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The project started with a group of strangers meeting at a…",{"id":66,"by":11,"text":67},"7677717","Thanks for the comments! The game is indeed built with Unity. 3D models and animations were created in 3DS Max. Game development was a hobby for me for a long time, with most of…",{"value":69,"source":7,"evidence":70},"About two years from a January 2012 Global Game Jam start to release",[71],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"7678173","Thanks! One lesson was that we should have invested more in our tools upfront. We largely depended on Unity's built in editor to create our content. If we had built level editor…",[75,82],{"value":76,"source":7,"evidence":77},"Unity",[78,81],{"id":79,"by":11,"text":80},"7677960","Thanks for the comment and the support, I hope you like the game! The game is built with Unity, so on that side of things, a mobile port is pretty straightforward. 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Just the kind of game that would play nice on a portable gaming device.",{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"7679695","mratzloff","Congratulations, great idea and (it looks like) great execution! Now you need to enter the game into festivals, drum up PR, conduct interviews. By publishing to a Steam first,…",{"value":150,"source":53,"evidence":151},"Financial report on Steam sales",[152,156],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"7679578","icefox","In a few months time would you be up for giving a financial report on how well sell on steam worked for you?",{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"7679137","keyle","Any words on the revenues \u002F sales $ generated by Steam?",[161,168],{"value":162,"source":53,"evidence":163},"How puzzles were created",[164],{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"7684620","yaeger","I always wonder how the puzzles for games like this are created. Can this be done procedural? 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