1. Getting the Babel Fish into Your Ear The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1984 Probably the most well-known puzzle of any on the list, the babel fish puzzle is renowned for walking the fine line between fun frustration (or “funstration”), and pure seething evil. Displaced Earthling Arthur Dent has been zapped aboard a hostile [...] Keep Reading

One of the areas in which graphic adventure games have most other games beat is that they’re actually funny. Reliant on plot, character, and writing in general, graphic adventure games have provided some of the most solid laughs in video game history. These moments have stuck with me through the years, and are as funny [...] Keep Reading

San 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 [...] Keep Reading

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. In combat, [...] Keep Reading

Listen 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 meeting with Steam [...] Keep Reading