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Helen L

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VR/AR design | Narrative design & game writing | Virtual worlds | Interactive experiences | Engines of meaning. My work: www.lastdaysofparadise.com

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Dream of a Generous Sun by Helen Lam A wandering astronaut comes across a strange tower on an alien world

The astronautโ€™s mind was a cool blank space was calming. She drifted across the oblivion and oblivion drifted in her. (4/4)

#indiegames #scifi #videogames
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13.12.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dream of a Generous Sun by Helen Lam A wandering astronaut comes across a strange tower on an alien world

Weariness was lodged in her heart. It had grown too large to fit so her chest was always tight but it was the right shape so it burrowed in and did not shift in place. (3/4)

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13.12.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dream of a Generous Sun by Helen Lam A wandering astronaut comes across a strange tower on an alien world

She had been drifting for a long time and there was no reason to believe she would not still be drifting some immeasurable unit of spacetime after. (2/4)

#indiegames #scifi #videogames
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13.12.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dream of a Generous Sun by Helen Lam A wandering astronaut comes across a strange tower on an alien world

Below her eddies of spacetime swirled into infinity. Above her little spacecraft the cold heat of gaseous stars told her what she already suspected. (1/4)

#indiegames #scifi #videogames
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13.12.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โœจSUMMITBOUND EP 1 ALPHA IS OUT NOW!๐ŸŒ™

Download and play it now: team-rat-games.itch.io/summitbound

Join our Discord to give us feedback: discord.gg/z6aCdCqvbs

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#Summitbound #VN #Indiegame #Indiedev

10.12.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Alice & Eileen | The Good and The Great

The last of the two characters are revealed; our very own Faculty at this prestigious magic school. Learn about them more in the thread below~

Summitbound is out TOMORROW!

Stay tuned for release details~

#Summitbound #VN #Indiedev #Indiegame

10.12.2025 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rex | The Cold Flame

"All family is, is trouble and baggage. Do yourself a favour and don't pry."

That's all the students! Only 2 more characters left to reveal!

Summitbound Alpha EP 1 out very soon!

#VN #indiedev #indiegame #Summitbound

08.12.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tao | The First Crack in the Ice

"I don't owe you my time. In fact, you owe me time at this point, for wasting so much of it."

VA: Minh Ton

Only one more student left to reveal!

Summitbound Alpha EP 1 out soon

#summitbound #VN #indiedev #indiegame

07.12.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Source: https://www.countryliving.com/uk/travel-ideas/a69423208/frankenstein-filming-locations/

Source: https://www.countryliving.com/uk/travel-ideas/a69423208/frankenstein-filming-locations/

Source: https://dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Dunwall

Source: https://dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Dunwall

And the atmospheric cityscapes. Really memorable art direction from both mediums. (3/3)

#videogames #film #gamedesign #setdesign #Dishonored #Frankenstein

07.12.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Source: https://www.countryliving.com/uk/travel-ideas/a69423208/frankenstein-filming-locations/

Source: https://www.countryliving.com/uk/travel-ideas/a69423208/frankenstein-filming-locations/

Source: https://dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Boyle_Mansion

Source: https://dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Boyle_Mansion

The ornate, oil-painting like feeling... (2/3)

#videogames #film #gamedesign #setdesign #Dishonored #Frankenstein

07.12.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Source: https://dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Offices_of_Dr._Galvani

Source: https://dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Offices_of_Dr._Galvani

Source: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/frankenstein-book-adaptation-guillermo-del-toro

Source: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/frankenstein-book-adaptation-guillermo-del-toro

Have you noticed the set design for Netflix's Frankenstein is like what Dishonored (one of my fav games) would look like if it were a film?

The dark, gothic industrial look... (1/3)

#videogames #film #gamedesign #setdesign #Dishonored #Frankenstein

07.12.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

The one that waits in expectancy for what you have never seen, tasted or known. A private glory that only you can make and only you can know. Triumph beckons. (3/3)

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07.12.2025 02:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

Marigolds spill over their plastic pots, awaiting the day they'll be planted in some spring garden. Above it all a soft, lustrous light shines down onto you, and on all around. You remember that halcyon core inside of you, the durable one... (2/3)

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07.12.2025 02:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

You pick up a carton of organic Eggs. You need eggs, but you only like the organic ones. The ones with the rich yellow centres. Sometimes, when you look for it, you see that golden look everywhere. Plump lemons exude a quiet confidence... (1/3)

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07.12.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Melody | The Lady of Luminosity

"Potion making is, like, the best thing. I remember when I was a little girl and I'd mix powders and soaps in my bathtub to try and get the right colour."

