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“We Can Do it!”

Today I drew a pretty picture of Nancy Drew. What’dya think? It’s supposed to look like the famous Rosie the Riveter poster… As for the weekend puzzle, it was semaphore flag code. Once you translate the flags, you get [A foreign shore]. This is a clue to Sea of Darkness. 😉 We have some birthdays […]

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Posted in: Artist, Birthday, Blogs

Pa Pennies and Animation Meetings

Today we had an awesome meeting! We got to review the first early character animations for SEA in our main conference room. There, the animation team loaded up a game build and played some conversations between the newly animated characters with Nancy. For the first time we get to see these characters really come to […]

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Fun Fans and Thursday Memories

We received a thank you video from our 2nd place Cookie Contest Winner Carlahna today, and I wanted to share it with you! We also watched this latest video from fan Taylor who talks about the Nancy Drew games (awesome!). This is kind of inspiring… maybe I should start working on new blog videos again…? […]

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Cookie Winners & Snooping

We have announced our Cookie Contest winners today! Check them out and see some honorable mentions on our contest page here! This week I’ve been rummaging around the latest game we are working on (Sea of Darkness) to listen to some audio clips and look for potential things to share with you. But I got […]

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Texture Teases for SEA

I’ve been snooping around the latest game builds, audio files, and art textures in Sea of Darkness. We posted this to the home page, teasing the the game release date: This is an actual barrel texture from the ship you see in the teaser trailer for the game. There are actually 6 different barrel textures […]

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Welcome to 2015!

Happy New Year, sleuths! We are back in the office and ready to pick up on our projects once again. The art team is lip-syncing and animating the characters for Sea of Darkness right now, the design team is finalizing some soundtracks, and the production team is building and fixing some puzzles. What am I […]

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Happy New Year!

I’m writing an early post for New Year’s Eve, since our team will be out of the office to celebrate the coming new year. So anyways… HAPPY NEW YEAR, sleuths! And we have a birthday to celebrate! -Little Jackalope

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Posted in: Birthday, Blogs, Fan, Holiday

Last Cookie Days

Hey all! Hope you had a great Christmas! Did any of you receive any Nancy Drew games? Or perhaps Nancy Drew merchandise, like a T-shirt or a key chain or stuff? Over the weekend I’ve seen more cookie entries come in for our contest. May I remind you that we only have a couple days […]

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Merry Christmas 2014!

Merry Christmas all! We will be out of the office for several days so that we can spend time celebrating with our families. Hope you have a great week and a Merry Christmas! We also have a birthday to celebrate! -Little Jackalope

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Winter Solstice

Yesterday was winter solstice — the shortest day of the year and the furthest we are tilted from the sun (unless you are in the southern hemisphere — in which case it is the longest day of the year for you). Loulou the parrot mentions this in Curse of Blackmoor Manor. Speaking of CUR, this […]

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