13th July 2016|
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Cultist Simulator: Making Things Out of Other Things

This is devlog zero for Cultist Simulator. It’s not an announcement or anything: it won’t get any press cos everyone’s off at Develop, and, man, I don’t want press on the screenie below anyway

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8th July 2016|
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What I’ve been up to: 8th July

Just before I left Failbetter, our editor, who’d been a long-time freelancer before she joined Failbetter, cautioned me about the freelancer’s disease.

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1st July 2016|
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What I’ve been up to: 1st July

I feel like I’ve spent most of this week – like the rest of my Twitter bubble – gawping incredulously at the collapse of the British political landscape into a sort of sinkhole of xenophobic narcissism. If you need a roundup, Michael Gove has one for you below.

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28th June 2016|
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Haunted craters, mobile development, ginger + lime

I’m at Pocket Gamer Connect Vancouver, and out of long Failbetter habit I was dutifully going to write up a blog post about it;

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28th June 2016|
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Ten Lessons from running Failbetter

” For an indie dev, your community is essential. They’re your evangelists, your early warning system, your Baker Street Irregulars, your Praetorian Guard…. but you have to look beyond them, too.”

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25th June 2016|
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What I’m up to: 25th June

This is the first time I’ve been out of full time employment in seven years. I meant to relax and do nothing.

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22nd June 2016|
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“The Healing Question”

Earlier this week, [a carefully unspecified number of] players completed the Seeking Mr Eaten’s Name quest line, an epic and long-awaited storyline in Fallen London which ends with the player character’s deliberate self-destruction.

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20th June 2016|
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Coding again: old dog, old tricks

My worst-kept secret is that my favourite MLP:FIM character is Pinkie Pie.

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18th June 2016|
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‘Embed the ending in the middle, or crush it up and stir it into the rest of the game.’

My Eurogamer column specifically, but not exclusively, the problems on endings in Fallen London.

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17th June 2016|
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Why the hell I would ever leave Failbetter

If you’ve heard of me, you probably know me as ‘the guy who runs Failbetter’.

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