It's been 23 hours since we and @sunsetvisitor.studio announced Prove You're Human, and it already has over 40,000 wishlists.
People *want* narrative games that tackle difficult and human subject matter, and both of our studios will keep bringing them to you.
Thank you for making this possible!
Wishlist here!
store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...
Getting home, I toyed a bit with Bladesong, an early access sword design game (with RPG elements) on steam and the 'creative' mode that lets you free-design swords is very neat: it has a lot of final detail so you can create complete fantasy swords, or recreate historical styles.
A photo of the reliquary. It is posed to look like it is a severed arm crawling across the floor.
A top down view of the arm, fingers outstretched (as though seeking to claim your soul).
The reliquary posed in an ancient Church window, lit by candles, which doesn't really help with the 'not-cursed' vibe.
If anyone has a spare £3k, this 18th Century reliquary in the shape of an outstretched arm is on eBay at the moment. Probably only lightly cursed.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23670774...
a photo of lovecraft wearing a cap edited in that reads "i fear fish women"
Why are all these smug fucks naming their evil companies after Lord of the Rings terms? Tolkien would despise everything you stand for!
Thank you! This was a different kind of story to my previous ones - it puts you in the shoes of an entirely different character for 80% of its duration - so I was quite nervous about the reception, but fortunately people seem to be on board with it!
Some of the best Fallen London stories trap you in a schedule and encourage you to push at its boundaries. So a school timetable works really nicely here, and @skelicopter.bsky.social has such a wonderful way of humanising both horror and joy. “Your smile is so broad you can feel your cheeks cramp.”
I finally got round to playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and every time i talk to my classmates I get the phrase “they’re taking the Huberts to Edelgard!” lodged inexorably in my head
a horrendous ventriloquist's dummy with a bloody eye.
This month's Exceptional Story in Fallen London is called Every Good Boy Deserves Fun.
It is by @skelicopter.bsky.social.
www.fallenlondon.com
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
I was thinking about getting into the Expanse books so i did some background research and this was a hell of a jumpscare
Imagine if that guy had also had a Steam account!
Man that one guy who broke his glasses didn’t have time to read all the books he wanted until the world ended, and that was in the 1950s! There’s been so many more books written since then! Even if i didn’t break my glasses in the apocalypse I’d never clear my backlog
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
Reposting this for the evening weekday gang! Very proud of the soundtrack, and really happy to see the game being so well received so far, especially @skelicopter.bsky.social fantastic writing 🖤
Buy BLADESONG! Now in Early Access, it's an insanely detailed blacksmithing RPG featuring a grim, immersive story campaign written by yours truly!
I peeked at my therapist’s notes and this was the only thing written down
imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago
Am I the only one that thinks this cartoon by Charles Addams (the guy who created the Addams family) is legitimately creepy?
A screenshot of a bit of text. The headline reads "Tiger, tiger, kerning right" in a horrible parody of William Blake.
For goodness' sake, @failbettergames.com, have you no decency?
...I have to admit, I sort of admire that one.
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
A still from The Shining with adapted lyrics from “Last Resort”: “Cut my wife into pieces / this is a ghost resort”
An amusing small finding: an extinct crocodilian known as "necrosuchus," meaning "dead crocodile," got this name because someone asked the paleontologists if it was dead while they were collecting the fossil, and they found this funny enough to immortalize: digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/eef9a4...
An incredibly complex equation is stated. Below this angry meme man is saying "Source?" To which a handsome and somewhat smug looking Ramanujan replies "It was revealed to me in a dream".
YOU COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR Dorothy Parker Telegram to Robert Benchley 31st December 1929
Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die