So, um, wow. I had hoped to get this out near the start of the month, but it looks like the whole world’s on fire right now! To get some of that out of the way (I know how some of you worry), we’ve actually closed up the studio for the foreseeable future (and cancelled all upcoming event appearances) so our peeps are all working from their respective homes right now. So we’re all safe, sound, and cozy. Anyway, in lighter news, late late last month (and the start of this one)

Hey, hey, hey everybody! 2020 is here! Man, we just finished January and I feel like it’s been a whole season already (and that’s not just because of this Ohio weather). We’ve done a lot in January, and it’s only going to get crazier from there. So without further ado, on with the rest of the post! Let’s start off with Magfest. This year we were put on a waiting list for attendees, so if anyone dropped, we’d get in. Magfest was right after New Year’s, and for some reason, som

Yeah, you read that right. After our epic three-part look at 2019 and seeing all those “decade in review” posts on social media and YouTube, I figured it was high time for us to do one of our own. It’s kinda funny, actually. We have the wonderful opportunity to have been older than just this decade, starting all the way back in 2005. I’m going to try not to dwell completely on every little bit; otherwise we’d be here all day (you saw what we did with 2019). But I do want to t

Hi everyone! Chris Quay here, back after a semester of college and most of a semester of doing Wraith things. In this blog post, since Jay has already given a rundown of the events of this year thus far, I’d like to take this opportunity to give a bit of a look into what exactly I’VE been up to this past semester with Wraith. Be warned, this one might be a tad long! So, I’ve been lucky enough to be working with the rest of the team to design and iterate some of Collapsus’ cor

It’s Part 3, everybody! For those of you who didn’t read Parts 1 & 2, you can find those here: https://www.wraithgames.com/blog-all/2019/10/21/lmlf0y0id59mi3uoxygnn79e2epcoh & https://www.wraithgames.com/blog-all/2019/11/19/the-year-was-2019-part2-theres-no-place-like-home For the rest of you, I’m not going to waste any more time! Smash cut to September 25th at the d20 Bar in Kettering! This event was called “Pints and Preneurs”. It was a cool little event meant to highlight

Oh boy! This is it! The big one! This is the blog post about The Hamilton Games Festival! What a ride! Many of you are probably wondering what that is. Consider this a bit of a postmortem. It’s a strange beast, and there are a lot of misconceptions floating around out there about it. Hopefully this helps. So, for starters, I do want to clear one big thing up before I start explaining the backstory and the day of. There are a lot of people out there who think this is a “Wraith

Hey everybody; Jay here! It has been WAY too long since we’ve done a blog post. The last couple were sporadic and, being honest, if it weren’t for Chris (one of our wonderful interns) we probably wouldn’t have even had the last two at all, either. The long and short of it is that we’ve been SUPER busy working on Collapsus and other things. That being said, we have something like half a year of blog content we never even covered, so here’s what we’re going to do. In the immort

Hey everyone, Chris Quay here, Wraith’s newest intern! I’ve been hard at work this past month, coming to events with the team and tossing myself deep into the world of game development, and I’d love to talk about all my experiences so far as part of this amazing team. First up: Being my first convention EVER, this was definitely an odd choice. A massive venue, fellow game developers as far as the eye can see, vendors selling every bit of gaming and anime paraphernalia you cou

Hey all! It’s been a while since our last post (about a year, if I remember correctly). We’ve started doing our blog posts over on our website, so you guy’s have missed a bit if you’ve not been following us over there or on social media. I wanted to give all you wonderful people an update on the project… and I’ve gotta say, it’s a BIG one! Try not to flip out! Let’s start with the release info. As many of you know, we were picked up by Ratalaika Games for world-wide publishin

Hey everyone! November was kind of a weird one around here: we didn’t go to a single event! Weird, right? Well, it turns out we probably won’t be attending any events until January, actually. So in lieu of that, this month’s blog post is going to be a progress report on what we’ve been up to an what our plans are for the short term leading up to Collapsus’ release! So, let’s start with events! January is going to see us ab both Magfest’s indie game showcase (we were thankful

