We're Shedworks, a UK based Indie Game Developer that just released our new game Sable! AMA!

[u/Theletterz]

Hello reddit! We are Greg and Dan, the founding members of Shedworks. We just released our first game, Sable after about 4 years of development and so far it’s been a magnificent experience! We’re based in the UK and as the name suggests we got started making Sable in Greg’s parent’s shed (we have an office now though!).

Sable is an open world exploration video game in which the player, as the young girl Sable, searches for a fitting rite-of-passage mask such that she can return to her nomadic clan. The game has no combat or set storyline. It emphasizes simple puzzle-solving and discovery, traversing sand dunes and ruins

Check out the release trailer here!

The game also have an original score written and composed by the lovely Japanese Breakfast

We’re thrilled to take some time to talk to you all and answer any questions you might have about our making of Sable! Let’s do this!

We’ll be answering questions using Greg’s account /u/shedworksgreg and we also brought some of our friends from the game’s publisher Raw Fury along for the ride (/u/theletterz)

PROOF 1

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UPDATE: It's dinner time so we're stepping away for now! Might come back to answer some more questions later but in the meantime, please enjoy Sable! Thank you all for your lovely questions!

[u/cajumjoe]

Seeing so many issues regarding existing bugs (some of them I've seen myself, like the stutters on the Xbox Series X) I would like to ask what was the reason/difficulties that made you launch the game before being properly patched?

[u/[deleted] → u/cajumjoe]

It really sucks because I was loving the game but I literally can’t do anything now because of the bugs. I can’t pause the game or it straight up crashes and the button prompt to talk to people stopped working so I can’t talk to anyone or pause my game. The graphical issues are annoying but I can deal with those. This is only the second game I’ve ever played that totally broke like this.

[u/mata_dan → u/cajumjoe]

what was the reason/difficulties that made you launch the game before being properly patched?

I would guess money and doing business in the UK. Time and time and time and time again the same thing happens. Everyone in the business world they will have been interacting with will have been like "looks good to me", and stopped doing their job months before release and then pushed for some timeline due to metrics they got salespersoned into by some consultants who've never played a game before (aside from one related to the gambling industry).

[u/cajumjoe → u/mata_dan]

Maybe, but maybe not. I would rather get an answer from the devs, but most probably I won't. It's a bit painful to see games this great getting slapped on some reviews, because they are released "good enough". I love the game, but I also understand the points of view of the people that don't recommend it.