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Fiction Factory Games

@fictionfactorygames.com

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Creators of award-winning visual novels Arcade Spirits, The New Challengers, Penny Larceny, and The Shadow Over Cyberspace! (Contact: [email protected])

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · Sep 1

Introducing... Laugh Track! A perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens. Write a wacky teen sitcom and keep those ratings high, or else! Or else what? Don't worry about it!

Win/Mac/Linux Demo out Oct 10 (for Steam NextFest), full game Jan 13! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 12h

It should be around until the game releases. And then it goes away! Because the full game is gonna be releasing for free and at that point like, a demo doesn't make much sense anyway so whatever

Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 14h

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! Hey ladies, Cat is available! (Provided you don't mind junk food, gross personal habits, hamster fixation, asbestos-lined crawlspaces, and occasional criminal activity.) The demo for Laugh Track launches this Friday.

Cat is a latina teenager with dark brown hair dyed with light brown streaks. She wears a gray hoodie with green highlights, and two cat ears sewn into the hood. She's shown in front of a lesbian pride flag shrugging and looking apathetic.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 2d

Yep, the one episode demo is coming up this Friday!

Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 2d

And your character is probably one of the most horrible people in the world! Hooray!

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 2d

Meet your co-workers, producers of Juno's World! Talented directors, actors, and... others. Not at all a hive mind cosmic horror bent on sipping from a tainted chalice of doom and despair!

Laugh Track's demo releases Oct 10, as part of NextFest. Not long now! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

An old photo of a line of cultists in blood-red robes. Narrator: My rise was... thrilling. I drank deeply of life in ways few others could.

Photo of a dimly lit back room, with three humanoid figures made of glowing cosmic energy smoking and drinking and chatting. One, a man in a brown business suit named the Director, says: Seriously? "Pronouns?" We're doing pronouns?

Three enormous eyes with irises tinted cyan, magenta, and yellow stare at you from a vast cosmic void. They are identified as "Management" and say: We Demolished The Fourth Wall, Invited You In To Play... And Then Rebuilt That Wall Behind You.

In the cartoon world, a teacher stands in front of the class. Her flesh is made of the same dark cosmic energy as management. She says: We have determined arithmetic story problems such as 'Jim gives Jenny three apples' are woke DEI grooming propaganda.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 5d

Yeah! Clone High was one of the visual inspirations for the overall design, also UPA cartoons and other classic animation.

Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 5d

We're privately owned, beholden to no one, so we can write any inclusive and anti-authoritarian stories we want. We never use AI. And starting with The Shadow Over Cyberspace and our upcoming Laugh Track all our stuff's free with optional donations.

Don't give up hope. Gaming is for everyone.

Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 5d

Game pass greed got you down? Favorite game get bought out by blood money and a nepo baby? AI and algorithms creeping in? Reactionary dipwads trying to shove you out of your hobby?

Hi, we're Fiction Factory Games, and we're kinda fuckin' sick of all that too. www.fictionfactorygames.com

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 6d

I submitted the claim under my real name, Stefan Gagne. Although I'm not sure why I'm not on the list. If I didn't enter the information right into the form or something? I did a search on anthropic database and found my writing in there.

Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 7d

Don't worry, no AI. We are extremely against generative AI around here. Hell, I'm part of the class action lawsuit against Anthropic.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 7d

Get ready for tales of professional stabbists. I know I am.

From First Bite Games, the makers of... well, "First Bite," I mean it's right there on the tin so I don't know what else you'd be expecting

First Bite Games 🔪 @firstbitegames.bsky.social · 7d

"Long time, no see...

Checking in to let you know we're quietly working hard on bringing 'Killing Boys' to life!

Keep your eyes peeled for more updates and info. ❤️ 🗡️

Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 9d

Good combination.

Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 9d

Wanna game that's a real "STEAL"? Maybe has a few "CRIMES"? A visual novel that's "TOO HOT FOR MASTERCARD ON ITCHIO"?

Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain on Steam. Only costs $6 -- and we aren't sellouts with $20 billion in debt unlike SOME publishers! store.steampowered.com/app/2227030/...

Save 50% on Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain on Steam

A comic book adventure of freelance supervillainy, petting cats, and/or destroying capitalism in which your choices determine success in a series of daring heists and capers.

store.steampowered.com

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 9d

And then there's Cat. Eternally bored and/or annoyed. Our lady of the flat punchline. Just a wacky gal in a sitcom, as far as she knows. ...wait, as far as she knows? She KNOWS?

Laugh Track demo is coming Oct 13 to Steam NextFest. store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

Image of a retro television set showing an animated intro for a sitcom. Currently shown is Cat, a latina teenager with a flat and bored expression. She has long brown hair and a bulky gray hoodie with cat ears sewn into it.

