Build notes from Cloverfold — what we're making, and how it's going.https://cloverfold.co.uk/en-gbhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-registration-is-open/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-registration-is-open/Glødkeeper's closed alpha is taking registrations. What an alpha means here, how places are given out, why accounts will be reset, and what we'd love you to tell us.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTstudiostudioalphahttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-your-collection-from-day-one/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-your-collection-from-day-one/A new player now starts with a squad that is already built, trinkets have one clear rarity ladder and an album to fill, and new generations of cards are on the way.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMTgamecollectiontrinketsonboardinghttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-playing-people-who-arent-there/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-playing-people-who-arent-there/Most of your opponents today are ghosts, so why does the game need a connection at all? A fair question with three answers, an honest admission, and live play on the way.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMTgameversusghostsconnectivityhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-built-for-a-phone-on-a-train/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-built-for-a-phone-on-a-train/Tapping a button on a bad signal and nothing happening, so you tap it six more times. What we did about that, and about batteries, small speakers and closing the app mid-game.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTplatformphoneconnectivityengineeringhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-stories-you-play-where-they-happen/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-stories-you-play-where-they-happen/Illustrated stories in chapters, with games along the way that you play at the place the story is set. How a story gets made, and what changed this autumn.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMTgamestoriesquestsworldhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-a-box-of-mini-games/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-a-box-of-mini-games/Thirteen games now share one collection, from a card battler to a football manager. What each one is, why they are small on purpose, and the two newest.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTgamemini-gamesglodballlobbershttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-glowlings-is-now-glodkeeper/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-10-20-glowlings-is-now-glodkeeper/Two renames in a month, one strange letter, and a logo that had to be typeset because image tools can't draw it. Why the game and its creatures changed their names.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTstudiostudionaminghttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-23-review-closed/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-23-review-closed/Every action from the August review is closed - deployed, verified against live traffic, and logged in public. What we changed about HOW we build mattered more than any single fix.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTstudiostudiotransparencyhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-22-cards-that-do-what-they-say/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-22-cards-that-do-what-they-say/Glødstone abilities used to run by pattern-matching their printed rules text - reword a card and it silently did nothing. Now every card compiles to a tested manifest.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgamegamesglodstonehttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-14-less-of-everything/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-14-less-of-everything/Dead pages, orphaned endpoints, a whole subsystem nothing called - found by evidence, verified twice, then deleted. Less surface, fewer places for bugs to hide.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTplatformengineeringhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-12-the-first-tests/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-12-the-first-tests/Four years, zero automated tests. Now every economy guard is pinned by a suite that runs on every edit - and every test had to prove it could FAIL before we trusted it.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTplatformengineeringhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-11-a-lighter-database/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-11-a-lighter-database/1.5 GB became 430 MB. Finished matches were carrying a frozen copy of both full teams forever; now match history keeps what matters and lets the rest go.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTplatforminfrastructurehttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-01-the-full-review/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-08-01-the-full-review/A full, independent, area-by-area technical review of the entire codebase - architecture to compliance - with every finding tracked publicly on this site until it was fixed.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTstudiostudiotransparencyhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-07-30-conserving-elo/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-07-30-conserving-elo/Seasonal ratings were quietly leaking points. Now every match transfers rating between the two players - nothing minted, nothing burned - and history got re-anchored.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTgamegamesfairnesshttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-07-25-hello/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-07-25-hello/A studio name, a website, and a plan to build the rest of this in public.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTgamestudiohttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-07-22-attacking-our-own-game/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-07-22-attacking-our-own-game/Five parallel audits of our own economy - every way to mint gold, duplicate spends or complete a match twice, found and closed before players could.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTgamesecurityeconomyhttps://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-07-20-one-door-for-rewards/https://cloverfold.co.uk/devlog/2026-07-20-one-door-for-rewards/Why we routed every reward in the game through a single gateway, and what it saved us when we audited for exploits.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTplatformarchitectureeconomy