- Night Spasm: Chapters 1 & 2 Are Out Now!! - 15 August 2026
IT HAS BEGUN...Night Spasm: Chapters 1 & 2 are now available!After years and years of development, it's time to show Night Spasm out into the world. We're living the indie dream now, boys and girls!"So what does that mean for me?"It means, lucky player, for only $19.99, you can now play the first two chapters of the Night Spasm saga! That's right! PLAY it! Like one of those video game things you've probably heard about!In case this is your first time hearing about the game, Night Spasm is your go-to experience for memorable adventures, moments of self-reflection, and hilarious jokes that will ALWAYS be funny no matter how many times you hear them! Always!!Chapters 1 & 2 (which, by the way, you CAN wishlist and play right now) are only the beginning of a much grander story. You can expect a fully polished and ready-to-play adventure ahead of you, however. That part is kind of important.I…
- Night Spasm: Chapters 1 & 2 Release August 15th, 2026! - 17 July 2026
AFTER 7 YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT, 6 YEARS AFTER ITS FIRST PUBLIC DEBUT, IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING...Night Spasm: Chapters 1 & 2 release August 15th, 2026!Cue the party poppers!🎂...Shoot. They brought carrot cake instead. Oh well..."Night Spasm"? What does that even mean?Why, I'm glad you asked! It's only the BEST, MEMORABLE, MOST THRILLING indie RPG you'll ever play! 100% satisfactory guaranteed!...Or, maybe it's just another game in the end... But no matter! Games are FUN, right? Everybody LOVES fun! And what better way to spend your time than experiencing a whole new world right before your eyes?! Incredible, right!? Take THAT, crossword puzzles!For only $19.99, you, too, can experience a once-in-a-lifetime game featuring:Twists and turns around every corner...Action-packed adventure with every step you take... Craftable salads."$19.99? For a 30-hour game with more content to come? I don't…
- The Night Spasm BATTLE DEMO is Out Now! - 16 February 2026
ATTENTION ALL ACTION-CRAVING GAMERS:The new Chapter 1 Battle Demo just released, and you're all invited!Seriously, give it a try. There will be chips.In January, I announced that Night Spasm's demo would change soon, and thanks to me not having any Valentine's Day plans (as probably expected by most), I was able to get it done✨lickety-split✨. Now YOU get to play it!(Hopefully you don't run into as many bugs as I did... scorp-ions included...)Previously, a rough but semi-accurate version of Chapter 1 was available, mostly serving as an easy way for beta testers and curious players to get a taste of what's coming... even if a few people may've misunderstood that they were playing a demo, given I didn't upload the game as a Steam demo (you live and learn, I guess).With the battle demo replacing what was already public, you can now play a "fresher" version of the unoptional portion of Chapt…
- January 2026 Development Update - 7 January 2026
Good Evening Everyone Who Survived 2025:2020 Part 5 is over, but I'm sure the fireworks in the sky told you that already. Like the cover art of this post? I stole it from Google Images. 0:Contrary to popular belief, I'm not dead. On the floor twitching, but still alive.Whilst stewing in midnight shower thoughts and emotions, I've been working hard to FINALLY get the true release of Night Spasm (Chapter 2) out the door. I can safely and happily say that Chapter 2 will be available for purchase within the first-half of 2026. I don't want to share the exact release date quite yet (just in case I jump the gun too soon), but I'll soon be sharing the current one I have in mind in an upcoming animated release trailer, the animated sections of it brought to you by Samuel F, who helped bring the trailer to life.Some snapshots of the trailer development process (and proof of commission since Samu…
- My Time at S.L.I.C.E in Seattle, WA (and how it inspired me) - 29 August 2025
Seattle: "The Hollywood of Game Development"On August 27th, 2025, I had the honor of attending Seattle's 15th annual S.L.I.C.E. event ("Seattle Loves Indie Creators Expo), an all-day indie game event where humble indie devs get to share their games, connect with other devs, and hear the dos and don'ts from the industry masters themselves.Feeling like I lived through 20 lifetimes of game development in only a day, I learned what it means to be a true indie developer. Spoiler alert: There is no "one way", but there sure are a lot to choose from..."So how was it?"Mostly attending the panels about community building, budgeting, and marketing (every dev's kryponite), I got the chance to hear from and talk to a lot of industry professionals, including:Eric Borane (creator of Stardew Valley)Hanna Fogelberg (PEAK and Content Warning)Gavin Eisenbeisz (Choo-Choo Charles)Jon Hansen (CEO of Skill T…
