This is the basic motivation behind most press comms you’ll come across on social media or your inbox. If you were to receive a message that read almost word for word like that, you’d probably not be too keen to engage. Communication or comms, is a powerful marketing method, used via/for PR, Direct/Indirect Marketing, Advertisement, Read more
I’m going to write a big data dump in the next couple of weeks about how mobile launch went, as a similar, smaller companion piece to our Cultist retrospective and Alexis’s ‘State of the Factory’ post. For now, I wanted to outline what the mobile version is and where we’re headed with it. If you Read more
Hesselius, as of course you all know, is a central character in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Gothic short story ‘Green Tea’, on which I once based an excellent (and tokophobic) Call of Cthulhu TRPG. With print-outs and Japanese telephone recordings and everything. And now that you’ve received eight times your daily dose of nerdery, on to Read more
Last time I wrote about the badassery of Saint Bríd and this time I’m going to push the Irish history agenda more, but it’s prompted by an unlikely source. I was scrolling through twitter trying to find the dankest of memes for…marketing purposes, when I came across a trailer for Marvelous Games Fate/EXTELLA Yes a Read more
Happy Friday! Alexis said it couldn’t be done, but here at Weather Factory we laugh in the face of reasonable expectations. I’m sitting eating pizza in a smol cafe near EGX Rezzed, where Claire and I have just been on several panels, so this calls for a SPRINT UPDATE, don’t you think? We skipped last Read more
We haven’t posted for a bit, and I don’t think Lottie is going to manage a sprint update this week unless she works over the weekend which she definitely ain’t doing, so I wanted to talk about what’s been happening. It’s a lot. MONDAY was when the London Games Festival began, and Claire and Lottie Read more
So March has been an exciting month which will culminate in London Game Festival kicking off the month of April. As part of International Women’s Day and supporting women within the games industry, Splash Damage studios hosted an event focusing on career advice and culture in the workplace. Splash Damage are a great UK based Read more
The merits of community to the success of any art project – especially in the indie space – are obvious. This post is meant for anyone that would like some general insight into what I believe are the intentions needed when creating a community for your game. I apologise in advance for how many times Read more
As any fule kno, PUNCTUALITY IS THE SHADOW OF THE GODS. IMMORTALS ARE ALWAYS LATE. Therefore it is totally acceptable that this sprint update is late, let us never speak of it again. The key thing from last sprint was our massive song and dance number about our UPCOMING MOBILE PORT OF CULTIST SIMULATOR ZOMG! Read more
[This is a guest post from Nikhil Murthy, one of our mentees.] Hi, I’m Nikhil Murthy (twitter: @murthynikhil) and I make experimental video games. You can find my last one, The Quiet Sleep, on Steam and Itch. I’m currently working on a 4X game called Syphilisation in which you play one of a group of Read more
