It’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...
It'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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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...
There’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,...
tl;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...
Today’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...
The 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...
The 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...
As any word game fan knows, big words aren’t always big point-earners. You can drop a six-letter word like “TETHER” in Scrabble and, even though it’s somewhat interesting and will eat up a good chunk of the board, it’s not a spectacular move because:
It’s one letter short of a 50-point BINGO (Scrabble’s...
It’s always exciting to look back across the lifespan of a project and marvel at how it’s evolved. The development cycle of Spellirium is close to three years now – not a steady three, but three years of struggling to move the project ahead while putting food on the table, and working through economic...