- Happy Easter, everybunny-... I mean, "everybody"! - 20 April 2025
Happy Easter, Island Dwellers! Whether you're celebrating the resurrection of Christ, sharing a meal with your family, or taking advantage of the discounted chocolate eggs, we hope you have a wonderful Easter! Chances are, if you're reading this post on this special day, you may not have anything better to do. And you know what? That's ok sometimes. We've all had days when we feel out of place while everyone is off enjoying the obligations of a holiday (for me, that day is Valentine's Day). Thankfully, the world has many ways to help pass the time. If playing Night Spasm is your way of passing the time, we're not only grateful you chose us out of all the games in your massive Steam library, but we hope we can continue doing what we do best for players like you. Maybe others will find the same enjoyment in our silly little project one day. We hope you all have a fantastic Easter, and may…
- Bad News, Guys... - 1 April 2025
Hey guys, MasterMoes here. As you may've heard, Vander, former leader of MOG's colony since Year 11 of The Island, has been removed from his position due to his recent controversies. After a thorough investigation, Vander was found guilty of the following: Thievery, murder, human trafficking, kidnapping, arson, racism, sexism, homophobia, jaywalking, prostitution, defacing of historical artifacts, public urination, laughing at bad jokes, pirating episodes from Season 2 of Rick and Morty, leaking information about Hollow Knight: Silksong, stealing government information from the FBI, and opening a portal to the Shadow Realm. We're very sorry to inform you that Vander will no longer be involved in the Night Spasm storyline, his termination taking place the moment this message is sent. We hope you guys can continue to enjoy Night Spasm without him, and we promise to avoid casting character…
- Night Spasm: Now With Remastered Writing and Voice Blips! - 17 February 2025
Hello again, Island Dwellers! While developing Chapter 2, after officially deciding the writing style and formatting we want to go with for Night Spasm, we decided it would be best to rewrite ALL of Chapter 1's dialog in our fresh, new style! While the topical points and emotions behind each rewrite remain the same, all dialog should be much easier to read, no longer plagued by a young teenager's incapable writing style (15-year-old me really didn't know what he was doing...) Furthermore, all important characters now have a special voice blip to go along with their text, smaller characters using the default blip sound. Can you guess where each voice blip was sampled from? With these two additions to the game, we feel we've finally established Night Spasm's true identity, both chapters now harmonizing with each other much more than they did a year or so ago. We've been keeping a close ey…
- New Discord Server Overhaul! - 4 October 2024
A NEW COMMUNITY DISCORD SERVER BETTER THAN EVER! Join the new Night Spasm Discord server here. Discuss theories, post art, share memes, participate in community events, and chat with other players in the newly released Night Spasm Discord server! Gain level-up roles by chatting with other members, posting art, upvoting posts, and competing for the #1 slot on the Hypeboard! Participate in fun events and server competitions to win community and in-game rewards! Contribute to the game's development through content submissions after reaching LVL 10! The Discord server is the #1 place to engage with the Night Spasm fanbase, and we have a few special events planned this October. We hope to see you there, player! -The Night Spasm Team Please consider following the Night Spasm Steam Community page and our social media. Your feedback and support are greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading! Ni…
- Night Spasm version 1.0.10.0 | The Better Together Update - 12 June 2024
Night Spasm version 1.0.10.0 | The Better Together Update It's hard to lead a colony all on your own, right? Well, fear loneliness no longer! You can now play Night Spasm locally with a friend! With Multiplayer Mode (accessible via the Title Screen, FAD menu, or the newly revamped tutorial), you and a friend can participate in battles together! Player 1 controls the leader, while Player 2 controls the other party members. And they said couch co-op was dead! Currently, two gamepads are required to play Multiplayer Mode. We plan on implementing other control options in the future, such as sharing a keyboard or using the keyboard + a gamepad. We also plan on adding many new multiplayer-centered game modes in the near future, so stay tuned! Another feature worth mentioning is the new Quick Menu, a way of easily accessing teleportions, map items, healing items, and more while exploring the o…
