Today’s sneak peek video clip is a twofer: we’re showing off a bit of combat with a creature called a “fnoo”, which can only be damaged when you spell words with blue tiles. Later in the clip, you can see the Companion System in action: As various characters join your party, you can choose to [...] Keep Reading

The challenges in Spellirium are ever-changing. Sometimes success will be based on the length of the words you spell. Other times, it’s all about colour. In another challenge, the direction of the word might be the key. Here’s an early production example of what we call a “word quality” challenge: spell words that have to [...] Keep Reading

The folks at Telefilm were kind enough to include Untold Entertainment in their GDC 2012 showcase, which involves playing a video reel to promote participating companies’ work at the big Canada party in the middle of the week. Since i was producing a few short clips for the reel, i thought i’d share them around. [...] Keep Reading

As any word game fan knows, big words aren’t always big point-earners. You can drop a six-letter word like “TETHER” in Scrabble and, even though it’s somewhat interesting and will eat up a good chunk of the board, it’s not a spectacular move because: It’s one letter short of a 50-point BINGO (Scrabble’s point bonus [...] Keep Reading

It’s always exciting to look back across the lifespan of a project and marvel at how it’s evolved. The development cycle of Spellirium is close to three years now – not a steady three, but three years of struggling to move the project ahead while putting food on the table, and working through economic and [...] Keep Reading