … Read more
This week’s development on Shape Swarm was less about writing code and more about locking in some of the systems that will shape the game at launch. With the April 14 release date now officially announced, I’ve been focusing on expanding build variety and designing the systems that support longer runs and replayability. —– New … Read more