The War of the Cranes and the Dwarves
Ancient Finnic people would watch migrating birds flying south for the winter, and imagine - quite correctly! - that they must be headed somewhere warm. Thei...
Recent Posts
Roadmap Update: September 2024
With Early Access just around the corner, it’s time to update our roadmap!
The Dead Walk
When there was such a person who could talk the old folk in the graveyard into moving, he used to be called a wizard.
A Bridge over Troubled Water
Hello campers!
Level Up Your Goblins
Level up your goblins!
Roadmap Update: June 2024
Now that the Goblin Camp demo is out in Next Fest, it’s time to update our roadmap!
v0.38.0 demo released
An update to the Goblin Camp demo has been released today on Steam.
The Sacrificial Tree
Thou hast from the tree descended, Glided from the aspen branches, Slippery the trunks in autumn, In the fog-days, smooth the branches. Golden friend of fen ...
Try our demo!
We’re very happy to announce that the Goblin Camp demo is now available, and will be featured in Steam’s Endless Replayability Fest! You can download the dem...
Ruins in the Forest-cover
A game of Goblin Camp starts when a group of goblins find a portal from the underworld to the middle world, and decide to go see what’s on the other side. Th...
Gone Fishing!
One of your most important tasks in Goblin Camp is to feed the population of your camp. If goblins don’t get enough to eat, they’ll start getting weaker, and...
The Technology Tree
Ever since Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991), we’ve all loved the idea of a tech tree. So it was pretty clear to us that Goblin Camp would have one. In this bl...
Goblins and Ghost Stories
We are delighted to announce that Korppi Games has secured permission to use materials from the Finnish Literature Society’s collection of folk tales in Gobl...
Devlog #3: Goblin brains
Goblins, and for that matter all creatures, need code to tell them how to act. In Goblin Camp our goblins must be able to fend for themselves. They need to f...
The Trouble with the Kalevala
Shall I bring these songs together From the cold and frost collect them? Shall I bring this nest of boxes, Keepers of these golden legends, To the table in m...
Our Development Roadmap
Korppi Games is very proud to present our first road map for Goblin Camp!
Gameplay Trailer and Music News
Our first gameplay trailer is here! View it below or on Youtube.
A World of Spirits: Finnic Shamanism
Earlier on the blog, I talked about Finnic paganism, that is, the culture of the people whose descendants would later become the Finns. Researchers believe t...
Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays to all of you, from all of us at Korppi Games. See you next year!
Jobs, and How Your Goblins Do Them
Jobs are a very important part of Goblin Camp; after all, they’re how everything in and around the camp gets done! That’s why managing your jobs is a key ski...
Hungry Like the Wolf
Life in the northern forests can be dangerous. One of the first creatures that goblins are likely to encounter as a dangerous enemy is the wolf.
Stock Manager and Storage
Today I want to introduce one of the key interface elements in Goblin Camp: the stock manager.
Devlog #2: Linear Congruential Generators
There are effects that we want to apply to the whole map in Goblin Camp, such as changing seasons tile by tile or having snow gradually melt. When a season c...
Goblins and the Underworld
So what do goblins have to do with Finnic mythology anyway?
Wooden Armor
Did the ancient Finnic people use wooden armor?
The Forest
Goblin Camp is set in a forest, and that’s no coincidence. Where Tolkien’s goblins were only really comfortable underground, and the goblins of the Warhammer...
Farming and Fertility
We talked about farming in last month’s Devlog, and I thought I’d return to the subject from a design perspective. So I’m going to talk briefly about how far...
What is Finnic paganism?
One of the key inspirations for Goblin Camp is Finnish or Finnic paganism. This is the ancient, pre-Christian culture of the people who would later become th...
Devlog #1: Slashing and Burning
Hello, this is the first Goblin Camp devlog. We’ll post these devlogs every now and then to highlight some of the work we’ve been doing lately.
Haven’t I seen you guys before?
You may well have! The original Goblin Camp appeared online in 2010 as a solo project by Ilkka Halila, now our CEO and CTO. Full disclosure: he is my younger...