Chris Hecker's new espionage game about subtle behavior, performance, perception, and deception.
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The always awesome Ben Gilbert at Joystiq just broke the news: SpyParty is going to be at PAX East, March 11th through 13th in that city whose streets were designed by cows, Boston, Massachusetts! As I say in the article, I’m super happy about (at least) two things: 1. The Fire Hose Games guys for […]
SpyParty needs help! Are you local to the Bay Area or going to be here next week, responsible, dependable, and hard-working, a game developer or interested in game development, and available to man (or woman) the SpyParty kiosk at the IGF Pavilion at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, March 2nd through March 4th? […]
The fellow on the right looks like a pretty nice guy, no? Well, take my advice: don’t go to a party where he is lurking outside. Meet Paul and Ian, my elite SpyParty playtesters. Both have played around 10 hours of SpyParty across multiple sessions. They’ve played the game more than anybody else, including me […]
You may have heard SpyParty was nominated for the Seumas McNally 1 Grand Prize at the 2011 Independent Games Festival. This is really exciting, even though I probably have no chance of winning! Still, I celebrated in the best way possible: I worked on the game. The feature I’m working on right now I call […]
Here is a quick teaser for the metrics I’m analyzing from the playtest data from both PAX and NYU. The counts below are the number of times the Spy player picks a given character, out of 601 games across both playtests. I find it interesting that the guy in the obvious plaid jacket gets picked […]
