Wow! 2017 was a HUGE year for us! Even wist the rest of the world outside these studio walls not doing so well, in here everything’s coming up Milhouse! With this post, I wanted to take a trip back through the year and a brief look forward into next. It’s been an eventful year, so I hope you’re all comfy! ALL ABOARD! Events: Everyone knows that we do a lot of events every year. This year was no exception! It saw us at: “UD Con” and “Municipal Brew Work’s Saint Patrick’s Day”

Hey everyone! Eric again… looks like I might start handling these more often. Maybe. Likely. Kinda. I don’t know. Ask Jay. I just usually write the pretty stories. He seems to think I can write more editorial pieces as well. So, here we go. If you don’t like it, not my fault. Blame the “Boss Man” and not me. I want to talk about the developer to publisher relationship in gaming today. Or at least, what was the relation and what seems to be changing about it recently. At leas

Hey guys, Eric here. Been a while since I did one of these… let’s see if I can remember how to do this. Ahem. Welcome to the Wraith Blog! Wait… no, no… this is a topic much too serious for all the joking around I’m usually known for when I do these. This is about the current direction that free-to-play puzzle games, but really all free-to-play games, are going in lately. So yes, this may come across a little preachy on my end, but I promise I bring this up out of love

Hey all! I really wanted to get this blog post out sometime last week (I knew it really couldn’t be Monday, though), because I wanted to start off by showing some pictures from our Microenterprise class graduation. It… well, it took them a while to get the pictures to us students, unfortunately, but we have them now! I have a few other pieces of news as well, but I’ll cover those after this part. So lets make the magic happen! Outside of the Hamilton Mill: Mark in the back, D

Hey all! Things have been going really well around here as of late, though, if I’m being honest, today’s blog post will probably be pretty short. See, most of you already know roughly what we have to report on anyway, so none of the news is really “huge” or anything. With that being said, here are “4 Short Updates From Wraith” (and yes, that is supposed to be a Simpsons reference hidden behind several layers of incomprehensible). Let’s rock! First, a bit of a follow-up to our

Hey all! It’s been one heck of a week! Kristy and I started working on finishing up Radarkanoid for the Kentucky Fried Pixels game jam, interviewed a potential new member of the team, met with Mark about getting the new Collapsus demo ready for Indy PopCon (and subsequently the weekly builds), Steve has been working on some shirts and a new animated intro, Eric & Adam have been prepping to represent us at Indy PopCon, got the new sticker, buttons, two new demo tablets (and ou

Hey guys! Sorry about the lack of a post last week. We were doing quite a lot and it just wasn’t in the cards, I guess. With Memorial Day yesterday, I guess this means we’ve been 8 whole days without a blog post. Yikes! Hey, remember when we’d go whole months without a post? Heck, we pretty much skipped all of 2013. Dark times, dark times. I’ll make sure that won’t happen again and I’ll also try to make sure this article doesn’t disappoint! The floor. Oh, wow, the floor. You

Hey all! Today I wanted to continue our 11 part Lance T. Miller rip-off series: “11 Things We’ve Learned from 11 Years in Game Development”. For those who don’t frequent here often, we are currently doing two ongoing series: this one, where we go over the lessons we’ve learned while going from being a few people making games as a hobby, to becoming an actual studio, and ” Where Do I Get Started”, where we explain how someone can launch themselves into a particular aspect of

Hey all! You probably know this if you follow our social media, but I’ve been sick the last few days with some sort of cold. I’m feeling much better now, but I still feel like crap. That’s why I’m going to soft-ball it today with a nice and easy post. The topic of the day is more remodel stuff and the blog itself! Lets hit it! Pretty nice, huh? It’s really coming along. Only a little more sketching to do (probably another day’s work worth) and then we’re outlining the sketch

Hey all! Sorry about not posting a blog last week. We had something lined up, but then some personal things happened and that particular post no longer seemed appropriate. Nothing too dire, don’t worry. Live and learn, I guess. Well, anyway, this week I figured we’d play it a bit safer and just talk about direct news again, so buckle in! Oh, hey… look up top there: a new blog logo! Nice! So let’s start with Collapsus. Right now we’re working on several things all at once on C

Hey all! With most of what’s going on already pretty thoroughly explored in other posts and on social media, I wanted to take today to do a little housekeeping and let all of you know what some of the other plans are moving forward in the near future. I’ll try to ties this into some of the other things you already know about for context’s sake. Here we go! After the remodel is done, then it’s video time! Now, there are quite a few little things going on as well. Recently we g

Hey all! Wow, this blog post is late, isn’t it! Sorry about that! There’s a really good reason for it, I promise! First, though, an update on Collapsus: it’s doing great… now on to the other news! So many shiny new toys! These are just some of the things that arrived for the studio in the past few days! We have a new desk (oh, that illusive desk! It’s finally ours!), four stunning new drafting chairs, one guest chair, a drafting table lamp, two desk-based headphone hooks (and

Hey guys… Eric here. Yea, I know it’s been a while. But I’ve been working on some projects that needed my attention. Though, maybe as I catch up, Jay might ask for some more help with the blog again. For now, you got me this week because he’s rather ill. And I think I speak for us all when I say we wish him well again soon. You’re likely curious about what the blog will be about with no announcements and the remodeling on hold as we all know Jay is not the only one to be sick

Hey all! It’s time for a fresh, new blog post! This week, I wanted to cover something that is often asked by our fans. How do you get started making games if you don’t know how to program? This question gets asked on Twitter and over e-mail, mostly, but we’ve had a few people ask in person and I’ve even hosted a panel at Pandoracon a couple years ago that was supposed to be about breaking into the industry as a whole, but ended up running over schedule because there were just

Hey all! Lets start today’s blog post off with some smaller news. Kristy, our current lead programmer (and my fiancée) is a college student. Her new semester starts in a couple weeks on the 25th. As such, Collapsus programming will be slowing down a bit while she handles school. Don’t worry, though, it won’t grind to a halt or anything, just slow down. If any of you are programmers, though, and would like to help us get it out quicker, drop us a line either on our contact for

Hey guys! For this week’s blog, I wanted to talk about the business side of Wraith for once. Up until now, we’ve been what’s called a “sole proprietorship”. A sole proprietorship is literally the simplest form of business one can have. It’s basically just saying that the business and the business’s owner are one and the same. While a sole proprietorship can have employees (like we do), any and all legal responsibilities fall to the business owner (in this case, me). Yikes! Th

Holy!… It’s been a long time since the last blog post, hasn’t it? Well, I’m just sort of here to tell you guys a little bit more about our project: Physix. A few of you have played some loose-concept demos like the one at A&G Ohio and the one available on the S8G forums, but that really doesn’t really give you a feel for what the game is truly about. If you’ve been following our Twitter (which I don’t know why any of you would), you’d see that we were in the process of constr

I’ve never really been one for making blog posts, so as you can imagine when I couldn’t figure out HOW to on this site, I was overjoyed… but then when I received an email addressed to all of the “Labs” members from the big guy saying that we all needed to keep people updated… I unfortunately had to figure it out. It’s sorta weird, you know? When I was growing up, all I ever wanted to do was make games. I guess the word I’m looking for isn’t “weird”… it’s actually “surreal” (b