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Dispatches from the Bureau's development team — design decisions, art direction, technical deep-dives, and field reports from the XenoEtiquette development mission.

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1 June 2026

Miro Aurela

Games Like Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes — And What We're Adding

Keep Talking proved that asymmetric co-op + communication pressure = incredible fun. XenoEtiquette asks: what if the bomb had opinions about how you treated it?

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Design#02

Designing Alien Languages Players Can Decode in Real Time

The cipher wheel in XenoEtiquette's Mission Control manual isn't decoration — it's a real decoding system. Here's how we designed alien communication that's actually fun to figure out under pressure.

Niklas Malinen · May 2026Read →
Art#01

The Art Direction of XenoEtiquette — Storybook Sci-Fi

Why does XenoEtiquette look like a storybook? Because first contact shouldn't feel cold and sterile — it should feel warm, weird, and a little bit wonderful. The Polgetinks arrived and the whole visual direction changed overnight.

Fiona Keil · Apr 2026Read →
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