Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain from @fictionfactorygames.com is worth every full-priced penny. A true work of art. I get more happy the more I play it.

Plans rarely survive contact with the enemy, but here's the plan: Game announcement with trailer in October, release in December, early access to betas available through Patreon. Simple enough. www.patreon.com/fictionfacto...

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Small streamers and content creators, indie game fans, lend me your ears. A nuclear bomb called GTA6 is going to be dropping in November. We're also planning to release a weird little visual novel! There's not much crossover there, but we still want to avoid doom. What month would be best for you?

I'll say it again: Reviews are the best way you can help a game you love (besides telling everyone you know about it!). If you like/love a game, pop a review on their Steam page. It makes the devs day, provides feedback, enhances the search algorithm and tells new players what to look out for.

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 4mo ago

With regards to that last repost, reviews can mean a lot to smaller developers, so I'm gonna put out a little call to action. Everyone following me? DO THIS NOW! I'm asking for replies so more folks pick this up, and continue it. Please take this graphic and ask your followers to do the same!

Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain is a game about a young criminal going on epic heists, petting cats, and defying capitalism! Date mad scientists, cult leaders, or an oracle named Farsight! Play today and take on the challenge of being gay + doing crime! store.steampowered.com/app/2227030/...

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.

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We declare our intention to entertain one billion visual novel readers! Please send the dump truck of investor cash within the next 72 hours. Also we're going to put an AI NFT on Mars thank you please buy Penny Larceny in the Steam sale I am now downsized bye store.steampowered.com/app/2227030/...

Save 60% 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.

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Do crime in a visual novel with character art by meeee

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames.com · last mo.

"You can't use THAT as your game's trailer," the marketing guy I paid $12k to said. "instead let me slap together something shorter and completely uninspiring!" You be the judge. Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain is on sale for five bucks on Steam right now youtu.be/tiP1deF3kus?...

"You can't use THAT as your game's trailer," the marketing guy I paid $12k to said. "instead let me slap together something shorter and completely uninspiring!" You be the judge. Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain is on sale for five bucks on Steam right now youtu.be/tiP1deF3kus?...

Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain - Cinematic Trailer

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Indies rarely have the resources to produce physical copies, and the PC-only indies like us are facing a collapsed physical market. Our olive branch is being DRM-free. We can't sell you a disk, but you can make your own freely. Back it up. Trade it. Loan it. Play it long after we are gone.

It's Disability Pride Month! Speaking as a disabled game dev who writes disabled characters games, I'm obviously in favor. Disability is a weird thing because no two are alike, no one adaptation or law covers everyone, and there's so many well-intentioned mistakes made. Thanks for being mindful.

On the last day of Pride Month, happy Trans Pride, now and forever and ever and ever, Amen.

Pride month may be ending, but don't end the pride you have inside. Scream it out loud from the rooftops if you must. If anyone screams back, scream louder. Don't let the world deny you. Become ungovernable. Also play our games thank you ok

Laugh Track is a horror satire about writing a sitcom from arguably literal Hell, and is FREE in the Steam Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/... ...wait, what? It was already free? What were you thinking?! Don't give away games! You'll never get classic car collections and yachts that way!

Laugh Track on Steam

You're now the lead writer for Juno's World, a perfectly normal sitcom in which nothing strange or horrible happens, ever! Choose your scripts, decide what characters to build relationships with, and ...

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Wait, another Steam Sale? Didn't we just have one of these? Time moves by quickly. Life is so short. We should treasure the little moments, and the quiet spaces between. Anyway all our games are five bucks and we have free games too please enjoy responsibly store.steampowered.com/developer/fi...

Steam Developer: Fiction Factory Games

Creators of reasonably okay visual novels and narrative indie games!

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It's the anniversary of when we uploaded the soundtrack for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers! Celebrate paying more each year for the privilege of being hosted than we actually make back in streaming royalties, because corporations are more worthy than the artists who supply them with creativity.

