This is an unusually straightforward post on a subject I am usually very coy about. Please feel free to link to it if you ever think anyone will find it useful. There is a sort of nano-ARG – a very small-scale project – which begins with clues inside Cultist Simulator. It serves as a treasure Read more
Oh hi there folks, I’m interrupting your usual blog broadcast from Lottie and Alexis to introduce myself. I’m Claire and I support the Marketing and PR for Weather Factory and have been slowly using techniques I learned off the telly, to convince Sulo and Chi to run away with me. So I thought I might Read more
Actual footage of us realising we don’t have much we can actually say about our work this sprint, due to so-called ‘marketing’ and ‘timing’. The stuff I can say is this sprint has been about Prepping For Things. Alexis and Chris have nixed a vivarium of bugs, from issues with summonings (probably our oldest living Read more
Well, if you haven’t seen any of the 9,000,000,000,000,000 posts we’ve made, Christopher’s Build is now out! We released it on Tuesday on Steam, Humble, GOG and itch.io, along with Maribeth Solomon’s epehemeral gongs, dongs and spooky songs. You can get the soundtrack from basically anywhere you can think of, including Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp, you Read more
[UPDATE: more here – http://weatherfactory.biz/that-library-game/] The day before yesterday I was finishing the ultra-hardcore New Game Plus mode for Cultist Simulator, and I thought about how mean it was, and I idly tweeted this: idea: extremely relaxed Cultist Simulator expandalone you’re a librarian books arrive in your occult library and you just examine, catalogue and Read more
MERRY CHRIMBLETIDE, BELIEVERS! This is your final culty stop before 2019, the year in which the original Blade Runner was set. Where the HECK are my neo-noir Rachael outfits, eh? Or at least the triumphant return of shoulder pads?! Sadly, as Cultist Simulator teaches us, we live in a different strand of History. In this Read more
The nights are dark and cold and full of hate for anyone not snugged up in a warm, overfull flat of game developers, merch boxes, unwrapped Christmas presents, and, if you live with Alexis Kennedy, 9,000000 different types of chair. Sonja, Alexis’s kid, is currently having her first playdate with a BOY who shall remain Read more
We launched our Church of Merch on Monday 17th September, so it’s high time for a retrospective! I’ll break it into three parts, so it’s not a total beast: this one’ll take you through the set-up, the next the merch itself and how it did in Month 1, and the final blog will be some searingly insightful Read more
Happy not really anything month, everyone! We’ve had a v busy sprint (the most important part being I met Stacey Dooley at the BAFTA Breakthrough Brits party, obvs), so let’s get down to it. The key thing this sprint was a much better idea of what we’re doing with Christopher’s Build. I’ve updated the roadmap Read more
In January, we’ll be releasing Christopher’s Build, the second major free update to Cultist Simulator. (Anyone following on the beta branch will see some of the updates well before January). Christopher’s Build – named for the urbane, devious, melancholy occultist Christopher Illopoly – is about two things: (i) Thing the First – making the game a bit shorter(ii) Read more
