Future Proof Games

Picture is of Jodediah Holem's sculpture made from his games.

We've returned from the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco! It was an intimidating and inspiring time. We were energized to do creative things and think critically about our work as well as reminded that we have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a long time, we planned for Exploit: Zero Day, our social hacking puzzle game currently in closed alpha, to use a "free-to-play" or "freemium" approach to money. Not anymore.

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 ...

How much control do you have over what happens to your character in a tabletop RPG? Can people do things to your character without your permission? Do you want them to?

In most mainstream tabletop roleplaying games, you control your character's actions but not what happens to them. You choose how they feel about events, but not the other effects. A combination of the rules and the game master's judgment decides whether your character gets scared, hurt, or killed.

There's a different way.

Hello! Gregory here. Almost a year ago we released our dark, funny, satirical game Ossuary. It's a story about descending into a static underworld, talking to the people there, and corrupting them with sins that are really virtues.

A year on, it's a good time to look back and talk about how the game was made and received. In short: those who played it seem to have really liked it and understood where it was coming from, but it hasn't had the exposure, popularity, or sales that we wanted from it.

Both of us attended GDC Next 2014 November 3-4. It was a cozy conference, focusing primarily on non-development topics: marketing, social media, business development. Both of us feel pretty lacking in these areas, and so eagerly hopped on too-early flights to attend.

Rather than give a boring session-by-session description of what I attended and learned, here's discussion on some of the highlights:

We've been selling our game Ossuary for $5 for almost a year now. We just set its price to $10 at each major storefront where it's available.

Why are we increasing price on a year-old game? Because we underpriced it to begin with. Let me elaborate. ...