- Steam Autumn Sale - 27 November 2019
To celebrate the upcoming festive season, the interactive character-driven narrative Blackwood Crossing will be on sale with 60% off as a part of Autumn sale event across Steam. In Blackwood Crossing, every step you take leads you deeper down a dark and mysterious rabbit hole alongside orphaned siblings Finn and Scarlett. As an interactive narrative, you’ll slowly unravel a mystery as you move through an everyday train journey turned emotionally wrenching adventure. From 20th until 26th November, you can pick up Blackwood Crossing for only €5.39 / $5.39 / £4.79 - keep your eyes out for more upcoming sales before Christmas
- 40% off Blackwood Crossing until 11th Feb - 7 February 2019
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- 60% off Blackwood Crossing until 1st November - 30 October 2018
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- Last chance - 50% off Blackwood Crossing until 6th September - 31 August 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F26112564%2Fc07bdc1c46893079f028b42a6e99b3d27ee8bdcb.gif The sale continues with Blackwood Crossing 50% off for only one more week! In Blackwood Crossing, every step you take leads you deeper down a dark and mysterious rabbit hole alongside orphaned siblings Finn and Scarlett. As an interactive narrative, you’ll slowly unravel a mystery as you move through an everyday train journey turned emotionally wrenching adventure. “Seriously, it puts Pixar to shame. Just wow. “ - Rock, Paper, Shotgun https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F26112564%2F932205d0fd006dc65f2dcb9f61e19f762a9453b7.jpg “The truth Blackwood Crossing finds is unforgettable and emotionally wrenching. Its palette of feelings - love, loss, anger, belonging - are beyond the scope of all but the best narrative games, and Blackwood Crossing…
- 50% off Blackwood Crossing until 6th September - 23 August 2018
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- 35% off Blackwood Crossing - Summer Sale - 23 June 2017
Fire up your PayPal accounts, Blackwood Crossing is 35% off in Steam’s annual Summer Sale! It’s officially here and it’s the best time year round to snap up some bargains from our wishlists. Safe to say, we’re hyped. If you’ve had your eye on Blackwood Crossing, now’s the perfect time. Steam Summer Sale starts 22nd July from 6pm BST and ends on the 5th July.
- 35% off Blackwood Crossing - Summer Sale - 23 June 2017
Fire up your PayPal accounts, Blackwood Crossing is 35% off in Steam’s annual Summer Sale! It’s officially here and it’s the best time year round to snap up some bargains from our wishlists. Safe to say, we’re hyped. If you’ve had your eye on Blackwood Crossing, now’s the perfect time. Steam Summer Sale starts 22nd July from 6pm BST and ends on the 5th July.
- Blackwood Crossing Nominated for Two Develop Awards! - 30 May 2017
We are so thrilled to have been nominated for not just one, but two Develop Awards for Blackwood Crossing, PaperSeven’s first PC / console game! The nominations, for Best Writing and Best Animation, represent two of the biggest learning curves for the team – which makes the nod even sweeter! The story of Blackwood Crossing was written as a tragedy, and left many players in tears, yet there is a warmth and a truth to the narrative’s sentiment. When development started, titles like Gone Home, Stanley Parable and Ethan Carter were going from strength to strength, but we wanted our story to come to the fore even more and to create a stronger emotional attachment. We wanted a game that made players think and feel. Adult themes told through children’s eyes - a relationship players could relate to. “Every look Finn has is masterfully handcrafted to lend him all the vulnerability, warmth and in…
- Blackwood Crossing Nominated for Two Develop Awards! - 30 May 2017
We are so thrilled to have been nominated for not just one, but two Develop Awards for Blackwood Crossing, PaperSeven’s first PC / console game! The nominations, for Best Writing and Best Animation, represent two of the biggest learning curves for the team – which makes the nod even sweeter! The story of Blackwood Crossing was written as a tragedy, and left many players in tears, yet there is a warmth and a truth to the narrative’s sentiment. When development started, titles like Gone Home, Stanley Parable and Ethan Carter were going from strength to strength, but we wanted our story to come to the fore even more and to create a stronger emotional attachment. We wanted a game that made players think and feel. Adult themes told through children’s eyes - a relationship players could relate to. “Every look Finn has is masterfully handcrafted to lend him all the vulnerability, warmth and in…
- Blackwood Crossing Patch Notes - 5 May 2017
