Since we finished our massive push, Fingeance is starting to look an awful lot like a completed game. In fact, we’ve had several playtesters ask us “Why aren’t you publishing? What features do you still need to add?” We take this as a sizable compliment, and every time we hear it, we get a little…

Salutations! As many of you know, Escape Industries set out on a mad quest recently. We were tired of endless hypotheticals about how the game might look someday. So we set out to build the dang thing. As soon as possible. In mid December, we ourselves upon a crazy challenge: make six levels in just…

Any time designers sit down to make a genre mash-up like Fingeance, they enter exciting new territory. There’s an inherent delight to mixing new things together and watching what emerges. Two of our genres – character brawler and roguelike (random levels, random loot) – have given us a lot to think about. Hundreds of times,…