Fiction Factory Games

31 Aug

Time to make learning fun with sandwiches & smalltalk at The Edutainment Vortex Diner! Meet ageless, immortal teachers. Get good grades or embrace your inner problem child! Be not afraid. Let's inherit a terrible burden together. Releasing FOR FREE Dec 7! store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

Welcome to Games That Ace It, a Steam festival for asexual / aromantic / ace spectrum game developers and their games! We're happy to have Laugh Track in the event, a game made by and starring an Ace protagonist. Enjoy this horror-comedy sitcom today! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam!

"sweet, is ur game on sale" No! Because it's free. You should spend your money on other ace devs in the event, but by all means, play our game too! "giving away games isnt smart" I can be ace and bad at capitalism. Two things can be true at the same time

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Tried Ace & Aro: One Night Early yet? Please leave a review on the Steam demo page! It'll help more people see it...and thank you in advance! 😀 store.steampowered.com/app/5213300/...

store.steampowered.comAce & Aro: One Night Early on SteamWelcome to the Ace & Aro Meetup! Oh, wait a minute...you're one night early! Well, since you came all this way, why not take a look around the barcade and try a cocktail? We could have a chat abou...

store.steampowered.comAce & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on SteamWelcome to the Ace & Aro Meetup! Whether you’re a-spec yourself or just curious to learn more, we hope you feel welcome here. Meet the members, try a cocktail (or two) and unwind with some arcade ...

As an ace/aro game dev who has played this game in beta: thumbs up emoji. Three thumbs up emoji. If you're curious about asexuality or questioning your own, this is ideal.

Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam!@kinmoku.bsky.social

Steam Next Fest is goooo!!! 📣 Try out Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart's demo or watch my developer stream: store.steampowered.com/app/4554030/... Thank you for the support! 💜💚

Hey, everybody! It's Steam NextFest time! What better way to celebrate than to... play other people's demos, because we're not participating! Seriously, spend your time enjoying those games, support any AI-free indies you spot, report back with cool recommends, and return Dec 7 for OUR next game.

A promise is a promise. Here is your heads up not to work with Extella, in case they reach out to other visual novel authors like us.

VN readers and/or content creators! Do you like to play visual novels in tandem with someone else? We're working on a possible two-player game and have questions. Do you prefer short and snappy stories or something more lengthy and in-depth? Deeply emotional or lighter to reduce awkwardness?

Did You Know? All our FREE games have an optional donation DLC, which adds a gold sticker to the title screen. People see that sticker and know you make good decisions. They trust you. They would die and/or kill for you. Such purpose you could put them towards! Such terrible, unassailable purpose!

Even if Disney backed up a dump truck of money onto our lawn, we wouldn't use generative AI to make our games. Also we'd tell them to get off our lawn. And probably ask them to pay for the damages because that can't be good for the grass Could a gardener please chime in we need to get this right

Happy to say that our next game is now complete! All assets, all code, all writing. "so why not release it now?" my dude have you seen the release schedule everybody is dodging GTA6 and we are drowning in great games, I'm sticking to December 7 and crossing my fingers

"hey, how come you keep pushing games from 2023 and earlier whenever the sale events roll around, haven't you done anything else?" Yeah, we've made a ton of games. But the rest are free. Full quality, full releases, no money. Sales of the earlier games plus Patreon help support that.

Honestly, free game releases are surprisingly unpopular! There's an assumption that zero dollars means zero quality, or some sort of grift. Can't submit to promotional events or get spotlights. You just sit there and hope that somebody comes along. So, word of mouth helps us a lot.

So if you'd like a bunch of free visual novels, as well as some retail ones that help pay for the others, head on down to our website. Yes, we have a website. Like it's the 90s or something. Remember when websites were a thing? www.fictionfactorygames.com

store.steampowered.comSave 60% on Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain on SteamA comic book adventure of freelance supervillainy, petting cats, and/or destroying capitalism in which your choices determine success in a series of daring heists and capers.

