Studio Journal
Development updates across games, software, apps, and studio news.
Not everything we build needs a business case. The Rift grew out of a decades-long personal fascination with MUDs and ROM 2.4b6—and somehow that old hobby has turned into a new .NET game engine, persistent world, spatial simulation, and browser-based world editor. Here's where it came from, what we're building, and a thank-you to the developers whose work made it possible.
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Development on Streams is moving beyond the desktop application itself. We’ve been building the account, licensing, organization, deployment, and recovery infrastructure needed to support a real Cedar Harbor Studios product after launch.
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After a break from macro development, I returned to The Rift and gave the game a major facelift—expanding it into a 60-system persistent universe with physical System Space, Rift gates, stations, exploration, industry, fleets, and combat.
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A major piece of the Streams journey is coming together. The Cedar Harbor backend now handles accounts, licensing, devices, organizations, MFA, commerce, email, and a growing customer portal — bringing us much closer to the point where development can swing back toward the Streams desktop app itself.
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Streams is starting to grow beyond desktop automation. We’ve been building the account, licensing, organization, and device infrastructure that will support the product long after version 1.0 ships.
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Potty Timer is officially live on Google Play, marking the first public app release from Cedar Harbor Studios.
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Cedar Harbor Studios has submitted Potty Timer, its first official Android app, for closed testing on Google Play.
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Opening the studio site, the public journal, and the first shared look at the Cedar Harbor identity.
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A lightweight app concept for collecting project notes, decisions, references, and release checklists.
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Compass Tools is the internal publishing system behind Cedar Harbor Studios: Markdown journals, generated pages, asset handling, and one-button deploys.
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