Alexis Kennedy
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7/30/2013
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Hello all! We asked you what you'd like to see Kickstarted, we trailed this, and here it is:
Sunless Sea is an exploration and trading game for PC set in the rich, story-fueled universe of Fallen London. Take the helm of your customised steamship and set sail for the uncharted reaches of the Neath, where the map changes every time you play, and every officer in your crew has their own story. Our influences include include: FTL; Strange Adventures in Infinite Space; Taipan; Sid Meier’s Pirates; Don’t Starve; Elite; roguelikes; the Crimson Permanent Assurance; immrama.
You can sign up for more info here. The Kickstarter opens in September: we need your help to get it funded, and we're also very interested in hearing what you'd like to see in it.
We're hoping this will be the way of the future. Having to split time between client projects and Fallen London - though some of those client projects are brilliant - has made it very hard to focus on extending the FL lore and stories, and this way we can kill two bats with one stone.
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Diptych
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9/27/2013
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Whether we do or we don't, that's still upward of a hundred and fourteen thousand US dollars - coming up on a hundred and twenty-three thousand of our poor AUD. That's well over double what The Silver Tree made in the full month - not to mention more money than I've ever seen in one place. FBG have a lot to be proud of!
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
9/5/2013
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You better sell at least one or more of your vital organs to help push the kickstarter to 50% funded before the end of the day so we can all get free rats!!! it's vitally important that you do this thing
thank you and congratulations to anyone who is missing a kidney
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my rats will blot out the sun
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
9/20/2013
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And we'd like to embrace not only MIss S, but all you glorious motherfeckers. WELL DONE. THANK YOU.
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Amélie Vaincœur
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8/7/2013
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Why isn't this called "Zunless Zee"? 
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Enchantée.
An occasional player's long and winding road to Paramount Presence:
27/09/2017 - London's Blood
29/12/2018 - London's Nerves
11/02/2019 - London's Marrow
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Guest
10/2/2013
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Zubmarines have been achieved, delicious friends. Now: the tattoos.
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Loon
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8/20/2013
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Alexis Kennedy wrote:
Do you see yourself more as Charles Darwin or Francis Drake?
http://sunlessseagame.com/darwin-drake/
Ahab.
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My main character Krawald can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Krawald and welcomes all social actions bar photographers.
My alt Loogan Cuthoat can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Loogan~Cuthoat and welcomes all social actions bar cats and photographers.
My alt Ally Mooney can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ally~Mooney and welcomes all social actions including patronage, though they are a bit confused by cats in boxes.
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
8/21/2013
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Paul and I both like DIshonored, and Liam, our front-end engineer who's doing most of the Unity coding, is a big fan. I think it would be fair to call it parallel evolution rather than inspiration, but there is a kinship between the SS and Dishonoured mythologies, in the way the sea is both menace and promise, in the filthy glory of the technology, in the possibilities of night.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
9/2/2013
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I wouldn't hold your breath! Because you'll be holding it for like eleven hours and twenty minutes! And that'd probably lead to asphyxiation and or death! Which would be bad!
Alexis Kennedy wrote:
The Kickstarter's due to launch tomorrow at 11am GMT / noon BST. My palms are sweating a little.
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my rats will blot out the sun
Ratgames
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
9/3/2013
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When your names are inscribed on that notional basalt monument, Miss Strangeweather's will be at the top: which means the beachcombers of Whither will find her first. My condolences.
EDIT: incorrect rock
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Diptych
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9/3/2013
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Corran wrote:
I knew falling asleep at five would possibly make me miss the very start...
Oh well, I got 14, I think.
Now, who got seven?
Seven is the number of backers. Seven the contributions to the game. Seven the pledges for the Panther. Seven light the way to the game.
(I napped through the start of the 'starter too - long morning spent digitising 1880s property records! But I think I got in in the early teens or so.)
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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babelfishwars
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9/3/2013
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
Surely the green banner, which is slightly higher than the star sticker on my screen, already links to the Kickstarter.
It's right at the very bottom of mine. Old version of firefox, can't update as work. :-(
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Corran
Posts: 401
9/3/2013
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A hard refresh of http://sunlessseagame.com/ showed a new 'star' at the right and a new green button on the left. Nice!
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Diptych
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9/3/2013
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Well, that's 20% done already - and I'm sure we'll be seeing more as the word gets out!
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
10/3/2013
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But we need to get 200k for the Zingalong album!
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Flyte
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10/3/2013
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You frighten me. I'm taking away your parser. Please select one of the following:
- Do the weasel war dance;
- Send rats to fellow players, dead or alive in accordance with my opinion of their forum avatar;
- Review a Storynexus game for IFComp;
- Write an anthropophagic maritime mystery, put it in a bottle with an empassioned plea for help and some blood-like stains, and cast it into the Thames.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
10/3/2013
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For what it's worth, my opinion of your forum avatar is that it looks like a crocodile with carrots for a mouth looming out of darkness.
I opt to do all four. I just did them. Right now. I did it.
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Ratgames
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Flyte
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10/3/2013
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Spacemarine9 wrote:
my opinion of your forum avatar is that it looks like a crocodile with carrots for a mouth looming out of darkness. Quick, someone give me £1000 so I can put this in Sunless Sea.
Also, I am totally not insulted IGNORANT HEATHEN and to show IT'S ICARUS I harbour no hard feelings, I'll be sure to send you a Surprising Package YOU BLOCKISH MEACOCK.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
10/3/2013
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Nope. Not seeing it. Just the Carrocroc. Or Crocarrot. Whatever you prefer. It's your avatar.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
10/3/2013
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Funded! Hella funded! £100,803 worth of funded! That makes Zubmarines and Tattoos as well as the actual game. Everyone's happy.
Except for Alexis and Liam I guess but that's what you get for making promises on the Internet!!!
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my rats will blot out the sun
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
8/7/2013
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Amélie Vaincœur wrote:
Why isn't this called "Zunless Zee"?
We've anticipated your question. :-) http://sunlessseagame.com/z/
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Flyte
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Posts: 671
7/30/2013
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The Rubbery Chef: the only sort you can always count on for rubbery lumps when the going gets tough?
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
7/30/2013
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One cannot truly explore the Unterzee until one has sampled (and by sampled i mean eaten) everything on it and under it. Sea creature, rubbery man, clay man, hallucinatory lizard, crewmember. Try some of all of it!
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my rats will blot out the sun
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