After a busy but exciting launch week for We Are The Caretakers on Xbox, we’re back with a new game update. Version 1.1.1.1 is now live, fixing the crashing issues some players were experiencing in later missions along with a host of new gameplay improvements. Check out the full change…

We Are The Caretakers is Heart Shaped Games’ new strategy game available now on Steam Early Access after nearly three years of development. On the surface, it’s a sci-fi game, with masked heroes working to fight extraterrestrial threats, but when you play it, you’ll find a more profound metaphor…

Today we’re announcing some changes to our level of support for Highgrounds, our long-running web multiplayer CCG. While the good news is these changes allow us to keep the game website publicly accessible, it will mean a reduction in support and functionality for the game going forward. We need to…

It’s hard to believe, but October 2020 marked 10 years of making games at Heart Shaped Games! We’re celebrating the milestone with a brief retrospective on our work as a studio so far, and some exciting game announcements. We have updates to our released games, new platform releases, new merch…

Hi everyone, As I’m sure you can understand, 2020 has thrown a wrench into our best-laid game dev plans. While we feel fortunate to have already been working remotely, the challenges of this year affected our work routines, event & release plans, and overall productivity in significant ways. Many of…

Hello! It’s been awhile since we gave an update on We Are The Caretakers. Much of the team was extra busy preparing for various industry events and working hard on features for our IGF submission earlier this month. Last week Stephen attended PAX Australia, and Scott and Xalavier attended IndieCade…

I’m Scott Brodie, Founder & Creative Director at Heart Shaped Games. Our team recently returned from running its first PAX East booth, and since we benefited from the advice of other indies in our preparation, I thought I’d share our experience too. This was our first booth at a major…

Highgrounds Update From Devs (Archive From Forums — 3/15/17) Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since I’ve responded in the Highgrounds forum — we’re a small team that’s trying to accomplish a lot across all of our games, and it’s easy to miss some of the conversation that happens here. I’ll…

Put together by one of our community members, Impronoucabl Every time you win a battle with a commander in your army, that commander earns XP. This includes campaign battles, ghost battles, random PvP battles, basecamp battles and battles that you initiate via the leaderboard. No XP is awarded for beating…