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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now!

@hpowellsmith.bsky.social

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Narrative design // Honor Bound, Royal Affairs, Noblesse Oblige, Crème de la Crème, Blood Money from Choice of Games // Date Everything, King of the Castle, Love Island, Fallen London // they/he // hpowellsmith.com

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · Oct 11

I'm a game writer and narrative designer who's worked on various indie and mobile games.

I'm best known for my CRÈME DE LA CRÈME series of queer dark academia text games. The fourth instalment, HONOR BOUND, is out Dec - wishlist here! shorturl.at/sq4dg

hpowellsmith.com
hpowellsmith.itch.io

A pair of uniformed students in the foreground of a bright, sunny educational building. The male one is wearing a grey peacoat and reading a book; the female one is wearing a shirt and tie, and smiling while carrying a satchel. The title text Creme de la Creme is is in the background.

A moodily-lit, dark-skinned person with coiled hair in twists is smiling shiftily as they stand in front of a sunset-lit window and thick curtains. The title text "Noblesse Oblige" is beside them.

A uniformed student with shaggy brown hair and light brown skin stands in front of a warmly-lit window with a mountain backdrop, holding a book and looking pleased with themself. The title "Royal Affairs" is in the background.

A couple of uniformed students and five adults sit around a campfire, making marshmallows. The title "Honor Bound" is in one corner.

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 5h

Ohhhh soon it's time for me to get Pathologic brained again (jk I never stopped)

Ice-Pick Lodge @icepicklodge.bsky.social · 5h

New demo arrives on October 13th.

How is the new demo different from “Quarantine”? In every way! The new demo is a slice from the beginning of the full game.

🕗 Starts Oct 13, 10:00 PDT

Read the full announcement below.

Last chance to add Quarantine before it’s gone!

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1d

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d

I never know what tone to take in marketing so please just do me a favour and decide if "Nemesis is a book about how human transcendence is an ideological stance" or "Nemesis is a book about what if Char didn't wear a bra" sounds more appealing to you loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Argh I'm so sorry to hear it

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net

Generation Zero Cover Image featuring A person with dog robot companion firing a rocket launcher at a giant bipedal robot.

Cover image of Game Of Thrones: Tale Of Crows featuring 3 dioramas of the frozen north and the wall of ice

Cover image of City Of Red Waters featuring cedar trees in a red bayou

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 2d

it is insane to me that you could basically get two narrative designers who can basically solve any problem within scope constraints. it’s like having people parachute in to rescue whatever you need fixing far beyond what you thought you could get

Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 2d

If you hire me AND bruno, you could get two long-time collaborators who will make your material, whatever it is, *alarmingly* unhinged

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 2d

yes. put us together in a box so we can make each other increasingly deranged

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Tentatively did some writing this morning at the tail end of covid, now in need of a lie down. Still, feeling good that I could focus that long - the brain fog plus general pain and horribleness last week was awful

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday, that sounds so lovely!

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priscilla 👻🚂🎶 SPOOKY EXPRESS @ghoulnoise.com · 4d

If you've never played our horror anthology The Silence Under Your Bed go check it out on itch!

bravemule.itch.io/silenceunder...

Art by @slimyswampghost.bsky.social
Written by @bravemule.bsky.social and beloved horror novelist Cassandra Khaw
Music and sound by me!

The Silence Under Your Bed by Kevin Snow

Two teens tell tall tales.

bravemule.itch.io

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4d

Communal ossuary. Observatory of the dead. Possibly both, neither or more. There are portal dolmen which refuse us certainty. As archaeologists we are never immune to mystery. Our dance with it is delight. Our dance with it is the Long Neolithic manifesting. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 5d

If you're looking for a spooky read this October, my entire Sacred Dark trilogy is dripping with gothic drama, featuring three queer romances about witches, shifters, and ghosts.

Buy the series: tinyurl.com/j2jjvucx
Book pages: www.maypetersonbooks.com/books/

Lord of the Last Heartbeat, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a cyan flower blooming through silver chains.

The Immortal City, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a mountain city in violet and blue tones.

