Puzzle Spy International 🔜 MAGWest

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Puzzle Spy International set up on a table at a small con. There’s a laptop and free-standing monitor and a cute little stand up of Agent Epsilon that I made myself out of foamcore. A woman ponders over the puzzle on-screen.

Demoing Puzzle Spy International at MAGwest in San Jose all weekend. Here’s my nice little set-up complete with “fancy” tablecloth and an Agent Epsilon standee I made myself out of foamcore! 😄

Puzzle Spy International will be demoing at the Indie Games Expo at @magwestofficial.bsky.social Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this weekend! Come meet the devs (and our kid depending on the day) and play the game demo with some friends! 🕵️‍♀️

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Puzzle Spy International will be demoing at the Indie Games Expo at @magwestofficial.bsky.social Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this weekend! Come meet the devs (and our kid depending on the day) and play the game demo with some friends! 🕵️‍♀️

#indieGame #puzzleGame #MAGwest #bayArea #sanJose

Love the mix of 2d and 3D, looks great! (It especially works well when you have really nicely designed 2D elements.) Great work! 😍

A banner for the Debut Festival, all orange with a big star and a rainbow on it. The dates listed on the banner are August 7-11. Set inside a frame is a smaller banner for Puzzle Spy International, showing Agent Epsilon's head and the game's logo.

PSI is part of the new Debut Festival on Steam sponsored by Gamedev.ist and showcasing first-time games from brand new studios... which is what we here at Travel-Friendly Cake are! 😁

Check out our Steam page (and maybe play the demo?) at s.team/a/3406690 🕵️‍♀️

#indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame #VN

A banner for the Debut Festival, all orange with a big star and a rainbow on it. The dates listed on the banner are August 7-11. Set inside a frame is a smaller banner for Puzzle Spy International, showing Agent Epsilon's head and the game's logo.

PSI is part of the new Debut Festival on Steam sponsored by Gamedev.ist and showcasing first-time games from brand new studios... which is what we here at Travel-Friendly Cake are! 😁

Check out our Steam page (and maybe play the demo?) at s.team/a/3406690 🕵️‍♀️

#indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame #VN

We’re still happily working our way through Blue Prince! (We started later than many.)

Sometimes forward movement on our game can look like scripting an animation or illustrating a new background... And sometimes it's spending 3 days filling up a notebook page with a specific country's common first and last names to come up with a character name pun used in a throwaway line. 😄

Thank you! 🕵️‍♀️👍

An apartment with fancy art on the wall and 60s mod couch and light fixture, all in red. Agent Epsilon - Indian, short hair, teal mod dress - stands with arms crossed. She is facing three other people - a black woman with an afro and a wide-collared dress, an unamused white guy with blonde hair, thick-framed glasses, mustard-colored turtleneck and a black blazed, and a thick white man with a rounded head and nose wearing a brown suit and tie. Agent Epsilon is introducing herself: "Agent Epsilon from Puzzle Spy International. I’m here for the Eswatini Giant." All of the art is drawn in a simplified mid-century style.

For #screenshotSaturday, Agent Epsilon introducing herself to 3 unknown characters. This is the most people we have in one scene, and I spent this week animating entrances and exits, drawing poses, and just generally giving this scene a lot of fun interaction.

#indieGame #VN #puzzleGame #gameArt

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An apartment with fancy art on the wall and 60s mod couch and light fixture, all in red. Agent Epsilon - Indian, short hair, teal mod dress - stands with arms crossed. She is facing three other people - a black woman with an afro and a wide-collared dress, an unamused white guy with blonde hair, thick-framed glasses, mustard-colored turtleneck and a black blazed, and a thick white man with a rounded head and nose wearing a brown suit and tie. Agent Epsilon is introducing herself: "Agent Epsilon from Puzzle Spy International. I’m here for the Eswatini Giant." All of the art is drawn in a simplified mid-century style.

For #screenshotSaturday, Agent Epsilon introducing herself to 3 unknown characters. This is the most people we have in one scene, and I spent this week animating entrances and exits, drawing poses, and just generally giving this scene a lot of fun interaction.

#indieGame #VN #puzzleGame #gameArt

Yes, it is! You can follow the Steam link in the above post to wishlist and try the demo. (There’s also a Steam link in our bio.)

Agent Epsilon is confronted by Stefania Plinth, who is agrily gesturing and saying "Those diavoli! They broke in here and stole the Eswatini Giant!" Both women are in 60s outfits, Epsilon in a teal mod short-sleeved dress and Stefania in a blue and cream dress with a wide collar and double-breaster buttons up the front. She's got cats-eye glasses and her hair is in a tight bun. Both are standing in the geology museum, with display cases of rocks, framed phots of how plate tectonics work, and a T-rex skeleton in the back. The scene is purple and gold and the whole thing is drawn in a mid-century modern art style.

For #ScreenshotSaturday here's Agent Epsilon meeting Stefania Plinth, the Director of Rome's geology museum, the Museo di Neo Geo. There's a problem to deal with... and a puzzle involved!

