2025-12-16 23:53 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
Cosmo D here. I've posted the fourth Dev Diary for my next game, Moves of the Diamond Hand. This delves into the creation of the hub zone for the game, a city block. Hub zones offer a myriad of design and technical challenges. But with that challenge comes great opportunities for emergent dice-driven exploration and fun. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2778210/view/514102575975368963 Till next time, – Cosmo D ps: You can experience a scoped version of this (and a preview of the street) for yourself in the demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2778240/Moves_Of_The_Diamond_Hand_Demo/
2025-09-03 21:36 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
Cosmo D here. I've posted the third Dev Diary for my next game, Moves of the Diamond Hand. This delves into the disguise system for the game, and how you can use it to craft unique and powerful dice as you navigate all manner of treachery. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33031849/a90a409302b432af9c698641c93c65f3c3498698.png https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2778210/view/534359891812287244 Till next time, – Cosmo D ps: You can experience a scoped version of this for yourself in the demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2778240/Moves_Of_The_Diamond_Hand_Demo/
2025-07-11 18:37 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
Cosmo D here. I've posted the second Dev Diary for my next game, Moves of the Diamond Hand. https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/33031849/07309bf417fa519a30da5925089e273199ebddaf.jpg This diary goes into depth on a new gameplay element in this game - wandering agents who patrol certain areas of the game, similar to guards in an immersive sim. But how you interact with them builds on Club Low and the Diamond Hand demo - with dice, of course. https://steamcommunity.com/games/2778210/announcements/detail/534354183830114361 Thank you for continuing on this journey with me. – Cosmo D ps: You
2025-06-20 02:47 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
Cosmo D here. I just shared the first devlog for my next game, Moves of the Diamond Hand. If you’ve played Betrayal at Club Low, this one builds on that same chaotic spirit—but with a deeper, more flexible dice system centered on tension, storytelling, and strategy. And if you’ve played my earlier games: we’re back in first-person! It’s a melding—and deepening—of all the elements. This post is all about dice drama: how I simulate rolls, why I love having too many dice, and how each one tells its own little story. You can read the full devlog here: 👉 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/277
2025-02-21 16:40 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
I'm thrilled to announce my next game, Moves Of The Diamond Hand—my biggest and most ambitious project yet. 🎲 Play the free demo now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2778240/Moves_Of_The_Diamond_Hand_Demo/ This Demo represents Chapter 1 of the game. It alone is roughly the length of Betrayal At Club Low and will be part of Steam Next Fest this coming week. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/Moves_Of_The_Diamond_Hand/ This game brings together everything I’ve been building over the past ten years—refining my dice mechanics from Club Low while returning to the immersive first-person
2022-06-13 14:42 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
Hello! Today I'm pleased to announce that you can play a Demo of my next game, Betrayal At Club Low, right here and now on its Steam Store page. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885750/Betrayal_At_Club_Low/ Betrayal At Club Low is a departure in gameplay from my previous titles. It primarily draws inspiration from modern tabletop RPGs. And in this game, your stats are all represented by dice, all customizable, all determining the various decisions and outcomes you'll make on your perilous mission into a dangerous nightclub. This, combined with the exploration, dialog and the surreal vibe ro
2022-03-16 14:56 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Cosmo D will this summer invite us back to his weird and wonderful world of Off-Peak City for another strange caper. With Betrayal At Club Low, the surreal adventure game series will grow into a bit of a mini-RPG, complete with stats and dice—including a Pizza Dice. This time we're an undercover agent trying to rescue a fellow operative from a nightclub in a former coffin factory, and oh I'm excited for more of Cosmo D's strange sights and excellent music. Read more
2020-05-15 21:31 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
Here it is, folks. My latest game in the Off-Peak odyssey. Dive in! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1129920/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1/ And the standalone soundtrack is available, too! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1288050/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1_Soundtrack/ On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate? Thank you to all the fans who have been enjoying my work all this time. Hope you enjoy the new one!
2019-12-06 16:16 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
It’s been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that’s happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you, but a day’s work for us. Below you’ll find our picks for the 50 best games released on PC across the past decade. (more…)
2019-10-23 19:57 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
Earlier this year I posted a screenshot teaser for the game I've been working on since I finished The Norwood Suite. But now the timeline is set and the release is imminent: Put it on your wish-list: Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 is coming soon! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1129920/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1/ About the game: It’s a hazy Sunday morning on the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street. Caetano Grosso, a former saxophone player and longtime pizza-maker, is just getting his pizza oven warmed up. Orders are trickling in, and he needs someone to help with the deliveries. You s
2019-09-02 11:55 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
Even if the name weren’t a giveaway, you’d know Tales From Off-Peak City is a Cosmo D game from the philosophical pizza order, the eclectic collections of oversized objects, a building morphed into a face, and his visual style that I’ve just realised reminds me of 90s multimedia CD-ROMs. The musician and developer recently announced his next game set in the world of Off-Peak, another first-person adventure game exploring a strange place, poking into secrets, opening drawers and pressing buttons, and getting tangled in something stranger than it first seems. I am well up for
2019-01-12 16:28 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33031849/0b08125324f64265a52103081c93bc07ac49668c.jpg My next game is called Tales From Off-Peak City. I'll have more to say on it as the year unfolds, but in the meantime, you can follow its progress on my Discord channel. Watch this space...
2018-12-26 07:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. More games should be set in hotels. We’ve seen plenty of home and mansion interiors over the years, as well as countless space stations and industrial warehouses, but the humble hotel is its own special beast, especially when you’re dealing with the mad fever dream that is Cosmo D’s The Norwood Suite. (more…)
2018-09-03 13:57 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
Hello! This week celebrates the release of the high-quality FLAC version of the Norwood Suite Soundtrack. The soundtrack now includes FLAC versions of all the tunes plus two as-yet-unreleased digital bonus tracks. You will find the FLAC files alongside the mp3s where the Soundtrack itself is installed. Enjoy new music in newer, higher quality! And for those of you who are curious and don't have the soundtrack yet, you can pick it up below: https://store.steampowered.com/app/716930/The_Norwood_Suite__Original_Soundtrack/ Join The Discord Group! You can stay informed of moment-to-moment updates
2018-08-09 15:07 UTC · Community Announcements · Cosmo D
In honor of the release of The Norwood Suite on vinyl, I’m hosting a live internet radio broadcast on Friday, August 10th at 12pm-1pm Eastern Time. It will take place on Discord, my new community server for all things related to my games Off-Peak, The Norwood Suite and my as-yet-untitled third game, which is also set in the same universe. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33031849/8b29b3b2ee5ceae1d7738c0d4603619f5b259786.jpg The Discord channel will be a repository of all manner of happenings around my work, as well as an opportunity for fans of my work to con
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