Chris Hecker's new espionage game about subtle behavior, performance, perception, and deception.
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If you’re not yet in the SpyParty beta or if you are but don’t check the (awesome) private beta forums,1 you may not know there was a tournament going on for the past few months. As usual, since I’m too discombobulated to do much of anything, it was a beta-tester organized tourney. This time around, bloom put it […]
I’m a big fan of the French term l’esprit d’escalier and its German counterpart, treppenwitz. A while back, Matthew RF Balousek posted a joke response to one of those “how do you spell esports?” threads with the most excellent l’esports d’escalier, which delighted me.1 Last week on the weekly Tuesdays at Ten on Twitch stream, I was playing […]
A fun time was had a Day of the Devs this weekend, courtesy of Double Fine, iam8bit, and a whole lot of cool people from the Bay Area playing games! As you can see in the pics below, we were in a vault in the basement of The Old Mint in San Francisco. It was […]
It’s that time of year again, when friends at Double Fine and iam8bit throw a big game party in San Francisco and everybody is invited! And this time, it’s all ages, so I mean everybody! It’s on November 1st, at the Old Mint building in SF, from 4pm to 11pm. Lots of cool indies will be there, […]
I gave a talk yesterday at IndieCade 2014 about the state of SpyParty. It was titled “So, SpyParty, like, WTF?” There have always been a fair number of questions about the length of time the game is taking to develop, and how that impacts the impression people (and by “people”, I mean me & John, […]
