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Full STEAM ahead to PAX!

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Ahoy all you Sky Pirates! We’ve so much to announce after our power week, which turned into two. First of all, we claimed the rights to Sky Pirates! So now the official name will be Sky Pirates: Puzzles & Plunder! Sky Pirates invokes such imagery, we could not let it pass us by.  But for those who loved Empyrean Raiders (including myself), don’t be worried! That will be the official name of the first pirate crew, and will belong in the lore as legendary pirates, both past and current. Those part of the Empyrean Raiders crew will start as NPC’s to guide and direct new pirates, but eventually we hope to open it up to legendary players as well! We have moved from multiple individual puzzle apps to a single app we`ll put all the puzzles into. This will better allow you all to jump between puzzles for training offline without having to close and open other apps, and it`ll allow us to align your mobile and PC profiles without adding more complexity!  To that end, we`ll b...

Summer's been HOT

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 Ahoy Sky Raiders!      Right now we`re in the middle of a POWER WEEEEEEEKKK. Which mostly means we're consuming half our body weight in caffeine and trying to get as much done as we can before our brains shut off. I`ve been feeling particularly behind, but there's so much to do as we start to combine our puzzles into the main game and for PC. I`ll get you all up to speed with what we've been working on and how busy our summer's been!      Back in July we were invited to Open Sauce, and well, that was a bit of a surprise to us. We had spent just a week working on a side project using augmented reality to do a space shooter, and had submitted it months previously. With only three weeks to go we got the notice that we had a booth, and we were still a week away from home on a planned trip. So we had to immediately get the game ready for thousands to see in just two weeks. It was close. Russ was literally working on it the morning of the event.  ...