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  Callie

  Sep 11, 2014 -

  Are you ever contacted by gamers who get stuck in one of your games such as FL1/2 and really need help? If so, what do you think when this happens and have you considered making some games easier/more hints to help people complete games?

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    Graham

    Sep 11, 2014 -

    Hey Callie, thanks for the question!

    We do get emails fairly regularily from people asking for help on certain puzzles and when it happens we’re only too happy to help. We generally start off by offering people only the slightest of nudges as we don’t want to spoil anything for them and then just offer less subtle hints when they ask for them until they have solved the puzzle. We also quite often point them to walkthroughs such as the ones by AppUnrapper.

    This is also the same if people ask for help in Cabin Escape, even though in the game you can buy the hints we still offer them out for free to anyone that asks for them.

    As for making the games easier, that’s tricky as what’s hard for someone is going to be easy for someone else and vice versa. We’ve been tempted in the past to implement “Normal” and “Mega Monkey” modes liked in Monkey Island 3 that would allow for 2 different difficulty levels but for one reason or another we’ve always decided against it.

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  Christina

  Sep 11, 2014 -

  Hi. Thanks for a really great game. I’m really happy to hear there will be FL episode 3 as I been waiting for it right away since cabin escape. To be honest I was a little disappointed about the length of cabin escape as it’s quickly finished. But I still enjoyed it much as I do for every of the stories. My favorite is definitely episode 2 because of the more story added and the many questions you left with after you completed it. Episode 1 didn’t leave you with much. I got high expectations to episode 3.

  But I have a few curiosity questions.

  What inspired to the creation of FL series?

  Have you ever considered advertising the game to reach a higher download / purchase number (as last I checked it was still low. Which I think is sad as I find this a good quality game)

  How many people work on the FL game series?

  And the final question

  (iI don’t expect an exact answer to this though)
  How many episodes is there planned to be?

  Thanks 🙂

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    Simon

    Sep 12, 2014 -

    Hi Christina, thank you for your reply.

    We’re sorry to hear that you were disappointed with the length of Cabin Escape. It was actually created as a little filler for the Forever Lost fans which hopefully expanded on the story a little bit while providing 10 minutes of entertainment?

    There are many things that inspired us to create Forever Lost; but most importantly we wanted to have a go at creating our own immersive world and story that doesn’t spoon feed things to the user, but instead invites true exploration and deductive thinking. We did incorporate many Film, TV show, music and book references into the game, but they were not added without reason, and I guess you could say that these have all been inspiration along the way.

    We currently have spent very little on marketing. We have relied mostly on word of mouth, reviews and the the game itself to achieve downloads. I think Episodes 1 & 2 have achieved around 1,500,000 downloads between them which may be nothing for big titles, but to be honest it has already exceeded my expectations and I am happy so many people are playing our game.

    There are two us at Glitch Games HQ; myself and Graham which will hopefully explain why it takes so long to make each episode.

    We planned to make 3 episodes from the beginning (excluding Cabin Escape) so you will be playing the concluding Episode next…but don’t worry, we will be making more adventure games once the Forever Lost series is over.

    Thanks,
    Simon 🙂

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  Jokke

  Sep 13, 2014 -

  Yeah I know I´m late but this question just popped into my head too late. Are you sire that you are able to release fl3 this year? I mean there´s only few months left and we haven´t seen screenshots or accurate release date.

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    Graham

    Sep 15, 2014 -

    Honestly, we’re not sure. We hope to have it out by the end of 2014 but we’re really not sure. We absolutely don’t want to rush it and ruin it.

    You will be able to see some screenshots by the end of the day 🙂

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      Jokke

      Sep 17, 2014 -

      Thank you for the amswe! And take all the time you need. Getting great game bit later is better than getting game filled with bugs early 🙂

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        Graham

        Sep 17, 2014 -

        That’s precisely how we feel so it’s great to know that you also think the same 🙂

• Glitch Games | Thursday Question Time – What did you think of the first screenshots of FL3?

  Sep 18, 2014 -

  […] Last week we asked you if you had any questions for us, and it turns out you did! If you want to see what people asked us, or still have some questions yourself, please check out the post here. […]

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  Kevin

  Sep 23, 2014 -

  Glad to see that this section of the web site is up and running.

  A couple of questions. I’m a big Apple/Mac fan. Do you find it easier to code,QC. etc for iOS than for other mobile OSes?

  After FL3, will your other adventure games be in the same vein? Simple to play yet 1000% engaging to to the player?

