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The perspective gives it some additional creepiness. Sort of reminds me of The Dark Eye in that regard (but obv completely different art style). Good luck with it!

Working on some art, and this is a fitting soundtrack:

Portishead - Hunter

Good call - haven't listened to Portishead in ages. Great track!

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Fear/threats seem to work on children, particularly if they think that if something is in a book, it must have been regarded as important 

Yeah it gets the job done quickly and easily, but as a parent and teacher I know for a fact that if you just take the time to explain to kids, even very very young kids, why they should/shouldn't do something they will understand and respect the rule (the majority of the time). If you can't give them a good reason, then your rule is stupid and shouldn't exist.

I remember as a kid my friend’s family had an original copy of this book (I think it was in German?) In my family we had something similar: a bunch of random English nursery tales but I remember on one of the pages was a picture of a witch that had flown into a child’s bedroom window and was scooping them up as punishment for …I think not listening to their parents or something? Was terrifying.

Edit: I just read the wiki, and it looks like the book that image is from was published in 1845, so obv my friend’s family was reading a reprint and not an original. Still, a creepy roundabout way to teach basic lessons to children.

Double Fine Adventure is actually on YouTube if others are interested:

Nice! I had only heard of Indie Game (totally loved it and I still watch it from time to time). Thanks for sharing the other titles!

Not in the game development genre, but you might like The Dungeon Masters. It follows a few people that are into LARPing and DnD.

like he had seen

“-homme de neige?” asked

. “Another phallic lullaby?!” screeched

My strategy will be to yell “Merry Christmas!” into the forest and pursue any area that replies “and God bless us every one”.

Last Half of Darkness?

YES! thank you so much! How did you find it, did you happen to know about it?

edit: after some further searching I managed to find the demo (link on wiki doesn't work).

http://sciprogramming.com/fangames.php?action=review&id=62

No, I hadn’t heard of it, which is a bit surprising as I thought I knew most of the Sierra style fan titles that came out around that time. Looks like a cool game!

Is it this? http://agiwiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php?title=Time_Quest_Demo

Slacker?

Yep, that's it 

New pic:

Alright I definitely don’t know it. No way I’d forget a screenshot like that!