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'Her Story, Undertale, Darkest Dungeon receive multiple 2016 IGF Award nominations'. ^ Nunneley, Stephany (6 January 2016).'Development Hell: The Magic Circle On Steam Early Access'. 'Jordan Thomas explains The Magic Circle, a game about a game'. 'The Best New Videogames Are All About … Videogames'. ^ a b 'The Magic Circle: hands-on with ex-BioShock devs' game about making games'.

^ a b 'Our Six Favorite Games From PAX East 2015 - Digital Trends'.The Magic Circle was nominated for 'Most Innovative' game of 2015 by IGN. IGN awarded it a score of 7.8 out of 10, saying 'The Magic Circle is a marvelously creative, puzzling adventure that’s very mad at you.' GameSpot awarded it a score of 7.0 out of 10, saying 'As a piece of work meant to comment on modern game design, it’s wholly successful at creating a scenario perfectly illustrating just how Herculean a task it is for developers trying to create a game with a perfect balance.' As of March 2016, the game only sold about 16,500 units, according to Jordan Thomas of Question, which he called 'unsustainable' and attributes to not having attempted to market the game. It was nominated for the Excellence in Narrative award at the 2016 Independent Games Festival. The game has a score of 80 out of 100 on aggregate review website Metacritic. A month later, the game was fully released. The voice cast included James Urbaniak, Ashly Burch, Karen Dyer, and Stephen Russell.Īn early access version of the game was released on Steam in May 2015.

According to the game's credits sequence, the team was supported further by Steve Pardo (Harmonix) who composed the original score, and Patrick Balthrop, who was the sound engineer. The development team consisted of Stephen Alexander, Kain Shin and Jordan Thomas, who had previously worked on BioShock and Dishonored.

#The magic circle de how to

Once the playtest session is officially 'complete', a rogue AI from a previous version of the game makes contact with the player and teaches them how to manipulate the creatures of the world in order to either complete or at least escape the game world. The player is introduced to the developers of the game, who make their appearances in the world as floating eyes capable of changing the environment on a whim, only to discover that the two project leads, Ishmael Gilder and Maze Evelyn, have entered into a bitter rivalry over their respective creative philosophies, and due to their inability to cooperate have rendered the game largely vaporware. In The Magic Circle, the player takes on the role of a QA tester who was recently hired to help prepare the live demo for a game that has been in development hell for nearly twenty years said game is the sequel to a cult classic interactive fiction title with a dedicated fan following.