At Freesphere we aim to make stuff that stands out from the rest of the crowd with a focus on gameplay systems and mechanics working with narrative to support each other.  This is currently a royalty based role working from home with the hopes of making it a permanent full-time role in the near future.  […]

After 4 years of burnouts, failed funding attempts, re-designs & thousands of man-hours across two different development teams, it’s time to put Tether to the back of my mind. Ultimately when I started out on this journey with a group of friends to make the game a reality I had an idea on how to […]

As a developer with a passion for horror I have been wanting to make a blog post series talking about my personal game-design philosophy. In this post, I will discuss the difference between a jump scare and creating dread. So, let’s start out with a definition of both the terms that are important here: Scare: To […]

Florence is an interesting game because of many reasons, but what’s impressed me the most is that it has managed to reach the holy grail of game design – letting your game mechanics tell the story. I first heard of Florence on the Games Industry dot biz podcast, on the show they were discussing how […]