nightschoolstudio

Yes.

Thanks much for the kind words! Glad you liked it/at least today still like it.

• A sequel is definitely a thing we're considering, as are future add-ons. We purposefully made it thinking it would be a nice, little, complete story that has a definite "end" so you're not sitting there thinking, "Oh, OBVIOUSLY they're gonna become Exorcist Ghostbusters now." And I still like that decision. BUT I'll admit it would be nice to see some of these characters and the island again... I'll just end this rambling by saying it's not currently PLANNED, but it's not off the table at all.

• Speaking solely for myself, I expected about thirty people to like this game, and I knew half of them them by name. I think it's best when making something even partly "creative" to just try and make it for yourself and your "ideal reader," someone who would follow your obsessions and laugh at your jokes. So it's been very rewarding to see people respond to the game as kindly and as passionately as they have been.

• As someone who is not at all qualified to answer this, let me answer this for you! The game artists I know pretty much uniformly went to art school for illustration, and either used their contacts in school to get a job or applied to studios and just got lucky. It's a HIGHLY competitive field, but my advice for anyone wanting to get into any creative industry is pretty much always the same: apply to places, sure, but spend at least as much time making your own stuff and putting it out there. Someone will notice.

• The full names thing haunts me to this day. SO MANY TIMES I wanted to have somebody refer to somebody else as Mr. So and So and it killed me that I never just sat down and came up with their last names. ERGH. At this point it feels like bad luck or something to name their after the fact. As for the birthdays... I feel like Alex is born in July for some reason. Maybe October.

• Yeah, we really dropped the ball on that. We had a whole list of contests and in the chaos of daily operations just let it slip to the wayside. We should get back on that. Thanks for the gentle shove!

• EASY. Poltergeist, Stand By Me, The Fog, Monster Squad, Something Wicked This Way Comes, ParaNorman and Hocus Pocus. And I guess Goonies.

• On the East Coast? I was just very kindly invited to the recent KillScreen Festival in Brooklyn last weekend! Other than that, we'll keep an eye out for some others.

• Haha. XRAY is... actually, it's really hilarious to me who XRAY really is, but it would spoil the fun since the whole ARG thing isn't completely done yet... SORRY! We'll tell everyone someday.

Thanks for the varied questions!

-adam

That's not okay at all, you should be ashamed of yourself.

• As a SUPER FAN of Greek Mythology, I am sure any references that slipped in were subconsciously stuck there by my tired brain, as I honestly don't remember any specifically.

• Originally it was just a random string of letters, and then for one hot minute this was gonna link to the ARG... and THEN we switched up the plan for that so now it's back to being a nonsensical time stamp to show that you've pretty much broken the universe with your meddling radio.

• Yep, they were put in mostly to indicate that you're going wayyyy deeper than you have up until that moment in the game.

-adam

Phil Kasberg, local fisherman and fan of The Good Wife. -adam

The difficulty in telling what background each character is was definitely intentional! Early in development (way, way early), we even tried making it DOUG-style and have their skin tone be wildly different, with green and blue characters. That was scrapped in about five minutes when it started to look too kiddy or weird.

There's never been a set ethnicity, really, for any of them, and I think we all hope the fan art reflects what the player "saw" when they played. -adam