About Us

About Weather Factory

Weather Factory was established in 2017 by Alexis Kennedy and Lottie Bevan to make ingenious narrative games with a consciously indie aesthetic.

We made double-BAFTA-nominated Cultist Simulator, a Lovecraftian card game of apocalypse and yearning. Then came BOOK OF HOURS, an elegant, melancholy, combat-free RPG set in an occult library. We’re currently making Travelling At Night, a dialogue-driven choices-matter combat-free CRPG in the tradition of isometric greats like Disco Elysium, Planescape: Torment, and Fallout 1+2.

About Us

About Weather Factory

Weather Factory was established in 2017 by Alexis Kennedy and Lottie Bevan to make ingenious narrative games with a consciously indie aesthetic.

We made double-BAFTA-nominated Cultist Simulator, a Lovecraftian card game of apocalypse and yearning. Then came BOOK OF HOURS, an elegant, melancholy, combat-free RPG set in an occult library. We’re currently making Travelling At Night, a dialogue-driven choices-matter combat-free CRPG in the tradition of isometric greats like Disco Elysium, Planescape: Torment, and Fallout 1+2.

Awards

Who is responsible?

Alexis Kennedy
Co-Founder
Description

Alexis is an acclaimed writer and game designer. He founded Failbetter Games, where he created, wrote and directed Fallen London and Sunless Sea (plus StoryNexus, Machine Cares!, Night Circus, Black Crown et al).

Credits Include

Fallen London, Machine Cares!, Dragon Age: The Last Court, Sunless Sea, Stellaris: Horizon Signal, Dragon Age 4, Cultist Simulator, The Lady Afterwards, BOOK OF HOURS

Lottie Bevan
Co-Founder
Description

Lottie’s a producer, artist and one of the youngest female founders in the industry. She was a 2019 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and MCV ’30 under 30′, one of GI.biz’s ‘Top 100 most influential women’ and founder of Coven Club, a women in games support network. She previously produced Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Zubmariner and Sunless Skies at Failbetter Games.

Credits Include

BOOK OF HOURS, The Lady Afterwards, Cultist Simulator, Sunless Skies, Sunless Sea mobile / Zubmariner, Fallen London

With help from our freelancers: Adrien Deggan, Clockwork Cuckoo, Sarah Gordon,  Roman Loskutov, Martin Nerurkar, Maribeth Solomon, and Catherine Unger

Skeleton Songs Podcast

A literary, Gothic games podcast from Lottie and Alexis! We talk forgotten myths, fantastic sources, ghoulish tales and game design. Also, sometimes we swear.

Listen to our latest episodes below…