Behind the Scenes Archives


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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Early Projects for the Weekend

These past few days I have been getting an early start on several projects (and finishing them) before the next few days. Tomorrow a small group of us sit in a really long meeting to walk through the latest game, Sea of Darkness to see how the mystery plays out. (No peaking on this TOP […]

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Popular Nancy Drew Quotes

There are several popular Nancy Drew quotes that can be identified within the Nancy Drew fandom community. “Dare to play” is the popular company catch phrase, while it used to be the old-fashioned “For Girls Who Aren’t Afraid of a Mouse.” And then there are Nancy Drew quotes like “It’s locked!” or “Can’t check that […]

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Christmas Party

Today our office held our annual Christmas potluck and white elephant gift exchange! We had a ton of fun eating lots of food, stealing each other’s gifts and enjoying all the wonderful desserts. Check it out: All the gifts, ready to be opened:   The hat for people to draw numbers from:   Christmas cookies! […]

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Getting Ready for LIE!!

Tomorrow is the big day! If you pre-ordered Labyrinth of Lies digital download, tomorrow is the day you may begin downloading! Are you to solve a new mystery… in Greece?! WHOO!   Today we were organizing some spaces, going through power cords and old game systems, just to make things tidy. Here is our Super […]

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