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Countdown to Sales!

Black Friday (November 23rd) is quickly approaching! The days are counting down to the big one-day sale just after Thanksgiving! For 24 hours only, you will get free shipping (USPS in the US) for all physical games purchased using promo code THANKS12 at checkout. Visit our shop page here. For more information about shipping, visit […]

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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 […]

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Cupcakes From a Fan

Today one of our fans, Miriam, got to visit and learn more about how we rock and roll here at Her Interactive. She got to tour and visit with several team members to learn a little from each department, as part of her school requirement to graduate. She immediately became friends with everyone in the […]

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Weekend Puzzle #174

Hey howdy hey! Happy Friday! It’s starting to get chilly here in Washington, we had frost this morning leading up to a bright sunny, fall day. It’s really pretty, perhaps I’ll take some pictures to share. I found some old pictures (from May of this year) that I took specifically for a time like this: […]

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Modeling an Environement

Today we posted an interview with one of our fantastic 3D artists, Lyndon, on the Dare to Play blog. It’s really fun to put a name to a specific part of a game and get to know more about who helped make the environments in each mystery. Lyndon helped create the main lab and the […]

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Interview with 3D Artist, Lyndon!

We interviewed one of our amazing artists, Lyndon!   Her Interactive: When you were in elementary school, what did you want to be when you grew up? Lyndon: One of my teachers had a friend that was a pilot of the SR-71 Blackbird. I thought that was the coolest job ever. It was either that […]

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Posted in: Dare to Play Blog

Top Secret Meetings (ND#28 Name Spoiler!)

It has come to the time where the design team has roughed-out the full story and play-through of Ghost of Thornton Hall, and we have begun our top-secret game walkthrough meetings for it! Ok, since the game is still a work in progress, we are still early in the animations, script, puzzles, and just about […]

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Fan Love…and Eggs

Our fans make me laugh sometimes! (^_^) And they are all so very creative, smart and witty, as I can see on our social media sites, message boards and through our contests. Sienna wrote this encouraging note to me and I had to post it because…well…we already had one of her wishes planned out! “Dear […]

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Posted in: Easter Egg, Fan, interview, poll

Candy Bears, Ryan and Mason

I had to eat some fruity gummy treats today because my mind was on The Deadly Device…particularly last week’s puzzle answer and how I get to explain it today. To solve the weekend puzzle, you will need to watch the official trailer here. Pause at each of the times listed in the puzzle, and count […]

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Yesterday’s Winners and Today’s Puzzle #173

If you have seen our home page or our Facebook page, this will be old news to you. Still, I would like to acknowledge and congratulate the winners of the Pumpkin Carving Contest and the Adventure Matters contest, hooray!! These are our winners for the pumpkin contest below, the entire office voted on all of […]

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