We’re deep in the playtesting phase for the new version of Curse of the Tiki Lounge-and wow, it’s rough! Playtesting is hands down the most mentally exhausting part of the game design process for us. We’re so close to being done, yet it feels like the game will never quite come together. This happens with… Read more →
Yacine and I have bad luck with cancellations. Two hours before our Sleep No More Show, we received an email notifying us it was canceled. Our Cutthroat Cavern game was canceled the night before we were to play. Life and Trust was abruptly closed ten days before our booking and days before seeing Delusion: The… Read more →
Enigmarch is a fun little activity to get those wheels spinning on puzzle design. Each day they provide the community with a new theme for a puzzle. Search the hashtag #enigmarch for a ton of free puzzles and brainteasers! I like to make these really quickly – the opposite of what we do for Society… Read more →
Enigmarch is a fun little activity to get those wheels spinning on puzzle design. Each day they provide the community with a new theme for a puzzle. Search the hashtag #enigmarch for a ton of free puzzles! As an exercise for puzzle creativity, I try to come up with these quickly – the complete opposite… Read more →
Enigmarch is a fun little activity to get those wheels spinning on puzzle design. Each day they provide the community with a new theme for a puzzle. Search the hashtag #enigmarch for a ton of free puzzles! Today’s theme was lock. I’ve been trying to do a puzzle as quickly as possible so this doesn’t… Read more →
Enigmarch is a fun little activity to get those wheels spinning on puzzle design. Each day they provide the community with a new theme for a puzzle. Search the hashtag #enigmarch for a ton of free puzzles! Today’s theme was shadow. The idea came almost right away and I spent a few minutes putting this… Read more →
Enigmarch is a fun little activity to get those wheels spinning on puzzle design. Each day they provide the community with a new theme for a puzzle. Search the hashtag #enigmarch for a ton of free puzzles! Today’s theme was Rhyme. I went through a ton of ideas and settled on a fun little rhyming… Read more →
We are fortunate to be in an industry with amazing creators that we respect and like. There is something for every type of puzzler here – from longer narrative puzzles, to games for families, to dense, puzzle-heavy games. Just like us at The Society of Curiosities, our creator friends care about cultivating their craft and… Read more →
We do a TON of research when creating our mystery in a box games. For the Fairy Tale Files game (think Fairy Tale meets True Crime) – we went back to the Brothers Grimm and reread their versions. These are much more gruesome than the versions that are told to children today. Below are a… Read more →
When we were planning our featured drink for the Last Masquerade mystery in a box game, we wanted something fun but mysterious. So what better than a color changing cocktail?! This drink is a fun twist on a Moscow mule, using butterly pea flowers to make blue ice that dyes the drink and changes color… Read more →
