Happy Halloween, Believers! I’ve just finished Roger Zelazny’s A Night In The Lonesome October and highly recommend it if you’re in the market for some spooky All Hallow’s escapism from a world-class author who’s putting his feet up and drinking a big glass of goth. This sprint we released a bunch of new stuff to Read more
First things first: an announcement! We released simplified Chinese last month, which was an extremely weird but also wonderful experience. Once we’ve a few months of data I’ll write a deep-dive into the numbers, but for now, we have another long-awaited localisation to announce: RUSSIAN. Russian will first go live in an opt-in Steam beta Read more
“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all,” said Ernest Shackleton, somewhere between Antarctic triumph and dying in South Georgia of an alcohol-induced heart attack. I wonder which end of that spectrum I’ll end up on? I’ve always had a thing for cold, heroic exploration. Whether it’s a first-hand account of Scott’s final expedition to Read more
The story so far: My name’s Alexis Kennedy. With my fiancée, Lottie Bevan, I run a very small game development studio out of our London flat. I used to own and run another studio, Failbetter Games, which was a little bigger (about half a dozen employees for most of my time there, ballooning to seventeen Read more
Update 16/01/2020: I stand by everything I’ve said below, but for a summary of cancel culture that’s 8000000 times better than anything I could produce, take a look at ContraPoint’s ‘Canceling’ video. These last few weeks have been intense. It’s been a wake-up call for me, and a confirmation that some popular forms of feminism Read more
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
It’s only ONE WEEK until we launch our BOOK OF HOURS Kickstarter, so we’re running a week-long culty giveaway where you can, er, win outré, fiendish things. Ain’t no party like a library party, right? You can enter via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or all of them, to give youself a better chance of winning! Here’s Read more
Happy end of sprint, Beloveds! I open this update with a vile crime: the Case of the Ravaged Yums. Gotta watch out for mounting, Damning Evidence, like, er, COMMITTING A CRIME IN FRONT OF SOMEONE WITH A CAMERA. I should also say early on that we have a V GOOD APP STORE sale on right Read more
Hi all! This is Hannah, Weather Factory’s resident UI focused Unity developer, here to give you some fresh info on the freshest BOOK OF HOURS tech out of Weather Factory’s R&D department. This post is gonna be about some of the technical “how does this actually work” of our current prototype. A whole new dimension?! Read more
It’s SO CLOSE UNTIL WE LAUNCH THE KICKSTARTER! So on Tuesday 20th August, 14 days before we go live, we’re starting our official countdown across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We’ll release something Shiny And New every day at noon. (Noon.) I’ll update this calendar every day once we’re live with the Daily Thing, but follow Read more
