Sonny Cookies

We've been looking at all of the Cookie Contest Entries that came in, and now we are sorting them. By the end of the day tomorrow (Friday) we will have chosen our winners and will be posting the Cookie Cookbook in pdf form with all the entries submitted. This way, everyone can check out the cookies, and even make some yourself!

I wanted to point out this particular submission that made me laugh. I loved it! This is just the recipe part, but it screams "Sonny Joon" all over!

We have a birthday!

~Little Jackalope~

Cookies and Ornaments

I was out sick yesterday, and now I have returned to the office to open a newly arrived package containing a few of the prizes for the Cookie Contest winner. Take a look at how they turned out in real life!

I kind of want to get my own little Christmas Tree just so I can start a collection of the ornaments from the merchandise store. It would be a Nancy Drew-themed tree! Speaking of Christmas, it's only a week away! It sure is sneaking up fast! Are you ready for it? Perhaps we can get in the mood with playing snowy games like Treasure in the Royal Tower, The White Wolf of Icicle Creek or Warnings at Waverly Academy, and of course, baking holiday cookies (you only have 2 days left to enter!).

*Edited
I nearly forgot about the puzzle! It is a Drop Quote puzzle from a few of the recent games. Fill in the spaces on the grid with the letters (guess and check) to get the Quote said by Takae in Shadow at the Water's Edge: ["You just need to be patient and you need to learn to see more than you are used to seeing."] This is excellent advice for any detective! ;)

~Little Jackalope~

Weekend Puzzle #223

This is the last weekend to work on your cookie contest entries! This next Thursday is the last day we will accept cookie entries, so get a jump start on your cookie designs soon if you want to enter! 

Also, don't forget about the Christmas sale! If you wanted the physical game in time for Christmas, consider how long it may take for shipping, and order soon!

Finally, here is your weekend puzzle:

Next week I shall "reveal" everything from the "13 Hints for 2013" post.
Have a great weekend!
~Little Jackalope~

Gummy Bear Craze

Have you played The Deadly Device? (Excellent game because it's entirely indoors and there is snow outside, so it's a wintry type of game). One of our fans, Rozanna also created these for the cookie contest.

Of course I had to share it with you! Gummy bears are awesome!
It reminded me of this bag in our merchandise store:

We have a Facebook fan birthday!

~Little Jackalope~

Cookies Excitement!

Yesterday and today we started to receive a few cookie entries to our Cookie Contest! I'm getting super excited, too, and I'm totally nerding out right now. Why? Because our fans are SO creative! We had to share a few with you that came in today.

Carlahna designed some cookies inspired by Shadow at the Water's Edge: Sudoku puzzle, desktop icon flower, and the donut phone charm!

Rozanna entered a chocolate and marshmallow cookie inspired by S'mores in honor of The Secret of Shadow Ranch. Yum!

Have you started to make any cookies to enter for the contest?

 ~Little Jackalope~

Nancy Drew 2013 Cookie Contest!

Check it out! We are having our first annual Nancy Drew cookie making & decorating contest this month! Learn more about this contest here.

So! Any idea on a great cookie design? I think I might make gingerbread cookies...but not sure how to decorate them yet.

Let's see, in how many games have we been able to eat or bake cookies? Well, of course there are the jam cookies in The Silent Spy that you get to decorate (and eat). There is also the mint chocolate chip cookies you must bake in Danger by Design, and you heat up chocolate chip cookies in Warnings at Waverly Academy. Hmmm... were there any other games? I can think of cake and parfaits, but no more cookies.

We have a few birthdays!

~Little Jackalope~

Cookies and Sales

How was everyone's Thanksgiving weekend? I know I had a super great holiday break!
'Tis the season for crazy shopping! I hope those of you who ventured out after Thanksgiving to do some big sale shopping didn't get hurt, and I hope you got enough rest, too. I went out only once to get one gift, but when it comes to shopping, the best deals (I think) are on Cyber Monday (today).

These digital/online sales are where you can peruse the specific gifts to add to your wish list or get for a friend or family member, whilst in your pajamas and avoiding crazy-eyed stampeding shoppers.

Today is the last day to get 50% off your digital download games from our store! (If you want to, you can always copy the files to a disk or hard drive or flash drive to save it). You can shop here.

On a side note, I've been working with cookies. That is, I'm making digital cookies from The Silen Spy. This image below is what I'm working on for our merchandise store. I haven't decided yet if I prefer the trio of the same star cookies, or a trio of different cookies...

~Little Jackalope~

Cookie Love in SPY

Looks like a few of you solved the puzzle! Congrats! The two clues provided (puzzle = keyword, and "no q") refers to a Playfair Cipher. Using the letters given, it decodes to these words [Creating a Character on Monday]. I especially like one person's theory on the message boards to what this means...he/she is spot on!

But alas, we have a short week this week for Thanksgiving break, and I got backed up with more important things. The *something* I was referring to in the puzzle will have to wait until tomorrow. :(

As for today, I was reading through the captions on Facebook and had to stop mid-way. Why? So much cookie talk and I HAD to go and get some cookies to enjoy while reading the rest of the captions.

Oh cookies...how I love them. I especially like to stare at the beautifully decorated cookies we get to make in The Silent Spy. I may just have to make some of these one day: a sugar cookie filled with jam topped with icing and sprinkles. Extravagant!

Oh wow, I just realized I added a clue to the *thing* I'm working on, releasing tomorrow...

~Little Jackalope~

The Snack Cupboard: It's Locked!

*Site Update*: The Message Boards will be down tonight for regular server maintenance between 12:00AM and 3:00AM PST. Nothing about the message boards will be changing, so no worries. The updates are mostly for in our office, you won't notice anything afterwards.

Today is one of those days of the week where a person runs out of fuel and just needs a pick-me-up. In my case, this means cookies. And my desk drawers were lacking cookies. Which is a BIG deal. So I went snooping for a snack in our kitchen and there wasn't much available within reach. No worries! I know where to find more: in the supply closet in the kitchen. One problem: "It's Locked!" Which is probably a good thing knowing me...but then, I did know where to find the key. (Shh, don't tell anyone that I went snooping in some one's desk for this.) Cookies re-stocked! Mission success!

Today we added the latest "Nancy Drew Moment" #1:

Oh yeah...it's totally locked. (I'm guilty of saying this out loud, especially here in the office).

As for my egg mystery, I have nothing to update you with. Further investigations and tricks up my sleeve will be for tomorrow, or Monday. :-/

~Little Jackalope~

A Day for Secrets

Of course, I can't really share them with you. Today was a great day. Besides working on...well...work, I went and did some snooping and picture-taking. It's way too early to be talking about the next game, so it's hard to contain my excitement over what I found in my snooping.

Our designer had me try out a prototype of the end-game puzzle using some familiar toys, I spied a navigation map laid out on our lead tester's desk, nabbing a few cookies from production on my way out, and then I got to listen in on one of the character's dialogue sequences (we call them CALs, but that is an explanation for another time) that one of our animators was lip-syncing, the sun was out so the team went outside for a hackysack break, and lastly, I admired the work of someone's doodles on a white board. I wonder who did those? (>_>)

Yep, It was a great day at Her Interactive.

Stay tuned for tomorrow's contest on Facebook! ;)
~Little Jackalope~