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  • DEAD LETTER DEPT. RELEASE – 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

    DEAD LETTER DEPT. RELEASE – 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

    It has been 1 year. Mike here. I’ve decided to commemorate with a small bit of making-of reminiscing. As a project with the central theme revolving around a distinctly physical medium, it seemed pretty un-deniable that it would involve a lot of paper textures. In 2021, as a person whose entire career has more or

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  • Soundtrack to DEAD LETTER DEPT. Now Available!

    Soundtrack to DEAD LETTER DEPT. Now Available!

    So we know this took awhile, but we’re happy to announce that the DEAD LETTER DEPT. Original Soundtrack is now officially released! 25 tracks of paranormal drones & sizzling industrial sound, stalking the full journey of your Data Conversion experience. Created and composed by Mike Monroe. This thing is probably, in a smarter person’s hands, something that should have

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  • Psychological Horror Typing Game DEAD LETTER DEPT. Launches Today on Steam

    Psychological Horror Typing Game DEAD LETTER DEPT. Launches Today on Steam

    You type up the undelivered mail that could never find home, but sometimes it feels like they’re talking directly to you. PNW – January 30th, 2025 – Developer Mike Monroe of the 2-man studio Belief Engine, invites you to experience a voyeuristic technological ghost story in DEAD LETTER DEPT.– launching today on Steam for Windows, Linux, and SteamOS ($14.99 / £12.79

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  • Psychological Horror Typing Game DEAD LETTER DEPT. Arrives on Steam January 30th

    Psychological Horror Typing Game DEAD LETTER DEPT. Arrives on Steam January 30th

    You type up the undelivered mail that could never find home, but sometimes it feels like they’re talking directly to you. Redmond WA – January 9th, 2025 – Developer Mike Monroe of the 2-man studio Belief Engine, invites you to a slow-burn voyeuristic journey with the announcement of DEAD LETTER DEPT. launching on Steam, January 30th, 2025. Announcement

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  • New full trailer released for haunted typing horror game DEAD LETTER DEPT.

    New full trailer released for haunted typing horror game DEAD LETTER DEPT.

    Experience a One-Of-A-Kind Psychological Horror Tale, Coming to Steam Redmond, WA (Oct. 24, 2024) – Indie development studio Belief Engine has revealed its new full trailer for DEAD LETTER DEPT.- the mysterious data-entry simulation game being developed by Mike Monroe. DEAD LETTER DEPT. is an experimental typing horror game experience, placing you as a transplant moving to a new city working

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  • ‘FOR GOODNESS SAKE’ SURPRISE GAME RELEASED

    ‘FOR GOODNESS SAKE’ SURPRISE GAME RELEASED

    Scott and I teamed up to participate in a Game Jam event that the Haunted PS1 community puts out every year for December, called the MADVENT CALENDAR. It consists of 25+ FREE bite-sized little spooky weird games to play every day for the month of December. Scott & I enjoyed playing these strange little nuggets so much the last couple years, that we

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  • Kaibutsu Prototype 02 Release

    Kaibutsu Prototype 02 Release

    The next prototype aims to further build out a Spaced Repetition System, or SRS for short. So building this style of system into part of the game’s core, ideally, will serve to help provide you with the right language puzzles at the right time.

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  • Kaibutsu: Another World – Mini Prototype 01 Released Today!

    Kaibutsu: Another World – Mini Prototype 01 Released Today!

    Kaibutsu: Another World is currently being developed in the Defold engine- Scott has really been wanting to work in something smaller scale & open source. As part of an exercise in testing out the engine, he’s now developing small mini-games and vignette prototypes.

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  • DEAD LETTER DEPT. TEASER TRAILER

    DEAD LETTER DEPT. TEASER TRAILER

    Check it, a teaser trailer for Dead Letter Dept. now exists. Plus some quick fun facts and update details.

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  • Announcing Kaibutsu: Another World

    Announcing Kaibutsu: Another World

    Scott has begun work on a new experimental project- Kaibutsu: Another World – a game to teach himself Japanese, by making a game about learning Japanese.

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  • So wait, what’s going on with NOISETUBE?

    So wait, what’s going on with NOISETUBE?

    For the moment NOISETUBE is hibernating as Mike is unable to focus on it as an Early Access product full time, nor does he want to release it in a wonky state.

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