Hope you’re hanging in there, everyone! I come with good tidings. Next sprint is Cultist‘s second birthday! There’ll be a bunch of fun stuff going on around the end of May to celebrate Cultist turning two, as well as the ultimate Mansus-inspired party: two Hours tearing themselves limb from symbolist limb while you and a Read more
[ I wrote the article below for Wireframe, a British game dev magazine which ‘lifts the lid on video games’. And, inexplicably, lets me have a monthly column. This one’s from Issue #13, in May 2019. ] This is an ode to organic indie streaming strategies. I’m confident Shakespeare will forgive me for the title. Read more
Hey, Believers! Alexis’s and my sprint have been dominated by a troupe of giggling Portuguese carpenters who came in and built a floor-to-ceiling library with sparkly lights and a rolling ladder. This has been a dream of Alexis’s since childhood, and once we get the ladder installed we will be staging Weather Factory’s version of Read more
I get asked a lot how I got into games. I always feel unhelpful when I tell my story, because it’s such an unconventional and such an unrecommendable one. But it goes like this. At the beginning of June 2009, I sat down in front of my computer to start making a game. My computer was crowded Read more
Appropriately named sprint, eh? It makes me a little worried that our upcoming sprints are IMMORALITY and JUSTICE but May #2 is KING ARTHUR so here’s hoping. The big news this sprint is we moved house! 😱 Alexis has started a sourdough culture he refers to only as “The Bred Möther”, and inspired by our Read more
Below is the current list of places featured in EXILE (excluding the Priory of Captains, the Pentapolis and the other final destinations). Some of them I know, a couple of them I’ve even lived in, a lot of them I’ve spent the last month researching frantically. The divergent nature of Histories makes it easy for Read more
Hey, Believers! Hope you’re all doing okay in lockdown. It’s not fun, is it? Lancing this cloud of gloom like a wafer through ice-cream are the Priest and Ghoul DLCs, which launched on mobile yesterday. They’re available as £1.99 IAPs, and Cultist Simulator is 50% off for a week on the App Store and Google Read more
The Tarot of the Hours: MORE, PLEASE Sooooo. Everyone really likes tarot decks. We sold all of our 500 decks within 36 hours. Thank you so much if you ordered one! My phone makes a cash register cha-ching noise every time we sell something on Etsy so it was the closest I’ll ever get to Read more
Iiiiiit’s heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere! 😱 The long-awaited Tarot of the Hours is finally available in the Church o’ Merch! For £30 + shipping you can get your probably not entirely innocent hands on your very own hand-numbered tarot deck, granting you ultimate insight into the House without Walls. Thanks for being patient while I sorted ’em. <3 Read more
[ I wrote the article below for Wireframe, a British game dev magazine which ‘lifts the lid on video games’. And, inexplicably, lets me have a monthly column. This one’s from Issue #9, in March 2019. ] When you’re looking at a payroll of 9,800 names, it’s hard to see the human in the numbers. Read more