- Night Spasm: Chapter 1's Soundtrack is Now Available to Download on Steam! - 13 April 2024
Download Chapter 1's Soundtrack for free on Steam! Listen to the Night Spasm: Chapter 1 soundtrack anywhere and any time, now available on Steam as MP3s! Composed by MasterMoes, CrimsonSkyfall, Xstep, and a few guest artists, listen to all 200 songs from Chapter 1's soundtrack, now enhanced with better audio mixing as of the most recent update! And in case you missed it, the soundtrack is also available on the Night Spasm YouTube channel. Every song, as part of the Night Spasm soundtrack, is available to use in YouTube videos, shorts, Twitch streams, and other forms of content creation as well under the Creative Commons License (for more information about using Night Spasm music for content creation purposes, check out the Night Spasm YouTube channel). Now might be a good time to remind aspiring music composers that we are open to accepting contributions to Chapter 2's soundtrack, which…
- Night Spasm version 1.0.9.0 | The Navigation Update - 13 September 2023
Ver. 1.0.9.0 | The Navigation Update This is by far the biggest update to Night Spasm since its initial beta release, and we're proud to say most of the new features and fixes were collectively requested by the community, including many game critiques who published reviews of Night Spasm on our store page or on their own website! The Navigation Update, as the name implies, makes traversing Region A1 much easier by adding a brand-new world map, which you can collect lying on the ground of your base. When opened, the world map shows your exact location and lists key areas of particular interest. The area seen by your map depends on your current location, meaning the data of your map expands as you travel beyond the starting point of Region A1. There are also plenty of new pathways and signs to give you an idea of where to go next! As you can see in the patch notes below, this update featu…
- Night Spasm: Chapter 1 OST now available on YouTube and YouTube shorts! - 18 August 2023
Listen to the Night Spasm soundtrack on YouTube! Chapter 1 OST on YouTube Listen to the Night Spasm: Chapter 1 soundtrack anywhere and any time, now available on YouTube! Every song, as part of the Night Spasm soundtrack, is royalty-free and available to use for YouTube videos, shorts, Twitch streams, and other forms of content creation, meaning you won't lose any monetization by using Night Spasm music in your videos! If you would like to include Night Spasm in your YouTube videos, you can download the soundtrack through this Google Drive link: Chapter 1 Soundtrack download (For more information about using Night Spasm music for content creation purposes, see the description of any of the soundtrack music videos). We also plan on publishing the Night Spasm soundtrack for use in Instagram Reels, Facebook videos, and TikTok! Furthermore, we hope to make the soundtrack available on platfo…
- WE HAVE A WEBSITE NOW! (nightspasm.com) - 16 August 2023
Visit the all-new Night Spasm website! nightspasm.com That's right, Night Spasm has its own website! Visit the site to earn prizes, see blog posts, follow the Night Spasm newsletter, and view a MASSIVE preview of Chapter 2! There may even be a few secret URLs to find! (; Please consider following the Night Spasm Steam Community page and our other forms of social media. Your feedback and support are greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading! Night Spasm website Join the Night Spasm Discord server! Twitter Instagram Night Spasm YouTube channel Night Spasm Soundcloud Twitch channel
- The Benefits of Being an Entertainer (A Night Spasm presentation). - 24 June 2023
Hello Spasmers, Gideon here. A few weeks ago I mentioned I had the honor of presenting Night Spasm at my college, Central Washington University. I presented the practical applications of being a video game creator and explained how I used psychology studies to enhance the player's storyline experience of my game. After giving my 10-minute presentation to all of the judges, I was told over 862 business, computer science, IT, and psychology majors used my presentation data and advice as sources for their own projects and as materials for assignments! Furthermore, I've been given the honor of explaining the leadership and marketing aspects of Night Spasm's development in a class this coming Fall. I'm very honored and excited to share more of my journey in game development, and I am eternally grateful for all of the online and local support I've received over the past few months! In honor o…
- Night Spasm Ver. 1.0.8.1 release! - 17 May 2023
