Follow the making of Lowwater, a painterly game of exploration, survival, and strategy.https://playlowwater.com/en-ushttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-06-the-ride-out/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-06-the-ride-out/The opening's ride to The Source was 2.1 km over the ridges: 2.7 minutes at a flat gallop, nine at a trot, with nothing to do on the way. The brief wants a…Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-05-real-motion-on-ioma/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-05-real-motion-on-ioma/The characters read as ragdolls on the arrival movie: Meshy's library clips are generic, played in place, the feet floating, the weight nowhere. This round…Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-04-iomas-pack/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-04-iomas-pack/The game turns toward Ioma, and she gets a pack: see a thing, read it, take it, carry it.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-04-source-arrival/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-04-source-arrival/The first in-engine cutscene. Ioma rides into the camp at The Source; the bars close over the ride; the keepers of the drawpoint, who sent word that the…Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-03-source-camp/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-03-source-camp/The first campaign goal. The hydrology already agreed with the story without being told to: The Source sits on the west bank of a 33 m river bed that the…Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-03-the-whole-world-on-the-sheet/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-03-the-whole-world-on-the-sheet/The M map surveys the whole world, pauses the ride, and pans and zooms.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-objective-on-the-ground/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-objective-on-the-ground/The goal marked in the world, not only on the sheet; entering it completes it.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-living-surface/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-living-surface/Water increment 2: the surface moves, and a wind.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-vegetation-from-the-water/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-vegetation-from-the-water/Trees, shrubs, reeds and orchards placed and given a health by the generator, from the hydrology and the seed.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-water-finds-its-way/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-water-finds-its-way/Water increment 1: hydrology in the world generator.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-world-tab/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-world-tab/The round no longer needs the shell. The library, the page that already shows the props, the characters and the reference boards, has a World tab.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-vantage-board/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-vantage-board/The loop is closed. The world is data, the generator turns it into ground, the camera stands wherever a scene might be framed, and now one command shows…Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-detached-camera/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-detached-camera/The world can now be looked at from anywhere, and the places worth looking from can be kept. This is the cinematographer's tool from the world design: not a…Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-ride-over-the-world/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-11-01-the-ride-over-the-world/Ioma now rides on the generated world. The dunes she gallops down at the start, the flat track under the hooves, the boulders and the dead trees are where…Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-the-shape-of-the-world/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-the-shape-of-the-world/The ride has had a disc of dunes under it and nothing beyond. Today the world got a shape: all of it, Cael to the Ashfold, as data and a drawing.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-skin/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-skin/The younger Ioma came into the game looking like a figurine: a hard sheet of highlight down her cheek and hand, the same sheen on her coat. Here is the same…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-ioma-younger/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-ioma-younger/Ioma has been mid-forties since the brief was written: grey-streaked, lined, tired. Today she got younger. The direction: early thirties, strong in spirit…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-prints/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-prints/The horse and Ioma now leave tracks. Every hoof that lands and every step she takes presses a print into the sand. Each one holds for a while, then sinks…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-dusk/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-dusk/The opening ride was a bright, dusty noon. It's now the last of the day: a low orange sun, a dark ground, a broken cloud deck lit from below, and film grain…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-under-the-hood/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-under-the-hood/Nothing new to see in this one. Riding, the cinematic, the HUD and the dismount all look exactly as they did. Underneath, though, the project changed shape…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-on-foot/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-on-foot/Ioma can leave the saddle now. Press E and she gets down from the horse's near (left) side, the way riders do. On the ground, WASD walks her relative to the…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-the-survey-sheet/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-the-survey-sheet/Once the letterbox opens and you have the reins, a HUD now fades in. It has a round minimap in the lower left and a health meter in the upper right. It's a…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-taking-the-reins/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-taking-the-reins/The ride-in used to end on black and loop. Now it hands over to the player. About three seconds after Ioma passes the lens, the letterbox bars slide away…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-godot-to-unreal/https://playlowwater.com/devlog/2026-10-31-godot-to-unreal/The game keeps turning out to be cinematic: a low sun, haze, a rider coming out of the dust. The opening shot is Ioma riding in over the lens, and in Godot…Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT