I really appreaciate you sharing this story about your influences and journey. Best of luck with the launch!

🏆 The Golden Idol is an icon, but it wouldn't be the same without its cast of unfortunate victims. 🪦 @andrejsklavins.bsky.social and Emests Klavis explain the importance of the game's characters to the overarching narrative. ✍️ Check out the highlight below👇

The day of ascension is coming. Join us for The Lemurian Phoenix and become enlightened on Tuesday May 13. store.steampowered.com/news/app/271...

This Friday at 10am PDT join Golden Idol developers Ernests and @andrejsklavins.bsky.social for a #LudoNarraCon Fireside Chat on Narrative Through Puzzle Design with @dannyodwyer.bsky.social.

The first of four DLCs for the Rise of the Golden Idol is out! store.steampowered.com/app/3333870/... The creatives leads on this investigation were Bill and Dani from www.escapethispodcast.com. Super happy to see how their experimental ideas came to fruition!

There are endless jokes how the culture of my country is sad combination of being an ever oppressed nation with strong love for the early 20th century romanticism. So I'm super happy for the amazing success of @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social by creating something completely different and beautiful.

But we don't know which one! Super happy anyway.

100% Obra Dinn or go to jail. Harsh but fair. hard-drive.net/hd/report-yo...

Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Episode 13 featuring @andrejsklavins.bsky.social is out now! Topics include the development of the Golden Idol games, balancing narrative and deductive reasoning puzzles, and the process of iterating the game design and UX. pod.link/1777156468

Is this the new Rise of the Golden Idol DLC?

Thank you, Ernest, for getting us to this point in life!

Started and finished last week this little detective gem: store.steampowered.com/app/2277090/... I didn't like the demo particularly, but the full version where the game actively starts doing it's own thing, left me numerous sweet aha! moments.

'The 50 best video games of 2024' is the clue, but you'll have to investigate the article to find out what number The Rise of the Golden Idol has been rated 🔎🎉 www.polygon.com/what-to-play...

Started playing Tactical @breachwizards.bsky.social this morning and I'm immensely enjoying the writing. I usually hate when games require me to read plot stuff, but here I'm happily consuming every bit of dialogue and want more! Very inspiring!

We were discussing architecture influences in our work chat and Ernest found this early sketch of Newsflash scenario. This shows pretty well what our early concept tests look like.

One of the more contentious Rise changes has been UI. 1. Our main motivation was that single screen puzzles restrict us in what kind of how many we can make per scenario. 2. We wanted players to feel less overwhelmed than in the first game seeing all puzzles at the same time. 🧵 1/2

Three days ago we launched "The Rise of the Golden Idol", the sequel to our first indie detective game and I feel exhausted physically and mentally. However this time I'm recovering quicker. Because, the initial results are amazing and it is harder to tell yourself you got lucky twice in a row.