Last year, Untold Entertainment Inc. celebrated its second birthday in the midst of a global economic collapse. The anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing falls around the same time, and i the thought crossed my mind: would it have been better to have been obliterated by the bomb in an instant, or to survive and [...] Keep Reading

So we shopped Spellirium around at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle this past week, and the consensus was that the game was good … for them to poop on. Category Exclusivity i’ve been billing Spellirium as a “word puzzle/adventure game hybrid”, or “Jim Henson’s Labyrinth meets Boggle.” Er – that’s “Boggle”, not “Hoggle”. To the casual games portals [...] Keep Reading

i’m at the Seattle airport waiting for a flight, and i thought i’d blog about the Casual Connect conference i attended this week. The conference is held by the Casual Games Association, or Cuh-GAAAAH for short. This was my second time at the conference, and like most repeat visits to places, the show lost a lot of [...] Keep Reading

We’re just starting to make great progress with Spellirium, our word puzzle/adventure game hybrid. For the past few months, it feels like we’ve been building pieces and elements of the game. Now that they’re built, we’re starting to assemble the actual game. Spellirium has two main modes: the lightning-quick Blitz Mode, where you try to [...] Keep Reading

DID YOU TOTALLY KNOW that in addition to creating Spellirium, a word puzzle/adventure game hybrid, we’re also working on a top secret project behind closed doors and blacked-out windows? While wearing masks and sunglasses? This is pretty much the only way to keep your game a secret. i have cooked up two monetization plans for this magical [...] Keep Reading