Author: Alexis Kennedy
The Skeleton Light
Power and versatility are edged and bladed weapons. AK talks about seven years of Cultist Simulator, and sixteen years of design.
A Comedy of the Sun
Minor spoilers for Travelling at Night, inconsequentially minor spoilers for Book of Hours!
The Palimpsest
Designing a CRPG. Apparently you need… opera?
Travelling At Night
Announcing 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.
Book of Hours x Smooth Jazz
We’re on holiday next week, but we have a brace of blessed bagatelles for you first.
Silence Before Thunder
HOUSE OF LIGHT is done*, and anyone who’s ever worked on anything creative will instinctively know what that asterisk means.
BOOK OF YEARS
On August 17th 2023, just before six o’clock in the evening, nervous glasses of wine in our trembling hands, cats winding demandingly round our trembling ankles, Lottie and I clicked the big green LAUNCH button for BOOK OF HOURS.
The Ivory Dawn
“The wisp begins to wriggle, pulling away from the heat…”
The Long and the Devil
This post contains the kind of technical detail you either like or don’t… but a lot of folk tell us they find these inside glimpses interesting.
The Big Ones and the Little Ones
HOUSE OF LIGHT’s coming on 26th September! And a bit about how pie makes AK depressed.
What will you do with Thirza’s Knife?
A deep-dive in HOUSE OF LIGHT design, new Notebooks of the Hours, and more.
TWELVE DISMAYS OF CHRISTMAS
Welcome, all ye merry souls, to the TWELVE DISMAYS OF CHRISTMAS.
Horizon-Sight
What we’ve been doing for the last month, and where BOOK OF HOURS is going next.
The Land’s Voice
“We wanted Hush House to feel like a home to anyone who’s ever been momentarily tempted by the idea of life as a country librarian or a lighthouse-keeper. If that’s you…”