The Story Mechanics

39 Steps – on Steam now!

The Story Mechanics — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:05:57 +0000

We’re excited to tell you that The 39 Steps is now available on Steam for Mac and PC users! And there are 20 Steam achievements to be had over the course of the adventure. Want to know more? Click here Not a Steam user? We’re also available via the AppStore and MacAppStore, as well as a number of …

39 reasons to get the iPad app

The Story Mechanics — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:30:40 +0000

As much as we want to painstakingly go through 39 reasons as to why you should go get the iPad version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, we don’t want to delay your story experience any longer. It’s out now! and published through Faber and Faber (conveyors of all things brilliant in the literary world), and the …

The 39 Steps: on PC, Mac and Linux!

The Story Mechanics — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:56:44 +0000

At long last, our digital adaptation of The 39 Steps (aka The Thirty-NIne Steps) is available for you PC, Mac and Linux users out there! If you’re after the shiny boxed product, you can get it on Amazon. Or, if the digital version is more your thing, you could try Gamersgate or Gameolith (incl. Linux) or MacGameStore. Oh, and the product will …

Secrets of The 39 Steps: part 3

The Story Mechanics — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:28:40 +0000

Onwards to part 3 of our secrets of… series. This time, we wanted to give a little insight into the pre-production process and show off some of our initial storyboarding of The Thirty Nine Steps. Part 3: Storyboards Our digital adaptation of John Buchan’s novel is intended to be, above all, faithful to the original …

Secrets of The 39 Steps: Part 2

The Story Mechanics — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:33:48 +0000

Continuing on with our secrets series, in this post we will reveal our approach to character stories in The Thirty Nine Steps; something we call Recalls. Part 2: Recalls For those of you who have been following closely, you may already know that in our digital adaptations we don’t explicitly show characters – instead allowing …

Secrets of The 39 Steps: Part One

The Story Mechanics — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:56:49 +0000

With less than 2 months now before everyone can get their hands on a copy of our digital adaptation of The Thirty Nine Steps, we wanted to let you in on a few of the secrets about the product, the book and the new format that we’re bringing to market. Every ‘secrets’ post will come …

Experiments in Literature

The Story Mechanics — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:35:54 +0000

In two months time our digital adaptation of John Buchan’s The Thirty Nine Steps will be released, and we’re waiting with bated breath to find out what everyone thinks of our interactive twist on literature. Of course, we’re not alone in our desire to break some of the rules and present the notion of story in …

Have You Heard the News?

The Story Mechanics — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:15:42 +0000

Big news from us! We’ve put together a three-way publisher consortium to take our digital adaptation of The Thirty Nine Steps to market in 2013. As you may know, we’ve been beavering away at making The Thirty Nine Steps for well over a year now – putting our hearts and souls into making what we …

Manic Mechanics: an update

The Story Mechanics — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:47:11 +0000

It’s been a short while since our last post – so we figure that an update would be nice to keep you all in the loop as to our happenings. Our digital adaptation of The Thirty Nine Steps is complete! And, we’re happy to say that it’s even better than we’d hoped: it is an …

10 Incredible Games You Never Knew Existed

The Story Mechanics — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:00:44 +0000

It’s important to share. So here’s our list of incredible gaming experiences from the past 30 years or so, with a mind to bringing to the surface some of those lesser known titles that we should all really have on our radar. (And okay, maybe you did know a few of these existed and may …