Ver. 1.0.8.1 Chapter 2's development required a few game engine changes here and there, and now these changes are coming to Chapter 1! This update brings a few neat additions to the battle system, including a new negotiation mechanic. Why hurt your enemies when they can become your friend? Sure, you won't get any EXP, but perhaps the adventure is the friends we made along the way (not). Anyway, here are the patch notes: -Skills and items available in battle are now organized by their icon, allowing for much easier skill and item navigation in combat. -All inflictions with durations now consistently disappear after the victim of the infliction has performed their skill. Being unable to perform a skill ticks the removal timer down by 1 after every skill of a turn has been performed. -Escaping a battle is now considered “negotiating”, allowing players to ask for or give mercy to troops of…
- NIGHT SPASM 3 YEAR PRE-RELEASE ANIVERSERY Dev Log (#3) | Some news and such... - 16 May 2023
Hello Spasmers, Gideon here. Can you believe Night Spasm was announced 3 years ago today?!?! May 15th, 2020 marked the day the Night Spasm store page was set up, about a year after the project was started in my potato of a computer. Since Night Spasm's release as a demo via Chapter 1, Chapter 1 has gone from a playable (yet underdeveloped) project demonstration to the fully-fledged starting chapter we have today. Now the base game of all future chapters, Night Spasm has become a project I'm proud to share. Heck, I was so scared of people thinking my project was weird that I didn't even tell my family about the project until 6 weeks before I announced the project to the public! Now I've had the honor of showing Night Spasm to the world and meeting hundreds of wonderful people throughout my career. ❤ It's been a while since I've posted something, so I figured now's the perfect time to giv…
- Night Spasm: Chapter 2 soundtrack preview now live! - 14 December 2022
Head on over to our Soundcloud page to hear 24 featured music tracks coming to Chapter 2! We've been excited ALL YEAR to show you guys what's coming to Chapter 2! Let's kick it off light yet fun with a few music previews, available on our Soundcloud page! Find them here! I think it's safe to say... music is our favorite part of developing Night Spasm! I've been blessed with such a wonderful crew willing to put their time into making music for Night Spasm! Whether they've hand-made us a song specifically for the game or they've proudly let us use their music for anything we want, each composer (all solo freelancers by the way) established the tone we want Night Spasm to give off. If it weren't for their creative musical masterpieces, the rest of us here at FanFaction probably would've lost our ways trying to figure out the feel of Night Spasm's world. The soundtrack is our guidance for s…
- Night Spasm Ver. 1.0.8.0 release | Quality-of-Life Update (+ more news!) - 14 December 2022
Ver. 1.0.8.0 | The Quality-of-Life Update Do you hear that? It's the voice of the Community, our favorite sound! A sound FAR better than the winter jingle bells for sure! Today we've come to bring you an early present! Night Spasm version 1.0.8.0 is out now! The Quality-of-Life Update features numerous... well, features, but with a touch of fan feedback following along. We'd send you some eggnog as well, but UPS doesn't like delivering perishable foods. Because Chapter 1 serves as a BETA/demo of the full game yet to come, we're surprised how many people treat this like a full game. Sure, it's a fully functioning game as it is, but this is just the beginning! Chapter 1 started as an early-access beta to raise funding; It soon turned into a free demo not too long ago. Since then, we've taken every little opinion from the growing community to further improve Night Spasm's future. We're ver…
- Night Spasm Ver. 1.0.7.9 release! - 4 July 2022
Ver. 1.0.7.9 Now you might be thinking, "how could Night Spasm get any better???" You may also be thinking, "Hmm, I still need to take a lunch break..." Wherever your brain-train might be, another update is here! With the sudden uprise of fan-made Night Spasm content going around, we've collected a few requests and bug reports that deserve to be implemented. We're ALWAYS looking to suit the needs of new players, veteran players, and our fellow Streamers/YouTubers. This update does just that! Behold, the patch notes: -Added the “Compressed Mode” for new players! Compressed Mode can be enabled when starting a new game, which shortens the dialog for those who don’t care for the smaller details and for content creators ready to get into the game. Speedrunners might enjoy this feature too! -Added enemy randomization! After completing Region A1, all enemy troops will now contain random enemie…
