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Dressmaker Dev Reveals Game Was Made For His Wife

A small, personal costume sim built for one person's illness-forced detour is now a Steam hit and the founding project of a new label at Free Lives, showing that a studio known for violent comedy found its next release in domestic craft.

Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.

Dressmaker Dev Reveals Game Was Made For His Wife

Dressmaker, a dress-crafting simulation released on September 22, is rated Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam and has recouped its development costs. Developers Jonathan Hau-Yoon and Sabrina Becker built the game around Becker, who gave up a career in costume design because of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. A prototype made in three weeks passed 100,000 downloads, leading Free Lives to start the Cozy Lives label.

The game lets players pick from cotton, linen, wool, silk, and velvet, adjust patterns, cut, sew on a machine, and decorate with buttons and ribbons. Fabric grain direction and bias cuts change the final garment. Players take requests from townspeople, deliver costumes, and build a shop's reputation. Petting cats is also included.

Hau-Yoon pitched the project to Free Lives, whose past releases include Broforce and GORN. The studio found the pitch hard to place. After the prototype's response, Free Lives launched Cozy Lives and moved the project forward. Dressmaker is available for PC via Steam.

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