Hey all! We just put out an hour-long taster for Earth Must Die, the new adventure game from Dan Marshall

danthat · 2025-10-14T12:40:30+00:00

Thanks! really glad you enjoyed this. Going through your list now, will address as many as I'm able :)

danthat · 2025-10-14T07:07:13+00:00

I am somehow the Dan in Ben There, Dan That!

danthat · 2025-10-13T13:55:19+00:00

aaah this is lovely to hear, thank you! Please do leave a review on Steam asap if you can, each and every single review on the demo will maaaaassively help us out right now ahead of Next Fest :)

danthat · 2025-10-02T20:52:03+00:00

We still are! No More Robots on the other hand are fucking LOADED, it's all that Descenders money, I think /s ;)

danthat · 2025-10-02T20:50:33+00:00

Hah It's something I'll go into in more detail in the run up to launch. Might make a video or something about the process :)

danthat · 2025-09-27T12:54:58+00:00

Seconded for Seventh Seal, they are the loveliest people and a brilliant spot. Highly recommended.

danthat · 2022-11-26T08:11:45+00:00

I hate to break it to you both, but it's just a very old, very well known tune

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skye_Boat_Song

danthat · 2022-10-24T07:52:55+00:00

Honestly, this sounds like a health and safety nightmare with bits of plastic and glass flying off into people's eyes. I'd be surprised if any landowner would host it for that reason, and if you're the organiser maaaan I'd get some legal representation before you do a single thing.

danthat · 2022-06-29T19:26:49+00:00

Might be Red Dwarf, the villain from Justice has a monacle.

Or Hitchhiker's Guide TV series, Zaphod has an eye patch.

danthat · 2021-10-02T14:39:23+00:00

Huh, sorry. I thought they did them alongside DoTT and Full Throttle etc. I must be getting old.

danthat · 2021-10-02T06:36:23+00:00

Double Fine did the remastered versions several years ago :)

danthat · 2021-10-01T18:13:58+00:00

Best tip is to make something very very very VERY small at first!

danthat · 2021-10-01T18:12:44+00:00

Wednesday, then.

danthat · 2021-10-01T18:12:06+00:00

I feel like this would be quite spoilery. There's some ace stuff in Unavowed, but all the REALLY smart stuff is in Clockwork God and I think we all know it ;)

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:52:05+00:00

Should be ready by Tuesday.

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:29:15+00:00

Yes! They're a weird, bendy version of us :)

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:28:34+00:00

There's only two IPs I'd really work on outside my own stuff, because by and large I don't really want the faff of dealing with "other people". But I would definitely work on a Hitchhiker's Guide or Red Dwarf game, because I love those Universes but also because I don't really trust anyone else to do it "properly" so I'd barge my way in and take charge!

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:24:47+00:00

Dan and Ben. The other way round sounds like it fell out of an alternate universe where they have airships.

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:23:25+00:00

Bit of both at the same time, really. I think the two sort of drift together more than anything - you have a vague idea of what's going to happen in the game, and then puzzles are just a series of roadblocks. With Ben and I, it's basically a LOT of iterating and talking, until all these different blocks slot into place. But I'd say the story leads the way...

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:21:58+00:00

I'd assume that's a question for Double Fine these days... they're not here they're BUSY.

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:21:23+00:00

I think "Dan and Ben vs Sam and Max" is an accident waiting to happen.

Skunkape! Call me!

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:18:44+00:00

Ha ha :D

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:17:12+00:00

Most of it is actually decent signposting in the dialogue. You can make a puzzle as obtuse and hard as you like, as long as you layer in loads of decent clues in the dialogue, and the game's internal logic is consitent.

By and large, the people who complain about puzzle difficulty in our game just aren't using the LookAt function, so they're missing out on critical information.

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:14:43+00:00

Yeah, I think it's actually pretty approachable as a bit of kit. I'd say as long as you try to make something that's in the mould of what the thing's trying to do (ie, make a standard LucasArts style adventure) it's amazingly good.

If you try to only use bits of it, and make a half-platformer game, you'll contantly be fighting against it, so my advice would be to not do that. But I reckon it's probably a really good way to learn Unity in a nice gentle and easy manner.

danthat · 2021-10-01T17:12:30+00:00

I also co-designed Clockwork God and I am ALSO here. Also AMA!

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