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.
LOVECRAFTDAY GIVEAWAY 2020
HP Lovecraft turns 130 on the 20th August 2020! So we’re running a week-long giveaway across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to celebrate.
August #1: PROTEUS
Replay and testing functionality.
DAYBREAK IN THE INVISIBLE SERAPEUM
This is the season of the Forge of Days – the hottest August day in the UK for the last decade – so here’s something apposite for you.
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.