[color=#cc0099]Delicious friends! Today marks the start of #loveindies Week: a celebration of indie games and their fantastically supportive communities.
We’re so grateful for your support, be it in Fate, community activity, sharing and recommending our stuff or leaving reviews. All of it helps us survive and thrive as an independent business in an unpredictable industry. Thank you.
This week we’ll be sharing Failbetter team reviews of indie games that we love on Twitter, and lots of other studios will be doing the same - so look out for some new recommendations of games you’d like!
In recognition of the event, we’re running a rare sale on Exceptional Stories in Fallen London!
You’ll find HOJOTOHO!, Flint (both parts), Lost in Reflections, The Gift and The Empress’ Shadow are all 25% off on the Fate page, until 1700 BST on Friday 20th July. (These are the stories rated as the community favourites in the most recent Reddit poll. Thanks to rahv7 for running it!)
We’d love to share some of our favourite community moments from over the years - what are your fondest memories of Fallen London community fun? (We’d have to say: Ratmas, the incredible Masters cosplay during the Sunless Skies Kickstarter, and every time we hear about a relationship that started because of our little old game!)[/color]
This is a super cool idea/initiative - and thanks for the coffee!
I’ve experienced far too many memorable moments to reasonably relate while I’ve been playing FL and part of this community, and have made a load of Exceptional Friends, mostly on the IRC channel but from a lot of other places too. (You know who you are! <3)
Possibly my favourite moment, though, especially in terms of how much of a group event it was, happened in the IRC channel the day bjorntfh was the first Seeker to complete the recently revived SMEN. Everyone was going fairly bonkers with the shared excitement of the thing, and while we all knew that bjorntfh would not be able to tell us what happened out there, the community buzz that someone had done it was pretty exhilarating. It was unselfish and exciting and felt as much of a pure celebration of the game and its content as I’ve felt before or since. 80+ people (the channel was busy when Seeking came back) all changing their names to "Saint [Username]" as imitation False-Saints to usher one player into god-knew-what was pretty special, even compared to some of the wild stuff I’ve seen & been a part of while I’ve been lurking in this community.
Thanks to Failbetter, for creating the kind of game and fostering the kind of environment that allows a community like this to grow, and thanks to everyone I’ve interacted with, in-character or as myself, for being so excellent. Much love to all~
I have had lots of fun in the forums but my own memory is a bit different: I used Fallen London and the wonderful writing within to fuel my Changeling the Lost tabletop role-playing game. The endgame region, Faerie, is supposed to be a place beyond human comprehension and I was literally saved by your excellent worlds.
My players had the best, most haunted experience of their lives - once they were back from Fallen London, they needed three sessions (three real-life days) to be able to function again. One of them was nine months pregnant and we joke that the child will be strangely drawn to stars and octopi growing up. A year and a half after the fact, they cannot stop talking about it. As we begin a different Changeling game, I know Sunless Skies will be the inspiration for this new Faerie realm.
Thank you for the incredible inspirations and the great time we have inside and out of the game thanks to you.
You have their -and mine- sincerest congratulations.
I have met so many awesome people through this game. <3 I’ve a new group of wonderful friends because of this beautiful gem of Gothic Victorian fantasy and horror. The lore has given me things to think about and play with, and Fallen London is a marvelous world for my imagination to inhabit. I’ve expanded my writing because of it – Alys is the first seriously dark character I’ve written.
[quote=Chronos]Flint isn’t visibile in the fate page edited by Chronos on 7/16/2018[/quote]
[color=#cc0099]It should be in the top row of the Fate page, is that not showing up? We tried to group them together[/color] edited by Absintheuse on 7/16/2018
[quote=Absintheuse][quote=Chronos]Flint isn’t visibile in the fate page edited by Chronos on 7/16/2018[/quote]
[color=#cc0099]It should be in the top row of the Fate page, is that not showing up? We tried to group them together[/color] edited by Absintheuse on 7/16/2018[/quote]
I searched the title with ctrl+f and it seems it isn’t in the fate page at all. Anyway I cannot find a story with a price greater than 45
And… a… Great Game favor?
You know what, I won’t question it. Thanks much for the coffee!
To be honest, this must be one of the most consistently nice communities I’ve ever been a part of. I’m glad to sorta-semi-kind-of-be-acquaintances with you all. I’m glad to be part of such a community, and I’m very glad that Fallen London was able to bring all these people together. You’d think I’d be able to find more ways to say that than "glad" over and over again, yet here we are.
I must admit that I am not playing Fallen London much at the moment and Sunless Skies doen’t work properly on my laptop. But I have had many years of pleasure playing Failbetter Games and I wish you all the best in the future.
I still think one of my favourite times was that Feast where the options kept changing until we were left with a fading wash of sunlight. I can understand why some people were unhappy to find out about such a time sensitive event after it happened so such a thing will never happen again but the buzz on the forum and being on-line at the time was amazing.
In any case, my thanks as well to Failbetter (and the community) for, if nothing else, the astonishing depth of lore and story, enough to rival the epics of literature.
Fallen London’s writing is inspiring! And the community here is beyond fantastic!
I’ve met so many awesome friends here! Including my best friends online. :-)
And by roleplaying through the Social Action interface, posting stories in the forums, and pairing up on FL-themed collaborative fiction, Fallen London has got be back into creative writing again after a years-long battle with writer’s block.
So thank you to Failbetter for making this creative world for all of us to inhabit, and to the Fallen London community for being so awesome! :-)
[color=#0066ff]We believe Flint is now on the fate page and all is well? Any outstanding issues, pls send tickets.[/color]
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[color=#0066ff]<3 to you all. Would anyone object to me sharing some screengrabs? We’d like to talk a bit about community memories this week and these ones are all so lovely. <3[/color]
Got SS at the end of 2015, saw the browser game, decided to jump in!
Was odd, weird, hard and everything else so after a few days I said to myself I was going to give it another try another time; RL things weren’t so pink! Things got better and 2 months later, in February, I was armed with more patience and truth be told, the feeling was amazing! Never have I thought that I would be intrigued by such a game; browser text based!
Later that year I received a Steam gift, went to being an EF and yes, I’m still here! First browser game that I spent money, still do and will do, got old stories (thanks for this discount), was the #7777 backer (displayed on page) and the list will go on over the years! FBG deserves love!
Thing is I am more of a left brain hemisphere type and there are people that can enjoy the text more than I, but even so you got me hocked! The lore, the universe the grind-able qualities/items are more than enough to keep someone like me entertained!
I bow my hat to you! edited by Skinnyman on 7/17/2018
No objections to screengrabs on my end! Although I expect to most outside the community my memorable moment is filled with jargon and nonsense :P edited by Barse on 7/17/2018