Latest block entries from the topic of game development.

The Longing

2022-12-302022-06-03 by Sascha Reinhold

Welcome to our Indie Gem Corner, where members of our team introduce games that deserve more attention! Sascha starts with The Longing, a game that makes you fall in love with it over time – 400 (real) days, to be exact.

Learnings from a Q&A-session about publishing games on Steam with Valve

2023-02-022022-04-23 by jens

We recently had the chance to co-organize a Q&A session with several folks from Valve about “Publishing games on Steam”.

Ambiguity in Game Design: What developers can learn from Dear Esther

2023-02-022022-03-10 by jens

This post will dive deep into Dear Esther’s creation, intention, and reception and try to draw conclusions from this unique video game experience.

#OTBTplays AdvXJam 2021: Round 3 & 4

2023-02-022022-01-12 by Ines

Here are the recaps of round 3 and 4 of the AdvXJam 2021! Find out more about the remaining 10 games, what made them stand out and why we liked them so much.

#OTBTplays AdvXJam 2021: Round 1 & 2

2023-02-022021-12-29 by Ines

Hello everyone! Earlier this year we played all the entries to the Adventure Jam 2021 – as you know, we are always terribly excited for narrative adventures! So we were delighted to see AdvXJam 2021 taking place, another two-week gamejam focused on narrative games. The AdvXJam 2021 was hosted by AdventureX, a UK-based convention that … Read more

Remakes and Remasters

2023-02-022021-08-04 by jens

We recently started our streaming cycle and picked remasters & remakes as our next topic. For this blogpost we summarized our key points – What do we love about remakes? What makes a good remake? And do we have too many remakes and remasters nowadays?

Verbs in Game Design

2023-02-022021-07-25 by jens

After streaming all of the Adventure Jam 2021 games, we noticed that verbs are an integral part of the design of adventure games, and in game design in general. That’s why we decided to have a little discussion about verbs in games!
This blogpost sums up our talk and gives a few good and not-so-good examples of how games make use of verbs.