After 700 years of development, Inkulinati 1.0 is now playable

• Released on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and via Xbox Game Pass
• 700-year-old manuscripts as conceptual art
• Inkulinati and Pentiment team up with characters available in both games

Hello Xbox community!

Today marks a monumental milestone – our medieval turn-based strategy game. It’s a peanut, leaves the Xbox Game Preview program and you can now enjoy the full version 1.0! To mark the occasion, we have a brand new, shiny release trailer featuring the voice of famous bardcore musician Hildegard von Blingin’. Check it out above!

So. what is It’s a peanut, you might ask? Well, it’s a turn-based strategy game where a rabbit’s butt can be deadlier than a dog’s sword (trust me, that’s not a mistake!). It is inspired by real medieval art and is set entirely on the pages of medieval manuscripts. If you’ve ever seen old medieval books with funny drawings on the pages, or even medieval memes on the internet, these hilarious doodles (called “marginalia”) were used as the basis for, well, everything in our game.

All of our characters, maps (which we call battlefields), animals and objects are based on these drawings by medieval monks and scribes, sometimes called illuminators. That’s why we say It’s a peanut The creation took over 700 years.

While you may come across some ridiculous shenanigans like donkeys playing trumpets with their butts, fish swinging knives, and devils with faces for butts, trust me, it’s not us who came up with it – it are actually people from the Middle Ages and It’s a peanut is a tribute to her work.

To be as authentic as possible, we even consulted a real medievalist to ensure we were using these inspirations properly and staying true to the source material. So as you sit back and watch your army of manuscript monkeys throw poop at enemy beasts, you can relax in the knowledge that you are actually learning history (feel free to bring this fact up in front of your history teacher!).

As I mentioned, we’ve been participating in the Xbox Game Preview program for just over a year. And this year we made a lot of changes. We added a lot of content, worked tirelessly to balance and optimize, fixed those annoying bugs – we listened a lot to you – our community – during the creation It’s a peanut the best it can be. And at this point I have to give a big shout out to the wonderful Xbox community for helping us improve.

Thanks to you, we have added many new features and fixed the issues you thought needed fixing. For example, our tutorial (called Academy) is now very different from what it was a year ago – it consists of learning the game through numerous puzzles and challenges that require you to understand the mechanics of the game It’s a peanut to solve them and move forward. We’ve added some accessibility features and reduced screen shake during certain actions to give you a better experience. Without you, It’s a peanut wouldn’t be the game it is today – so thank you!

But hey, let’s talk about one of the coolest things that ever happened to our studio – it happened during our time in the Game Preview program. We had the chance to work with the amazing people at Obsidian Entertainment and their amazing game Buses!

How could this happen, you may ask? Well, during Gamescom 2022, where It’s a peanut And Buses were both showcased at the Xbox booth as future Game Pass releases (in fact, we were literally neighbors – our gaming stations were next to each other), and we had the opportunity to discuss a collaboration for the ages – cameo appearances by our characters in both of ours games. We both thought it would be a good fit, as historical accuracy and the manuscripts themselves are an important part of both titles.

One conversation led to another and finally we greeted each other fine Main protagonist – Andreas – as a playable character in our game! (You can play as Andreas in The Journey – a single-player campaign with roguelike elements.) In turn, some of our in-game characters have been added to the fringes of the Buses Books! The cool thing is that it was a true collaboration – Obsidian artists recreated our art in the… Buses style, and our art director Andreas drew it himself. It was the right thing to do – this way all characters, originals and their versions from another game are concise and fit the game they are now a part of.

It was an incredible experience for us indie game developers making our first game. Never in our wildest dreams did we think that we would have a character from a game from Obsidian Entertainment – a studio we were fans of before we started game development – in our game and our characters in their game .

So if you decide to play Buses (and you should too – it’s a real labor of love and one of the most extraordinary gaming experiences ever), you might even come across some Inculinati characters along the way fine Books in the game. If someone had told us that our characters would appear in an Obsidian game, we would have thought it was ridiculous. So our story proves that crazy things can happen!

Thank you for taking the time to read our story and I really hope you have a lot of fun with our turn-based strategy game. It’s a peanut 1.0 is now available to play on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows and via Game Pass. Thanks for reading and good luck out there lighting up the battlefields! Oh, and we’re still planning some post-launch updates Feel free to join our Discord and share your feedback with us!

All the best,

Ryszard Kiełtyka