Behind the Scenes Archives


Historical Reference: Theatre

We have a Caption Contest winner! After the judges read through all comments on Facebook, it was narrowed down to Rachael G. of Australia for her caption: Gray: “So you don’t think wrapping ourselves in foil and paper clips to create little faraday suits would protect us?” Congrats Rachael! (Thanks for participating, everyone! Stay tuned […]

Read More »

Super Early Testing for GTH

Today hits the mark as the first day that we begin some serious testing for Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall! We brought in our full-time testers today because we now have a “playable” game build. There is a 75% chance that the game will crash on you if you try doing something (like play […]

Read More »

Embossing the Box Art

If you have ever purchased one of our games in a retail store, chances are the game came with a cardboard box wrap-around…or, as we call them in our office, an “O-card”. If you tilt the box in the light, and rub your finger over the front, you can see and feel the bumps of […]

Read More »

Designing a Room: Abby

I was digging through our art archives again (still one of my favorite pastimes) and came across some art I did not recognize in Message in a Haunted Mansion, so of course, I’m sharing. (^.^) Check it out! Some early room designs for Abby Sideris! The first two, of course, were design ideas that didn’t […]

Read More »

13 hints for 2013

Welcome back Monday! Oh how I have missed Mondays…when we re-start our projects with fresh eyes and re-focus our thoughts and hands on the tasks before us. Yes, I’m a nerd. XD Let’s start off the week with the puzzle solution. From the discussions I read of your progress on the message boards, it looks […]

Read More »

A Look Back at 2012

With the start of a new year, it’s always fun and interesting to take a look back at the momentous events and other things that are worth remembering. Here’s a brief summary of all of our highlights:   New Merchandise store! In March, we added a merchandise store where you can go in and select […]

Read More »

Her Interactive Logos

I was digging around our archives and graphics folders the other day and came across our old logos. Our name has gone through different designs since the beginning, check them out: I like to look at these and reminisce of the older days when we had the teal and gold website, although the pink looks […]

Read More »

Lickie Loo Tuesday

Look what we got in today! Yep, everyone who ordered a game last week in the U.S. will get a fun-size package of Lickie Loo Lollipops. The team had a small assembly line to get them ready to send to all the lucky recipients.   Head’s up! Twitter Quote Contest is going on right now, […]

Read More »

Picture: Caught in the Moment

Ok, so someone happened to take my picture while I was, *ehem*, very focused on working. I was NOT very focused on the lollipop that I was enjoying. I think the important message here was that I was not goofing off, but in fact working. The lollipop was not distracting me (nope!), and therefore it […]

Read More »

Programmer Navigation

Here’s something you don’t see everyday! I was fortunate enough to hover over the desk of our Lead Tester back in May this year to get a look at what she was up to. This, my friends, is a map. (^_^) She was checking to see if all of the scene views (as listed by […]

Read More »

archives

As seen on CBS News, FOX, and CBS News

Follow Us