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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · 6d

In 15 minutes (at 12:30 thursday 2nd of October) there will be an emergency protest in support of the global sumud flotilla at the Dail (Kildare street). If you are in or near Dublin please go and support Palestine and the best of us who are trying to bring aid.

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · 7d

The global sumud flotilla, bringing essential aid to Palestine, is being intercepted.

They can’t hide war crimes while the whole world is watching
Do something now - watch the livestream.

Watch the tracker: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
Watch the livestream here: globalsumudflotilla.org/live/

Livestreams - Global Movement to Gaza

Watch live streams and video updates from the Global Sumud Flotilla sailing to Gaza.

globalsumudflotilla.org

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · 15d

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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 15d

just as a heads up about Eyes of Hellfire, we have em. ✨

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · 16d

🤩✨ Immaculate!

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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 29d

i think one of my biggest problems with genAI is that it's not empowering. in fact it's doing the opposite of them; it's removing critical thought and essentially taking power from us. our brains are so valuable, why would we want to lose that?

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s spooky season 🍂🎃👻 (as far as I’m concerned) and I have a recommendation to get in the spooky spirirt!

If you like atmospheric, eerie and dread inducing explorations of the darkest parts of our world, and our hearts, check out the incredible game We Went Deeper.

s-lynch.itch.io/we-went-deeper

We Went Deeper by S_lynch

Something calls to you from beneath the earth.

s-lynch.itch.io

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J. Isaac Gadient 🎮✍🏻 (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social · Aug 28

I've never got an Early Access game before but I purchased this *immediately*
🇮🇪🩸

Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our gothic horror game
#EyesofHellfire is out now in Early Access!!!
Looking for a creepy and atmospheric game to play with your friends where you work togther, solve puzzles, fight eerie entities and only occasionally cause your friends grievous harm? You will love it! #horrorgame #indiegame

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Aug 28

This Irish made horror game looks excellent!

Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our gothic horror game
#EyesofHellfire is out now in Early Access!!!
Looking for a creepy and atmospheric game to play with your friends where you work togther, solve puzzles, fight eerie entities and only occasionally cause your friends grievous harm? You will love it! #horrorgame #indiegame

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Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com · Aug 27

ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to the Lodge!!

Eyes of Hellfire, our co-op gothic horror experience is now available on Steam Early Access!

If you buy a copy, up to 4 of your friends can play free via the friends pass!

🖥️https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/Eyes_of_Hellfire/

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Blumhouse Games @blumhousegames.com · Aug 27

Who's brave enough to go in first? 5 players. Infinite ways to burn.

Eyes of Hellfire is now available on Steam! 🔥

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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · Aug 27

*Deep breath* #EyesofHellfire is officially in EARLY ACCESS. You can play it RIGHT NOW. Can't begin to express the immense pride I have in our indie team. To create something and release it is such an achievement.

Support Indie Games. Play Eyes of Hellfire!

store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/...

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hey folks, I wanna give a shoutout to Eyes of Hellfire

They'd given me keys for the game, and I had been planning to play it with some very cool folks tonight on stream, but I am unfortunately still sick with Covid right now and have had to postpone. So please do give this a look.

Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · Aug 27

*Deep breath* #EyesofHellfire is officially in EARLY ACCESS. You can play it RIGHT NOW. Can't begin to express the immense pride I have in our indie team. To create something and release it is such an achievement.

Support Indie Games. Play Eyes of Hellfire!

store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/...

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check it out on Steam here:

store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/...

Save 10% on Eyes of Hellfire on Steam

Eyes of Hellfire is a co-op gothic horror game. Hoist the candelabra and, along with your friends, step into the darkened halls of the Hellfire Club.

store.steampowered.com

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our gothic horror game
#EyesofHellfire is out now in Early Access!!!
Looking for a creepy and atmospheric game to play with your friends where you work togther, solve puzzles, fight eerie entities and only occasionally cause your friends grievous harm? You will love it! #horrorgame #indiegame

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Right now we are busy as hell (see what I did there) making sure that the experience of Eyes of Hellfire is improving every day. We could use your help to make it even better! You can play the game later today and send us your feedback and suggestions. 🔥😈🕯️

store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/...

Eyes of Hellfire on Steam

Eyes of Hellfire is a co-op gothic horror game. Hoist the candelabra and, along with your friends, step into the darkened halls of the Hellfire Club.

store.steampowered.com

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Throughout the development process I made sure to keep focus on maintaining a strong theme and atmosphere. It seems easy but when you work on any project for a long enough it can become easy to make so many subtle changes that your strong theme fades or blurs around the edges.

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

In addition to the writing itself, a surprising amount of work went into theming the various aspects of gameplay. I’m reluctant to spoil anything here so you will just have to play the game to see what I mean. 👀

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Once the framing and the systems for narrative delivery were outlined I got to work writing all of the cutscenes, dialogue, interactions, titles, flavour and descriptions of revels, rot and ruin you find in Eyes of Hellfire.

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you care less about story than being immersed in the atmosphere and playing something spooky with your friends, perfect! We have designed the experience carefully to be appealing to all kinds of play styles.

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Players can engage with the narrative to whatever level they, personally, enjoy. If you’re a big fan of mystery then maybe you keep your own notebook, on top of the in-game journal, and try to piece together what you can in order to get a full picture of what happened.

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Every time a player plays the game they may discover more information about the mystery of what exactly happened to the club and its members. By paying close attention to the physical environment around them while exploring and gathering information they learn more about the story.

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

We decided that the modern day playable characters would be returning repeatedly to the Hellfire Club lodge in the hopes of lifting their curse by revealing more information about the backstory of the club and its members. (Always nice when the player's and character's goals align, eh?)

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

We are also very pleased to be able to present an entirely Irish voice cast for Eyes of Hellfire! 🇮🇪 🙌

Side note: Every member of our cast was a complete and total joy to work with!

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

The playable characters are all modern day people with dark lives, personal agendas and horrible secrets. Player’s are initially introduced to these characters from their bios in the character menu and can intuit more about them from their mid-scenario dialogue.

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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Once we knew that the loop worked and moment to moment gameplay was fun and interesting I went back to with my narrative design plan to ensure it fit the multiplayer exploration co-op puzzler gameplay.

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