You've got less than a day to get Penny Larceny, a story of crime and cats, for five dollars! And then it's going away FOREVER. store.steampowered.com/app/2227030/... Well no, Steam keeps doing sales, but could you imagine what would happen? Would society unravel? Would the living envy the dead?

Meet Sir Rox-a-Lot, your history teacher! Roxy's here to pass on entirely unbiased knowledge about events such as World War II, the War of Northern Aggression, and the War on Drugs. ...yikes. The Edutainment Vortex Diner releases Dec 7 for free on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

Rox-a-Lot's aesthetic is ASCII / ANSI graphics, which used 16 colors and the limited font of PCs to assemble an image from letters, numbers, and symbols. Dwarf Fortress, ZZT, and the original Rogue used this method to draw maps and represent creatures! And dial-up BBSes used it to make ANSI art.

joystick.tvForneia - Watch me stream now on Joystick.tvWatch Forneia stream "TUNC FINALE!? Can I solve the final puzzle with absolutely no assistance? Tunic" live on Joystick.tv.

Roxy's voiced by @forneiavtuber.bsky.social, a long-time collaborator with Fiction Factory Games. You may have heard her as the answering machine in TSoC, or The Producer in Laugh Track. She also helped develop Sir Rox-a-Lot's backstory and presentation, and streams here: joystick.tv/t/u/Forneia?...

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If you're enjoying Laugh Track (... Y'know, as much as you can enjoy the extraterrestrial nightmare and reminders of real-world horror.), the creator's next game looks super interesting!

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Meet Detective Inque Wells, your literature teacher. Two fists of cold justice, half a bottle of bathtub moonshine, and They/Them pronouns. Respect 'em or yours become Was/Were. The Edutainment Vortex Diner releases Dec 7 for free on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

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Alice Knows Karate

@aliceknowskarate.bsky.social

Hey! This has my song "Back of the House" in it! You should buy it for a measly five bucks and support handcrafted artisanal indie games

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames.com

Do you have five dollars? Does the collapse of society around you bring you despair? Do you want the power fantasy of pilfering from the wealthy and cruel? Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain is on sale on Steam for just five bucks. Be gay, do crime. store.steampowered.com/app/2227030/...

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Inque's retro PC aesthetic is the Hercules monochrome graphics adapter. (Even black and white needed an expensive video card in the early 80s.) Monitors were green or amber, typically, and rarely used for anything other than VisiCalc. Gaming was coming up, but pie charts mattered more.

twitch.tvIndex_Paige - TwitchHi there! I'm the spirit of a book that wants to share her stories with the world! And collect the stories of many other friends to grow into a grand library one day! They/them. Business Email: apromi...

The voice for Inque is provided by @indexpaige.bsky.social , a streamer who specializes in old-timey Mid-Atlantic accents. Came highly recommended, and did not disappoint! www.twitch.tv/index_paige

21 Sept

The Great Zephyr is here to teach you math and perform magical wonders! Get ready to be dazzled by algorithms, AI, and cryptocurrency. ...she DOES specialize in trickery, but who's the real mark? The Edutainment Vortex Diner debuts Dec 7th for free on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

21 Sept

Zephyr's retro PC aesthetic is the generally reviled yet delightful CGA 4-color from the early 80s, before PCs were taken seriously as gaming machines. Eye-searingly bright colors like red, green, and yellow! Or more commonly, purple and cyan... meaning IBM was unknowingly a champion of trans pride.

21 Sept

Providing a voice to The Great Zephyr is @lolotovcocktail.bsky.social , the world's only molotov cocktail VTuber (she checked). A long-time supporter of Fiction Factory Games, and the voice of The Teacher in Laugh Track!

18 Sept

It's lunchtime! Make yourself a sandwich with any three of the following ingredients: Bread, cheese, madness, learning, hope, visions, empire, sorrow, suffering, challenge, mourning, timelines, and meat. What'll it be?

store.steampowered.comSave 90% on Arcade Spirits on SteamArcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. W...

