January #1: APELLICON
Happy 2021, everyone! This year is the Year of the Ox, the Year That COVID Might Go Away, and the second year in a row that we’re likely to have to put off our wedding. BUT LO! It’s also the year we get to properly share ongoing BOOK OF HOURS development with you, so I’m feeling pretty chipper about that.
The Gift of Music
appy nearly Christmas, everyone! I’m old enough to have had a LiveJournal back in the day.
November #2: XENOPHON
Happy Black Friday! It’s terribly consumerist, I know, and I sort of hate it. But it’s a good opportunity for a SALE and who doesn’t like a sale?
THE SIBYL’S LEAVES OUT NOW!
The long-awaited newest edition to the Church o’ Merch is finally here! The Sibyl’s Leaves: Playing Cards for Divination, Fortune-Telling and Augury is now available in the shop!
November #1: THE WITCH
Hey everyone! Yer fortnightly dose of game dev coming up.
Octomber #2: VICE
As promised, this is a biggie! So sit down, get comfy, and get hype.
EXILE’S COMING TO MOBILE ON TUES 3RD NOVEMBER 2020!
That’s right! You have all been exceedingly patient, but it’s now READY TO GO.
Octomber #1: UNA
Seasons + VFX. And our September newsletter goes out.
September #2: TALUS
Content, content, content. Skeleton Songs episode 9 comes out.
September #1: IS THIS THING ON?
MAYBE A PUBLIC ALPHA OF BOOK OF HOURS?! Also, our August newsletter goes out.
It’s (Not) the Real Thing
I’ve been playing Fallout 4’s Nuka-World DLC. Hoofing it through postapocalyptica with a customised robot companion and shooting raiders in the face has always been fun, but I was surprised to find that Nuka-World, though vast, actually felt constrictive.
AUG #3: REDCROSSE
The sky is the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. The Thames lies swollen with silt, shoes and stolen shopping carts. Someone nicked Alexis’s bike and threw it in a lake, and someone else casually set fire to some cars next door. Happy autumn, all!
/kəˈbal/, Part 1: The Caldecotts
The following is an extract from an article Alexis wrote decades ago, in 1996, for British roleplaying magazine Valkyrie. It’s juvenilia, and some bits make him wince – but it’s an insight into his early style and fiction which later became Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Cultist Simulator. [ Part 2, Part 3 ]
August #2: THE QUEENE
Accessibility, config and loc prep. Skeleton Songs ep 8 comes out.