As a reminder, we will never use GenAI in our games and are working to limit our use of software tools and engines written using GenAI. You can call virtue signaling, but at least it's a virtue.

Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏@mrhands31.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

Hey, kids! What's going on at Fiction Factory Games today? Let's have a peek and WHOA okay no no no that isn't okay um hey tour over go home thanks Yes they're working on another game yes the beta is on their patreon yes it'll be free when done do not call the cops www.patreon.com/fictionfacto...

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Get more from Fiction Factory Games on Patreon. creating visual novels and indie games. Support Fiction Factory Games and get exclusive access to their work.

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new route time! We are going to be starting the poly route in @fictionfactorygames.com Arcade Spirits TNC. And by starting, I mean this entire stream will probably be character creation because we are sloooooow at it www.twitch.tv/acesplayinga...

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poly pocket | !freepalestine !action !educate !mobiledonation

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A reminder with #SteamNextFest starting: You SHOULD install the extensions that pop up the AI Disclosure in Steam and ignore any game with it.

For those of you who don't know who I am: I'm Stella. I run the visual novel development community known as DevTalk. We're the ones who host the VNDev.wiki, run a number of the larger visual novel jams on itch. You can find our Discord here: discord.gg/devtalk

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We've added our Policy on AI Refusal to the Fiction Factory Games website, detailing how we work to avoid usage of LLM AI in our art: fictionfactorygames.com/ai.html Included is a short statement about discontinuing future use of Ren'Py due to the team's ongoing enthusiastic embrace of LLM coding.

Fiction Factory Games - Policy on AI Refusal

It's the opposite of an AI use policy; we refuse to use it.

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It's been super fun to branch out in to all these different styles for FFG's games, from the cartoony to the pixelly. The next game is ramping this up as I've already done full paintings and pixel work with limited palettes.

Support Fiction Factory Games if you wanna support devs that pay real artists (it's me I'm the real artist) Math Mommy is preparing her lessons for the next upcoming game~

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames.com · 7mo ago

Welcome to Laugh Track, a perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens! Become the head writer of a teen sitcom, and keep those ratings up! Or else! Now available FOR FREE on Win, Mac, and Linux. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/... Itch: fictionfactorygames.itch.io/laugh-track

Update: apparently the RenPy engine has been using AI generated code for an indeterminate amount of time already. I don't know what the cutoff is. Every single project now has AI code. I don't know what this means for our games moving forward. Our current project may be the last one with RenPy.

Gouvernathor@gouvernathor.fr · 2mo ago

Ren'Py development is contributor-based. AI-generated code certainly came much earlier into the codebase, without anyone being able to tell the difference. Hell, it may have been me, brielfy testing github copilot when it first came out. If IDE auto line completion counts, I definitely did it.

Some folks have asked about RenPy switching to AI coding. Here's what I know. In a March 2026 Patreon-only update, the dev announced using LLMs for coding "mundane grunt work" moving forward. So the last version of RenPy with no AI code in it is 8.5.2, available here: www.renpy.org/release/8.5.2

Not to toot our own horn but HOOONK HOONK HONK HOOOONK our games will never use generative AI HONK HONK we aren't even updating RenPy anymore because it embraced AI HOONK HONK always check the disclosure warning on steam before getting excited about a game announcement HONK HONK okay done

Here's an interview with Stefan Gagne, lead developer of Fiction Factory Games, about indie game development, ace/aro / disability perspectives on queer culture, and the art of storytelling! Thanks to Jasmine Page for hosting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_MX...

An Interview with Stefan Gagne (Game Developer, Author) - cutiespectives

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Now going live with Jasmine Page to play the Penny Larceny demo and discuss being gay and doing crimes! twitch.tv/neka_kohai

Wednesday night at 7pm Eastern we'll be live at twitch.tv/neka_kohai with Jasmine Page @neka-kohai.bsky.social to talk about Penny Larceny! Be gay, do crimes.