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New Redwoods Venue Live!

There’s a new venue available this week, and the Sniper is going to have a work a harder than usual to find the Spy. You can play Redwoods right now, and there’s even a tiny two-day tournament this weekend open to everybody. More details on the tournament below at the bottom of this post! It […]

The New SpyParty Tutorial!

After years in Early-Access Beta, with nothing but a four-page manual to help you learn how to play, SpyParty finally has a fully interactive tutorial! I’m pretty proud of how it came out. The tutorial uses a mix of text and voice narration,1 and it tries to get as close as possible to how we train […]

Day of the Devs Gallery

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 […]

SpyParty at Day of the Devs in San Francisco, Nov 1!

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, […]

The New Gallery Map!

The new map, Gallery, is out in the latest build! The design goal for this map was to make it long and narrow with a lot of dynamic occlusion caused by the partygoers. It seemed to work pretty well, we played it during the release notes stream, where I did two different “birthday games”, the […]