By the time we’d reached prototype 5 of Spellirium, i was pretty confident in the concept. We went ahead and prototyped around twenty different puzzles to put them out to players and to see which ones stuck, and which ones were Fit for the Pit. As the video reveals, the most popular puzzle was “Picture”, [...] Keep Reading

One element of my effort to drive awareness of our Spellirium Pre-Order crowdfunding campaign is a series of video developer diaries called Spellirium Minute. i had always wanted to produce video diary content, but i worried about all the effort involved in shooting and editing the videos together. In this article, i hope to convey [...] Keep Reading

The Powerups system in Spellirium is pretty cool, but it was hastily-built so you might not even know it’s there. Here’s how it works: (click to read the fine print) Powerups can add different types of letters to your grid (vowels, and high- and mid-scoring words), the can increase your energy, protect your energy from [...] Keep Reading

i’m not necessarily going to do a daily play-by-play of the entire Spellirium pre-order campaign, which we launched today to Seussian fanfare, because SNORE. But today was eventful enough that i wanted to record a few tidbits for posterity. You’re Going Down For startsies, my Internet service provider decided that this would be the Best [...] Keep Reading

Come mothers and fathers, come sons and come daughters, come graduates sprung from your old alma maters come lovers of words, come adorers of books, come peer at these pages, come take a good look For today at long last, you will finally play the game we’ve been building for many a day (i’m so [...] Keep Reading