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2026-06-07 · essay
Designing Hint Systems — How to Show, How to Hide
InvisiClues' invisible ink, the silence of The Witness, the friction of The Case of the Golden Idol, Obra Dinn's rule of three. A maker's-eye survey of hint systems as a declaration of how a game treats a stuck player.

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2020-04-23 · Beard Envy
Filament
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2022-10-13 · Color Gray Games
The Case of the Golden Idol
A deduction game: examine frozen crime-scene tableaus, gather words from the evidence, and fill in the blanks to reconstruct each murder across an 18th-century mystery.
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