We've been heads down on remastering "(I Fell in Love with) The Majesty of Colors" the last few months (along with getting Rosette Dramatic LARP to a stopping point). We wrote about our realizations on project multitasking earlier this year, so we've tried to focus down as much as is reasonable.
That means that the in-flight game most left alone is Exploit: Zero Day, our cyberthriller puzzle game.
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In a slow tale spanning the last four months, the IndieGameStand site (one of the places we sold Ossuary) closed parts down for maintenance, then went down completely for maintenance, and then its domain name stopped working entirely. Somewhere in there, its SSL certificate expired as well. The twitter account is silent and all of the preview images for their articles are broken, giving it the look of a column of blank gravestones.
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If you've played Ossuary, you might have noticed the scrolling text on the bottom of the menu screen notifying you of updates, sales, and sometimes new releases. This is our little Update system.
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It can't be denied that we are in a season of Chaos, that primordial wellspring from which springs all sense and nonsense. To celebrate the turning of this season, on the holyday of Chaoflux, consider spending time at the beginning of the end of all things. Purchase Ossuary, an ...
We've released another job for Headless Swarm and made some long-needed enhancements.
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Ossuary is part of the Steam Summer Sale and will be 25% off until July 4! If you haven't had a chance to play yet, it's only $7.50 (USD). If you've played and liked it, we'd be thrilled if you wrote a review on Steam to let us know.
What ...
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2015 was a weird year. Somewhere in that year is a typical tale of an indie game studio underestimating project timelines and changing directions based on surprises and things they learned.
But I want to talk about budgets.
...It's been a while since we've updated our morbid Discordian satire Ossuary, but there are some issues that have been nagging at us. We improved the introductory experience and made some additions and fixes to accessibility and usability.
For full details, check out the update news.
If you ...
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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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In honor of the Discordian holiday of Bureflux, our creepy, satirical, conversation-based adventure game Ossuary will be 50% off on Steam from September 21-27, 2015.
In Discordianism, there are five seasons, each with 73 days. These seasons reflect the cyclical periods of history, which start with Chaos, fall into Discord, ...