Cat chatting with Juno and Remy in a school hallway. She miles and says: We're starting a baking club? I'm in. Make me cookies immediately. Put them in my face hole.

Cat is looking at her phone, where a social feed of various randos are saying "lol kys," "you deserve to suffer," "this is all your fault," and "nobody loves you and nobody ever will." She doesn't even react. Daniel, however, looks horrified and says: Cat, is your social media feed normally this horrible?

In the backstage writer's room, Cat has appeared, wreathed in shadow. She sits there, feet on the desk, and says: Maybe I'm done being your voodoo doll. Maybe I'm pushing out the pins.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 12d

The end goal for any true fan should be to purchase enough steam codes that when printed out in an eight point font and laid end to end would connect the Earth to Alpha Centauri, enabling us to talk to sister beings on other planets about Frogger and Xevious

Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 13d

Arcade Spirits and The New Challengers are both on sale on Steam! For a cup of coffee you can get two amazing visual novels of love, friendship, pixels, and thinly veiled rebukes against the very concept of Dave & Buster's store.steampowered.com/developer/fi...

Steam Developer: Fiction Factory Games

Creators of reasonably okay visual novels and narrative indie games!

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Brakka Quilltusk @brakkaquilltusk.bsky.social · 16d

The Café is open! Come join myself, @madilynnalchemist.bsky.social & @runiadawitch.vtubers.social for The Shadow Over Cyberspace!

Links below & in bio!
#Vtuber #VtubersUprising #ENVtuber #LGBTQIA2 #cosmichorror #pngtubers #horror

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 16d

Meet Daniel! He's a good boy. He's a nice boy. He's popular, he's strong, he's well-liked by all. He's fitting in. He's doing his best. And he knows he could get ostracized and demonized at the drop of a hat if he ever stops being what they want him to be.

Laugh Track demo releases Oct 10th.

A VHS tape of a cartoon sitcom intro plays on an old television. Pictured is Daniel, a Vietnamese boy with a muscular build and a kind expression. He's doing a little arm pumping muscle motion in front of a wavy blue background.

Juno waves her arms around in the middle of having a panic attack. Daniel is doing his best to help her out, with a gentle and kind expression on his face. He says: Find the calm. Find the peace. There's a warm light at the center; see it, and feel it.

Daniel and Remy sitting in a booth at a fast food restaurant. Both look downbeat and depressed. Daniel says: I learned long ago that fitting in isn't just about making friends. It's a safety measure. If you're a friend, you aren't an enemy. But that line is thin and blurry.

Daniel and a teammate dressed similarly to him (but with skin made of cosmic energy for some reason) chat with Juno, who is holding up a foam finger and a little flag reading "Go Sports!". Daniel says: I have been training extensively for the Mid-season Semi-regional Quad-annual Varsity Junior Elimination Bracket Final Quarter.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 18d

HEAR YE HEAR YE

WHEN PIZZA BE 'PON A BAGEL

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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 20d

I think it's becoming clear that if you like indie creators, you're going to need to support them any way you can. And that doesn't mean money, just spreading worth of mouth can be powerful as well.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 18d

PRETTY sure we're okay under Bluesky's new censorship policies, but who even knows at this point?

If we get booted here, we have a Mastdon. If booted there, we have an oldschool website. If that gets shut down, we're still on Steam and Itch. If booted there, we will snail mail thumb drives dangit

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 19d

Hey, kids! Back in the day, we had these magical things called "websites" you could go to which delivered what you were looking for WITHOUT also giving you a flood of horrifying unrelated content recommendations! Wow! Anyway, we have a Laugh Track website now. www.fictionfactorygames.com/laughtrack/

Laugh Track by Fiction Factory Games

A weird TV sitcom from the creators of Arcade Spirits.

www.fictionfactorygames.com

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 21d

You can have as many eyes as you want. Just start harvesting them. Fly shrieking in the wind from house to house collecting eyes until your steam wishlists meet your internal metric trust me it works

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PeachyAenne 🇵🇸 🔜 Twitchcon @peachyaenne.bsky.social · 21d

Don't forget wishlisting a game you are even remotely interested in or just think looks cool really does help indie developers SO MUCH!

(Even if you don't plan on buying it, wishlist it to help)

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 22d

Love Arcade Spirits? Keep an eye on High Elo Girls. Preferably two. Or three I mean I'm not here to tell you how many eyes to have that ain't me

Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 23d

#DevInterview: High Elo Girls

High Elo Girls is a Visual Novel set in the esports scene where you play as the latest recruit for a new all-girls team. Can you help your squad achieve their true potential, or will you only squander your own?

#GDoCExpo2025 #gamedev

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