Behind the Scenes Archives


Naming GTH

Last July (2012) members from each department, along with the design team, sat down in a very important brainstorm meeting: the naming of ND#28 Ghost of Thornton Hall. This meeting was only to get a feel and better understanding of what was going to happen in the story, and then play around with different key […]

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Interview with Creative Director, Tim!

The first revealed hint from the past blog post 13 hints for 2013 has been revealed today! #5 on the list, “Director” was a reference to our Creative Director, Tim. Today we posted a video interview of this long-term Her Interactive artist who has worked on every Nancy Drew game to our YouTube Channel. Enjoy! […]

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Historical Reference: Theatre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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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