The story so far: My name’s Alexis Kennedy. With my fiancée, Lottie Bevan, I run a very small game development studio out of our London flat. I used to own and run another studio, Failbetter Games, which was a little bigger (about half a dozen employees for most of my time there, ballooning to seventeen Read more
In true Weather Factory fashion, we announced our next game before we were even certain we were making it. We’re still not certain we’re making it. The Kickstarter we’re running for BOOK OF HOURS on the 3rd September? if that fails, then we’ll rethink and do something else, because it’ll show that there isn’t actually Read more
This is probably interesting to about 2% of the already select audience of this blog. Sorry, everyone else! But for those who are interested, this is from a Slack discussion about how the content framework in Book of Hours (which we’re calling ‘Vak’) looks like it’ll differently from the content framework in Cultist Simulator (retrospectively 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
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
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
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
[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
