Business – Weather Factory

The Weather Forecast

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:05:39 +0000

AK posted this to the subreddit last night: “Celebrating the completion of the Further Visitor Stories in HOUSE OF LIGHT. That means we’re at 80% done, which means in turn that I should be sending out a handful of beta keys to the lucky few end of next week (sorry, if you haven’t already heard, […]

Announcing: the Sixth History Community Licence

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:56:36 +0000

Update 28/11/2022: the Sixth History Community Licence is now live and available here. How It Is Something about the Secret Histories enthuses people. Fanworks, fiction, commentary, art; I’ve lost count of the number of TRPG homebrew rules projects I’ve seen. For a long time, our take on this was sure, it’s nice to see this […]

Just a Jump to the Left

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:14:23 +0000

Sorry for the earworm! What I mean is: we’ve migrated to a new site. The migration has been challenging – more like the migrations of the caribou than of the blue grouse – so some bits may have fallen off en route. We’ve probably lost a few comments, and I know there are some images […]

Oct #1: TAMA

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 10:08:16 +0000

Libraries, donkeys, AMAs and final Lady Afterwards prep before launch. HYPE!

The Church of Merch

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:34:02 +0000

Imagine a dystopian future where big corporations sue other big corporations over mobile games, where everyone and their mum is making a PC game, and where eSports makes more money than any of us despite nobody really knowing what it’s for. You’re a small indie dev stuck in the middle of all this. How can you stand out and get noticed, in this picaresque world?

'The Rarer Action'

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:15:06 +0000

An update on the controversies of 2019. [UPDATE:Failbetter still haven't denied or contested any of this. They did admit over email there was a 'procedural issue' ('criminal negligence', tomato tomahto). We began negotiations but when Lottie (once again) raised the issue of them harassing her they (once again) stopped responding and (once again) started going after us on social media. More details below.]

Trouble in the North

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:28:55 +0000

There’s a lot of lusty trembling going on right now at Epic Games.

'Against Worldbuilding, And Other Provocations': Bonus Material

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 10:13:44 +0000

Matt teaches Classics at St John’s, Oxford, where I’m delighted to say that he specialises in the study of ancient literary parody. He wrote a funny and flattering foreword for my book at very short notice – so short that it didn’t actually go into the first hundred or so copies. I’m posting it here […]

"Hee-hee-hee-hee, wipeout!"

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:40:52 +0000

Work has been getting on top of me over the last six months. Then I had a passle of family miseries and an unrelated health scare. Last weekend, I had a proper old crack-up with a full-on episode of depersonalisation. This wasn’t honestly so bad for me, because the emotional deadening component of the depersonalisation […]

BRITISH GAME DEV SALARIES

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:12:37 +0000

Please share this salary spreadsheet as widely as you can! The more data it accumulates, the more accurate and useful it is.

Wherever You Go

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:46:41 +0000

Below is the current list of places featured in EXILE (excluding the Priory of Captains, the Pentapolis and the other final destinations). Mid-1920s European history is fascinating, and butts in unexpected ways against what we know of Europe after WWII.

Coronavirus update: charity + tarot

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:27:42 +0000

Sooooo. Everyone really likes tarot decks.

The Company Is Not Your Friend

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:20:33 +0000

We should stop expecting companies to look after us like friends and family would, because they consistently prove that they won’t.

State of the Factory: Year 2

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Once again, here’s how Weather Factory is doing, here’s how we thought we’d be doing, and here’s what we’re doing next. Welcome to this year’s Giant Summary Post! This is almost twice the length of the post-2018 State of the Factory, because a lot happened. Come for the kitten pictures, stay for the data. As […]

POST-LAUNCH STEAM DATA: CULTIST SIMULATOR IN NUMBERS

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:29:43 +0000

I had no experience marketing games before Cultist Simulator, so I taught myself with Gamasutra posts, Googling and YouTube videos. There’s loads of useful stuff out there about how to get your game to launch, but there’re slim pickings on what to do afterwards. Here’s an attempt to bridge that gap. The below is a […]

Dec #2: YELLOW

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:02:49 +0000

Happy advent, Believers. It’s been a helluva year. We have a bunch of announcements coming up in 2020, ranging from Mobile DLC to Other Cultist Stuff to New Stuff to Stuff That Isn’t A Game At All. We’ll also be able to reinstate our production roadmap, to give you all a much clearer idea of […]

BOOK OF HOURS Update

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:47:10 +0000

Hey everyone. AK’s in a bad place right now and taking some time away from work. As such, BOOK OF HOURS is on pause and the Kickstarter won’t go live today. I’ll keep you all updated with news as and when I have it. <3

Cultist Simulator Update: Version 2019.8.a.1

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:44:51 +0000

It’s time for some updates to some of the cheeky bug boys that thought they could chill in the game. Default – v2019.8.a.1 • Steam • GOG Fixed Notoriety from decayed, wounded corpses being treated as wounded followers. Fixed Glover & Glover superiors sometimes unexpectedly returning to life after the player’s demotion. Fixed an issue […]