It’s time for another island update: As you’ll notice, we are starting to work on that big mountain that is closest to the camera. (Finally!) This is still an early concept; it will change a lot. Ignacio recently implemented a clean way to print an overhead map of the island, …
Last weekend I wrote an email to Kyle Orland of Ars Technica in response to a question about an independent game’s certification troubles. That letter was quoted in this article, which was then summarized by gameindustry.biz, and is probably floating elsewhere around the internet too. The original letter went through …
Lately I have been doing some difficult puzzle design. Today I woke up and wanted a break from that, so I decided to nail down one of the loose ends that hadn’t been thought about yet: displaying subtitles during the in-game voice recordings (of which there are a lot). Originally …
Here’s how the island looks now: The current puzzle count is 415 (I think we have been over-counting a little recently; this is a more-accurate count). In case you missed it, I did a live Q&A with Chris Hecker of Spy Party today on Kotaku. In terms of world-building, lately …