#fallen london /

[house-of-mirrors]

[eyesbetweenthetreetrunks]

Oh shit, Fallen London counts.

OH SHIT, FALLEN LONDON COUNTS

I beg of whoever sees this, give Fallen London a go. A mastercraft in text-based storytelling if I’ve ever seen one! You get to tell off the gender choice through squid people, you get a little mushroom friend early on, and there is no better place for anyone looking for a particularly supernatural and eldritch flavor of gothic!

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[sylibane]

Happy fifteenth anniversary Fallen London! I've been playing for sixish years now, and while I often have no idea what I'm doing, the vibes are too good for me to care.

That cake's probably safe to eat. Won't you leave a slice or two by the well?

[literallyaurl]

Happy 15th birthday fallen london, I really enjoyed feeding myself to a couple dozen tigers during your latest estival

[unpretty]

kitty how do you play fallen london? I tried once and just got confused doing random things unsure how to find story, what am I doing wrong? is this the game?

this lore post on reddit might be useful to you

if you want something with more direction and a more cohesive story, rather than a lot of different snippets, you might be better off playing one of the games they've released in the same world (sunless sea, sunless skies, mask of the rose)

the best way to play imho is to make an oc and play in character (mine is a professional snoop and secret romantic named genevieve) working to construct a cohesive personal narrative out of the various storylines you collect while playing. but i've also been playing on and off since it was still called Echo Bazaar and browser games of this type were more common, so i don't have the frame of reference to know which aspects of the gameplay are confusing.

if someone wanted to make a beginner's guide to getting into fallen london, i'd be happy to boost it!

[katenepveu]

Image description: screenshot from Fallen London showing the results of an action, which reads:

Scandal has increased to 8 - UNTHINKABLE!! Hedonist has increased to 10 - Depraved! An Intimate of Devils has increased to 6 - The devils yearn for your company!

End description.

the opera was great, thanks for asking

[hellisntreal]

Happy 15 exceptional years of Fallen London!! May all be well! <3

[sunless-smash-or-pass]

[thethingwiththefeathers]

I chose The Option mostly because it’s funny, tbh (but I’ve also decided that’s my character renouncing her femininity after her wife and kid disappeared and that’s also why she’s not a good person anymore)

(Try out fallen London if only for the reason it helps advance/build fantastic characters)

i love when the gender options are "male" "female" and "prefer not to answer"

like it just reads as "boy" "girl" and "what are you, a cop? i don't owe you anything"

[honeymongering]

This is such a gentle suggestion.

Perhaps I would like to purchase a fish.

[hazardouslibrarian]

me: why is nobody complimenting me on my outfit

the chemically preserved head of a giant bat that i keep on my desk: PERHAPS IF YOU WORE SOMETHING THAT MATCHED YOUR SHIRT BETTER YOU WOULD GET MORE COMPLIMENTS. AUTUMN COLORS ARE MORE YOUR STYLE

[bizarrebazaar13]

does anyone know where I can find good reference images of victorian-era wheelchairs? I want to draw the jovial contrarian but all the wheelchair art refs/tutorials I can find are for modern wheelchairs

[katenepveu]

Image description: screenshot from Fallen London reading,

This entire morbid experiment is wrong. You can make it wronger.

End description.

[mamaito]

[bodhrancomedy]

@failbettergames

Fallen London is a free text adventure game that you can play in any browser at www.fallenlondon.com. It contains no ads and requires no installs. It's also funny, atmospheric, horrific, deep, dark and marvellous (and marvellously queer). Use the code visitlondon and get some fantastic treats to get you started.

Welcome, delicious friend.

I love this game. It kept me going through my dissertation and I had so much fun making this. Please show these guys some love.

[whatcha-thinkin]

In an egregious oversight, the Citizen button should read Citizen / Comrade.