Author: Lottie Bevan
JUL #2: ORGOGLIO
Orgoglio is Italian for ‘pride’ and used as straightforward allegory in The Faerie Queene.
BRITISH GAME DEV SALARIES
★ Please share this salary spreadsheet as widely as you can! The more data it accumulates, the more accurate and useful it is. ★
JUL #1: NIGHT
Hey Believers! Hope you’re hanging in there.
June #2: MARINELL
Weather Factory holidaaaaay (and maybe Skeleton Songs ep5 comes out).
#Stopcyberbullyingday
I’d like to share my story in support for #stopcyberbullyingday. Here’s what happened to me.
JUN #1: LUCIFERA
Hullo, hullo! The wind is whistling outside like a vengance of ghosts; the dull horizon meets a duller sky with a cold, grey kiss of Thames; a lone, heroic birb hunkers stoically in the crevasse we call our balcony.
May #2: KING ARTHUR
Cultist Simulator’s third anniversary! We announced The Lady Afterwards, our Cultist Simulator TRPG, Against Worldbuilding, Alexis’s game design book, and named the Lucid Tarot. Also, May newsletter goes out.
MAY #1: JUSTICE
Hope you’re hanging in there, everyone! I come with good tidings.
April #2: IMMORALITY
German and Japanese launch on mobile on Tues 27th April! And in BoH land, furniture! And our May newsletter and Skeleton Songs ep 4.
April #1: THE HERMIT
Hush House begins to LIVE. Also, we announced a new tarot deck: a stained-glass, see-through PVC deck.
MAR #3: GUYON
Hey, Believers! Hope you’re all doing okay in lockdown. It’s not fun, is it?
Coronavirus update: charity + tarot
Sooooo. Everyone really likes tarot decks.
Mar #2: FLORIMELL
Here’s some new Exile art to make all that production more palatable. Can you figure the DLC out from these…?
The Company Is Not Your Friend
I’ve heard a lot of studios describe themselves as ‘families’, and some studios do treat their people well (see ‘pragmatic reasons why you’d want to do that as a business’, above). But families fundamentally care about the people they are. Imagine your mum throwing her hands up in front of a spreadsheet and saying, ‘I’m afraid we have to let you go, dear. It’s just the...