Allie Ast
@agast98.bsky.social
Founder, creative director, and writer of Sundew Studios. Currently working on Tearoom of Terror!
Tenebris Somnia has been nominated for *9* awards at the @horrorgameawards.bsky.social!! 🎃Game of the Year 🎃Scariest Game of the Year 🎃Best Indie Horror Game 🎃Best Art Direction 🎃Best Soundtrack 🎃Best Narrative 🎃Best Indie Developer 🎃The Technical Achievement Award 🎃Best Performance: Clara Kovacic
This is vital. Writing helps us think. So many students are saying they turn to LLMs because they don’t know what to say, and need to hear that not knowing is normal as one starts to write.
American Historical Association@historians.org · 5d agoDo you need to know what you think before you start writing? Not necessarily, argues historian Lynn Hunt. In a 2010 #AHAPerspectives essay, Hunt explores how the act of writing itself generates new ideas and why getting words on the page is essential to the thinking process.
I finally wrote my shit talk re: CARRIE 2026 and the bowdlerization of horror danzigsbricks.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/t...
Thomas Bowdler Lives
(Spoilers for The Haunting of Hill House and Carrie, book and TV included, follow). A new Mike Flanagan production has hit American streaming services and that means, invariably, a new skirmish bre…
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I just rediscovered Kanopy and Hoopla and they are extremely good, way better than I remember. Highly recommend, especially since I have discovered you can stack your cards with everything and it's so rad, no creepy surveillance, no weird genAI mascots, no fucking ads, political or otherwise
Big Streaming doesn't want you to know that Kanopy is kind of like Amazon Prime Video except that you have to pay for Prime and Kanopy is free. Oh also Prime shows ads even though you pay for it and Kanopy doesn't show ads even though you don't pay for it. Oh and Bezos doesn't get Kanopy's data.
Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2w agoI just rediscovered Kanopy and Hoopla and they are extremely good, way better than I remember. Highly recommend, especially since I have discovered you can stack your cards with everything and it's so rad, no creepy surveillance, no weird genAI mascots, no fucking ads, political or otherwise
Giving a bit of a SPOOKIER vibe a try with "Tearoom of Terror" 👀, courtesy of our friends over at @panicdepartment.bsky.social! www.twitch.tv/rudydootdoo
Rewatched The Innocents for the first time in a hot minute-jfc what an outstanding film! Tho less spooky, one could do a fun Henry James themed double feature of The Innocents and The Heiress-Anyways here's two tributes to my favorite gothic thriller from a few years ago!
Trailer'd this ❤️⚔️🎀 Prison of Husks is a dark and lovely souls-like and you should definitely check out the demo while it's on Steam!
@prisonofhusks.bsky.social · 3w agoWe announced the release date for our retro souls-like PRISON OF HUSKS in the triple-i showcase! @iii-initiative.bsky.social Seek Your Beloved January 27, 2027! youtu.be/q0f9xt0kwLc
Not enough people are aware the first public demo of TEAROOM OF TERROR is live on Steam this weekend! I did PR & trailers for @agast98.bsky.social's previous game, Witchy Life Story. Their new game is playfully OOKY SPOOKY and makes me happy to look at☕🕷️ 🗡️ store.steampowered.com/app/4586560/...
Tearoom of Terror Demo on Steam
Congratulations on your inheritance: one tearoom, one murdered aunt, 13 regulars who know where the *ahem* bodies are buried. Brew tea, bake treats and try not to end up on the menu before Halloween. ...
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A rare place in an industry-leading writing team, for the right person 💚
Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam!@failbettergames.com · last mo.We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations
After 5 and a half years of working on this realtime with pause game, I'm so proud to say that a demo is now playable for Tomb Guard on steam :) store.steampowered.com/app/3757780/... #indiedev #indiegame #tombguard #gamedev
🎉 Tomb Guard is part of Steam's Party RPG Fest 🎉 And for being part of it the demo is now live and playable!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3757780/... #indiedev #indiegame #rpgfest
Our Kickstarter launches TOMORROW, OMG. And huzzah, we'll have a new story by NYT bestseller and award-winner Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Southern Reach series (ANNIHILATION, et al), BORNE, and HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER. 🔔 Click to be notified when we launch! bit.ly/LS-NM-26
Coming soon: LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror
We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.
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Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
There are two good ways to act with the Muppets. Either you take the Michael Cain approach and pretend you are working with a professional troupe from the West End. Or the Tim Curry approach where you pretend you yourself are also a Muppet. RIP
Saturnalia God I fucking love Saturnalia. Think of it as a mash-up of Survival Horror, Giallo films, and Maniac Mansion. It's stylish as hell but also way more tense than I think it has any right to be. 😅 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
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Pixel art games are easy right? What went into making the pixel art game Tomb Guard Wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3757780/... #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart
The Haunting (1963). Gorgeous black and white visions of dread anchored in overstuffed, asymmetrical rooms that burrow under your skin. Loneliness leading to the pathetic fate of letting yourself be devoured by something terrible because it's better than not being wanted at all.
🐴 Servant of the Lake is OUT NOW on mobile and PC! 🧹 Board the carriage for a 3-day weekend at the mysterious Vanderboom estate! Once there, you are to begin your new job as a Servant of the Lake. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets! 🧪✨
Touched up the key art for these particular skellies: warrior and wizard #tombguard #pixelart #indiegame
How much can change in five years? A lot :) #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev
We’re hiring - come join the Fellow Traveller marketing team as a Product Manager! This is a senior role leading the marketing for some very cool games. More info and how to apply here bit.ly/FTPMJob
Job Opportunity - Product Manager — Fellow Traveller Games
We have the rare opportunity to join the Fellow Traveller marketing team as a Product Manager. Product Managers play a key role at Fellow Traveller, taking ownership of a portion of our game…
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look. this (the original game) is easily one of the best things i played last year. if you are following me & like puzzle / thinky games you will love it. even if you don’t you might. I want everyone to buy it so we get more of these. it’s one of the smartest & best designed of these I’ve played.
🎃 PHP 🎃@sheogorath.bsky.social · 3mo agoif you have $20 and like yourself you should buy this right the fuck now i am not kidding this may be one of the best games ive ever played store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...
We hit Overwhelmingly Positive on steam in under 48 hours! Thanks so much to everyone who gave us a good review. I was able to take a break last night and watch some streamers and it made me so happy. There's nothing better as a developer than seeing people enjoy your stuff.
What do editors actually DO when we make a trailer, and why does it take so long? I wrote about it! www.indiebard.co/knowledge/yo...
You’re hiring your trailer editor too late — IndieBard
“We need this trailer in 2 weeks” is something editors hear all the time, and it always makes us wince. Is it doable? Sure! And we do it all the time, because we like the client or we think the game l...
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