Happy Halloween! September and October have been such amazing months, packed full of so much for us that we just forgot to make a blog post for September (oops). October is always our big event season and we’re no strangers to travel; but this September/October brought us to Columbus, Dayton, Atlantic City – NJ, and Huntington – WV! While not planned, doing big ol’ “4 event blog posts” around this time of year has become commonplace for us, since we just don’t have the time t

Hey all! We came back from Matsuricon this past weekend and it was a blast! This post is probably going to be a bit short, but hopefully you like it! So, I spent 10 days in Germany this month (plus 2 days on a plane/in an airport), so I got to skip work for a good chunk of this month. This was also the month I started work as a part-time game design high school teacher on the side (don’t worry, I started officially when I came back). This meant it was up to Mark to work on b

Hey everybody! It has been a crazy month around the studio. Collapsus marches ever forward (we’re almost done, we swear), the studio remodel is going smashingly, and we went to Indy PopCon for our third year in a row and it was out of this world! So, let’s talk about it. Indy Pop was amazing! Unfortunately, this time around it was just me, Adam, and Mark; but even though our event team was small, we certainly had a blast! Like previous years, Indy Pop was three days long, but

Sorry about the late blog on this one. We’ve decided to expand the blog to be more than just me. We’re slowly starting to add Lance, Steve, and Camille (with some guest bloggers planned as well) and we’re trying to start cranking them out weekly again. Well, somewhere we got our wires crossed and we not only didn’t start getting them out weekly as soon as we would have liked, but we accidentally skipped last month altogether! Oh no! Anyway, this post today is all about our bi

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension – a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into…. the Wraith Games blog. Sorry, had to do it. Hello everyone! This is going to be a fairly quick blog post. We’re currently neck deep in crunch mode for Collapsus. Yup, that’s right. Just a couple weeks and it will all be don

First blog of 2018 and it’s covering the first event of the year, too! We’ve just come back from Ohayocon! This was the first year of their Indie Game Showcase and all-in-all it was a HUGE success… so let’s talk about it for a bit, shall we? Believe it or not, Ohayocon was actually the first convention I ever went to back in 2007 (a couple year’s after Wraith’s founding). I mostly remember that trip being a bunch of people and then it was over (but also that I had a pretty gr

Man! October had a LOT of events for us! September 30th-October 1st gave us GDEX, October 14th saw Ohio Gaming Brigade’s Pop-Up Con #2, the 21st-22nd gave us BOTH Kabo, and LexPlay, with the month ending for us on the 27th with the West Virginia Game Developers Expo! That’s not counting all the news that happened BETWEEN those events! Let’s get going else we’ll be here all day… https://jaycd291f974096.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/ad819-img.jpg had to split up the team just to

Hey all. This blog post is going to be a *bit* shorter than some of our other event posts, mainly because we took a BUNCH of pictures on Nat’s phone and then it up and died on her. So, with not a lot of visual aid (until we can figure how to recover the pics sealed in their plastic and glass crypt) our trip just doesn’t read very long. So… uh, yeah. Sorry about that. Moving on… For this special occasion we were part of the GDEX Megabooth (or Minibooth as it had been also twee

Hey everybody! Sorry it’s been so long since the last blog post. I’d written a draft for one last week, but decided to scrap it. On to pf that, we were going to have some guest writers come if for the blog a few times before that, but we had some scheduling problems. So. Yeah. This post today will be all about the progress of the Collapsus weekly builds so far! Let’s jam! <img src="https://jaycd291f974096.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/f8beb-img.png) There have been numerous big

Two weeks ago (the 21st) marked our second year going to EKU Gaming Institute’s Vector Conference. Unlike last year (read about that here: http://blog.wraithgames.com/2016/05/a-day-at-vector.html) where it was me and Steve making the trip to Richmond, KY, I was joined instead by Natalie and Adam (they seem to be kinda my go-to team for events, it seems). While we only got to go down for Friday (it was a two day event), we certainly had a great time! Vector is a little differe