{"id":15709,"date":"2024-08-29T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/the-worst-women-youve-ever-met-running-a-failing-antique-store-uncanny-adventure-mystiques-haunted-antiques\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:37:32","slug":"the-worst-women-youve-ever-met-running-a-failing-antique-store-uncanny-adventure-mystiques-haunted-antiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/the-worst-women-youve-ever-met-running-a-failing-antique-store-uncanny-adventure-mystiques-haunted-antiques\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The worst women you\u2019ve ever met running a failing antique store\u2019: uncanny adventure Mystiques: Haunted Antiques"},"content":{"rendered":"

Players use supernatural powers to source and curate their stock in this refreshing action game which sits somewhere between Suspiria and a psychic Bargain Hunt<\/p>\n

In the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, the Lemonade Games team found themselves in a rental home nestled between two vintage stores. With an ex-antiques professional in their midst and years of game-making experience between them, the idea for the studio\u2019s esoteric adventure game started to come together. \u201cWe spent the week conceptualising, making art, taking photos, watching movies and prototyping,\u201d says creative director, Ally McLean Hennessey. \u201cIt was a really organic way to start shaping a game, and the spirit of that week carries through in how we work together now.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Mystiques: Haunted Antiques, described by its creators<\/a> as \u201ca game about the four worst women you\u2019ve ever met running a failing antique store\u201d, players step into the platform sneakers of a fashionista\/business owner, Gem, who\u2019s struggling to manage a failing curio curation business. Taking advantage of some newly earned and vocationally convenient psychic powers, Gem pierces the veil between life and death, seeking out troves of high-quality merchandise. \u201cPlayers will be going out on jobs to homes of the recently deceased, estate sales and the like, searching for haunted items and using the information they glean from communing with their spirits to find and bring back the most valuable items to sell,\u201d McLean Hennessey says. From string-bound gaming magazines and lava lamps to cursed vases, you\u2019ll inspect and inventory all sorts of arcane bric-a-brac as you progress.<\/p>\n

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\nPlayers use supernatural powers to source and curate their stock in this refreshing action game which sits somewhere between Suspiria and a psychic Bargain Hunt
\nIn the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, the Lemonade Games team found themselves in a rental home nestled between two vintage stores. With an ex-antiques professional in their midst and years of game-making experience between them, the idea for the studio\u2019s esoteric adventure game started to come together. \u201cWe spent the week conceptualising, making art, taking photos, watching movies and prototyping,\u201d says creative director, Ally McLean Hennessey. \u201cIt was a really organic way to start shaping a game, and the spirit of that week carries through in how we work together now.\u201d
\nIn Mystiques: Haunted Antiques, described by its creators as \u201ca game about the four worst women you\u2019ve ever met running a failing antique store\u201d, players step into the platform sneakers of a fashionista\/business owner, Gem, who\u2019s struggling to manage a failing curio curation business. Taking advantage of some newly earned and vocationally convenient psychic powers, Gem pierces the veil between life and death, seeking out troves of high-quality merchandise. \u201cPlayers will be going out on jobs to homes of the recently deceased, estate sales and the like, searching for haunted items and using the information they glean from communing with their spirits to find and bring back the most valuable items to sell,\u201d McLean Hennessey says. From string-bound gaming magazines and lava lamps to cursed vases, you\u2019ll inspect and inventory all sorts of arcane bric-a-brac as you progress. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Players use supernatural powers to source and curate their stock in this refreshing action game which sits somewhere between Suspiria and a psychic Bargain Hunt In the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, the Lemonade Games team found themselves in a rental home nestled between two vintage stores. With an ex-antiques professional in their …<\/p>\n

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