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Early Valentines Plans

Welcome to Monday, my favorite day of the week! Today I begin brainstorming what games are the best to share and play for Valentines Day. At first I tried thinking of the games where Ned is available on the phone, or perhaps any games where someone flirts with Nancy. But then I thought of games […]

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Nancy’s Skills (And Weekend Puzzle #263)

For those of you who have played The Haunted Carousel, you may understand the humor in this meme: Do you find it funny that Nancy is quite capable of doing some electrical work, yet can’t turn a simple switch off? This iron needs to be turned off after use, or else… well, you’ll just have […]

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Tinkering in Research

Today I spent the majority of my time studying the merchandise store. Every once in a while it’s good to get a clear picture of what works and what does not work. I see areas on the web site that could use some extra attention, perhaps swapping out new featured images, too. I also take […]

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Posted in: Blogs, Merchandise

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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Previews & Teasers

Did you know we keep our game previews and official teaser videos up on our YouTube channel? Check out this playlist we have here: A lot of viewers get mixed up with these previews and teaser videos. They tend to mistake them for the Official Trailers. These teasers and previews are what we show at […]

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Posted in: Blogs, trailer, video, YouTube

International Nancy Drew

Check out the latest news presented to you in my latest video! You can shop for these games here. No weekend puzzle this time. 🙁 Instead, may I suggest replaying some international-themed Nancy Drew games? 😉 -Little Jackalope

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It’s a Nancy Drew Thing…

Hooray! This Nancy Drew quote is now up in our merchandise store! All you have to do is select a product, like a T-Shirt or a mug or pillowcase… then look in the “Nancy Drew Misc” category to find this design. For all you Nancy Drew nerds out. <3 Oh, and today’s Throwback Thursday features […]

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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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