Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now!
@hpowellsmith.bsky.social
Narrative design // Honor Bound, Royal Affairs, Noblesse Oblige, Crème de la Crème, Blood Money from Choice of Games // Date Everything, King of the Castle, Love Island, Fallen London // they/he // hpowellsmith.com
Our Cambridge team have found a remarkably well-preserved aurochs lying in peat beside an ancient watercourse, with much of the skeleton still articulated. Aurochs became extinct in Britain around 1300 BC. This one is now back at Finds for further investigation. 🐂
Sometimes you see a horse and feel a connection, not only to it, but through it to our whole history with them. They become a link to the string of chalk steeds on hills, to bronze age snaffle bits. A sense of them as battle beasts, the cavalry of ancient gods. – Freya Hope
What a cool title, perhaps you should wishlist this store.steampowered.com/app/2771630/...
Project C██████ on Steam
Previously announced as Project C, PRECOGNITION is a new live-action sci-fi horror game from Sam Barlow (IMMORTALITY, Her Story) and filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg (Possessor, Infinity Pool). See the fu...
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Here's a tour of Mandrake's village, Chandley, including chatting to some of our favourite characters*! Plus a look at how character creation influences the kinds of options you get in conversation, via traits and insights. *psych, they're all our favourites
Choices Matter in Mandrake || Rural Life Sim Game
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Lex runs a Hollywood rep theater that shows nitrate film prints. It'd be the hippest place in Hollywood if it weren't for the little problem in Auditorium 2. The LAPD would rather that problem doesn't become THEIR problem. They'll make YOUR problems go away... if you burn the place to the ground.
Gabe Cross was one of the biggest action stars of the late '80s. Then an accident on set ended his career. Now he's back, more than thirty years later. He hasn't aged a day. He has a message for Hollywood, a gospel to preach. You don't need to age. You don't need to die. You can embrace eternity.
Years back, Elliott Housden wrote a hip indie horror movie. That landed him some gigs rewriting action blockbusters. The words stopped coming. The work dried up. Because it was never Elliott doing the writing. It was something else inside him. And now that thing is threatening to take over.
Nico Diallo is one of the biggest rising stars in Hollywood. Her fans are... intense. After a trip to her dressing room, some of them have been known to lose interest in just about anything else. Eating, drinking, getting out of bed... Sounds dangerous. Somebody should probably look into that.
For now, all you know about her is that she says her name is Clara. She hangs out at this movie theater in your neighborhood. The owner would really like her to get out.
Your friend Renn is a mortician to the stars at a Hollywood funeral home, dolling up corpses for their last big performance. She also used to hunt monsters alongside you. Then her ex-lover was killed by a bloodsucker on a hunt gone wrong in Nevada. Now? Well, it's complicated.
Meet Al 'Arbo' Arbogast, retired special effects wizard and veteran vampire killer. Arbo trained you in the hunt. He also likes to sit around watching old Westerns, kaiju flicks, and '80s slasher movies, opining about how they just don't make fake blood like they used to.
Hunter: The Reckoning - Day For Night is coming out next month. So I think it's about time I introduce folks to some of the characters. Watch this thread as I roll them out before the release.
These are two of the vampires you'll meet in Hunter: The Reckoning - Day For Night, my upcoming interactive novel. On the left is Mazurki, old Hollywood muscle. Always hits his marks. Never takes off his bowler hat. Other one's Otto, star of the German silent era. Kill or befriend them - your call
I try to refuse sentiment, but few words stir my heart more than Free Public Library. However, I will admit that the phrase Free Local Museum comes exceedingly close. How can one not adore an eccentric collection of obscure objects acting as ghost-magnets? – #CJosiffe
The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...
Before the demo launches, I'd like to shout out the wonderful team who made this group a reality -- @mickeysanchez.bsky.social, one of the best (and nicest!) programmers I've had the pleasure of working with, @mollamba.bsky.social, a phenomenally talented young 3D artist, (cont)
The psychic infrastructure of England includes a thousand murder barns. Tainted by blood spilled, shunned as sour soil. They haunt not just with their phantoms, but the knowing that history is not a cosy place, that the rural refuses to be idyllic. – #CJosiffe
The demo for Josh Labelle's Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night just dropped!
Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night on Steam
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World o...
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If you like interactive fiction (or even if you don't) I commend to you An Odyssey: Echoes of War by @natalia-theodoridou.com
An Odyssey: Echoes of War
Fight the sea god's wrath to reclaim your throne, and free yourself from the ghosts of war. Will you live forever as a hero, a sovereign, or as a god?
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A side project I've been working on—a curated link page of important essays on video game narrative—is now live. You can read about it on my blog: azhdarchid.com/the-game-nar... Or you can go straight to the dedicated website: www.gamenarrativereader.org
The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition
Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.
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Swizzels Hill 2, New Mills, Derbyshire, painting by Clare Allan.
Damn extreme wealth creates conditions of estrangment within the family unit as a variety of domestic employees perform the majority of childrearing while the parents descend into ghoulish solipsism? I'll have to tell my governess, tutor, weapons-master, and even humble Otto the Gardener about this!
Astonishingly, Blackwells will ship The Others of Edenwell to readers outside the UK for FREE. This is wild. So if you've had a hankering for a WW1 ghost story set in a hydropathic hospital in the Norfolk brecks where the crows know your name, now's your chance. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Others of Edenwell
Norfolk, 1917. Unable to join the army due to a heart condition, Freddie lives and works with his father in the grounds of the Edenwell Hydropathic, a wellness
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A reminder to live your life in such a way that the internet doesn’t burst into spontaneous, meme-fueled celebration when you die.
For the Society of the Miller's Word were never less than weather magicians. They could whistle winds, call still or storm. On those days when the sun made all the land languid, they would display their power in the turning of their sweeps while everyone else ached for breeze. – #CLNolan
And just like that... my Big Queer Horror Game™ is OUT! ♠️Ace MC 👬Time-loop horror + gay romance 🖼️Over 300k words & 570 CGs 🎥Cinematic cutscenes! 🔚4 epilogues + new After Stories 🎭A bucketful of gay yearning, trauma, and tears (but also hope)! ALSO IT'S FREE. store.steampowered.com/app/4329100/...
Important 500 FINGER FILLET update: you can now pet the eldritch horror flesh tube girl who wants to watch you cut your fingers off for fun
