If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers
This week in our Indie Gem Corner we get aboard a train that is dashing through a nightly winter landscape. We meet three people with masks – find out, what they have in common.
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Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking
This week in our Indie Gem Corner we take a trip to a very special museum: On display is a whole collection of mini games that are all about the same theme: What do you do, when you lost your keys? Enter the Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking.
The Longing
Welcome to our Indie Gem Corner, where members of our team introduce games that deserve more attention! Sascha starts with The Longing, a game that makes you fall in love with it over time – 400 (real) days, to be exact.
Learnings from a Q&A-session about publishing games on Steam with Valve
We recently had the chance to co-organize a Q&A session with several folks from Valve about “Publishing games on Steam”.
Ambiguity in Game Design: What developers can learn from Dear Esther
This post will dive deep into Dear Esther’s creation, intention, and reception and try to draw conclusions from this unique video game experience.
#OTBTplays AdvXJam 2021: Round 3 & 4
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
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 …
Remakes and Remasters
We recently started our streaming cycle and picked remasters & remakes as our next topic. For this blogpost we summarized our key points – What do we love about remakes? What makes a good remake? And do we have too many remakes and remasters nowadays?
Verbs in Game Design
After streaming all of the Adventure Jam 2021 games, we noticed that verbs are an integral part of the design of adventure games, and in game design in general. That’s why we decided to have a little discussion about verbs in games!
This blogpost sums up our talk and gives a few good and not-so-good examples of how games make use of verbs.
80.lv Interview: The Cost of Recovery: Developing a Narrative Game in Unity
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!
