3rd July 2020|
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Moving the Pain Around: the Wonder and Weakness of Open Development

Open development is a godsend for indies.

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26th June 2020|
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June #2: MARINELL

Weather Factory holidaaaaay (and maybe Skeleton Songs ep5 comes out).

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19th June 2020|
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#Stopcyberbullyingday

I’d like to share my story in support for #stopcyberbullyingday. Here’s what happened to me.

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12th June 2020|
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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.

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5th June 2020|
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Open the Gameplay Doors Please, HAL

Much of human psychology is about control. David Hume described religion as a magical schema humans imposed on the world to control natural forces far more powerful than themselves.

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29th May 2020|
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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.

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15th May 2020|
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MAY #1: JUSTICE

Hope you’re hanging in there, everyone! I come with good tidings.

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8th May 2020|
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Too Cheap, Perchance, To Stream?

This is an ode to organic indie streaming strategies.

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1st May 2020|
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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.

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24th April 2020|
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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.

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17th April 2020|
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April #1: THE HERMIT

Hush House begins to LIVE. Also, we announced a new tarot deck: a stained-glass, see-through PVC deck.

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10th April 2020|
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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).

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3rd April 2020|
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MAR #3: GUYON

Hey, Believers! Hope you’re all doing okay in lockdown. It’s not fun, is it?

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23rd March 2020|
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Coronavirus update: charity + tarot

Sooooo. Everyone really likes tarot decks.

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20th March 2020|
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Mar #2: FLORIMELL

Here’s some new Exile art to make all that production more palatable. Can you figure the DLC out from these…?

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13th March 2020|
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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...

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6th March 2020|
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MAR #1: EDMUND

Keep your eyes peeled for a few other smol announcements in the near future. See you, space cultists.

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21st February 2020|
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FEB #2: DUESSA

I leave you with news that I’m trialling some themes in our monthly newsletter. This month’s theme, being cold and grey and miserable, is love. So if you fancy a quiz which’ll definitively, scientifically tell you whom you should romance next in Cultist Simulator… make sure you’re signed up.

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