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    Feature Developing a dynamic, romantic, platonic visual novel

    So far we've had 5,000 downloads of the demo, so I'm hopeful!
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    Feature Introducing Mask of the Rose: try the demo!

    Thank you! You'd be surprised how much work goes into a Steam page. :D
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    Feature Developing a dynamic, romantic, platonic visual novel

    Mask of the Rose is a visual novel with a murder mystery plot, and some pretty sophisticated modeling of conversations going on under the hood. Here's Failbetter Creative Director Emily Short, discussing some of the choices you can make, and the dynamic ways the game responds. A romance...
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    Competition Win $100 of Steam/GOG credit, and a deluxe playing card deck!

    Mask of the Rose is the upcoming game from the developers of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies: a visual novel set in an alternate history Victorian London which has just recently been stolen by bats. In celebration of the free Mask of the Rose demo coming to Steam today, we're taking over the PC...
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    Feature Introducing Mask of the Rose: try the demo!

    Mask of the Rose is a marvellous romance with a hint of murder. Lose your heart to a stolen city in this game of amorous intrigue! Seek love, for yourself or your friends. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats. Get the demo on Steam Thanks to an unknown bargain, London...
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    Giveaway! Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, Special Edition Playing Cards!

    Hello everyone! Thank you all so much for entering. I've used a random number generator to draw winners by post number, and the winners are: @Melancholy Bounty Hunter @Cowhead @Honestfriend @sythe @Twam Congratulations! If you've won, please email replies@failbettergames.com and give us...
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    How we write impactful stories in Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies

    I try not to look at the lore document, because the big secrets are so abstract even to me that I might read one and then accidentally spill it publicly.
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    Introducing Ourselves: Failbetter Games

    Yay the gang's all here! If anyone has questions for the team, fire away. We've got a lot of writing content coming and some art stuff too, but the team can answer all manner of questions about our games. :)
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    Introducing Ourselves: Failbetter Games

    Hey all! @Mobyduck Yeah, StoryNexus is hard to use. If we were going to recommend a tool, we'd probably suggest Ink. We're very glad to be blessed with writers and freelancers who can make StoryNexus sing!
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    Introducing Ourselves: Failbetter Games

    Still waiting for the Guinness. No, we were listed in games of the year so far in one of their digital publications. Wild! We could have been in there for Most Words in A Game 2019, but I think Disco Elysium has pipped us. :D
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    Introducing Ourselves: Failbetter Games

    Thanks! It's wild to think of it being a decade old. I've been working on it for five years! And I still love the old beast. :D
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    Introduce yourself here!

    Hi everyone! I'm Hannah, I've been working in the games industry for five years, after many other lives doing many other things. I'm Communications Director at Failbetter Games, and we're dead chuffed to be the first studio to run a Studio Spotlight here! Expect lots more from me this week...
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    How we write impactful stories in Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies

    We've compiled the following for you from our many years of experience in writing narrative games in the Fallen London Universe (Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies) and working on other properties with strong writing (like Dragon Age: The Last Court, a tie-in game which we made for...
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    Places from the Fallen London Universe

    I'm excited to introduce you to Paul and Toby, our art team. Paul has been with Failbetter since the very beginning, and was the sole artist on Fallen London for many years. He also art directed Sunless Sea, and was creative director on Sunless Skies. Toby joined us for Sunless Skies, elevating...
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    Giveaway! Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, Special Edition Playing Cards!

    To celebrate the auspicious twin occasions of these forums launching and Fallen London turning ten, we're running a giveaway all month! You could win one of 5 sets of the following: A copy of Sunless Sea on Steam, including the Zubmariner expansion A copy of Sunless Skies on Steam A set of...