The following is a simulated walk-through in first person of the Scene Investigators demo build. It is intended for those who played either our PC or live ga...

I had the opportunity to work with Unity game engine for 5 years while working on The Painscreek Killings. During that time, I came to understand what a game...

On October 15th, 2019, our blog has moved from Blogger to EQ Studios' main website. We feel that this move is better for everyone in the long run. Not only c...

It’s been over two years since The Painscreek Killings (TPK) launched on September 27, 2017. Prior to that, it took a little over five years to develop. Look...

Did we have a programmer? Truth be told, we did, eventually. However, our first three years consisted of a few CG artists who just wanted to make a game. Thi...

To understand why Unity was chosen for our game project, The Painscreek Killings, we have to first share a bit about our background. BACKGROUND In 2011, we w...

On January 21, 2019, eleven months after the initiation of The Johnson Files and three pre-alpha builds later, we have decided to return to the drawing board...

It's been a few months since we posted our last blog, and that was before we released the Japanese localization of TPK. So what have we been doing since? Spe...

Throughout our five-and-a-half years of developing The Painscreek Killings, we designed 9 custom buildings, developed 20 characters, constructed more than 10...

When first designing the user interface, we decided to go with a minimalist design, for a number of reasons. First, we couldn't understand how to use Autodes...

When a game has no quest journal, no hint system, a playtime average of over 10 hours, and it requires players to trek over twelve locations, is there anyway...

AdventureGamers.com recently reviewed 'The Painscreek Killings' and rated it excellent with a score of 4.5/5! Here's their verdict: "The Painscreek Killings ...

Hi everyone! This one took a while, but we are pleased to announce controller support for The Painscreek Killings. Most major controllers are supported and f...

We had an amazing time at PAX South 2018 and we loved meeting all our fans!  Whether you came to try out The Painscreek Killings demo or have already been a ...

Instead of discussing the menu and UI design as originally planned, we’ve decided to take this opportunity to explain a bit further how we utilized the conte...

Coming up with the game mechanics shouldn't be too difficult. Since we are trying to mimic a real life investigation, that would mean we could skip anything ...

When we first started, there were two areas to consider developing. First, the story and game design. Then there’s the technical part where we need to build ...

A few years ago, a friend of ours asked how goes our work. At that time, there were three of us and we were working on CG ads. I thought we did fine, althoug...