Since Blackwood Crossing’s release, we’ve noted several comments from players having framerate issues. We’ve been working hard to improve the overall experience for everyone, and today we’re pleased to have released a patch to the PC version. Below is a summary of the improvements and changes we’ve made in this update: Frame Rate - The game can now be set to sync to every vblank (rather than every other vblank), essentially uncapping the frame rate and allowing the game to run at the refresh rate of your monitor – usually 60Hz or 120Hz. The setting for this can be found in the Graphics Settings menu. NB if your machine is a lower spec you should leave this setting at its default of every other vblank. Hardware Compatibility - Another issue raised by players was that the game didn’t run properly on 144Hz monitors, as well as monitors with variable refresh rates. This has now been fixed.…
- Blackwood Crossing Patch Notes - 5 May 2017
Since Blackwood Crossing’s release, we’ve noted several comments from players having framerate issues. We’ve been working hard to improve the overall experience for everyone, and today we’re pleased to have released a patch to the PC version. Below is a summary of the improvements and changes we’ve made in this update: Frame Rate - The game can now be set to sync to every vblank (rather than every other vblank), essentially uncapping the frame rate and allowing the game to run at the refresh rate of your monitor – usually 60Hz or 120Hz. The setting for this can be found in the Graphics Settings menu. NB if your machine is a lower spec you should leave this setting at its default of every other vblank. Hardware Compatibility - Another issue raised by players was that the game didn’t run properly on 144Hz monitors, as well as monitors with variable refresh rates. This has now been fixed.…
- Wot I Think: Blackwood Crossing - 11 April 2017
Goddammit. Goddammit . Blackwood Crossing is something truly beautiful, a wonderful vignette of joy and sadness, and it’s utterly throttled by its gruesome technical issues. It is testament to its delivery that despite this, despite playing it being akin to dragging a canoe through a lake of thick paste, and even despite the obviousness of where it was all heading, I still blubbed at the end. …
- All the Pre Launch Feels - 9 April 2017
Find all Blackwood Crossing news as it happens at http://www.blackwoodcrossing.com/development-blog/ As my mind raced last night, I thought I’d scribble down some words, to share on Blackwood Crossing launch day! A studio head’s perspective … http://www.blackwoodcrossing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/FinnScarlett_Treehouse_Alt-1484x835.jpg OUR HEROES, SCARLETT AND FINN It’s the night before launch and I’m thinking of nothing else but Blackwood Crossing. It’s consumed our lives for two years now, and it’s finally going to be out there in the public’s hands. And it’s been dawning on me how much of a massive deal it is! I know it sounds stupid to say, but development is so busy day to day, and the build up on the marketing front has been all-consuming. It’s easy to be too busy to take it in. Now it’s the moment of truth. Will people hear about it? Will it make it through an ever-crowded m…
- All the Pre Launch Feels - 9 April 2017
Find all Blackwood Crossing news as it happens at http://www.blackwoodcrossing.com/development-blog/ As my mind raced last night, I thought I’d scribble down some words, to share on Blackwood Crossing launch day! A studio head’s perspective … http://www.blackwoodcrossing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/FinnScarlett_Treehouse_Alt-1484x835.jpg OUR HEROES, SCARLETT AND FINN It’s the night before launch and I’m thinking of nothing else but Blackwood Crossing. It’s consumed our lives for two years now, and it’s finally going to be out there in the public’s hands. And it’s been dawning on me how much of a massive deal it is! I know it sounds stupid to say, but development is so busy day to day, and the build up on the marketing front has been all-consuming. It’s easy to be too busy to take it in. Now it’s the moment of truth. Will people hear about it? Will it make it through an ever-crowded m…
- The Sibling Bond - 5 March 2017
Read this - and other development insights - on the Blackwood Crossing Developer Blog THE SIBLING BOND At the core of Blackwood Crossing is the relationship of siblings Finn and Scarlett. It’s been absolutely crucial for us to create a connection that’s believable and engaging. And thankfully everyone who’s experienced the game has felt it, and say they’re enchanted by how real the connection is. Here we examine their bond in more detail. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SIBLINGS Being siblings, we had to look at Finn and Scarlett’s relationship through our own eyes. Most of the PaperSeven development team have brothers and sisters. We didn’t necessarily realise it at the time, but we started to craft Scarlett and Finn’s relationship based, in part, on our own experiences. Younger brothers are, almost by definition, a pain in the butt! But they’re also loveable, and we yearn to protect them. Their…
