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Now that we have finished building all the defenses, we can turn our full focus to working on our prototypes and finalizing our design. We built a wooden mockup of…

Today we decided to step back and re-evaluate our kickoff design and strategy, resulting in a scrap of our previous design.  For the rest of the day we completed various…

We built a rung for hanging and attached it to our shelves. It works really well, and some people even tried doing pullups on it. Instead of building a tower…

We upgraded some defenses and got our sheet metal shipment in today. We decided to order some casters to put underneath our defenses, mainly the drawbridge and the portcullis, because…

We started off our meeting with a quick cleanup so we can be more productive. We also fixed our cheval de frise so that each plank can seesaw without locking…

We made some more progress our outerworks today. Our current drawbridge and cheval de frise need a little adjustment to work perfectly, but for now they're okay. We were able…

Today we continued to test our prototypes and build defenses. We're focusing on defense building right now so that we can test our future prototypes more completely and also have…

We're focusing a bit more on field building rather than prototyping at the moment. We made a castle tower so we can properly test our shooter prototype, and we built…

Stronghold is finally here, in all of its complexity. Despite this complexity, we plan to learn from our mistakes last year and take the design process much more slowly, being…