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Various UI elements I drew for game projects I worked on as a university student. - Kiri the Fossil Finding Pup! is an educational simulation game (on Itch.io). - Untitled Card Game is a puzzle card game (not available). - A Happy Memory is a slider puzzle variant game (on Itch.io).
Big Fish Games sues Elephant Games (yes, just 7 days after being sued by GrandMA Studios)
TLDR: BFG Entertainment (Big Fish Games' new owners) is suing HOPA developer Elephant Games over allegedly not providing their games' requested source code to BFG. While Elephant claims to have already provided the source code to the original Big Fish pre-BFG Entertainment and claims to not have been paid royalties since November 2025, BFG Entertainment still seeks said source code and disputes Elephant's legal ownership of their self-published games on mobile, thus demanding Elephant to remove these games on these platforms. This seems to contradict GrandMA's lawsuit claiming BFG themselves admitted in writing that a studio like GrandMA still had self-publishing mobile rights even after their contracts was terminated per Big Fish's original agreements.
I made a more extensive Reddit post detailing the back-and-forth exchanges between BFG and Elephant, because I'm too tired right now to tidy and dump all of it as a Tumblr post.
Sources:
Law360's article. Requires signing up for an account with a non-free email domain to fully view; I used my university email. The Google Drive links to a PDF version of the article is here, and to the attached complaint by BFG Entertainment's lawyer is here (this is a public record, so it is legal to share).
The official government King County Superior Court website in Washington. Search up the civil case with the case number 26-2-16333-2, and you'll see the case "BFG ENTERTAINMENT INC VS ELEPHANT GAMES AR LLC". Viewing basic details is free; viewing other court documents requires signing up for an account and paying $8, which I opted to not do.
GrandMA Studios sues Big Fish Games
Please read the documents in the below sources section for the full, original details.
A few days ago (May 11, 2026), the HOPA game developer GrandMA Studios has officially filed a lawsuit against BFG Entertainment (Big Fish Games' new owners) for allegedly illegally terminating their royalties, contracts, and distribution and licensing rights, threatening to remove GrandMA's games from online and mobile stores if GrandMA continued distributing their games, and having "gross negligence" in months-late communication to outdated or non-existent addresses, and less detailed royalty reports that made "independent verification mathematically impossible".
GrandMA is represented by Mark P. Walters, a lawyer from the intellectual property law firm Lowe Graham Jones based in Seattle, Washington (like Big Fish Games was before BFG Entertainment bought it). A trial is scheduled by next year, May 17, 2027. An extra note: GrandMA is stated to be incorporated in the Republic of Cyprus. While the documents don't explicitly mention this, I believe GrandMA at some recent point moved from Ukraine to Cyprus due to the Ukraine war (similar to Domini Games), which is verified by GrandMA's website's terms and conditions.
It is currently unknown if and how will the eventual verdict of this case will decide GrandMA and Big Fish's future in the HOPA game industry; GrandMA's layoffs seem to be irreversible regardless, but who knows.
Sources:
Law360's article. Requires signing up for an account with a non-free email domain to fully view; I used my university email. The Google Drive links to a PDF version of the article is here, and to the attached complaint by GrandMA's lawyer is here (this is a public record, so it is legal to share).
The official government King County Superior Court website in Washington. Search up the civil case with the case number 26-2-15547-0, and you'll see the case "GRANDMA STUDIOS LIMITED VS BFG ENTERTAINMENT INC". Viewing basic details is free; viewing other court documents requires signing up for an account and paying $8, which I opted to not do.
The soundtrack of the discontinued 2014 mobile game Agent Alice, developed by Wooga and composed by Michael Emporium (@michaelemperiom).
Familiar with Agent Alice, the 2015 mobile hidden object game by Wooga that became lost media? Feel free to listen to its no-longer-lost full soundtrack just posted on my soundtrack channel, Roamer Tuney, with permission granted by its composer, Michael Emporium.
A post explaining why it took me so long to post this soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx9E3aG-d4jgC0KGTTSv2e__gNJhSkNnXk
Elephant Games confirms end of cooperation with Big Fish Games
From Elephant Games' recent Facebook/Instagram post. RIP Grim Tales (2011-2026), Mystery Trackers (2010-2025), Christmas Stories (2012-2025), and so on.
I need help finding a game TT
There is a hidden object puzzle adventure game that's probably fairytale based and ends with the protagonist climbing up a tower and shooting a witch/ queen/ stepmother (who was standing in the town square) with a crossbow. Does anyone know which game it is? The witch had hurriedly come to this town from the previous location (possibly to finish her big spell?) and was not expecting the protagonist (maybe she had locked them up?) And the tower is kinda gloomy, not very colourful so probably not something from Domini Games...
My first thoughts are possibly "Mystery Legends 3: Beauty and the Beast", one of the Awakening games, or one of the Princess Isabella games. If it's not one of these games, I don't know, sorry.
I'd reply instead of reposting but your post has replies disabled on my end
What if Alister Dalimar didn't shave his mustache?
This is my fan-art of a combination of all of the different character designs of Alister Dalimar (a character from the HOPA series Mystery Case Files), mostly based on his design in Escape from Ravenhearst and Fate's Carnival since they're the most similar.
For non-spoiler context for non-MCF fans, Escape from Ravenhearst first introduces Alister Dalimar only by mention. The game's final journal entry features images of what can pretty much only be this character. The later MCF games go on to feature Alister in the flesh but (due to being made by different developers) his designs look substantially different from his original design in Escape from Ravenhearst, especially his glorious mustache. I sought to right that wrong here.
This was submitted for the MCF Wiki's Head Façade contest this year.
