PassionFruit Games

What are you playing?

I love games. That’s why I get so much joy out of making them. I’ll play anything from solitaire (perhaps the most successful casual game ever) to the latest shooter. Lately, I’ve been playing Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Civilization IV, Borderlands, the Halo: Reach beta, Social City (although, my city has fallen into [...]

Design Principle #5 – Immersion

Will you suspend your disbelief for us? It is critically important that you, the player, feel immersed in the world that Marjorie has created and we’ve put into game form. The choices made by the art team and guided by the art director are clearly some of the highest impact ways to make a player [...]

Bitten By Books event this Friday, with prizes!

We’re doing an interactive blog with Bitten By Books this Friday. Come hang out with us! Marjorie Liu and the developers of Tiger Eye will be there to answer questions/participate in general chit chat. RSVP and enter our raffle for awesome prizes, including a chance for YOUR likeness to be included in Tiger Eye Part [...]

New official trailer!

We completed our official trailer for Tiger Eye: Curse of the Riddle Box – check it out:

Where could Emma Ward be?

It seems that we have some people on Emma Ward’s heels. Maybe you can help her twin sister, Ainsley, find her! Go here to start the adventure: http://bouldersandboatsadventures.com/

Participate in our alternate reality game

Want to solve an online mystery in the Dirk & Steele universe? We’re hosting an awesome alternate reality game, aka “online scavenger hunt,” where players need to use their sleuth skills to figure what happened to boisterous tour guide Emma Ward. Start your investigation here: www.bouldersandboatsadventures.com. UPDATE: Stuck? Get help from fellow detectives in the [...]

Tiger Eye has launched!!!

ONLINE RELEASE PARTY WINNERS

Thanks to everyone who participated in the online release party! It was a blast. We used 2 random number generators (human and machine, heheh!) to pick these raffle winners, who will each receive one of the following: a signed Tiger Eye novel, an advance galley copy of “A Wild Light” (to be released July 28), [...]

Unfounded Vilification of Hobbyists

It’s interesting to me that while the gaming and romance book fandoms aren’t typically considered overlapping interests, they do face similar stereotyping from the general public. I guess I can be considered both a gamer and a romance reader – although, I don’t have the honor of being considered “hardcore” in either. I’ve been a [...]

Game developers are romantic, too

The game industry is sometimes vilified as catering only to some mythical, insanely violent male audience. If this is the case why would we go so against the grain to make romantic games for women? For one thing Casual Games are geared towards non-hardcore players who also happen to be predominately female. It’s a not-insignificant [...]