Beta Archives


Q&A With Ghost!

Hi everyone, it’s your Ghost of Prague! You’ve all heard from the rest of the team by now, and recently I’ve also had the privilege of answering some of your questions. Here they are! @shannonlane26  •  Is Ghost new? If so, welcome!  I’ve been part of the team since March of 2020! I did tech […]

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KEY Production Notes – Roo Edition!

Howdy Sleuths! Last week Brighella answered 34 of your questions and today I thought I would give you a little behind-the-scenes look at one of my favorite moments so far in the making of Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys as well as answer more of your questions! View this post on Instagram A […]

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34 Bonus Q&A With Brighella

Hi everyone! Brighella here from HeR Interactive. Last week we posted a video of part 1 of myself, Indy, and Roo answering some of your Q&A about us or Mystery of the Seven Keys! I hope you had a chance to submit questions on our Instagram. We’ll be posting more videos but I wanted to […]

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Meet some of the HeR Game 34 Team!

Welcome to the Nancy Drew Games community, whether you’ve been around for decades or days! If you’ve been hanging out with us here on the Amateur Sleuth Blog for a while, thank you and welcome to today’s post! For those of you who are newer, we thought it was time to maybe reintroduce ourselves. There […]

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Postcards, Cameras, and Bobby Pins! Oh My!

▼ Potential Spoilers Down Below! ▼ Hello, Sleuths! Congratulations to all who figured out our latest puzzle on Friday! I hope you weren’t left scratching your heads for too long (shoutout to the super sleuths who solved it in 10 minutes!) I know it’s been a while since I’ve taken to writing on the blog, […]

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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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The Deadly Device: Beta Results

Random Jackalope thought for the day: If we can get enough money raised on our Kickstarter campaign, we would start by porting Tomb of the Lost Queen, and then someday The Deadly Device as well…When that day comes, how cool would it be to say “I have The Deadly Device on my device!” or perhaps […]

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Playing Beta: The Deadly Device

Perhaps you’ve heard the word “Beta” come up here and there. Let me explain what Beta here is, in a nutshell: Beta is a goal in our game-making process where all important logic, art, puzzles, animations, and conversations (convos as we abbreviate) are mostly done, and the game is at least playable. At this point, […]

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Thoughts on TMB Beta

Wow, we are still “running” here and working on a lot of things. Luckily I was able to check off a few from last week’s list. Whoo-hoo! I would love to tell you all about my Beta pass (where several of us in the office play through the rough game build all the way, testing […]

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