Devlog

• 1,000 plays - Thank you
  October 19, 2026 by M Dawg#idle, #incremental, #text-based, #appalachia, #genealogy, #family, #history, #narrative, #simulation, #browser

  KINFOLKS went past 1,000 plays this week. Thank you to everybody who sat down and read one of these families through. To have so many people sit down and take time and have fun playing a game I built... Continue reading

  
• KINFOLKS is at 1.25. Here’s what changed.
  October 16, 2026 by M Dawg

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  #kinfolks, #idle, #incremental, #appalachian, #text-based, #story-rich, #historical, #family, #simulation, #geneology

  Pictures. The barn tile shows the barn, and it fills up as you nail junk to it. If it burns, it shows the ashes. What stands on it shows the home place with each building you’ve put up. Touch a buil... Continue reading

  
• 2nd Place in “Creativity!” - Thank You!
  October 14, 2026 by M Dawg

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  #idle, #incremental, #life-simulation, #creative, #original, #story-rich

  Kinfolks took 2nd in Creativity and 7th in Originality at the Super Free AI Game Jam #1, out of 98 entries. Thank you to Morei309 for hosting, and for the kind words on the page. Thanks also to loopho... Continue reading
• 1,000 views. Thank you all, very much.
  October 05, 2026 by M Dawg#kinfolks, #update, #idle, #incremental, #text-based, #narrative, #appalachian, #historical, #family, #ui

  KINFOLKS went up on September 29th with no promotion. Within a week it has passed a thousand views, and better than half of the people who looked pressed play. For a game that is nothing but reading,... Continue reading

  
• The first year was supposed to be four minutes. It was forty-five.
  October 02, 2026 by M Dawg#historical, #idle, #incremental, #interactive-fiction, #story-rich, #text-based, #life-simulation, #farming, #clicker, #management

  Nobody reported this one. I found it going back over the game with a measuring stick after the launch week, and it is the biggest thing in this update. The opening year. The first year of a new line i... Continue reading

  
• The book will tell you one person's story now
  September 30, 2026 by M Dawg#photography, #kinfolks, #bugfix, #incremental, #idle, #text-based, #narrative, #simulation, #appalachia, #dynasty, #family

  Most of this came from two people who played it and wrote down what was wrong. Lemoncakes55 and dionysus.scorpio, thank you. What was broke The money in the top corner was getting cut in half and hidd... Continue reading
• Your line will resume now
  September 30, 2026 by M Dawg

  There was a bug in how KINFOLKS saved, and it was a bad one. Fixed in 1.0, live now. If you opened the game and sat on the first card a few seconds before starting a line, the game wrote down a family... Continue reading
• Thank you. Here's what changed.
  September 30, 2026 by M Dawg#kinfolks, #update, #idle, #incremental, #text-based, #narrative, #appalachia, #folklore, #cryptid, #historical

  KINFOLKS went up yesterday with no promotion and no jam. It did more browser plays and views in its first day than anything else I've put on itch. Somebody put it in a collection before I'd told a sin... Continue reading

  
• KINFOLKS is up
  September 29, 2026 by M Dawg#idle, #text-based, #simulation

  An idle game about one Appalachian family, starting circa 1858 (give or take), running as long as the blood holds out. You don't play a person. You play the line. Whoever holds the place gets old and... Continue reading