Press Kit
The Studio
- Studio
- DeadlyDog Productions
- Founder
- Roan Fraese
- Founded
- 2025
- Team
- One person
- Games
- 3, all playable now
- Press contact
- deadlydogdev@gmail.com
DeadlyDog Productions is an indie game studio founded by Roan Fraese in 2025. It makes historical games about ordinary people caught up in large events, from a family driven out of Hamburg in 1683 to the nations of the Napoleonic age.
Two of its games tell the same story. Forester is a free pixel-art colony sim in the browser. Forester: Reckoning tells the same story in first person and in 3D, as a survival game, a city builder, a battle game and a grand strategy in one. Standards In Smoke is a free hex-map strategy game set in the age of muskets.
Forester: Reckoning
- Genre
- Story, survival, city builder, battles and grand strategy
- Platforms
- Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows
- Released
- 16 October 2026, in beta
- Price
- CA$14.99, with a free demo (Part One of the story)
- Updates
- Almost every day: every update so far
Hamburg, 1683. Your father is condemned for “malicious affairs” and his name struck from the rolls. You run through the marsh gate before the watch can take you too. Survive the woods, build a cabin into a town and the town into a city, stand in the line at Vienna, and rule a kingdom on the campaign map, all in first person, in 3D.
Trailers: Main trailer · Story trailer · Battle trailer (1080p MP4)
Music in the main and battle trailers: G. F. Handel, Sarabande (HWV 437), arranged by zero-project, under CC BY 3.0. The story trailer’s music is our own.
Forester
- Genre
- Pixel-art colony survival
- Platform
- Any web browser
- Released
- Version 0.9, updated 7 September 2026
- Price
- Free
Hamburg, 1683. Your father is executed, your name is taken with him, and you run into the woods. In a clearing you find a burned cabin, and everything after that is yours: recruit wanderers, research two tech trees, raise walls against raiders and carve an empire onto the map of Europe.
Trailer: Forester trailer (MP4)
Standards In Smoke
- Genre
- Turn-based hex strategy, Napoleonic era
- Platform
- Any web browser
- Released
- In beta, version 13.4 (updated 6 November 2026)
- Trailer
- Standards In Smoke trailer (1:12, 1080p)
- Price
- Free
Take one of twenty-one historical nations, put cities on the ground, research your way out of the crossbow, and hold a court full of noble houses that are running out of patience with you. Or begin in history: 1672 in the Dutch Disaster Year, 1683 at the Siege of Vienna, 1700 with Louis XIV and Charles XII, 1718 with the Quadruple Alliance, 1733 in the War of the Polish Succession, 1740 or 1756 with Frederick the Great, 1778 in the American war, 1788 with Catherine the Great on the eve of the Revolution, 1792 with the Revolution, 1805 with Napoleon and the Third Coalition, or 1812 on the road to Moscow.
Contact
For interviews, a review copy of Forester: Reckoning, or anything else, write to deadlydogdev@gmail.com or use the contact form.