🎮 StoryTime Productions - ./dev Blog

Welcome to the StoryTime Productions ./dev blog! 🚀 Behind the screen insights from our indie game development journey in Montreal, Quebec. We create immersive Unity games spanning horror, sci-fi, and arcade genres.

🏢 About StoryTime Productions

We're an indie game studio crafting immersive Unity experiences from Montreal. Students turned developers exploring horror, sci-fi & arcade genres. 🇨🇦

🎯 Current Projects

• Prochaine Station - A psychological horror inspired by Montreal's metro system
• Stweaks - A PaperMC plugin for our group's SMP server

🌐 Live Site

Production: https://storytime-productions.github.io/st-blog/

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Static Site Generator: Jekyll 3.10.0 (GitHub Pages compatible)
• Theme: Minimal Mistakes (Remote Theme)
• Styling: Custom SCSS with StoryTime Productions purple branding
• Deployment: GitHub Pages with automated CI/CD
• Content Management: Markdown with Jekyll front matter

🚀 Quick Start

Local Development

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

View locally at: http://localhost:4000/st-blog/

🔧 Suppress Sass Warnings (Optional)

$env:SASS_SILENCE_DEPRECATIONS="legacy-js-api,import,global-builtin,color-module"; bundle exec jekyll serve

📝 Content Management

Writing Posts

1. Create new post in _posts/ directory:

   YYYY-MM-DD-your-post-title.md
   

2. Use this front matter template:

   ---
   title: "Your Post Title"
   excerpt: "Brief description of your post"
   categories:
     - Game Development
     - Unity
     - Horror
   tags:
     - montreal
     - indie
     - gamedev
   ---

Adding Pages

1. Create pages in _pages/ directory
2. Configure navigation in _data/navigation.yml

Custom Styling

Our custom StoryTime Productions theme uses a purple color palette:

• Primary: #725976 (Deep Purple)
• Secondary: #d3add9 (Light Purple)
• Accent: #8A3057 (Burgundy)

🔄 CI/CD Pipeline

This blog uses GitHub Actions for automated deployment:

• Trigger: Push to main branch
• Build: Jekyll with GitHub Pages compatibility
• Deploy: Automatic to GitHub Pages
• Cache: Ruby gems and bundle for faster builds

Manual Deployment

# Build for production
JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build

# The built site will be in _site/

🎨 Customization

Theme Configuration

• Config: Edit _config.yml for site-wide settings
• Navigation: Modify _data/navigation.yml
• Styling: Custom SCSS in assets/css/main.scss
• Colors: StoryTime Productions purple branding
• Logo: Full-width display (not circular crop)

Features

• ✅ Gradient Navbar: Custom purple gradient background
• ✅ Mobile Responsive: Works on all devices
• ✅ SEO Optimized: Meta tags and sitemap
• ✅ Fast Loading: Compressed CSS and optimized images
• ✅ GitHub Integration: Social links and commit-based linting

📚 Documentation

• Jekyll Documentation
• Minimal Mistakes Theme
• GitHub Pages

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📧 Contact

• Studio: StoryTime Productions
• Email: brommitment@gmail.com
• GitHub: @StoryTime-Productions
• Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦

📄 License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.

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Made with 💜 by StoryTime Productions in Montreal
Indie game studio crafting immersive Unity experiences