17 Sept

Arcade Spirits and The New Challengers are both on sale on Steam for TWO FREAKING DOLLARS each?! You could buy one large bag of Chex Mix or two amazing video games that'll give you hours of fun! Look, I like Chex Mix, but the decision here is obvious. store.steampowered.com/app/910630/A...

14 Sept

Omegus Septum, honored Knowledge-Aspect of the Ixian Empire, is here to teach you the terrible wonders of SCIENCE! And how to kneel to an authoritarian empire. Learn science and/or be destroyed. The Edutainment Vortex Diner launches Dec 7th for free on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

14 Sept

Omegus's retro PC aesthetic is EGA 16-color, thriving from the late 80s to early 90s, particularly in Sierra On-Line's point-and-click adventure games. They rely on clever dithering and color matching to create the illusion of far more color and shade... although skin tones can look sunburnt.

14 Sept

Your voice actor for the zealous and overly dramatic space science overlord is @urbanbohemian.com , streamer and all around terrific guy. His powerful tones bring gravitas to what is otherwise a very silly character who is NOT at all a parody of Warhammer 40k, why would you think that, ha ha ha.

12 Sept

Our next game has a mini game where you can make sandwiches out of ingredients such as mourning, conquest, madness, and cheese gotta have that cheeeeeese

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ꔫ MerrySpark ꔫ

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9 Sept

I adore the people out there who print discs for their PC games, especially the ones who put art on the disc and even make custom cases - I've even seen a few people make manuals! Beyond the advantages of backing up these games, it's such a beautiful tribute to the work put in.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames.com

Indies rarely have the resources to produce physical copies, and the PC-only indies like us are facing a collapsed physical market. Our olive branch is being DRM-free. We can't sell you a disk, but you can make your own freely. Back it up. Trade it. Loan it. Play it long after we are gone.

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Meet Miss Monday, here to teach you all about time! But remember: TIME IS MONEY. So really she's reaching you how to swallow the brutal lessons of capitalism without suffering a stress-induced stroke. Probably. Hopefully. The Edutainment Vortex Diner launches December 7th for free on PC.

Along with these character intros, let's talk about the retro PC game style each uses. Educational! Monday uses 256 color VGA graphics, with CD-ROM compressed full motion video. Her interface uses primitive 3-D renders that were common at the time. Her actress is @babybagelham.bsky.social !

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You can see the style in most late 90s educational games, with delightfully cartoony pixel art in games like Sierra's the Island of Doctor Brain. FMV characters were common once CDs became normal, such as in MYST. We did the grainy compression by actually saving it as a GIF, which is 256 colors!

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Come to the cozy game meetup in the Summit - Community Room 1 I have Arcade Spirits swag and codes. #paxwest

fictionfactorygames.comFiction Factory Games - Visual Novels and Narrative Indie GamesWe write words that make games out of words and we are pretty okay!

4 Sept

While we're in the lead up to our next game, did you know that we've actually released two completely free games already? And that there's one story thread connecting all of them including our premium games, Penny Larceny and Arcade Spirits? It's true! Find out more: www.fictionfactorygames.com

4 Sept

"hey, so, if you're doing the whole cinematic universe thing when do we get to Thanos?" You mean Captain Infinity? Oh, there are plans. All good things come to those who wait.

Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖

2 Sept

ICYMI: We announced our next game! If you have any questions (which won't result in spoilers) ask away and they shall be answer'd.

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31 Aug

OMG, I HAVE A VOICE ROLE IN A VIDEO GAME! 🪩💖📢 Mark your calendars (and your wishlists) and prepare for Edutainment! store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames.com

30 Aug

Hey, how's tomorrow looking for you? You good? Kinda busy? 'cause we've got this game trailer we could release then but if you have like a dentist appointment or need to take your car in for an oil change we could wait. Wouldn't want to inconvenience you! Whaddya think?