Matt’s status is a lot more interesting than mine, so let’s start there. Matt is currently working at Daedalic Entertainment, a company in Hamburg, Germany who has built several adventure games in recent years including A New Beginning, Deponia, and Harvey’s New Eyes. While Matt’s current project is still undisclosed, it’s safe to say that he’s taken a leading roll in the game’s original concept; and rumor has it that he’s drawing all the game art. I can’t offer much more insight than that because, honestly, he’s not even telling me! We’ll have to watch the Daedalic website this year for a public announcement. I will, of course, post any updates on his new project as information becomes available. As for me, I’ve just been building lots of HTML5 web data visualization (exciting, right?), and managing localization production on Stitch. Unfortunately, there’s still no news on the Stitch Russian version as we continue waiting on final translations.

As for another Tick game… Matt and I are both extremely busy with long-term engagements on other projects. Therefore, there are no immediate plans for a new game; neither now nor in the foreseeable future. However, never say never. We’ll see what happens in a year as we wind down on our current project cycles.

Friends and fans, Matt and I are thrilled to announce the re-release of the original “What Makes You Tick?“, now modernized as an online-playable Flash game!! This re-release stays true to the original game’s story while incorporating a new soundtrack and interface enhancements, and finally makes the game playable in fullscreen mode! Rediscover the rustic charm of the original “What Makes You Tick?” at the game’s new website:

http://www.lassiegames.com/games/wmyt/

This re-release has been a year in the making as we’ve slowly ported the original game’s graphics and dialogue over into the Stitch engine. It’s been a labor of love keeping the original game intact while cleaning up its behaviors and story flow using features of the new engine. All around, we think the game looks clean, runs smoothly, and sounds great! There are also free downloadable versions of the game available here.

Enjoy, and as always – happy adventuring!

Friday, August 19th @ Sandburg
Hafenstr. 10
51063 Cologne
Germany

Hope to see you there!

Also, we’d encourage our German visitors to check out this recent interview with the German game site Adventure Corner.

Also, we have some good news and bad news to go with this release. The bad news is that the German version will again NOT be a talkie… as much as we hoped for voice acting, the feature ended up getting cut from our publisher’s production budget. The good news, however, is that we’re dropping Adobe AIR from our system requirements. We’ve been rather underwhelmed by the Adobe AIR platform benefits, so have evolved Stitch to run as a standard Windows/Mac executable application. The German version will release exclusively as a standalone application, and the English version should follow suit shortly thereafter.