Another great article about us, by Nia Bothwell from Popzara. "My experience with the point-and-click adventure genre has largely been limited to the escape room genre and visual novels, to the point where my worried colleagues are insisting I educate myself with games like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. If I didn’t know better I’d think they were making them up, but one look at the genre’s crazy history and you’ll realize that’s not the case." [...]

If you are a small developer like ourselves, you won't have much time to waste, so here are some pieces of advice on how to go through the Exhibitor's Manual quicker: * There's a lot of advertising inside the manual. Things that you probably can't afford, hotels, catering, models, ... remove all those pages. * They have a few pages 3 or 4 with the most important deadlines print that out and put it on your wall. Mark [...]

If you happen to be in Los Angeles for the E3, it would be a pleasure for us if you found the time to meet with us , as we would like to tell you more about our studio and our game "3 Minutes To Midnight". We might have a little surprise for the first 1000 to come say "Hi"

Good news everyone! After a few weeks preparing material and filling documentation, our steam page is live. It really took a while to fulfill all the requisites, but here we are. Take a look to the new screenshots and add us to your wish list. There's a long wait ahead, but it will be worth it, we promise. Check out the link: 3 Minutes to Midnight - Steam Store page

Gumshoe: How did you get into video games? Jan: I was working on engineering for like 15 years. Then I had a change of heart and wanted to do something more fun… and I started investigating how I could make a video game with a little budget. I always loved video games and mainly adventure games, so I wrote a story … created some cool characters and hired a team to bring it to life Check out more on [...]

This week I speak to Jan from Scarecrow Studios who are the developers of a point and click adventure game called 3 minutes to midnight. It’s the roaring late ’40s. World War II has finally ended and celebrations continue… Yet, somewhere in the middle of New Mexico, a secret intricate plot to extinguish humanity has been unraveling for a long time. Even if it could be stopped, what hope is there when inexplicably, no one can remember a [...]

What inspired you to make this game? Several things inspired me to make this game, I really wanted to quit engineering and do something funnier, so that's to begin with... I’ve always really enjoyed playing point-and-click games (not only) in my childhood. They were mostly the ones from Lucas by Ron Gilbert like Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The story of ‘3 Minutes to Midnight’ indicates that I'm a huge fan of the sci-fi genre, especially TV [...]

Meet Jan Serra, he's the CEO at Scarecrow Studio and I get the distinct honor of being the first one to ever interview him! I found out when I contacted him about his indie game "3 Minutes to Midnight" that he had never been interviewed before. I found that kind of hard to believe. Even just looking at one screenshot it's very apparent there's already been a tremendous amount of work done for the game. The environments [...]

Good morning everyone! Specially to the new people following our development blog. If you are new here, and you haven't been reading our latest updates, let me give you five cents of what this blog is about. Here I share updates on the development of "3 Minutes To Midnight". This means explaining how things are being done, giving you some advise so you don't make the same mistakes we do, and sharing lessons learned during the process [...]

Good morning fellow gamers, as some of you already know, Scarecrow Studio is going to attend the E3 this year in Los Angeles. In this series of posts (check last week's one), I'm sharing with you a few words on our behind-the-scenes wrestle with all the preparations for this event. Some advice for inde developers going to the E3.  3 Minutes to Midnight is our first game, and the E3 2018 is going to be our first [...]

I am happy to announce that Scarecrow Studio’s presence for the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018 has been officially confirmed. I have to tell you people, this was the easy step – renting the exhibit space – now we have to get the “exhibit” ready for it. Did you know that when you rent a space (booth) at the convention center, it does not include anything else but the empty space? (Not even the carpet!) Well we did [...]