This is the season of the Forge of Days – the hottest August day in the UK for the last decade – so here’s something apposite for you.
Author Archives: Alexis Kennedy
How I Got Into Games, Part 1: Echo Bazaar
I get asked a lot how I got into games. I always feel unhelpful when I tell my story, because it’s such an unconventional and such an unrecommendable one. But it goes like this.
Wherever You Go
Below is the current list of places featured in EXILE (excluding the Priory of Captains, the Pentapolis and the other final destinations). Mid-1920s European history is fascinating, and butts in unexpected ways against what we know of Europe after WWII.
“What are your influences?”
This is probably the question I’ve been asked most over the years, and every time as soon as I answer it I think of someone I’ve left out. So here’s a semi-permanent list that answers the question.
STATE OF THE FACTORY: YEAR 2
Once again, here’s how Weather Factory is doing, here’s how we thought we’d be doing, and here’s what we’re doing next. Welcome to this year’s Giant Summary Post! This is almost twice the length of the post-2018 State of the Factory, because a lot happened. Come for the kitten pictures, stay for the data. As […]
What Actually Happened
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 […]
BOOK OF HOURS: Where Knowledge Goes
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 […]
NERDPOST: Content Frameworks in Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours
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 […]
The Busiest Week of Our God Damned Lives
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 […]
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 […]
