Behind the Scenes Archives


Creating the Pages

Today we were working all day on creating the pages on our site for Sea of Darkness. There are a lot of elements that need to be made before putting it all together. I like this part of the game release season, it feels like a puzzle! The banner goes there, the thumbnail goes there, […]

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Koko Kringles with SEA

We updated a little part of the pre-order information for Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness! Check out this little note at the bottom of this image: Yep! We saved some Koko Kringle chocolate bars for this. The first 500 pre-orders for SEA will get one sent from our office. Yum. Spoiler…there are Koko Kringles somewhere […]

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Smart and Sassy People

Today’s March Madness match-up on our Facebook page is Dierdre Shannon vs. Mason Quinto. I think this is a fair match-up! Both of these individuals are smart, and they can also get easily upset with people. Dierdre is so sassy and Mason is quite uptight. You could either be completely annoyed with them for these […]

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List of things to do…

Game launch season has begun for us, since we must prepare everything in getting ready for the pre-orders of Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness. It may feel like forever for you all, but for us, the time is quickly coming! This week, we are finishing up the box art… but we don’t go to print […]

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Planning the Red Carpet for SEA

Even those Sea of Darkness will not be available until May, we still have lots to do in preparing it for the world. The game is still getting its tweaks and being fixed to work perfectly, the cover art is nearly done and is being formatted for the box, and I am going snooping for […]

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Early Guide Steps

Not to make you jealous or anything… but I get to play our latest game (that we are working on currently). Actually I get to play it a few times. This time I am playing it to start early work on the strategy guide. I break the project down into sections: walk through text, puzzle […]

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Puppy Distractions

Today one of our team members brought in her new German Shepard puppy. Her name is Honey Bear since she looks like a little bear cub. SO CUTE! Needles to say, most of the office was rather distracted and thrilled with our visiting mascot today. <3 I sort of imagine Nancy’s dog, Togo, to have […]

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Monday Mischeif

Can’t talk long, I gotta run.  I’m working on a video project, some web page stuffs, social media things and more. I snooped through audio archive files, found a secret recording from over a year ago, and dug up some old props. I’m up to mischief… here’s a picture I tried taking in my haste… […]

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End of SEA Walkthroughs

Today we spent several hours playing through the last third of Sea of Darkness. The puzzles led up to the grand finale and the culprit was identified. (No worries, I won’t give you the spoiler!) Much of the animation hasn’t made it into the game yet, so it was a little hard to imagine the […]

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Early Designs and Fan Teasers

Today I joined our design team for day two of our critical walkthrough. Four of us take over the main conference room and load up a very rough game build of Sea of Darkness. The game is far from being done! Most of the art is there, if at least placeholders, the puzzles are working […]

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