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Tomorrow I launch the Kickstarter for Cultist Simulator. That link works, but it’s still a preview link, but once the project is live, it’ll be a … live link. The link will work now. It’ll work tomorrow, too. It’s not a dead link now. With strange aeons even death may die. Hi, my name’s Alexis, […]
Sometimes the right name is inevitable. Sunless Sea was the obvious name from the moment the idea showed up. Sometimes they need tweaking. When I first pitched its sequel, it was always going to be called ‘Sunless Sky’; after I left Failbetter, the team changed it to ‘Sunless Skies’ because they got understandably nervous. And sometimes […]
Cultist Simulator contains a fifteen or so occult books (it’ll be about a hundred and twenty by the time the game is complete). Here’s an exegesis of three of them by Anne Auclair from the Fallen London forums. I’m reproducing it without comment, and can’t vouch for its accuracy. The Locksmith’s Dream, Teresa Galmier “I […]
Share this, and the Moth will remember you. Kickstarter on 1st September. Dream furiously.
The Moth’s Hour is midnight. It is the first God-who-was-blood. It seeks among the trees of the Wood; it beats within the skull; it is dappled. The Hours are the secret gods of the Cultist Simulator setting. Their true nature is too primal to be depicted, so the game kindly provides an alternate Tarot card […]
So I visited a certain seaside town, where Teresa Galmier had been before me. Some of the things I found in the Parish History museum: A dusty display case of flint tools; a stuffed hare; an inexplicable box of yellowing wool; a full-sized model of Queen Victoria, who visited in 1885; and this. It’s the […]
The Thunderskin is the Heart Relentless, who does not permit conclusion. With the Mother of Ants, he is among the chiefest Gods-from-flesh. He cannot be stilled; he demands the dance; he is beaten, like a drum. Red and blue are his colours. He is heard in the Wood below the world. The Hours are the […]
Here I am: http://www.pcgamer.com/my-creative-calling-is-to-freak-people-the-f-out-says-alexis-kennedy-on-cultist-simulator/ and here I am again: http://www.pcgamer.com/do-games-have-enough-respect-for-your-spare-time/ plus a little bit of DA gossip here: http://www.pcgamer.com/alexis-kennedys-part-in-next-dragon-age-will-immediately-look-familiar-to-anyone-whos-played-fallen-london-and-sunless-sea/ I’ve also got an interview about to hit in PCGamesN – teaser here: https://www.pcgamesn.com/cultist-simulator/why-failbetter-founder-alexis-kennedy-left-his-studio
Hi @alexiskennedy A quick question before I sign up on your thunderclap: will there be same-sex romances in Cultist Simulator? Thanks! — elidoo (@elidooooo) August 17, 2017 The answer is ‘yes’, but this is a sensitive and complex topic, so I want to respond honestly and to make sure that player expectations are met. In […]
Last week, I mentioned the package I’d received from ‘A Well-Wisher’, containing two volumes of the 1925 edition of ‘The Locksmith’s Dream’. I also mentioned also that the package included a postcard from Galmier herself, from a seaside town on the south coast. Since then, I’ve realised two things. Firstly, the town named on the postcard doesn’t […]
The Sun-in-Rags concludes endings beautifully. He is usually reckoned one of the Gods-from-Light; but Julian Coseley (the seventeenth-century magus and reputed immortal) has indicated he should in fact be numbered among the Gods-from-blood. He burns; he is distant; he is not as he was. He wears gold and red. The Hours are the secret […]
Last week I shared an image of the 1923 two-volume edition of the Locksmith’s Dream – ‘The Light through the Keyhole’ and ‘Portions and Proportions’. I was aware that the first three volumes were republished as separate editions, but I hadn’t expected ever to see them. I was excited – but also rather alarmed – […]
[Last week: paraTactician found time for occult studies. This week: paraTactician meets an old enemy from real life.] But: mama didn’t raise no quitters. I push on. The next time I get paid, I hopefully won’t have an Injury to deal with, so I should be able to spend that Funds (those Funds? this is really causing […]
The Witch-and-Sister unites what is at rest. She is sought at the water’s edge and beneath the moon. She cannot be touched; she cannot be separated; she is pearl, coral, amber. The Hours are the secret gods of the Cultist Simulator setting. Their true nature is too primal to be depicted, so the game kindly provides […]
[An alpha tester by the name of paraTactician sent me this account of his experiences with Cultist Simulator. I enjoyed it, and it gives a good sense of the bones of the game. Over to them! Last time: paraTactician fell into peril, and resolved to save himself with the life of the mind.] …I pick […]
An alpha tester by the name of paraTactician sent me this account of his experiences with Cultist Simulator. I enjoyed it, and it gives a good sense of the bones of the game. Over to paraTactician. Dear diary, I am sick with the mundane; I recoil from the quotidian. I long for oceans, and find […]
The Cultist Simulator Kickstarter begins in just under a month. I’ve got the pitch drafted, I’ve got the rewards sketched out (including some really daft ones to do with tattoos, and invented words, and secret lore from previous games) Tomorrow, all being well, I’ll mail a link to the Kickstarter preview to my entire mailing […]
If you lived in the first half of the twentieth century, and you wanted to find a way into the Mansus, you probably owned a copy of this book. It began life as a catalogue of unusual parallels in the dreams of artisans, but by the time of Volume 2 (‘Portions and Proportions’) it amounted […]