The Calyx Charm, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a smiling young trans woman with flowing red hair and violet eyes, surrounding by swirling violet magic.

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 5d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 5d

such insight.....

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t wanna piggyback someone’s perfectly good post with book promo, but lrp:

Might I suggest The Woods All Black, an historical Appalachian gothic set in the late ‘20s that explores gender, sexuality, and trans/queer bodily autonomy? It’s also (1) horny (2) spooky and (3) a bash-back revenge story

A photo of me holding a copy of The Woods All Black, partly obscuring my face, in front of a brick wall and window

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 6d

I don't remember that one but I do recall Hive being a big thing for about five minutes

Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 6d

the floods of tears I was in at the end of John Quixote (I think that's the episode...)

Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 6d

I adore Zhaan so much 😭

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Keano Raubun @keano.bsky.social · 7d

People have always haunted me with me:
"Hey Keano, when is your amazing Skyrim expansion named Lordbound coming out?"

How about today? LORDBOUND IS OUT NOW!

A Skyrim expansion 11 years in the making:
🌲60+ HOURS OF ADVENTURING
🏰 50 DUNGEONS
❓ 40 QUESTS

www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecia...

Lordbound

The drums of war are beating inside the Druadach Valley. After two hundred years of isolation the valley has restored its severed connections to the provinces of Skyrim and High Rock, exposing its wit

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 8d

Psst @choiceofgames.bsky.social games are in the Steam Autumn Sale! Mine, in which you teach magic in secret at a liberal arts college and certainly don’t summon potentially world-ending entities, is less than $6! That’s $0.000012 a word! store.steampowered.com/app/1766340/...

Save 34% on Professor of Magical Studies on Steam

Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by...

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 8d

The slow process of making my old work available again continues! You can now read the original Orin & the Dead Man's Sword for pwyw on my itch! sorcererscatalogue.itch.io/orin-and-the...

Orin and the Dead Man's Sword by Shel Kahn and the Sorcerer's Catalogue

A wordless fantasy adventure in an ancient forest.

sorcererscatalogue.itch.io

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Summerfall Studios 🕯️Malys OUT October 24!🕯️ @summerfallstudios.com · 8d

It's time... the candles are lit... 🕯️

Our exorcism roguelite Malys is coming OUT of Early Access into 1.0 on the 24th of October!

There's so much more to discover, including the FULL story as penned by David Gaider, more demons, more cards, and more content.

The title for Malys in an inky red on a black background, below are the words: V1.0 releasing this October.

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 9d

I have covid and there were loads of things to do this week, but instead I've been hiding in a room for two days and counting, feeling dreadful and hoping I don't spread it to the rest of the household -_-

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RADINSKY 🪬🏳️‍⚧️ @thisisradinsky.bsky.social · 11d

It’s my birthday 🥳🎉

It’s incredibly homophobic that I’m sitting here with a cold for it and have 2 dissertations to work on, ON A SUNDAY

But hey check out my work and give it a share 🥳

Illustration of a WWI French soldier in a field of tall grass. He has a prosthetic arm and mask on, and is ablaze too. The weather is foggy and behind him lies church ruins. The tones are blue and orange

Illustration depicting a terrifyingly skinny woman with long silver hair parted towards the front. The illustration depicts her from behind. She's missing an arm and has a damaged prothestic limb as replacement. She's holding a cutter pointed towards a bright red square in the centre of her spine

Digital illustration of a young woman with long, silver hair and wooden antlers, poking out of her skull and eye sockets. In between her open hands, and all over her face, red rot is crawling reminiscent of guts
He's wearing a thick jumper with "Sarajevo 1984" in reference to the 1984 Sarajevo olympics

Digital illustration of a young woman with long, straight white hair wearing a traditional czech crown. She's standing by a foggy lakeside with a black hole behind her. She's snucking her face into the collar of her pastel wind jacket

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Tabitha (misinformation hater) @tabithawrites.itch.io · 12d

i've been taking a bsky break but popping back on to drop this! tabitha-if.neocities.org/wr_9-27-25

IF Weekly Roundup, Sept 27 2025

This week's IF news

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