See more and find the demo at s.team/a/3406690 and mdashow.itch.io/psi-demo

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A super-productive day at Puzzle spy International HQ today: I (Mike) got a ton of work done on a late-game scene, Talia got a bunch of grad school homework done, and then together we had an epic run in Blue Prince and found the fabled room 46! 🎉

Thanks so much for trying it out! Glad you enjoyed it! 💛🕵️‍♀️

Agent Epsilon is confronted by Stefania Plinth, who is agrily gesturing and saying "Those diavoli! They broke in here and stole the Eswatini Giant!" Both women are in 60s outfits, Epsilon in a teal mod short-sleeved dress and Stefania in a blue and cream dress with a wide collar and double-breaster buttons up the front. She's got cats-eye glasses and her hair is in a tight bun. Both are standing in the geology museum, with display cases of rocks, framed phots of how plate tectonics work, and a T-rex skeleton in the back. The scene is purple and gold and the whole thing is drawn in a mid-century modern art style.

For #ScreenshotSaturday here's Agent Epsilon meeting Stefania Plinth, the Director of Rome's geology museum, the Museo di Neo Geo. There's a problem to deal with... and a puzzle involved!

See more and find the demo at s.team/a/3406690 and mdashow.itch.io/psi-demo

#indieDev #puzzleGame #VN #VNsky

Check out this playthrough where Ambie tackles the demo for Puzzle Spy International (but note that she gets through the entire puzzle, so maybe don't watch to the end if you want the challenge of doing that yourself! 😄)
Thanks for playing, Ambie!

Thank you so much for trying out our demo and playing through it all. We really appreciate your sharing the experience! (You did great too - just got right in there and started filling in blanks right away! 👍😄)

"Humans need to argue"
Arguing on Twitter:

Agent Epsilon - British Indian, short dark hair, retro short-sleeved mod dress - in standing in a hallway holding a flyer and pondering it. We also see a zoomed-in image of the flyer, which is a travel brochure for touring Rome. There are a couple of illustrations of Rome sights, and a lot of text (which here is fake Latin.) There is a space at the bottom to enter an 8-digit door code which will unlock the keypad lock in the door in the hallway. The entire scene is in avocado greens and is drawn in a Mid-century Modern art style.

For #ScreenshotSaturday here's a new little puzzle we're working on for Puzzle Spy International. (Don't bother trying to solve it - the text is all fake.)

#puzzleGame #indieGame #indieGameDev #thinkyGame

Maybe these characters will show up in our next game... 🤔🧙‍♀️🐕
...meanwhile, back to work on the current one! 😄

Here's ours!
(We also posted a new screenshot today, but as you're sharing trailers... 😄)

bsky.app/profile/agen...

Agent Epsilon - British Indian, short dark hair, retro short-sleeved mod dress - in standing in a hallway holding a flyer and pondering it. We also see a zoomed-in image of the flyer, which is a travel brochure for touring Rome. There are a couple of illustrations of Rome sights, and a lot of text (which here is fake Latin.) There is a space at the bottom to enter an 8-digit door code which will unlock the keypad lock in the door in the hallway. The entire scene is in avocado greens and is drawn in a Mid-century Modern art style.

For #ScreenshotSaturday here's a new little puzzle we're working on for Puzzle Spy International. (Don't bother trying to solve it - the text is all fake.)

#puzzleGame #indieGame #indieGameDev #thinkyGame

A banner showing a scene of a hallway with Agent Epsilon smiling and gesturing at some text. The text includes the Puzzle Spy International logo and the text "June Update."

I have a new dev-blog post up on Steam, where I talk about the differences between games that offer a guided intro to the mechanics versus those that invite the player to explore without being too directed, and why we specifically chose the latter for PSI.
store.steampowered.com/news/app/340...

A banner showing a scene of a hallway with Agent Epsilon smiling and gesturing at some text. The text includes the Puzzle Spy International logo and the text "June Update."

I have a new dev-blog post up on Steam, where I talk about the differences between games that offer a guided intro to the mechanics versus those that invite the player to explore without being too directed, and why we specifically chose the latter for PSI.
store.steampowered.com/news/app/340...

A blue pencil drawing of a saluki (that's a dog breed) standing on 2 legs and wearing a cute dress and a witch's hat and an apron. She's holding a spoon. She looks friendly and pleasant.

Blue pencil line drawings of a few different dogs: - a Norwegian Buhund wearing a cute dress with a collar and a witch's hat with a bow - and two that look a little more like wolves wearing aprons over tee shirts. All look happy and friendly.

The "kombucha girl" meme showing a woman (Brittany Tomlinson) making a distasteful face in the first frame and a face that says "no, actually that's okay!" in the second frame. The unhappy face is paired with the text "My sketches of cat witches" while the okay, considering face is paired with the text "My sketches of dog witches."

I've been trying for a while to draw some cute cat witches for a new game idea (which would potentially follow Puzzle Spy International) and none of the cat witches were clicking for me... But then I tried DOG witches and am suddenly much more excited by them. 🐕

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Glad to hear it, so that more people can play it. Device 6 was a definite influence on our current game! ❤️