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We've been working on our newest title this past year, and we're incredibly excited to be ready to announce our next game. Those of you signed up to our mailing list and reading The Last Portrait will have already had a sneak peek into the world we're building here. Everyone else
Our Legacy Games Celebration begins today! We should start at the beginning. Thomas Was Alone was the very first Bithell Games title. Initially a flash game, our story of rectangles and friendship jumped its way onto major platforms and set in motion the future of our small studi
Some upsetting news from the past weekend: Bithell Games, the Mike Bithell-founded indie studio behind Thomas Was Alone , John Wick Hex , Tron: Identity and the just-released Tron: Catalyst , are laying off 11 developers. That’s "The majority of our full-time staff," according to
We're excited to announce that TRON: Identity is out now on Steam! It's getting great reviews, from TRON fans and folks new to the franchise alike. If you like the way we tell sci-fi stories, we hope you'll check this one out!
Well, we've got a new game out! The Solitaire Conspiracy is a whole new take on the classic game, you can find out info on it its store page, here! Hope you dig it!
Hi all, We have made another narrative short, this time called Quarantine Circular. It’s here, and it’s about an alien on a boat: If you’ve not checked out Subsurface Circular out yet, then good news! You’ve now got two self contained short stories to try out. Hope you have fun,
Hi all, Our new game, Subsurface Circular, just launched, by surprise. If you liked Thomas Was Alone, we think you might dig this one too.. check it out.. It's getting good reviews (Polygon 9/10, Videogamer 8/10, GamesRadar 8/10) and, like, people seem to be liking it. Thanks, an
Hi all, Our new game, Subsurface Circular, just launched, by surprise. If you liked Thomas Was Alone, we think you might dig this one too.. check it out.. It's getting good reviews (Polygon 9/10, Videogamer 8/10, GamesRadar 8/10) and, like, people seem to be liking it. Thanks, an
After telling stories about shapes then even a teenager, the fella behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume has taken another step up the consciousness scale for his next story with a game about robots. Bithell’s studio today both announced and launched Subsurface Circular , a short te
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Mike Bithell, the brain behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume , says he's working on two new titles but they might mark the end of an era. That's according to a new interview over at MCV , where Bithell surveys his career up until now, roughly six months after the launch of the afor
Hey all, wow, I've never done an announcement on here before, but, I thought I'd drop by, blow away a couple of cobwebs, and invite all of you to check out my new game, Volume. It's a stealth game, but one designed to welcome new players as much as reward sneaky veterans. We're r
Hey all, wow, I've never done an announcement on here before, but, I thought I'd drop by, blow away a couple of cobwebs, and invite all of you to check out my new game, Volume. It's a stealth game, but one designed to welcome new players as much as reward sneaky veterans. We're r
Volume is a third-person, sci-fi stealth game, in which you direct a little dude around VR-styled, maze-like levels, dodging guards with wits and with gadgetry, with the aim of grabbing all the loot and getting out again. It’s out now. I hope Mike ‘Thomas Was Alone’ Bithell’s new
Originally released in 2012, Thomas Was Alone is, at its core, a puzzle-platformer built around rectangles. It was also quite a good game, "entirely too touching for a platform game about bouncy squares," as we said in our review (via Metacritic ), and it actually built up quite
It will probably be the only time in my life when I have no responsibilities, didn t owe anyone any money, didn t have staff that I had to worry about. Absolute freedom to do what I want. I wasn t going to use that to make a sequel to a reasonably well-received puzzle-platformer.
At this point, we should all be used to Steam's auto-updating. Even so, it can be a little unsettling when it happens to a game about emerging autonomous AI. Quadrilateral platformer Thomas Was Alone has received just such an update, supposedly adding Benjamin's Flight a free cha
When I last spoke to Mike Bithell , we were in the caf at the National Media Museum in Bradford. He had just delivered a talk about his upcoming Virtual Robin Hood game, Volume , but we found time to discuss Thomas Was Alone as well. Bithell said – and I agree – “I thought I was
Mike Bithell’s stealth game, Volume , looks like a very different prospect to Thomas Was Alone , even if there might be some similarities in the audio department. A retelling of the Robin Hood story, Volume takes place in a Britain laced with political dissent, rebellion and fanc
A recent trailer for Volume has revealed that author, actor, and Thomas Was Alone narrator Danny Wallace will lend his voice to the game’s companion AI. YouTuber Charlie McDonnell will play the role of Robin Hood. Yes, that Robin Hood. Volume will be a retelling of Robin Hood set