ΧΡΟΝΙΚΟΝ · The Chronicle

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Letters from the workshop on the making of 1204: Shards of Rhomania. Posted whenever an entry feels worth the ink.

ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ · From the Workshop · 14 June 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
A Board Game on the Same Theme
From the Workshop, No. 3 — a sister project taking the same year, the same wound, and the same successor powers to the tabletop. 1–4 players. Virtual playtest now.
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ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ · From the Workshop · 12 June 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
The Asian Captains
From the Workshop, No. 2 — a downloadable dossier of the recruitable military lords of Asia Minor, and why each captain is a lever rather than a stat block.
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ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ · From the Workshop · 10 June 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
On Taking Limited Liberties with History
From the Workshop, No. 1 — the unwritten contract of a historical game, and the three liberties this one will never take.
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ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ · Devlog · 5 June 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
An entire week on ember particles
How the opening cinematic ate seven days, and why I do not regret a single one.
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ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ · From the Workshop · 2 June 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
Anna Komnene, and the Door She Held Open
On the porphyrogennete princess who wrote her father's life in fifteen books of Homeric Greek — and why her Alexiad still matters, to me and to the world.
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ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ · Devlog · 2 June 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
The Bridge at Lopadion
A Komnenian kastron on the Rhyndakos, fifteen stone arches, and the question of what happens to it after 1205.
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ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ · Devlog · 1 June 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
Take the Field
The dock-ambush battle is now a standalone three-minute slice you can try without leaving the diary.
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ΛΟΓΟΣ · Design · 30 May 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
What Singleton Knew
Three design ideas stolen wholesale from Lords of Midnight, and one I am still trying to escape.
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ΤΕΧΝΗ · Craft · 22 May 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
Building the Chronicle UI
Why every screen in 1204 pretends to be a page from an illuminated manuscript — and how we keep it readable.
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ΟΨΙΣ · Vision · 12 May 2026 AD · Year 7534 of the Roman World
Why 1204?
On choosing the most catastrophic year in Roman history as the setting for a strategy game.
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