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    Graham

    Sep 24, 2014 -

    Yea we really love doing ThursdayQuestionTime so we’re also very happy to have been able to start it back up 🙂

    We use the Corona SDK which takes away a great deal of the complexity of developing across multiple platforms however not all of them.

    The main difficulty comes in the sheer number of Android devices there are in the wild. To test on iOS there are maybe a dozen different devices we have to contend with however with Android there are literally thousands, many with their own very specific issues. You can imagine how tricky this can be 🙂

    After FL3 we will be focusing on other 1st person adventure games for the foreseeable future, they are what we enjoy working on the most. We’ll try our hardest to make them just as easy to play and engaging. You’ll have to be the judge on how successful we are with that 🙂

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  Tyra

  Oct 6, 2014 -

  Thank you for finally making an adventure game that really is a mystery! I love these games, but too often I pay for them and I complete it in less than a day! Some of the others out there are just too easy! The FL series is intriguing and keeps you thinking! Which I love! Will you be continuing Alice’s story In cabin escape? I too was disappointed in how short it was, but like the clues it has hidden in it from the forever lost series!

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    Graham

    Oct 10, 2014 -

    Thank you for playing it! 🙂

    The cabin story itself leads directly onto the FL series however we most likely won’t be making a “Cabin Escape: Alice’s Story 2” if that’s what you mean?

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  Anna

  Nov 14, 2014 -

  Hello! I know this is late, but I didnt know where else to ask. First, I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your hard work! All your games are extremely awesome, and there’s nothing I would change. They’re honestly my favorite apps. And Im so excited for FL3! 🙂

  Also, I wanted to ask… Are there going to be more references to the TV shoe Lost? Because thats my favorite show, ever, and I really enjoyed the references in the first episodes of FL. I even went around showing everyone who would pay attention…. Hahaha.

  And also, are we going to find out what happened to Hurley, the guy in the videogame? (That was his name, right? I dont remember…)

  I have one more question, but it’s kind of silly: You know how the little icon for FL1 and FL2 are puzzle pieces that would fit together? I know FL3 is going to be the last one in the series, so I was curious to know if the icon for it was going to be the bottom half of the puzzle that joins both pieces, or if its going to fit into one of them, as if there was a puzzle piece missing? I dont know if Im explaining it right, but oh, well. Im just curious, thats all.

  Again, thanks for all your hard work! I can tell you put so much effort into your games, because they’re seriously perfect.

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  Anna

  Nov 14, 2014 -

  Hello! I know this is late, but I didnt know where else to ask. First, I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your hard work! All your games are extremely awesome, and there’s nothing I would change. They’re honestly my favorite apps. And Im so excited for FL3! 🙂

  Also, I wanted to ask… Are there going to be more references to the TV shoe Lost? Because thats my favorite show, ever, and I really enjoyed the references in the first episodes of FL. I even went around showing everyone who would pay attention…. Hahaha.

  And also, are we going to find out what happened to Hurley, the guy in the videogame? (That was his name, right? I dont remember…)

  I have one more question, but it’s kind of silly: You know how the little icon for FL1 and FL2 are puzzle pieces that would fit together? I know FL3 is going to be the last one in the series, so I was curious to know if the icon for it was going to be the bottom half of the puzzle that joins both pieces, or if its going to fit into one of them, as if there was a puzzle piece missing? I dont know if Im explaining it right, but oh, well. Im just curious, thats all.

  Again, thanks for all your hard work! I can tell you put so much effort into your games, because they’re seriously perfect.

  (Sorry if this comment appears twice. My computer has been acting strange lately.)

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  Mohammad

  Dec 28, 2014 -

  Hi,it may fl3 be the last part of FL series???will you make fl4 or best games like it?

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    Graham

    Jan 1, 2015 -

    Fl3 will be the last episode in the Forever Lost trilogy.

    We will however be making more adventure games in the future 🙂

• Glitch Games | Weekly Roundup – 8th to 12th Sep 2014

  Oct 31, 2016 -

  […] Now back to this past week, much like the past few months we’ve really just been working on episode 3, which includes getting the first screenshots ready for public consumption. However we’ve also been slowly moving forward on getting Episode 1 translated into a few different languages so that more people can enjoy it. This is still early stages yet but we hope to have more to say on that front soon. Yesterday we also posted another Thursday Question Time and this week we asked if you have any questions for us, so if you do please check it out and post away! […]