A deserted island... a lost man... memories of a fatal crash... a book written by a dying explorer. Dear Esther is a ghost story told using first-person gaming technologies. Rather than traditional gameplay, the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of the island, of who you are and why you are here. Fragments of story are randomly triggered by moving around the environments, making every telling unique. Features a stunning, specially commissioned soundtrack. Forget the normal rules of play; if nothing seems real here, it's because it may just be all a delusion. What is the significance of the aerial - What happened on the motorway - is the island real or imagined - who is Esther and why has she chosen to summon you here? The answers are out there, on the lost beach and the tunnels under the island. Or then again, they may just not be, after all...
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It seems Dear Esther has become so famous in the indiescene, it even has its own parody called Dear Esteban. The game was created in Unity, and it's available...
Dear Esther a fantastic mod for Half-Life 2 is out now on Desura.
Just a quick update to let you know I have re-uploaded the original mod for you to download (my fault, should have been back up long ago) and that we...
The remake of the cult source mod Dear Esther will be released commercially in summer 2011.
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So in my last update I asked for your questions regarding the Dear Esther Remake, and today I have been sifting through them and have answered some of...
I recently realised how much time has passed since my last update on here and so I thought I’d put together a small update to show a little bit of what...
So it’s been a while, in fact it’s been almost 4 months since my last update, however, during this time I have been tirelessly working on the third...
So I hit a big milestone today, bringing the second level to alpha and subsequently reaching the half-way point in the project! It took me roughly two...
Just wanted to make a quick update to let you know things are progressing nicely with DE. The lack of updates lately was due to me taking a month off...
If you liked Dear Esther, then you might well like this: Dan Pinchbeck (writer/producer) and Jessica Curry (composer/audio designer) are presenting a...
This week William is joined by Dave of ModDB and Glenn of halflife2.net. They interview SPY-maps of Strider Mountain and talk about Left 4 Dead 2, Dino...
Well it’s been a while since my last update, but be reassured I have not been idling during my absence! Today I can finally show you what I have been...
Ghosts, Zombies, Vampires and other monster boggiewoggies. Halloween is a great time to get into the scarier movies and games to give yourself a good...
The cult Half Life 2 mod picked up the 2009 IndieCade International Independent Game award for Best Story/World at the ceremony in LA last night.
William and Phillip are joined by Dave (Henley) of ModDB. This weeks news includes: BG2 v1.5a, Missing Information, Exodus, Dear Esther environments...
Time for another update I think, been a while actually (or at least it feels like that!). So here's a brief overview of what exactly has been going on...
This week William and Thomas discuss the L4D info from PAX; This weeks TF2 updates; Cooldiradical; Synergy’s City 7 support and autosaves; Resistance...
The cult Half Life 2 mod Dear Esther has been selected as a finalist in the 2009 IndieCade awards - Culver City, here we com!
Been another slow week this week; however I have managed to finish sculpting and painting the terrain for the first level and am now looking forward to...
Hi everyone, My name is Robert Briscoe and as you may or may not have heard, I have taken it upon myself recently to ‘re-master' Dear Esther and bring...
A new interview with Dear Esther designer Dan Pinchbeck at Gamasutra
Lewis Denby recently wrote a piece about Dear Esther which sums up the mods purpose quite nicely.
Dear Esther is getting a full overhaul and rebuild by Robert Briscoe of LittleLostPoly
Wills and DogMeat from Jailbreak Source join us this week and we try out a new recording technique.
Episode number 10 of the Modcast WOOO! On this show we have Will from Podcast 17, Brian from ZPS and NeoTokyo and Mike.
Another week another cast, William from Podcast 17 join the regular crew for an entertaining look into a weeks worth of modding news!
An updated version of the mod Dear Esther has just been released, including remastered sound, fixed terrain issues, extended caves sequence and new audio...
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