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Engadget Indie Pitch: Dressmaker
Engadget’s Indie Pitch highlights Dressmaker, an upcoming sewing and design simulation from Cozy Lives, a small team within South African studio Free Lives. The game focuses on creative control and celebrates dressmaking, while its development reflects how independent creators can bring specialised personal expertise to game design.
Players design dresses, select fabrics, sew panels together and add finishing details such as buttons, bows and trims. They can fulfil commissions for townspeople with different tastes or create dresses to sell; development began with a prototype in July 2025 and was approved by Free Lives in September, with a three-person core team supported by contractors and the wider studio.
In short
- Dressmaker is a detailed indie dressmaking and design simulation.
- Players create commissioned or original dresses from start to finish.
- The game comes from Free Lives’ small Cozy Lives team.
Explained simply
Dressmaker is a sewing and design simulation being made by Cozy Lives, a small team within South African game studio Free Lives. Players create dresses by choosing fabrics, sewing pieces together and adding details such as buttons and trims.
The game draws on the team’s specialist knowledge of dressmaking and gives players control over their designs. They can make outfits to meet townspeople’s requests or create dresses to sell, bringing a hands-on craft into a video game.
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