Spellirium
Mar
19
2012
0It’s Monster Monday! This week's creature is the dastardly Fnelo:
To the untrained eye, the Fnelo might look a lot like the Fnoo that you saw in the sneak preview video clip we released a few weeks ago. But no: in Spellirium, colour counts! When you play the game and see the Fnelo in glorious Spell-O-Colour,...
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Mar
11
2012
0San Francisky? Well how did you get there? Did you walk n’ did you flew?
i’m very, very excited for all the shenanigans i’m about to get up to in the big windy apple that never sleeps – San Francisco – in less than two weeks’ time. Here’s what’s on my plate:
Flash Gaming Summit...
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Mar
11
2012
0It’s Monster Monday! Well, technically, the monsters in Spellirium are called “creatures”, but Monster Mondays has a nice alliterative ring to it.
This is an inked creature design by Darren Ward. We’re considering giving this guy a pair of legs to replace his spectral booty, and maybe reducing...
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Feb
20
2012
0It's Monster Monday! Well, technically, the monsters in Spellirium are called "creatures", but Monster Mondays has a nice alliterative ring to it.
This is an inked creature design by Darren Ward. We're considering giving this guy a pair of legs to replace his spectral booty, and maybe reducing him to only two eyes....
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Feb
20
2012
0Listen up!
We're making a really cool graphic adventure / word puzzle mash-up called Spellirium. It totally kicks ass, and it has an amazing post-apocalyptic "trashpunk" aesthetic that looks like this:
Do you want to play this game? Do you want to play this game on Steam?
Untold Entertainment has its first-ever...
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Feb
10
2012
0There’s one photograph from my past i desperately want to find, but i fear it was lost to the voracious pagan god of bits and bytes years ago – another case for printing your digital photos as soon as you take them. It’s a picture of a fresh-faced young me, Ryan Henson Creighton, posing next to Tim Schafer,...
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Jan
30
2012
30tl;dr – i continue to make concessions for a non-word-gamer crowd in my latest word puzzle/adventure game Spellirium. Check the poll at the bottom if you think that’s a good idea or not.
Here are the FACTS that i’ve learned about game pricing:
If your game has a broad appeal, you can charge a relatively small...
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Jan
27
2012
0Today’s sneak peek video clip is a twofer: we’re showing off a bit of combat with a creature called a “fnoo”, which can only be damaged when you spell words with blue tiles. Later in the clip, you can see the Companion System in action:
As various characters join your party, you can choose to bring one of them...
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Jan
25
2012
0The challenges in Spellirium are ever-changing. Sometimes success will be based on the length of the words you spell. Other times, it’s all about colour. In another challenge, the direction of the word might be the key.
Here’s an early production example of what we call a “word quality” challenge: spell words...
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Jan
24
2012
0The folks at Telefilm were kind enough to include Untold Entertainment in their GDC 2012 showcase, which involves playing a video reel to promote participating companies’ work at the big Canada party in the middle of the week. Since i was producing a few short clips for the reel, i thought i’d share them around.
First...
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