- The Sibling Bond - 5 March 2017
Read this - and other development insights - on the Blackwood Crossing Developer Blog THE SIBLING BOND At the core of Blackwood Crossing is the relationship of siblings Finn and Scarlett. It’s been absolutely crucial for us to create a connection that’s believable and engaging. And thankfully everyone who’s experienced the game has felt it, and say they’re enchanted by how real the connection is. Here we examine their bond in more detail. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SIBLINGS Being siblings, we had to look at Finn and Scarlett’s relationship through our own eyes. Most of the PaperSeven development team have brothers and sisters. We didn’t necessarily realise it at the time, but we started to craft Scarlett and Finn’s relationship based, in part, on our own experiences. Younger brothers are, almost by definition, a pain in the butt! But they’re also loveable, and we yearn to protect them. Their…
- Finessing Finn - 22 February 2017
Read this on the Blackwood Crossing Developer Blog for full dev images and concept art, or check out our previous Scarlett blog here. Now we’ve checked out Scarlett in more detail we can turn our attention to her little brother Finn. Ten-year-old Finn is the player’s driving force through the Blackwood Crossing adventure. It’s safe to say he plays a pivotal role 🙂 INTRODUCTION So, alongside Scarlett, we had considered a few different options for him – a show off; a mad scientist; a recluse. Once Scarlett was established we could use her as a yardstick by which to measure Finn. We quickly realised that the character of a recluse doesn’t give you much to work with and would, in all likelihood, make for a pretty boring gaming experience! We settled on a cross between a vaudevillian show-off (outspoken, confident and just on the right side of arrogant) with a smattering of artistic scienti…
- Finessing Finn - 22 February 2017
Read this on the Blackwood Crossing Developer Blog for full dev images and concept art, or check out our previous Scarlett blog here. Now we’ve checked out Scarlett in more detail we can turn our attention to her little brother Finn. Ten-year-old Finn is the player’s driving force through the Blackwood Crossing adventure. It’s safe to say he plays a pivotal role 🙂 INTRODUCTION So, alongside Scarlett, we had considered a few different options for him – a show off; a mad scientist; a recluse. Once Scarlett was established we could use her as a yardstick by which to measure Finn. We quickly realised that the character of a recluse doesn’t give you much to work with and would, in all likelihood, make for a pretty boring gaming experience! We settled on a cross between a vaudevillian show-off (outspoken, confident and just on the right side of arrogant) with a smattering of artistic scienti…
- Developer Blog: Bringing Scarlett to Life - 14 February 2017
Read this on the Blackwood Crossing Developer Blog for full dev images and concept art! Bringing Scarlett to Life It’s time to dig deeper into Blackwood Crossing’s main protagonists, Scarlett and Finn. Firstly to Scarlett, who our players control throughout. We’ll look at what we knew about Scarlett from the beginning, and how her personality and her in-game look developed over time. WHAT WE KNEW Getting the game’s two main characters into our world took time – we knew that to rush the personalities, around which the entire narrative was going to hang, was reckless. We wanted to explore the many different aspects of Scarlett’s personality, and how those fine details would influence her behaviour and reactions throughout the game. Our starting point for Scarlett was that she was a teenage girl, 14 years old. She had spent the latter half of her childhood growing up on her grandparents’ f…
- Developer Blog: Bringing Scarlett to Life - 14 February 2017
Read this on the Blackwood Crossing Developer Blog for full dev images and concept art! Bringing Scarlett to Life It’s time to dig deeper into Blackwood Crossing’s main protagonists, Scarlett and Finn. Firstly to Scarlett, who our players control throughout. We’ll look at what we knew about Scarlett from the beginning, and how her personality and her in-game look developed over time. WHAT WE KNEW Getting the game’s two main characters into our world took time – we knew that to rush the personalities, around which the entire narrative was going to hang, was reckless. We wanted to explore the many different aspects of Scarlett’s personality, and how those fine details would influence her behaviour and reactions throughout the game. Our starting point for Scarlett was that she was a teenage girl, 14 years old. She had spent the latter half of her childhood growing up on her grandparents’ f…
