One Hand Clapping Consortium

Happy New Years

No big, long posts. This is just us folk at One Hand Clapping wishing all of you a safe and happy New Years' Eve. Talk to you all soon.

And a bit of an atypical image because, as SteveArt pu...

2025.12.25 - Good Tidings to All

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." – Brad Paisley<...

2025.11.26 - Update

Hey everyone,

First of all, I wanted to wish everyone a nice kick-off to the holiday season. This time is always hectic with travel, family and, of course, bills. 

I wanted to offe...

Princess on the Run background - The Murmur

“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”  ~ Albert Camus, The Plague

The Murmur is a disea...

2025.10.22 - Once Upon a Time…

As the game moves closer to its first release, I thought it was time to tell you a little bit about the story setting.

Let me tell you more of the world of Aerth.

Our story opens in the...

2025.10.13 - Step by Step

Hi, everyone. It’s been a bit of a slog this week. Each one of us had rather serious Real Life stuff going on, and it kinda slowed down our workflow and thus our output. A bit of a positive note,...

...And a Sixpence in Her Shoe - 2025.09.19

We have decided to break Willowdale into three separate updates, concluding with the departure from Willowdale. This is due to the sheer size of the game we have been working on. This will shorten ...

2025.09.12 - Something Blue

"There is a place you can touch a woman 

that will drive her crazy… her heart"  ~ John Mattson, Milk Money (1994)

So, to begin with, thanks for ...

New Post Coming..

It's been a busier than usual few weeks at One Hand Clapping, and the sorta-semi-weekly post had fallen by the wayside. My apologies.

There will be a new post in a few days, outlining where w...

2025.08.07 - Something Borrowed

Politics doesn’t really belong in games, in my opinion. While I realize that parts of who I am are always going to end up in my writing, political writing is as its essence persuasive writing. Wh...

Something New..

Sorry for the late post; it’s been a pretty long few weeks, dealing with some annoying Real World stuff in addition to the day job and trying to find more than 20 minutes a day to work on scripti...

Something Old

One of the best parts of reImagining this game is recreating the assets. As most of you who have been with us since the beginning, the original character assets (except for Aelrue, which was Astrid...

2025.06.19 - Milestones and the Unusual Methods

This last week, we passed a bit of a milestone. There was a particularly difficult animation that we have been trying to get to look a certain way, and we kept hitting the wall in finding an adequa...

Updating..2025.06.01

Hello, everybody. We just finished the development meeting, and even with Life being the messy intruder that it is, we are ever closer to an initial update release. I wish I could give you a date, ...

2025.05.18: Gang Aft A-gley 

“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse, 1785

Hey, everyone. I apologize for a bit of a late post this time. As always, pro...

May the Fourth Be With You

One of our artists took a short break from their render schedule to create this render for the Star Wars’ unofficial holiday, ‘May the Fourth Be With You.’ It features one of those ch...