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We have a gameplay trailer for Exploit: Zero Day! This is a general trailer that hopefully will give people a feel for what the game is about. Share it with your friends and enemies. Thank you to the current players who gave us feedback on earlier trailer drafts.
Exploit: ...
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As indie devs, we leverage a variety of services to keep track of keys we've given out, press we contact or want to contact, vendors we've talked to, customers we've interacted with, and fellow developers/artists/etc. we follow.
Here's our list:
All four of these services can talk to each other, but it's not always the clearest to figure out how.
...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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The original Exploit is a game written in ActionScript 3 (Flash) that lives entirely within its Flash container on a web page, whether that be on our site or a Flash portal.
With Exploit: Zero Day, we want to build something browser-based, but more than just puzzles. The puzzles themselves are still in a box on a web page, but that's not the entirety of the game — nor is there any Flash involved.
It's time for Exploit to spread beyond its box and become more complex and social, and that means changing the technology.
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We're not sure how Ossuary got Greenlit.
On April 8, we posted a blog entry marking the one-year anniversary of our creepy-funny game Ossuary's journey on the Steam Greenlight service. On April 13, the game was approved, letting us start preparing it for release on Valve's major online ...
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Early this week we received the fateful email: our darkly funny satire Ossuary is coming to Steam!
It's been a rough road on Steam Greenlight, but we finally got approved. The process from here on is covered by a non-disclosure agreement, but all that's left is the basics of ...
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Our creepy-funny adventure Ossuary has now been in the Steam Greenlight program for a year. It's frustrating and demoralizing, and we're sharing some details about our experience. Whether you are in Greenlight right now, are considering it, or just buy games on Steam, it's good to know what the process is like.
One year in, and we're 84% of the way to the top 100.
Images in this article are taken directly from Greenlight's stats page for Ossuary.
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I've noticed more talk about cultural appropriation lately, most of it scornful of the concept to varying degrees. Out of ignorance, people are claiming that "everything is cultural appropriation!" and "if cultural appropriation is bad, then X is horrible!" I want to talk a bit (as a white American) about my understanding of the concept, defuse a few toxic memes about it, and discuss how we might be guilty of it.
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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 ...
