Life and lessons bootstrapping a murder mystery game — What is Arcadia? The Arcadia Report is an immersive murder mystery unique to you, transforming your city into an escape room. Travel to real world locations, unlock clues, and uncover the secrets of Arcadia as you delve into corrupted records of a failed startup with murderous consequences. Find out more here.

Life and lessons bootstrapping a murder mystery game — What is Arcadia? The Arcadia Report is an immersive murder mystery unique to you, transforming your city into an escape room. Travel to real world locations, unlock clues, and uncover the secrets of Arcadia as you delve into corrupted records of a failed startup with murderous consequences. Find out more here. Where We Left Off Last time…

Life and lessons bootstrapping a murder mystery game — What is Arcadia? The Arcadia Report is an immersive murder mystery unique to you, transforming your city into an escape room. Travel to real world locations, unlock clues, and uncover the secrets of Arcadia as you delve into corrupted records of a failed startup with murderous consequences. Find out more here. Where We Left Off Week 5…

Lessons and Resources from Designing Dark UI — Dark Mode, the seemingly ever popular ability to turn an interface black and glory in perpetual darkness and (potentially) increased battery life and productivity, is fast becoming a new normal. It officially debuted on iOS 13 but dark interfaces (if not necessarily the ability to toggle them on or off)…

Life and lessons bootstrapping a murder mystery game — What is Arcadia? The Arcadia Report is an immersive murder mystery unique to you, transforming your city into an escape room. Travel to real world locations, unlock clues, and uncover the secrets of Arcadia as you delve into corrupted records of a failed startup with murderous consequences. Find out more here. Where We Left Off Week 4…

Life and lessons bootstrapping a murder mystery game — What is Arcadia? The Arcadia Report is an immersive murder mystery unique to you, transforming your city into an escape room. Travel to real world locations, unlock clues, and uncover the secrets of Arcadia as you delve into corrupted records of a failed startup with murderous consequences. Find out more here. Where We Left Off In week…

Creating a Content-Only Prototype to Redesign an Experience — One of the biggest challenges I found while testing early version of The Arcadia Report was how to test the designs I was making because they are so content driven. Most screen design tools and static visual prototyping tools can make for a clunky approximation of actually reading and interacting…

Life and lessons bootstrapping a murder mystery game — Where We Left Off Last week saw the overhaul of The Arcadia Report: taking it from a collection of mysterious features and a loose alpha prototype to a streamlined redesign. The whole process is broken down in last week’s dev log, now it’s on to phase 2: a fresh introduction.

Creating a visual grammar for a tech-noir thriller — The Arcadia Report is centred around a corrupt database but is so much more than that. Arcadia isn’t just a database, it is a pivotal character in the mystery. The interface needed to feel like a living piece of software, a character you come to know, not a mere container…