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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 19h

The Fallen London Arcana.

(Very) Soon.

A tarot card entitled The Chariot, depicting a large bat in silhouette, flying over a London skyline against teal water and a teal sky. It is balanced against a leatherbound book.

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Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 14h

one of the coolest things i've ever seen, such a fun process. and up for pre order 👀

Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 16h

Huge props to AJ Hateley from Gametee who lovingly depicted neathy characters and concepts for our new Fallen London Arcana, all drawn by hand - and hand-painted! - with the utmost care and attention to detail.

Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 2d

just need another game to make me feel like Arctic Eggs made me feel

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 2d

Here are some real and actual facts about Mandrakes:

- Their smell could drive away demons
- It was a popular component of fertility spells
- Witches used it in the unguents which gave them the power of flight

So: the perfect plant to name our new game and its protagonist after.

#indiedev

A public domain black and white botanical illustration of a mandrake with root and leaf, entitled Mandragoras.

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Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 2d

made a pretty good focaccia at the weekend. if this is replicable it's so over for all of you

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 4d

Hello indie game makers! I am available to help with your marketing. Favourable rates for good advice to help you do most of what you need to do on your own. Steam pages a speciality!

Say hi here! I'd love to help and I have availability in October!

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 7d

I quite enjoyed One Battle After Another but it made me think of How To Blow Up A Pipeline, which it wasn't as good as and I'd highly recommend if you liked the former!

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 8d

Thirty days hath September
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Except the Month of Absent Sun.
('Tis the month we dare not name;
Be wary, lest it come again.)

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Erion Makuo @erionmakuo.bsky.social · 9d

Final Fantasy IX scene for Magic: The Gathering and FINAL FANTASY collaboration

AD: Matt Cavotta

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 11d

I *need* unfair flips on AGDQ. It *must* happen

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Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 11d

trobbio has it all. that's how i wanna be

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 12d

Great producers are why games ship

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 13d

1. Work expands to fill the time.
2. Every task has a minimum time.
3. Creatives need room to explore and play.
4. Creatives need deadlines.

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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 13d

TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. HEADS. TAILS.

Unfair Flips is OUT NOW! Flip the world's worst coin over and over as you try to get ten heads in a row!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

Unfair Flips on Steam

A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?

store.steampowered.com

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Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 13d

sooooo true

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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 13d

I got to write another Exceptional Story for Fallen London!! Check it out!!!

Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 13d

A pair of assistants wheel out a metal table, upon which a writhing, screaming number seven has been strapped. Its eyes roll around in its head. "Who would like to cut it open?"

The Exceptional Story for October is here! The Shape of Infinity, by Heather Flowers.

A white woman with bobbed brown hair and a blue, high-necked Victorian dress looks serenely at the viewer. One of her hands rests on a giant, curving entity which loops over her head like a massive shepherd's crook. It glows amber and is studded with slitted amber eyes.

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Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 13d

heather came to me with one of the craziest pitches i've ever fielded, *and then made me shed actual tears* with the execution. you don't want to miss this one.

she also has like three other things coming out/happening today, check it out!

Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 13d

A pair of assistants wheel out a metal table, upon which a writhing, screaming number seven has been strapped. Its eyes roll around in its head. "Who would like to cut it open?"

The Exceptional Story for October is here! The Shape of Infinity, by Heather Flowers.

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 13d

This is your official warning that Halloween approaches and the best thing you could do with your TTRPG group for a one off blood-shrine-hunting Regency romp is to buy and read TEETH: Blood Cotillion now

Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you want to support the cool TTRPG things @marshdavies.bsky.social and I are trying to do this year then it would be hugely appreciated if you purchased our amazing low-prep one-shot Blood Cotillion, or one of our other TEETH RPGs! Thanks so much.
teethrpg.itch.io/blood-cotill...

BLOOD COTILLION by TEETH: A ROLEPLAYING GAME

A grotesque, single-session, standalone TTRPG

teethrpg.itch.io

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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 14d

TOMORROW:
* EVERYTHING

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 14d

We're making Mandrake, a rural life sim set in a beguiling new world inspired by British history and folklore.

Now we're not in the Fallen London universe (Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies), we had the opportunity to add sunshine! And trees! 😮 🧵

#wishlistwednesday

An illustration from Mandrake. A ruined red brick archway in a lush green open space, with a river, brick bridge, simple wooden fence and dirt path.

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Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 14d

Hazel was a delight to work with; look out for this one!

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 15d

Fun announcement! I’ve written an Exceptional Story for Fallen London, Failbetter’s delicious browser game. It’s not out yet, but, check out the game in anticipation. I’ll let you know when it’s available to subscribers. 🖤 fallenlondon.com

Fallen London

fallenlondon.com

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Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 15d

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[Jerma985] You missed that one, try another!

YouTube video by Keldos

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Luke (barse) @thebarse.bsky.social · 16d

i was made to frolic. stop making me care about the difference between GPUs. if there was a benevolent god i would receive a top flight computer via divine intervention, lowering into a nearby meadow upon a golden sunbeam

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Miss Anemia 1997 @bitegavemepowers.bsky.social · Sep 7

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant.

Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 18d

Hey there Delilah
I am writing the Quixote
Adding hermeneutic weight to
what Miguel wrought crude and floaty
Vis-à-vis
The work— attributed to me?
Or only he?

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 20d

please turn the salience generator knob down thanks

Grace @gracekind.net · 20d

I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real

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