Some more updates on Big Fish Games
(some screenshots and sources are linked in my Reddit post at the bottom of this post b/c I'm too lazy to re-include everything again)
GrandMA's contract is still dead. Former artists have posted their work from cancelled projects, including Whispered Secrets 18, Whispered Secrets 19, and the second full sequel to Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate (concept art of some locations and redesigns of the carnies already existed).
Friendly Fox's contract appears fine? They have neither confirmed nor denied their contract with Big Fish being in danger, but they promoted their latest game on Big Fish's website, so it seems they're still set to release PC HOPAs there.
Elephant Games' contract is more uncertain but seems fine? They have made official statements about Big Fish kicking them out of developing their F2P HOG Midnight Castle and have replied to comments saying they have "no information" on their PC HOPA sequels. Their newest Grim Tales game is still being promoted on Big Fish's website but Elephant Games hasn't made an official statement about that yet. Elephant Games also seems to be going through some very recent layoffs according to a couple former employees' LinkedIns.
A lot of prices of Big Fish Games' published games on Steam doubled. Any Standard Edition games less than $10 are now $10. Any Collector's Editions games that were $10 or $13 are now $20.
The free trials of recent PC games from Big Fish's website have been reduced from 60-90 minutes to 25 minutes.
Big Fish Games has had a new owner, BFG Entertainment, since October 2025.
BFG Entertainment has made a LinkedIn post looking to recruit developers, artists, and a composer for their new internal studio, making it the first time Big Fish will develop in-house since 2012 with Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake.
My Reddit post with more details, screenshots, and sources b/c I'm too lazy to type it all out again: https://www.reddit.com/r/HiddenObjectGames/comments/1qp4iku/news_various_updates_about_big_fish_games_new/
Climax of Vanished: A Blackpool Mystery be like:
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GrandMA Studios and Friendly Fox on their Facebooks have confirmed about Big Fish terminating their contracts with them. The studios' posts and replies speak for themselves.
Big Fish Games terminates contracts with GrandMA Studios and Friendly Fox
(this is a repost from my post from Reddit, but thought this was important enough to share here too)
Big Fish Games has silently ended their contracts with GrandMA Studios and Friendly Fox a few days ago, both HOPA developers since 2012. Sources linked at the bottom of this post.
For GrandMA, due to only working for Big Fish Games for over a decade and nothing else, many of their employees will unfortunately lose their jobs. GrandMA's artists have already posted on LinkedIn about Big Fish cutting ties with the studio and how they're looking for new work. These artists mostly have updated their profiles to list themselves as no longer working for GrandMA this year. Ukrainian news articles state GrandMA will most likely have to cancel 5-6 games, likely including the to-be-released Whispered Secrets 18: Echoes of the Past that was in beta just a month ago.
For Friendly Fox, according to Ukrainian news articles, they are sustainable enough to continue their activities without Big Fish's involvement. It is unclear whether they can work on IPs like Living Legends, Bridge to Another World, Dark City, and so on without Big Fish as their publisher. Friendly Fox's social media is still active while GrandMA's isn't.
According to the Ukrainian news articles, Big Fish seems to have made this decision due to a change in owners (yet again) after being quietly sold by Aristocrat Leisure, which is confirmed to be their intention since early this year in a PocketGamerBiz article.
Big Fish also has a public job listing on LinkedIn confirming they are "building a new internal game development studio focused on premium-quality casual games, including Hidden Object, HOPA, Time Management, and Puzzle titles". This is under the name BFG Entertainment, which is also their new name on Steam. It is possible Big Fish prioritized this new internal studio over their outsourcing studios, hence this decision.
Sources:
GrandMA Artist Iryna Gershkova's LinkedIn post about this.
GrandMA Artist Yuliia Derevinska reposted the above on her LinkedIn.
GrandMA Artist Liubov Ishkovich's LinkedIn post about this (in Ukrainian).
GrandMA Artist Daria Holovchenko's LinkedIn post about this.
The GameDev DOU news website article about this (in Ukrainian).
The dev.ua news article about this (in Ukrainian).
PocketGamerBiz article about Aristocrat Leisure trying to sell Big Fish.
BFG Entertainment's LinkedIn job listing confirming a new studio (requires a LinkedIn Account to view; will redirect elsewhere if you don't have one)
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Just finished the 9 Clues HOPA duology
Remember your favorite fairy tales? In the Dark Parables series, they're almost all related thanks to one frog that really wants a wife
(had to repost to make it more accurate and readable)
Some art for my OC, Aster Indasky. I just wanted an excuse to draw any character for my game project, and so Aster was born
Just wanted to self-promote that I just finished and published my mini-project of a short puzzle/hidden object game on Itch.io! You can check it out for free here: https://roamermonkey.itch.io/the-puzzle-pyramid
Thought to share what my laptop stickers look like, as you can see it's very hyperspecific to what I like lol
I used stickeryou.com to get most custom stickers here, these stickers were made only for my personal use
Here's what the stickers are meant to represent (from left to right, top to bottom):
2024: Self-explanatory
Snatcher: From "A Hat in Time" (an actual in-game sticker)
Jon: From my video
Anna: From "Murder in the Alps"'s chapter "No Quarter"
Larry: From "Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate"
Mortimer: From "Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox"
Hat Kid: From "A Hat in Time" (an actual in-game sticker)
Black Magnifying Glass: Made by me
Nancy Drew Magnifying Glasses: Bought from LillianimationArt (check out her work!)
Text: Self-explanatory (proud to have come up with it myself)
Kay: From "MazM: Hyde & Seek"
Blue Thief: From "Everhood"
Briar Rose: Original fan art by @detectiveruth (check out her art!)
Teresa: From "Dark Parables: Red Riding Hood Sisters" (in a post by Blue Tea Games)
TARDIS: From "Doctor Who" (made by me, based on 13th Doctor's version)
Kirby: Self-explanatory
