HP Lovecraft turns 130 on the 20th August 2020! So we’re running a week-long giveaway across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to celebrate. What are the prizes? Sixteen people will win something! The grand prize is a mega Lovecraftian bundle. It includes: ★ a (vegan!) skeletal raven statuette, perfect for mantelpieces, library shelves and/or weddings and Read more
Just a short update this time! Alexis has been busy with setting up modding and Steam Workshop, which you can read about in detail here. Can’t wait to see what you crazy kids come up with, bearing in mind we already have the infamous My Little Pony total conversion. What depths have we yet to Read more
[ I wrote the article below for Wireframe, a British game dev magazine which ‘lifts the lid on video games’. And, inexplicably, lets me have a monthly column. This one’s from Issue #21, in August 2019. ] It is a truth universally acknowledged that a gamer in possession of even a few RPGs, visual novels Read more
Orgoglio is Italian for ‘pride’ and used as straightforward allegory in The Faerie Queene. He’s a giant, introduced like a 16th-century video game: our noble HERO truffles up to the gate of a dark castle, met by the hideous GIANT and his evil WITCH FRIEND on a PURPLE MANY-HEADED BEAST BREATHING FIRE FROM BLOODY MOUTHS. Read more
★ Please share this salary spreadsheet as widely as you can! The more data it accumulates, the more accurate and useful it is. ★ In February 2019, I set up a Google Form and Google Spreadsheet to track anonymised game dev salaries in the UK. British indie games isn’t centralised and we don’t have standardised Read more
Hey Believers! Hope you’re hanging in there. This is a special month for charitable causes. Thanks to Cultist‘s free weekend and the release of EXILE we had a bumper June, which means we get to give away an unusally large amount to charity this month. So we’ve split it across two causes close to our Read more
[ I wrote the article below for Wireframe, a British game dev magazine which ‘lifts the lid on video games’. And, inexplicably, lets me have a monthly column. This one’s from Issue #17, in July 2019. ] Open development is a godsend for indies. There’s a quote I always trot out when talking about it, Read more
Marinell – Sir Marinell, to you – is a knight of the sea whose nervous nymph-mother Cymoent misinterpreted a prophesy that he would be mortally wounded by a maiden. She thus teaches him that LOVE is BAD and he is NOT TO PLAY WITH LADIES. Turns out one maiden does gore him – good ol’ Read more
I’d like to share my story in support for #stopcyberbullyingday. I’ve been dealing with personal and professional attacks via the internet for the better part of the last year. In that time, I’ve seen at least three people take their lives because of bullying on social media. Here’s what happened to me. I woke up Read more
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. Ah, June. As you know, we donate 10% of our profits each month to a WORTHY Read more
