@flom.bsky.social
Writer, narrative designer and UI artist. Tea-Powered Games (Dialogue: A Writer's Story, Elemental Flow) | Freelance | WGGB Games Co-Chair | Interactive Fiction meetup host (She/her) Portfolio: https://teawithflo.com/portfolio/
๐ NEUROCRACY ๐
A serialised murder mystery that unfolds across weekly updates to a futuristic Wikipedia, with players debating theories in a TTRPG-like dialogue that influences the story
โผ๏ธ Episode 1 launches TOMORROWโผ๏ธ
Please signal boost if you can, we rely on word-of-mouth more than anything ๐
Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:
15.07.2025 14:03 โ ๐ 1678 ๐ 825 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 99If you're in the fight against totalitarianisms, neo-fascism and are probably progressive and/or leftist, you're gonna love this project.
Brought to you by a queer led team mainly based in Argentina and inspired by one of the worst dictatorships our country has suffered.
ATUEL is out NOW on Steam & Google Play for free! ๐โจ
๐ Explore dreamlike landscapes
๐ฆ Shapeshift into different animals
๐ป Listen to real testimonies
Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game about the climate crisis.
Help us out with a RT! ๐
store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...
Danchi Days has cozy and heavy themes in its story - but it's not the first game to do so! Come read about 5 games with similar thematic blends, from Harvest Moon to Animal Crossing!
danchidays.substack.com/p/danchi-day...
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Atuel launches on Steam and Google Play in less than a week! ๐ ๐ ๐
Wishlist the game and help us get the word out with a repost ๐โจ
'Support composers not war' is a no-brainer.
I know Bandcamp doesn't have some mainstream artists, but for a fan of VG soundtracks, it's heaven.
If you haven't already purchased tickets, there's still time!
I'll be part of the Local IF Meetups Supergroup panel on Saturday (remotely), with Destina and I representing the Oxford and London IF meetup. The rest of the time I'll be trying to take in as many other cool talks as I can!
narrascope 2025 is this weekend! I helped jury this yearโs talks and love how wide-ranging this yearโs schedule is.
Online registration is still open today and tomorrow: narrascope.org
Credit Where Creditโs Due - Help needed for one last push!
If you missed this, or haven't had chance yet - take the moment today, we're almost there!!
To move our videogames credits campaign forward the WGGBโs Videogames Committee needs just a few more responses-
www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y97DHN3
The journey begins. Take Us North is a narrative-driven game inspired by real-world stories that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border.
Back it now on Kickstarter and help humanize migrant stories: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tak...
The river is a god & they killed her. Itโs time for ordinary people to hold them to account.
Excited to share the first trailer for our new game about dead gods & taking billionaires to court โ All Will Rise ๐โ๏ธโจ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQa...
Purple-streaked background with the SAG-AFTRA logo in white at the top-center. Beneath it reads "VIDEO GAME CONTRACT TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED" in white and yellow lettering.
We have reached a tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, which includes some of the largest video game companies in the world, and we are hopeful that our video game strike will be suspended in the coming days. #SagAftraStrong ow.ly/wZzx50W6Lwv
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Announcing: Mandrake!
You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners.
Horticulture is a cursed practice... except to you. Your family line is steeped in the green and growing arts, so youโre able to grow such marvels as: runner beans! Cherry trees! The humble turnip! ๐ณ
Wishlist I Write Games Not Tragedies on Steam! It's our first game, so our bleeding black hearts appreciate every wishlist ๐คโค๏ธโ๐ฉน๐ค
store.steampowered.com/app/3396670/...
The Access-Ability Summer Showcase 2025 is airing Friday June 6th at 4pm UK, 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific.
52 Mins, 20+ Games.
Regular: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbu...
ASL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1haL...
BSL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg7I...
Audio Described: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3d4...
There's still time to fill this out - the more writers share their experiences being credited (or omitted from credits!) in games, the easier it will be for us to improve credits for everyone in the industry!
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Happy Pride month!!!๐โจ
Do you like it when art hurts your feelings so good then comforts you? Of course you do, you're gay!
We're teaming up with indie darling and team fave In Stars And Time for the Hurt/Comfort bundle, 10% off all of June.
Just play ISAT tbh!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/54925/
Credit Where Creditโs Due
Dear videogames narrative community,
The WGGBโs Videogames Committee needs help! To move our campaign on videogames credits forward we need a critical mass of responses from videogames writers.
Help us, help you to get the right credit!
www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y97DHN3
Our Peabody speech for 1000xRESIST.
โThis art form is barely unearthed. Itโs too early to define it. Fund the indescribable.โ
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
A banner screen to announce NEUROCRACY 3.0, which is superimposed over the image of a man's eyes in a dark red hue, with filaments that resemble neural pathways emanating from his left eye
The main page of Omnipedia as it exists on October 1st 2049. It mimics many elements from Wikipedia's main page, including the featured article, the news box, and the donation banner
An Omnipedia article on October 2nd 2049, detailing the high-profile assassination of two public figures. One of the hyperlinks has been expanded to show that the culprit may be a hacker known as Adira
A conspiracy board that shows various concepts connected by arrows, all branching from the central question: "Who is Adira?"
๐ NEUROCRACY 3.0 ๐
A crowdsourced sci-fi hypertext game
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Fall into a wiki hole from the future
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Solve a murder across article edits
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Your investigation affects the outcome
๐๏ธ New ten-episode season starting JULY 16!
โถ๏ธ More info: talk.omnipedia.app/t/neurocracy-3-0-launches-this-summer/272
That's right, the monarch should not have that much power! Let's see if Zorana hits this tier.
Looking forward to playing this! Hanako Games never disappoints =)
Trans Kids Deserve Better are protesting against the deeply transphobic and increasingly inappropriately named Equality & Human Rights Commission against their transphobic โguidanceโ.
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No ifs, no buts, this is genocide.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Enjoy some amazing songs from Arco (@arcogamedev.bsky.social), an equally amazing game!
youtu.be/B1npQfRIPDI?...
Today is the last day for in-person registration for NarraScope. (Registration for remote attendance is open until June 18th.)
narrascope.org
Today is #GAAD, Global accessibility awareness day, and if it is ONE thing I want you to take from this day, it is this:
Accessibility is not the strive for perfection, it is steps towards improvement โค๏ธ
I see so many devs, studios and publishers who thinks that they are only
Shocking, but sadly not surprising. I personally know lots of other people in the community who have wanted to speak out, some for 15+ years. But when someone has power, fans, a litigious reputation, and brags about being a bully, coming forward is hard. This is a brave piece.
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