Nancy Drew Dossier - Trailer
Posted by Phil on July 15, 2009 at 11:31pm
Here’s a link to the casual game I worked on for Her Interactive - “Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, camera, curses!”. It was released online last August, and has now also been released as a boxed PC game…
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Phrenology - The Prototype…
Posted by Phil on July 19, 2009 at 1:35pm
When I was trying to demonstrate this game concept for Sherlock Holmes, I thought I’d make a mock-up using a sample of magnetic whiteboard that, incidentally, my wife had used in a demo for the Maxis Studios in Emeryville…
- Its a variation on the classic ‘Pairs’ or ‘Concentration’ game, only the board is constantly moving. The idea was that the ‘shape’ could be a circle, a spiral, a figure-8, ANY flowing shape… When Vinny Carrella and I came up with the concept we thought it would be a great interpretation of the ‘grey matter’ of Sherlock Holmes brain as he solved the case. Hence the term ‘Phrenology’...
- Can you imagine EXACTLY HOW MANY boxes of magnets I had to buy to get enough of each color I needed?!? A LOT!!! The house is still coming down with magnets…
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Linerville!!!
Posted by Phil on February 12, 2011 at 1:02am
This is my take on a Zynga-like social networking game for Facebook. I’ve tried to evolve the format of games like Farmville and Frontierville and create more narrative, more actual shared gameplay and a more “acceptable” form of notifications. Create! Connect! Collect!
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