Stem Shift

Devlog

• The testing was a success, the subject died
  August 18, 2026 by Fredrik#speedbumps

  Four runs, one per level, on the Steam Deck and both meta-screens switched off so the numbers stay clean. I was ready for the first real playtest session on the new dormant-tile build, on top of a fre... Continue reading
• It's not spring, but the buds are opening
  August 15, 2026 by Fredrik#buds, #wilt, #matching

  Somewhere in the middle of all the order-testing, a genuinely uncomfortable idea showed up: what if a wilt you could actually undo deserved a second chance? For anyone keeping score, that's the exact... Continue reading
• Orders, but for real this time
  August 13, 2026 by Fredrik#rungs, #order book

  For while now I've been working on converting the order book from a flat list of single flower types into something with more texture: proper orders, where each order can ask for more than one flower... Continue reading
• The re-skin
  August 11, 2026 by Fredrik#naming, #profile

  Time to address the lab coats. Everything up to this point has happened under a microbiology theme you were lab staff, the board was a sample slide, the tiles were microbes, and the whole goal was seq... Continue reading

  
• The mouse was lying to me
  August 11, 2026 by Fredrik#playtest, #scramble, #non-matching, #logs, #analysis

  I flagged it myself at the time, which I'm choosing to feel slightly smug about: that 70% knee from last post was measured on mouse input, with an explicit note attached that it needed re-verifying on... Continue reading
• New name, new look: welcome to the flower shop
  August 10, 2026 by Fredrik#Logotype, #Banner, #Profile

  Slidematch has become Stem Shift. Out: the lab For a while the pretense here was that you're a lab worker sequencing a pathogen and the board was a microscope slide, you were clearing "strains." It wo... Continue reading

  
• Curing the Thing That Wouldn't Stay Cured
  August 05, 2026 by Fredrik

  Last time, I had a board. A good board! Slide rows and columns, clear connected groups of three or more, gravity resolves the mess, cascades chain into each other in ways you can actually plan for. No... Continue reading
• A Match-3. But without the swapping.
  July 27, 2026 by Fredrik

  The beginnings Every match-three pitch sounds the same for the first four words: "so it's like Candy Crush, but—" Mine's no different. So it's like Candy Crush, but you don't swap tiles. You slide e... Continue reading