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Cartoon music classroom game menu with instruments and activities labeled “Zuordnen,” “Töne finden,” and “Zusammenbauen.”

In partnership with musiculum Kiel, we developed an interactive game that invites children and young adults to discover and learn about musical instruments in a playful way. The project—funded by the “Neustart Kultur” program—is available for free on mobile phones, tablets, PC, and Mac. Working closely with music educators, we translated the real-life musiculum experience …

Here are the recaps of round 3 and 4 of the AdvXJam 2021! Find out more about the remaining 10 games, what made them stand out and why we liked them so much.

#OTBTplays AdvXJam 2021: Round 1 & 2

#OTBTPLAYS graphic announcing AdvXJam 2021 rounds 1 and 2.

Hello everyone! Earlier this year we played all the entries to the Adventure Jam 2021 – as you know, we are always terribly excited for narrative adventures! So we were delighted to see AdvXJam 2021 taking place, another two-week gamejam focused on narrative games. The AdvXJam 2021 was hosted by AdventureX, a UK-based convention that …

Card-based session interface of the TRUSTease team coaching application

TRUSTease is a teamcoaching-tool, meant to build and strengthen trust among teams and thereby increasing performance. Professionally moderated, TRUSTease enables communication at eye level and challenges team members to self-reflection and examination – through interactive play. In cooperation with Meike Christiansen, inventor of TRUSTease, we digitalized TRUSTease to make it accessible remotely, so teams and …

Main character standing in front of a camper by a lakeside campfire at night in “Awake – Definitive Edition”

What begins as a romantic getaway with your girlfriend quickly turns into a nightmare. Hunted by a murderer and trapped in a relentless time loop, you must solve the mystery to break free… or watch events repeat—again and again. Can you escape the cycle? AWAKE is a 2D point-and-click adventure designed to be experienced in …

We recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by 80.lv about our upcoming game The Cost of Recovery. Read for more info on the ideas and development behind the game, the production process, marketing strategies, and more!

The Cost of Recovery

What would you do if someone close to you suddenly went through major trauma? What sacrifices would you be willing to make to keep your family together? In The Cost of Recovery you will experience the different perspectives and emotional journeys of a family when their 9-year old son suddenly suffers a stroke. You will …

Candlelit interior of a medieval carriage in The Ransom with objects placed on a table

Adventure Jam 2018 presented me with a new set of challenges I had not anticipated. At first reluctant to join due to time constraints, I decided to team up with old friends and create a small game, optimizing our production by planning ahead as much as possible.

Hand-drawn medieval village surrounded by forest and castle towers, with a campfire glowing in the central square.

I returned to Adventure Jam in 2017 with a new set of challenges. In 2016 we had joined as a team and always knew what to do and who would do it. We were all working together locally. In 2017 I did not have that luxury. At the time, contact with my old team for AWAKE had broken up and I was a solo developer.

Game jams are a magical thing. You get together with friends both old and new and create a video game in a very short timespan. In a way, jams are microcosms. While the jam is going your priorities are shifted, your whole life seems to circle around this tiny little game you are creating – and when the jam is over, what remains is usually a barely playable prototype, deep rings under your eyes and a huge pile of new experiences, lessons learned and treasured moments.

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#OTBTplays AdvXJam 2021: Round 3 & 4

#OTBTplays AdvXJam 2021: Round 1 & 2

TRUSTease

AWAKE – Definitive Edition

80.lv Interview: The Cost of Recovery: Developing a Narrative Game in Unity

The Cost of Recovery

Three years of Adventure Jam. Part three: The Ransom

Three years of Adventure Jam. Part two: One Of Us

Three years of Adventure Jam. Part one: Awake

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