📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!
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100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...
ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!
This looks great — backed it like a shot. Great pitch, fascinating setting and situation, gorgeous art, and I’m desperate to see the card-based social conflict system in action.
03.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0That is INCREDIBLE. 🤣
02.03.2026 21:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oo! thank you!
02.03.2026 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oo! that looks super-nice!
01.03.2026 17:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is! Feels very much like the original show, but the new roles for the core three of the original cast are really interesting.
01.03.2026 13:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I assumed this was a realm-level threat for a ruler to have to deal with in King Beowulf.
01.03.2026 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A picture of the cover of Levi Roach’s Empire of the Normans.
If I’ve learned anything from Levi Roach’s ‘Empire of the Normans’ it’s that under no circumstances should you say to some Normans: “Hi lads - having a bit of a problem, would you mind helping out?” bcos in 10 years you’ll lose all your bishoprics and have to learn new French words for anything nice
27.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I regret my unnecessary sideswipe against these underestimated birds.
27.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do we want one to be prime minister, though?
27.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A quote from a Guardian article, reading “ Second, Starmer did not give any indication that he intends to change the way he governs.”
Dude, *pigeons* learn faster than you.
27.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0These twats crying and appealing to racist conspiracy need to be mocked mercilessly and without pause.
27.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Feels like ‘family voting“ would be a hard thing to prove or disprove after the fact, and so makes good fodder for conspiracy theories.
27.02.2026 08:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This issue broke me in half.
25.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our game is SO PRETTY.
25.02.2026 10:23 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An absurd deal for my favorite-favorite FitD game. Honestly folks, don't sleep on this.
24.02.2026 12:54 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0In my defence, Tomb Raider: the Last Revelation was what got me through writing up my dissertation.
21.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I dedicated my Master’s thesis to Lara Croft.
21.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That was *ridiculous*.
20.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A user review of the video game Sunless Sea on Steam. A red thumbs down. Not Recommended 98.4 hrs on record Posted: 12 February Well. I like it and I hate it.
a classic sunless sea review; it could be exactly the same and have gone the other way
18.02.2026 14:13 — 👍 128 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 3
Cropped art by Jimmy Makepeace of the Mongol nomad Goatskin standing at combat ready, a friend at her back, as the disembodied head of a statue spews violet light from its eyes. Overlaid are captions. Along the top reads "Just Launched on Backerkit. New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 is live" Along the bottom reads "Share this post to unlock bonus stories".
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So great to see New Edge on the verge of funding after only a day. The sheer obsessive, handcrafted joy that they put into everything they make is infectious.
Please, please, please find & support small publishers doing stuff you love! It's how we fight the slop.
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New Edge Sword and Sorcery are crowdfunding their 2026 issues! I cannot recommend this magazine enough – great, genre-pushing writing in every issue, from a huge range of exciting , talented voices.
It captures everything I love about the genre and pushes it in whole new directions. Pure joy.
The first opportunity to play Mandrake will be at New Game Plus, on the 16th and 17th of April!
We'll be there, hope you can join us. 🌱
We'd really like to hear what fans of rural life sims make of the dialogue system we're using in Mandrake. Is that you?
06.02.2026 21:13 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0
A lovely glimpse of Mandrake’s narrative here – how conversations with other characters looks and works, how your character’s traits affect it, and more.
Working out how to write Failbettery narrative in a rural life sim wrapper has been very challenging!
the only reason I want followers is so I can tell people about cool things
27.01.2026 19:07 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0He was! I think they have a surprising amount in common – particular their shared ability to look at mundane things in the world and see the miraculous in them.
27.01.2026 11:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An old, somewhat battered, 1924 hardback edition of G. K. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday” with a burgundy cover
It is *possibly* my favorite book. I thiiiink most of the FL writing team have probably read it. I know Nigel Evans, who wrote a lot of early FL, had.
27.01.2026 07:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They are all genuinely great!
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