Summitbound alpha soon!

More reveals soon!

#Summitbound #VN #Indiedev #indiegame

05.12.2025 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Xander | The Lightning in a Bottle

"Ever feel like you know diddly squat about magic? I'm feeling that right now..."

VA: @TunnelVa

Summitbound EP 1 Alpha releases soon

More characters to come!

#Summitbound #indiedev #VN #indiegame

03.12.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Aria | The Solitary Rose

"Shame curfew is so early. Night time is when nature is most itself..."

Summitbound EP 1 Alpha releases soon

Keep an eye out for the rest of our cast in the upcoming days

#Summitbound #indiedev #VN #indiegame

02.12.2025 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

This is where you live, as a demi-god. Half animal, half eternal. You feel for two seconds the indescribable beauty of this union, inside you. (3/3)

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30.11.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

You pause and remember backward, into the vivid fog of your past for a reason. You realize you are an animal that can dream. Your animal instincts are cast onto a plane of time and space that reaches out in all directions in your head. (2/3)

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30.11.2025 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

You pick up Chocolate Milk. You prefer the kind of milk that's sweet. You watch the dark, velvet liquid quiver in glass bottles. Your preference for the dark and the sweet is a part of you like your right ear, but you donโ€™t know why. (1/3)

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30.11.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tales from the Blue City by Helen Lam An experimental game in Bitsy 3D. Explore a mysterious place called the Blue City.

"They're perfectly strange. I made all these little machines to keep the flowers alive. Since you were the first to see my garden, I've clipped this flower here for you."

YOU COLLECT: A flower with no name, child of a Spontaneous Bloom. (3/3)

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28.11.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tales from the Blue City by Helen Lam An experimental game in Bitsy 3D. Explore a mysterious place called the Blue City.

โ€œI liked your old place...โ€
โ€œI'm so happy. It might sound odd but I feel like I've been chosen. Then these strange flowers started to sprout all over the place.โ€
โ€œThey certainly are strange. Can't name the species.โ€ (2/3)
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28.11.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tales from the Blue City by Helen Lam An experimental game in Bitsy 3D. Explore a mysterious place called the Blue City.

โ€œWhat happened to your flat?โ€

โ€œYou're finally here. Do you like it? When I came home last week my flat had transformed into a walled garden. I told the planning authority and they registered the incident as a Spontaneous Bloom.โ€ (1/3)
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28.11.2025 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

โ€œA station of fear and doubt. The pain will lash at him, the real him beyond the flames, and he must withstand until the fire dampens or he is burned away. With the sympathy of a bystander, you watch him disappear into a backroom.โ€ (3/3)

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26.11.2025 22:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

โ€œHe holds up his hand, that red pennant, and stares in disbelief. He has already departed. The man in the hairnet has already begun a trek he cannot turn from. He will live for an undetermined amount of time in that fine and private place.โ€ (2/3)
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26.11.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

โ€œYou pick up 500 grams of Hungarian salami. As you watch the man in the hairnet work the meat slicer, it happens in one second. Quicker than his eye. You see the whites of his teeth show themselves and then snap apart when he cuts himself.โ€ (1/3)

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26.11.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tales from the Blue City by Helen Lam An experimental game in Bitsy 3D. Explore a mysterious place called the Blue City.

"Does it hurt?"

"Not at all. I feel lighter than I ever. Calmer than ever. Life is stupidly simple. Before you go, can you take my dirty paintbrush and wash it for me?" (3/3)

U COLLECT: A dirty paintbrush from an artist that became the art.

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25.11.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tales from the Blue City by Helen Lam An experimental game in Bitsy 3D. Explore a mysterious place called the Blue City.

"Then one night I had this dream. I was painting the whole flat. The walls, the ceiling, everywhere. I couldn't stop. It was the most beautiful and perfect painting I'd ever done. When I woke up, I was spread out like this.โ€ (2/3)

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25.11.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tales from the Blue City by Helen Lam An experimental game in Bitsy 3D. Explore a mysterious place called the Blue City.

โ€œBillie, is that you?? What happened??โ€

โ€œI-I'm not sure. The past few days are hazy. Been looking for inspiration for my next painting, right? Tried everything. Been roaming the city day and night, mixing colours, noises, textures..."

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25.11.2025 21:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hunger by Helen Lam A narrative exploration game made in Bitsy about the transcendent properties in everyday things.

Names orient you to a greater totality where there is no separation between you and the wide world. Names begin questions, questions begin awareness, and with awareness, you see endless potentialities spin off into the distance. From names begin love. (3/3)

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23.11.2025 22:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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