Hi duck here. This post is for people who followed us during the devlopment of Dusttale: Hyperthermia or if you are just curious on how this project (Iconoclasm) came to be. If you arnt interest in any of these. I wouldnt bother reading it. (its a yap session)

On February 1st 2025 Me and Fakest wanted to make an undertale fan game. This game was called Dusttale Hyperthermia. After talking and putting some work into it we started to have way bigger ideas and plans. For this game. Causing it to just never have any public showings or anything. This doesnt mean hyperthermia was never worked on though. As the overworld and most systems was done for the game and the only real things we had todo left was start working on the fight itself.

I was in charge of the story behind the game and the fight. I wanted to put way more depth into this game because i didnt want it to be the typical "Sans fight game" and just to be some bullshit lore reason. So i fleshed out the story as much as i could. Keep in mind this game was ONLY supposed to cover some of hotland. But i made the story way to... big. I guess. Im not sure how other ways to put it.

On June 22nd 2025 Me and Fakest had a very big conversation. "Do we turn hyperthermia into a full game" we did agree on it. But it wasnt really a full game. It was more or less just like. Sections of the game you jump through. Do the boss. And then onto the next. Somewhere along the way (i cant find a date) we decided not todo that. We decided on starting compeletly fresh. A blank project. A new story. And a new battle system. We actually didnt have a name for it at the time. The game remainned nameless for awhile. We now had a goal of making it a full game. Every room you can explore. Every fight you can enjoy and new and old bosses with new attacks and coats of paint. We have so many plans and such we wish to show but we are waiting on one big reveal. Theres concepts for the Ruins City. Snowy Fields and more (theres a name drop for those who actually wanted to read this ;)) We finally settled on the name Iconoclasm for story reasons.

But this doesnt quite answer the title. What happens with Hyperthermia? Is it scrapped? no not really. As said before the story i made for hyperthermia was to big. big enough to be a full game. Iconoclasm is a Chapter based game. So all of hyperthermia's progress will just be upgraded to Iconoclasm's Hotland Chapter which is named. Chapter 4 - Hyperthermia.

Tldr: Hyperthermia (our previous game) is now just a chapter in Iconoclasm (Our current game) which is chapter 4.

I hoped you enjoy this lil update. Its a bit different from what most people do. But honestly i just wanted to sit down and yap for a bit. For those looking for iconoclasm news. All i can say right now is just trust me word that we have big things cooking up for you all. Oh and we are still looking for team members. If anyone is interested add me on discord by joinning our discord server or adding me personally (the___duck)

Have a great day/night everybody!