If you read our State of the Factory post, you’ll know that we’ve had a good year, and that we’ve decided to grow a little. As of this week, Weather Factory is officially no longer exactly just ‘Lottie and Alexis in a flat’: The brilliant, indefatigable and possibly notorious Claire Sharkey has already been handling Read more
Weather Factory is an indie studio founded in 2017 by Lottie Bevan and Alexis Kennedy (creator of Fallen London and Sunless Sea) to make experimental narrative games, and joined recently by Claire Sharkey of Sharkbit. Our first project, Cultist Simulator, exceeded all our expectations, and we’re growing the studio. This is an opportunity to work Read more
Here’s the good news. This blog post really does contain one weird trick. The bad news: it isn’t a reliable list of steps you can follow, or a career track with an exam you can do, or the email address of someone who wants to hire you. Those things don’t exist. Games writing is a Read more
A whole nother fortnight has passed. Alexis posted an epic round-up of Weather Factory’s year, which people seem to have found useful; Claire wrote her first blog on a woman and her tremendous cloak, seizing farmland for God like some furious Catholic Batman; I started an anonymous game dev salary spreadie for UK developers, which Read more
This is an unusually straightforward post on a subject I am usually very coy about. Please feel free to link to it if you ever think anyone will find it useful. There is a sort of nano-ARG – a very small-scale project – which begins with clues inside Cultist Simulator. It serves as a treasure Read more
Oh hi there folks, I’m interrupting your usual blog broadcast from Lottie and Alexis to introduce myself. I’m Claire and I support the Marketing and PR for Weather Factory and have been slowly using techniques I learned off the telly, to convince Sulo and Chi to run away with me. So I thought I might Read more
Here’s how Weather Factory is doing, here’s how we thought we’d be doing, and here’s what we’re doing next. I’d like to do one of these every January (this January, we had a major cat health emergency AND a major Cultist update, so it slipped). I know indie game studios can look very different from Read more
Actual footage of us realising we don’t have much we can actually say about our work this sprint, due to so-called ‘marketing’ and ‘timing’. The stuff I can say is this sprint has been about Prepping For Things. Alexis and Chris have nixed a vivarium of bugs, from issues with summonings (probably our oldest living Read more
Well, if you haven’t seen any of the 9,000,000,000,000,000 posts we’ve made, Christopher’s Build is now out! We released it on Tuesday on Steam, Humble, GOG and itch.io, along with Maribeth Solomon’s epehemeral gongs, dongs and spooky songs. You can get the soundtrack from basically anywhere you can think of, including Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp, you Read more
[UPDATE: more here – http://weatherfactory.biz/that-library-game/] The day before yesterday I was finishing the ultra-hardcore New Game Plus mode for Cultist Simulator, and I thought about how mean it was, and I idly tweeted this: idea: extremely relaxed Cultist Simulator expandalone you’re a librarian books arrive in your occult library and you just examine, catalogue and Read more
