Archive for the ‘playtests’ Category.
2019/11/08, 19:32 by checker
There’s a new venue available this week, and the Sniper is going to have a work a harder than usual to find the Spy. You can play Redwoods right now, and there’s even a tiny two-day tournament this weekend open to everybody. More details on the tournament below at the bottom of this post! It […]
2018/02/28, 15:26 by checker
After years in Early-Access Beta, with nothing but a four-page manual to help you learn how to play, SpyParty finally has a fully interactive tutorial! I’m pretty proud of how it came out. The tutorial uses a mix of text and voice narration,1 and it tries to get as close as possible to how we train […]
2014/11/03, 19:05 by checker
A fun time was had a Day of the Devs this weekend, courtesy of Double Fine, iam8bit, and a whole lot of cool people from the Bay Area playing games! As you can see in the pics below, we were in a vault in the basement of The Old Mint in San Francisco. It was […]
2014/10/21, 19:33 by checker
It’s that time of year again, when friends at Double Fine and iam8bit throw a big game party in San Francisco and everybody is invited! And this time, it’s all ages, so I mean everybody! It’s on November 1st, at the Old Mint building in SF, from 4pm to 11pm. Lots of cool indies will be there, […]
2014/03/16, 00:01 by checker
The new map, Gallery, is out in the latest build! The design goal for this map was to make it long and narrow with a lot of dynamic occlusion caused by the partygoers. It seemed to work pretty well, we played it during the release notes stream, where I did two different “birthday games”, the […]