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Screenshot from Truer than You with Rin and Ariel watching the sunset
August 15, 2023
Article

Fictional relationships feel real

I’ve been writing a few posts now about the relationships in Knife Sisters and what we learned from making that game, as well as from the comments we received (here and here). This post is about one of the most important findings we’ve done when it comes to relation games. Players invest themsel

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Screenshot from Knife Sisters feating Ayana talking about Mo
July 19, 2023
Article, Knife Sisters

I’ll make it up to her!

Games that are about relationships and making tough choices in regards to other characters can evoke quite a lot of emotions. We have already talked a bit about how some players objected to being forced into a relationship with Dagger in Knife Sisters. Another very emotional message we got from a pl

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Screenshot from Knife Sisters featuring Dagger
July 6, 2023
Article, Knife Sisters

Would you like being forced into a relationship?

When working on relation games, there are many things to take into consideration. I’ve already elaborated a little upon the fact that the choice of characters in relation games is very important, and will affect the players a lot.  When working on those kinds of games I have asked myself question

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Screenshot from Knife Sisters, showing Vicki and Mo kissing
June 9, 2023
Article, Knife Sisters

Systems for Emotions – Knife Sisters

In this blog post, I’ll go into Knife Sisters as an example on how a game’s system is created to convey a story, and how the characters are chosen to play a part in that story. (Be aware, there will be spoilers!)  When we started working on Knife Sisters, I mainly only knew that the […]

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Screenshot from Knife Sisters showing Will and Ayana
May 11, 2023
Article, Knife Sisters

Systems for Emotions – Exploring Relation Games

The games we’re making are relation games: games centered around existential questions and ways to relate to others. We also have a large focus on LGBTQ+ issues and characters. In 2019, we released a game called Knife Sisters, and this blog post, as well as a few upcoming ones, will be centered ar

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At a bar in Koenji
January 20, 2023
Article, Truer than You, Update

From games to the world and back – 2022 in review

This was a year that began and ended with video games. That might not seem very strange when we’re a game studio, but nonetheless it has a special significance this year, which has been quite an eventful one, to say the least! Previous Next The year began with Hades I’m not an avid game player,

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July 25, 2020
Knife Sisters, Update

Knife Sisters got the Long Feature Award!

Tonight at the A MAZE. Awards we won the Long Feature Award for Knife Sisters! We are honored and humbled! 😀 THE LONG FEATUREThis is the award for complex games and developing virtual reality worlds. Those are the ones, who challenge your life by offering immersive storytelling and much more than

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Bobbi at Nordic Game Conference
June 29, 2020
Article, Update

Processing the Process – On Game Creation, Burnout and the Existence

Long time no see, comrades! Last year, on April 24th, me and my team released Knife Sisters, a story-based game about love, manipulation, relationships and sex. We had been working on it for 2.5 years, but the creation process had been pretty straight forward – something that could not be said

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June 26, 2019
Article, Knife Sisters

Bridging the Gap – Steam and 18+ Content

This is a post in the series “When your Wholesome, Queer Game is Seen as Very Controversial” in which I’m circling around questions such as: How are we supposed to discuss topics like consent and sexuality with young people, if those topics are banned from almost every platform and hidden behi

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May 30, 2019
Knife Sisters, Update

The reception of Knife Sisters

Knife Sisters has been out for a little more than one month. The reception has been very positive, and we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from the ones we aimed to reach. Here are some impressions: *inhales* If you want to explore queer relationships, empathic BDSM scenarios and wonderfully writte

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May 15, 2019
Article, Knife Sisters

When Your Wholesome, Queer Game is Seen as Very Controversial – a Blog Series

On the 24th of April we released our dark, emotional, and erotic visual novel Knife Sisters on Steam and Itch.io. In a series of posts, I will look into what happens when you approach the commercial markets with a game that explicitly aims to explore sex, power and consent. Knife Sisters is set in a

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