Happy weekend! We're sharing our favorite modifier recipes. This one's great for fans of Legends & Lattes, Gilmore Girls, Practical Magic, setting up a Google alert for "Practical Magic sequel," Fields of Mistria, Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, Studio Ghibli films, and rewatching F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Have you had a chance to listen to @hilarymason.com on the Aboard podcast yet? Here are the highlights:
*Joyscrolling is IN this year
*Vibe coding is easy, good (pro-social) game design is hard
*"Classic" machine learning never goes out of style
Watch now on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef8j...
Screenshot of text from a review comment on a GitHub pull request, saying: "In the (delightful) pottymouth achievement, I'd add poops and pooped as conjugations to bring poop in line with the others, e.g. fart." The scatological words are formatted in monotype font as one would for code, lending an incongruously serious technical tone that is nevertheless accurate.
A real code review comment I got to type with my own two hands.
If you'd like to hear @ftrain.bsky.social roleplay as Marion, a hunter struggling with internal demons, working to make friends at a fantasy tavern in Brooklyn...now's your chance. Thanks for having @hilarymason.com on the podcast, Aboard team!
That's the Update Report for today! Happy birthday to William Wordsworth, Billie Holiday, and Git, your favorite distributed version control software system! (3/3)
FIXES:
*Highlights render correctly when saved! No more plain rectangles.
*Fixed a entity card crashes! If a card tries to render without an entity, it will NOT cause a runtime error. 💐
*Fixed duplicate player account bugs so your progress and data stay consistent!
*The game loads faster!
(2/3)
It's the Update Report for April 7, 2026!
FEATURES:
*Your profile page now shows gold/silver/bronze icons for achievements!😎
*Our highlights maker is snappy to open, loads WAY faster (especially on mobile!) and supports smooth drag transforms.
*[REDACTED: ATLAS PROJECT TICKETS 6871 AND 6894]
March Madness never has to end at hiddendoor.co 👀🏀⏱️🏆🗓️
BUSINESS TIP: If you want to #grind and #hustle this weekend, we highly recommend playing our startup parody world BURN RATE. Learn businessy business terms, practice your pitches, drink your weight in kombucha, profit. The end.
Happy April 1st! Here at Hidden Door, we are celebrating April Fools' Day with FREE (and mandatory) party hats! Create a new character? Party hat! Play as a canon character? PARTY HAT. Discover a new location? Uh. Well. Okay. I guess the castle can have a party hat. That was...intentional. Yes.
On this Trans Day of Visibility, I would just like to say that trans rights are human rights and that celebrating the trans community as a part of all communities enriches every one of us.
look, sometimes "test the new player experience" means "one straight hour of cannibalism talk." that's just BUSINESS
(🧵 3/3) FIXES:
*Scenes with 3+ characters load much faster!
*Stale intents from the previous turn no longer flash in the selector during a new turn.
*Fixed the dice roll animation!
*Fixed locked canon entity cards (like earnable locations) which incorrectly showed "Waiting..." on the back!
(🧵 2/3) FEATURES, CONTINUED:
*New character creation modes! Choose to Inspire (describe what you want), Randomize, or go Fully Custom when creating a character.
*Worlds without any stories now show up in your world list, with a "Create your first story" prompt, instead of being hidden!
It's the Update Report for March 31, 2026! (🧵 1/3)
FEATURES:
*You can pitch your own story ideas after finishing an origin story! Hit the new "My Idea" button and type in your pitch.
*When making a world, creators can now [REDACTED: ███ ATLAS PROJECT ███ TICKET 6846]
...Hmm! Ignore that for now ;)
Hidden Door out of context. And also: Google Meet suggested responses out of context.
It's Bug + Update Report day! We have a LOT to share from this week. Check out our most recent glow-up, as of March 24, 2026:
Consider this your formal invitation to...THE COTTAGE.
Play the SPORTS modifier card to unlock these hockey-inspired outfits in any world (we fooled around in Pride & Prejudice to make these real gameplay examples). Reimagine, remix, and remember: have fun.
Another new modifier card?! We must have March madness, because we added ANOTHER new modifier. The SPORTS modifier card centers your stories around athletic competitions. To earn it, have a ball in any of our playable worlds (interact with or mention a ball or another spherical object). Play ball!
PS: Do you remember a previous iteration of the game that featured a Film Festival playable world? We've rebooted it as a modifier, to make it better than ever. Bring the glitz & glamour of Hollywood to any playable world!
Earn this modifier card by playing TWO stories in Pride & Prejudice, The Crow, The Land of Oz, Oz University, Sherlock Holmes, or Dracula—all worlds that have been adapted into feature films.
Our newest modifier card is a blockbuster event! Film Festival adds silver screen dramedy to your stories. Flirt with Mr. Darcy on a movie set like it's 2005. Host a film festival on a distant planet. Manage industry chaos with magical equipment. Maybe you even get to control the awards shows. ;)
...*Added new hair colors AND western outfits!
*Added new social moment stickers!
*Sped up turns slightly (after you type/select an intent, everything happens a tiny bit faster)!
*Enabled modifier preservation (if you create a world with modifiers, then navigate back, your modifiers stay)!
☘️☘️☘️
It's your lucky day! We made a bunch of improvements to the game. Here's the BUG AND UPDATE REPORT for MARCH 17th, 2026:
*You can now download your card images! Make a game scrapbook or junk-journal your deck!
*We improved trope transitions (when you become a vampire, you will REALLY NOTICE)!...
FOR FANS OF FRANKENSTEIN: Wizardry & Potioncraft +
Zombies + Cosmic Horror.
FOR FANS OF BUGONIA: Business Business Business + Alien Symbiote.
There! Something fun to do during the crowd shots and commercial breaks. Happy Academy Awards night, all. Have fun and eat your weight in popcorn!. 🎥🍿🏆🎬🎞️
FOR FANS OF SINNERS: Spaghetti Western + Vampires
FOR FANS OF KPOP DEMON HUNTERS: Celebrity Romance + Superpowers +
Saturday Morning Cartoons.
FOR FANS OF ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: Vengeance + Action Hero.
Your snacks are on-theme. Your Nicole Kidman AMC speech is memorized. Now, you just need Modifier Card combinations for Hidden Door, inspired by the Oscars. We've got it.
it's like the prophecy foretold...
bsky.app/profile/hidd...
(2/2) Once you've earned the modifier card, play in Saturn's Children and become an outlaw in the final frontier! Have a quick-draw contest with Dracula! Visit Oz and defeat the Wicked Witch of the Wild West! Play in your browser & remix any world now at hiddendoor.co! 🤠🌵🐴
Howdy! Are y'all ready to hit the dusty trail? With our newest modifier card, Spaghetti Western, you can add western tropes to any playable world. Earn it by horsin' around—that is, encountering or discussing horses in any of our playable worlds! (1/2)