I'm HotdogNoire! In the day I run a small software company making educational tools. By night I work on my passion project: Copper Trader.

I've always loved making games, since I was a sprout, but I've never been proficient at game dev or found a project that motivates me enough to want to work on it with every bit of my free time — until now.

Copper Trader is just not coming out any time soon, and it will never truly be "complete". Maybe in a few years there'll be an alpha, but it's a long-time passion project I want to evolve constantly — to be the ultimate third-person-immersive-life-sim thing.

One reason it'll take so long: I have zero proficiency, knowledge or talent making game music, creating textures, rigging & animating models, modelling in Blender… etc. Yet I plan to do all of it — every single thing — myself. Copper Trader is just as much a personal journey as it is a game.

The CSDK is another reason. With every new game system there's an update to the CSDK — it's designed to be a complete in-engine interface for creating, building and modifying everything within the glorious and mysterious Isle of Gūr. A lot of my inspiration comes from TES Morrowind's Construction Set; I used to screw around with that as a kid, and it just makes sense for me to build a CS-like framework to build Copper Trader.

A good example of this is how the world of Gūr is divided into cells!

I hope to release the CSDK alongside the game, so people can easily create mods for Copper Trader in the future.

Whenever it does release, it will be 100% free — so mark down 2055 on ye Iruian calendars!