{"id":1694,"date":"2025-10-02T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:49:42","slug":"talking-cats-curses-and-creepy-cozy-vibes-with-the-strange-antiquities-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/talking-cats-curses-and-creepy-cozy-vibes-with-the-strange-antiquities-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking cats, curses, and creepy-cozy vibes with the Strange Antiquities team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Double, double, toil and trouble &#8211; the Halloween season is upon us, and what better time is there to dive into Strange Antiquities and find out what inspired it, where it might go, and if the cat is based on a real one. We look into the minds behind the series, talking to Rob and John Donkin. They\u2019re the brothers who make up Bad Viking, the studio creating both games.<\/p>\n<p>The Strange games start with 2022\u2019s Strange Horticulture, and now 2025\u2019s Strange Antiquities. You\u2019re left in charge of a store of the same name, where you must process customers\u2019 requests and provide them with the totems they desire. What they do with them isn\u2019t your business, but there is an underlying story to uncover. The mystery surrounding the game left us wanting to know more, so without further ado, here\u2019s our interview with the Bad Viking duo!<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on Pocket Tactics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/strange-antiquities\/interview\">Talking cats, curses, and creepy-cozy vibes with the Strange Antiquities team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double, double, toil and trouble &#8211; the Halloween season is upon us, and what better time is there to dive into Strange Antiquities and find out what inspired it, where it might go, and if the cat is based on a real one. We look into the minds behind the series, talking to Rob and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}