[DEV INTERVIEW] No Truce With the Furies’ Robert Kurvitz
BrodyNo Truce with the Furies by Fortress Occident bills itself as an exploration of life as an utter failure, with visuals that call to mind oil paintings and a rundown…
[KNEE DEEP] Official Fiction No. 1: A Man with Many Plans
As a reward for our players posting 50 Steam reviews about the game, I wrote a bit of Knee Deep fiction. (A note, scrawled in pencil on the back of…
Balancing exposition and player agency in indie narratives
It’s a tricky balance, giving Moon Hunters a sense of random events without seeming repetitive. “It’s my white whale!” declared Tanya X. Short of Kitfox Games, indie developer behind the mythology-based…
Knee Deep’s play is the protagonist
Meg Jayanth - lead writer on the amazing globe-trotting adventure 80 Days - gave a talk during the Game Developers Conference about the critical role NPCs can play in shaping…