Of all the fantastical fictional narcotics I've read about I think I want to try Prisoner's Honey from Fallen London the most

Strange Play: Showcase Tickets_ Back_ Embrace the Strange and dive in to our weekend long exhibition of experimental games. It’s going to be exciting, moving and very, very Strange. Get ready to play like you&#8217…

Glad to announce I'm on the programme for @voidspacezine.bsky.social's Strange Play as part of London Games Festival. Showing my playable diorama, "Next Door's Telly Has Games On".
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The flyer for the London Games Festival: an illustration of a kind-of weird mecha made of various London landmarks, looming over the London skyline while some humans frolic, blue sky behind, title reading "LONDON GAMES FESTIVAL 13 April - 19 April 2026"

Hello! Are you someone in London who's interested in weird playful experiments and commercially implausible games? I've written up some of the stuff happening as part of this year's London Games Festival that I think you should check out

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A screenshot from Elden Ring of a player character next to a ghostly player gesture, a player is doing the Ring of Miquella gesture with a pot on their head

Next Monday I will be presenting our paper "Video Game Archaeology as Hauntological Practice: A Collaborative Autoethnography in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree" at #chi2026!

The preprint is available to download here: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

#archaeogaming #archaeology #hci #gamedev

We have a modest single screen but I'll gently peel you off if it starts looking unhealthy :D

This time next week we'll be at New Game Plus, sharing Mandrake for the first time!

Introducing #LGF26's Ensemble line-up!

The Ensemble initiative celebrates diversity across game development roles and backgrounds.

Charlie Webb
Charmie Kim
Christopher White
Deanne Pierre-Pacquette
HaZ Dulull
Harun Ali
Jennifer Estaris
Sara Veal

games.london/ensemble

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Narrative-focused studios, you can sponsor Narrascope and receive passes in return for your staff. A worthwhile conference!

We have just sponsored them. So fresh we're not even on the website yet. Join us!

This is a great conference for people interested in games writing.

They're also looking for sponsorship still! They want to be able to pay their contributors and cover their very modest expenses. Narrative studios, you know what to do!

Mandrake - Announce Trailer — Derek Lieu Creative - Game Trailer Editor A year before this announcement is when we started thinking about the trailer for Mandrake, which helped the team prioritize art assets and start thinking about how they’d reveal the game to the world...

I wrote a case study for the Mandrake announce trailer!

@itshannahflynn.bsky.social and @failbettergames.com contacted me a full year before we made the trailer to ask what art assets and animations they’d need to prioritize for the announcement.

Lots of tidbits about VO script writing, too!

Begin either by meeting the Duchess at the Shuttered Palace, or the Queen of Roses in Far Arbor.

'Deliveries' is an experimental addition to Fallen London. Enjoy!

www.fallenlondon.com

Our Lady of the Roses sits in her arbored bower drinking hippocras and playing chess against herself. She is losing.

Donate your services as a courier between the feuding sisters of the Second City. Deliver gifts in exchange for conversation, snippets of history and the occasional favour.

the cover to the new issue of Wyrd Science, featuring an illustration of psychedelic mushrooms growing out of a pink skull by tom j newell

what if we put issue 8 of Wyrd Science on sale? What if this got more likes & shares than our stupid jokes?

featuring Dolmenwood, Blades In The Dark, Doomsong, Kamping Kitbash, Lee Gold, The Old King's Crown, weird fiction, aggro comics, dungeon synth & lots more

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Realis A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!

55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

L&S NATURE RESERVE _____ ENTER THE RESERVE You'll be going alone. You'll have only your wits and your weapons. _____ The Researcher passes you a map of the wilderness. It looks like the work of a child. "The man who made that was one of our best scouts," he says proudly, "but our worst cartographer. He died from climbing too high, and the inevitable fall. Please, find out what's driven my friends to madness." _____ The Phlegmatic Researcher's Study into a Peculiar Malady

Sunless Skies remains a delight. Glory in the work of human hands, human minds.

Fond memories of the first enemies in Sunless Skies being a gray box with googly eyes and "enemy" written on it.

Said placeholder ended up being used for pretty much every test. The parallax system? Started as a stack of googly eye boxes fading into the mist of the high wilderness.

It depends on the rose.

Limit Break, the award winning mentorship program for marginalised people working in the UK games industry returns!

💖 Part of a marginalised group in games looking for a mentor?
💖 Want to help level up the next gen of game devs?

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Metempsychosis Meets its End Failbetter are an independent games studio, creating games and stories mostly set in the Fallen London Universe.

This is the post where we cancelled it. We weren't planning on sunsetting FL, pre-2020, but we were thinking of reducing the rate at which we published things. In the end we didn't!

welcome back!

Oh yeah I was just pointing out that FL still lives :)

33. Fallen London - Avulsion

waiter!! waiter!! more stories on the topic of loving, remembering, grieving, and the horrors!!

i regret not choosing that final choice. might need to replay this one just to see the other options!

"You existed before this love, and you will exist after it."

9/10

16 years strong: www.fallenlondon.com :)

My new Fallen London story, Avulsion, is out now!!

NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN IN THE SUNKEN GALLERY

Words by @hthrflwrs.bsky.social
Editing and QA by @thebarse.bsky.social
Art by @misterarendt.bsky.social

For this story and a shimmering array of pearl-like perks, become an Exceptional Friend, and help us keep doing what we do

www.fallenlondon.com

A woman with brown hair in a bun, wearing a high-necked dusky pink blouse, in a dark environment. She is holding a lizard that's the size of a large cat. It's glowing, and the edges of its body are dithered into multiple colours.

'EVERYTHING LOST WILL BE LOVED; EVERYTHING LOVED WILL BE LOST.'

The Shuttering Photographer's latest exhibition invites an unusual level of audience participation. Will you give up control over the compass of your heart?

The Exceptional Story for April in Fallen London is Avulsion.

People were indignant when we banned memes in our discord server

The only 'legal' memes are constructed entirely from our games' assets

These are the most majestic frankenstein'd imagery you've ever seen

A source of constant delight at our players' creativity

We regret nothing

The team behind FALLEN LONDON wrote about adapting their games into a TTRPG format in partnership with @magpiegames.bsky.social.

The game was funded last year, for reference.