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Ossuary—which is currently 50% off on Steam, and will be 50% off next week on FireFlower—is getting an update soon to provide some user experience improvements.
One in particular that we noticed in watching folks play on YouTube is that colorblind players find the floor puzzles impossible to solve without brute forcing a solution through trial and error.
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I've just finished creating puzzles for the latest piece of free content in Exploit: Zero Day, and it was my first time doing a considered design of puzzles. I wanted a few levels of difficulty, but for puzzles to not just become obnoxious as the difficulty increased.
The puzzles I've designed will be going live later this week, and hopefully folks will like them. I iterated quite a bit on some of them as I tried out different tactics, especially the puzzle pictured with this post.
When it was all said and done—which took a while, since I was new to it—I was able to distill the tactics I used into this handy-dandy list.
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Our work-in-progress Exploit: Zero Day is heavy in story. It's a social, cyberpunk puzzle game that explores conspiracies and oppression and questions who you can trust. The browser-based, intermittent format of the game makes it impractical to use traditional narration to tell our story, so we've employed a few interesting ...
Our macabre Discordian adventure game Ossuary is now available on Steam! As part of its release, it's available for a limited time at 15% off, making it $8.49.
It's always exciting to be available in a new store, and Steam is the biggest store of all. If you haven't ...
Our funny, philosophical, pixel-horror adventure game Ossuary will be released on Steam on May 27, 2015. It will be available on Windows and Mac OSX. You can visit its Steam store page, add it to your wishlist, and download the demo now.
Ossuary is a conversation-focused adventure game that ...
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Exploit: Zero Day — our in-progress cyberpunk puzzle game — now has all the features it needs for the kinds of stories we want to tell.
We have a lengthy list of story ideas that we'll be implementing over the next many months of the game, but here are a ...
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Our tabletop roleplaying game is almost done. In "beta" and for most of its development, it had the working title LORE. However, with our vision for it solidified and the polish phase starting, it was time to pick a name that reflected what the game had become.
I present to ...
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Exploit: Zero Day, our game about solving puzzles and conspiring against the Man, is in closed alpha testing at the moment. We're working on the version code-named Alpha One, which is planned to have all of the core features: puzzle solving and creation, jobs given by NPCs, full ...
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Exploit: Zero Day, our cyberpunk social puzzle game, has been in "Alpha Zero" state for almost six weeks now. A select few players have been poking at the core of the game while we prepare the framework that it will be embedded in.
Within the next month we plan ...
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With Exploit: Zero Day in closed alpha, we’re hard at work on two other projects, LORE and an untitled game about a car’s adventures.
You play an adorable car that gains sentience and finds itself wanting to do things its owner does… like see a movie at a theater. It ...
