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FEASTWARD

Hi everyone! Happy Lunar New Year to all those celebrating the Year of the Ox! Now the development team is back from the holidays, let’s kickstart the first Eastward dev blog of 2021 by sharing some tasty info about one of my personal favourite gameplay mechanics in Eastward – cooking! You’ve probably already spotted that our silent protagonist John often wields his trusty frying pan to fend off all sorts of monsters, but did you know he can also whip up a mean bowl of Fruit Salad? (Yummy, yummy.) The world of Eastward is full of fantastical ingredients, conveniently-placed gas hobs, big […]

Eastward Winter Development Update!

New screenshots galore! Hi everyone! I hope you’re all staying nice and cosy as we edge into December, or chilling out in the sunshine for those of you in the Southern hemisphere. It’s been a hot minute since we last updated you about the progress of Eastward and it’s no secret that this year has been a tough one for everyone, including the developers at Pixpil. The team in Shanghai lost access to their server for quite some time at the beginning of the year, with the power cut to their office and no way to enter the building at […]

Eastward is coming to Nintendo Switch!

Hey folks! As you may have seen from Nintendo’s Indie World livestream, Eastward will be coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop in 2020! The Nintendo Switch felt like such a natural fit for Eastward and we couldn’t be more proud to showcase Pixpil’s beautiful game on there. If you’ve just heard about the game, Eastward is a single-player adventure game, set in a beautifully detailed decaying world, where society is starting to collapse as the human population shrinks to an all-time low. As the world around falls to ruin, you play as a hardworking digger John, who must guide a […]