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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now!

@hpowellsmith.bsky.social

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Narrative design // Honor Bound, Royal Affairs, Noblesse Oblige, Crème de la Crème, Blood Money from Choice of Games // Date Everything, King of the Castle, Love Island, Fallen London // they/he // hpowellsmith.com

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · Oct 11

I'm a game writer and narrative designer who's worked on various indie and mobile games.

I'm best known for my CRÈME DE LA CRÈME series of queer dark academia text games. The fourth instalment, HONOR BOUND, is out Dec - wishlist here! shorturl.at/sq4dg

hpowellsmith.com
hpowellsmith.itch.io

A pair of uniformed students in the foreground of a bright, sunny educational building. The male one is wearing a grey peacoat and reading a book; the female one is wearing a shirt and tie, and smiling while carrying a satchel. The title text Creme de la Creme is is in the background.

A moodily-lit, dark-skinned person with coiled hair in twists is smiling shiftily as they stand in front of a sunset-lit window and thick curtains. The title text "Noblesse Oblige" is beside them.

A uniformed student with shaggy brown hair and light brown skin stands in front of a warmly-lit window with a mountain backdrop, holding a book and looking pleased with themself. The title "Royal Affairs" is in the background.

A couple of uniformed students and five adults sit around a campfire, making marshmallows. The title "Honor Bound" is in one corner.

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Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 2d

The Nighthawks demo has arrived!

During Steam Next Fest, seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts.

Your second life begins tonight!

store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 1d

I'm holding a NaNoWriMo event in my narrative discord again this year, and I'm seeking prizes for the winners' raffle. I'm chipping in a book and game, but more prizes are needed. If you have any work (books, games, papers, etc.) you'd be willing to donate, please let me know. Thank you!

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

New Hunter: The Reckoning game coming from Paul Wang! If you liked Night Road or Book of Hungry Names you'll want to wishlist A Time of Monsters.

Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters

Topple the vampires from the streets below! Will you unite the homeless, the gangs, and the secret hunter societies to defy vampiric rule?

www.choiceofgames.com

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hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social · 6d

The news is official! I can finally tell you that my next romcom Reality Check will be out in April next year!

A sunny selfie of Hux, a white person with auburn hair and green glasses, holding up a postcard to their face. The postcard is pink and purple and says Reality Check.

A screenshot of the Bookseller announcement for my new novel. Simon and Schuster UK swoons for Lizzie Huxley-Jones’
‘escapist’ reality show romance
RIGHTS
OCT 9, 2025
BY CASSIDY BAILEY.

The photo shows Hux a white person with light auburn hair sitting on a couch in a green lead patterned suit, eyes closed and laughing.

Simon & Schuster UK has acquired two new novels by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, who was previously published by Hodder & Stoughton. Deputy publishing director Molly.
Crawford acquired world all-language rights in a two-book deal from Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency.
The first of the two novels, Reality Check, is a "funny, escapist" romance between two women who share a kiss behind the scenes of a reality TV show and find themselves choosing between on-screen fame or true love. Reality Check will publish in all formats in April 2026.
Crawford said: "I've long been obsessed with Lizzie's Christmas romances so am absolutely thrilled to be able to welcome them to the S&S list. Reality Check satiates a universal need for realistic romance elevated by unusual circumstance rather than narrative necessity.
Lizzie captures the chaos and charm of reality TV, weaving a love story that delivers kick-your-feet romance alongside punch-in-the-gut relatable detail. It centres and celebrates queer love, living with chronic illness and freeing ourselves from life's filters. It's a novel you can't help but press into the hands of friends and I'm so excited to take it to market."

Huxley-Jones is the author of the queer holiday romcoms Make You Mine This Christmas and Under the Mistletoe with You, the young adult summer romance Hits Different co-written with Tasha Ghouri, and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted fantasy series Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend. Reality Check is their third adult romance novel.
Huxley-Jones said: "Reality Check brings together my deep fascination with reality television, with the concept of persona and masking, through the experiences of two queer women who just cannot seem to escape each other. There's hijinks and fake-dating arrangements and an autistic girl unravelling 'comphet' all within the bounds of a wedding-themed dating show. It's been a book in my heart for years and I'm so glad it will reach readers next year.
"It is such a thrill and honour to bring my romcoms to the incredible team at Simon & Schuster, especially my wonderful editor Molly Crawford. They are not only a team who understand and respect commercial romance fiction, but one that deeply cares for their authors. It's been such a joy to work with them on Reality Check, my most ambitious romcom to date, and to see their enthusiasm at every step. I'm so thankful for my agent Abi Fellows finding my work such an enriching home."

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Rebecca McCarthy - Writing & Narrative Design @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I have a big backlog project written in Ink, which stalled a while back as I couldn't quite get everything I wanted working. I was looking through the InkJam resources list and this web template was listed.

Does pretty much everything I need!
remy-vim.itch.io/ink-template

Ink IF Story Template by Rémy Vim

A free template for Ink stories

remy-vim.itch.io

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4d

The year withers. Dead paths across the ghost soil are revealed. Colder magics rise. Our boots are muddied, we begin to breath like dragons. Our witcheries turn with the season and our ancestors talk a little louder. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Oh my gosh same

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 5d

some day someone with both big money and creative control is going to finally yank the mass effect dating sim genre up by the roots and figure out how to replant their audience somewhere they can scope more reasonably - like a AAA visual novel, or a fighting game or something, and make SO much money

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so very excited about this, congratulations on the announcement! I'm really glad you've been enjoying working on it!

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 5d

Just announced! I've been working on an interactive novel in the Hunter: The Reckoning franchise!

Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.

store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...

Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night on Steam

These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World o...

store.steampowered.com

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot emphasise enough how much I am looking forward to failing disastrously and often when I get my hands on this

Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Ohhhh soon it's time for me to get Pathologic brained again (jk I never stopped)

Ice-Pick Lodge @icepicklodge.bsky.social · 5d

New demo arrives on October 13th.

How is the new demo different from “Quarantine”? In every way! The new demo is a slice from the beginning of the full game.

🕗 Starts Oct 13, 10:00 PDT

Read the full announcement below.

Last chance to add Quarantine before it’s gone!

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 6d

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 7d

I never know what tone to take in marketing so please just do me a favour and decide if "Nemesis is a book about how human transcendence is an ideological stance" or "Nemesis is a book about what if Char didn't wear a bra" sounds more appealing to you loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 7d

Argh I'm so sorry to hear it

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 7d

Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net

Generation Zero Cover Image featuring A person with dog robot companion firing a rocket launcher at a giant bipedal robot.

Cover image of Game Of Thrones: Tale Of Crows featuring 3 dioramas of the frozen north and the wall of ice

Cover image of City Of Red Waters featuring cedar trees in a red bayou

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 7d

it is insane to me that you could basically get two narrative designers who can basically solve any problem within scope constraints. it’s like having people parachute in to rescue whatever you need fixing far beyond what you thought you could get

Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 7d

If you hire me AND bruno, you could get two long-time collaborators who will make your material, whatever it is, *alarmingly* unhinged

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 7d

yes. put us together in a box so we can make each other increasingly deranged

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 7d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 8d

Tentatively did some writing this morning at the tail end of covid, now in need of a lie down. Still, feeling good that I could focus that long - the brain fog plus general pain and horribleness last week was awful

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 9d

Happy birthday, that sounds so lovely!

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priscilla 👻🚂🎶 SPOOKY EXPRESS @ghoulnoise.com · 9d

If you've never played our horror anthology The Silence Under Your Bed go check it out on itch!

bravemule.itch.io/silenceunder...

Art by @slimyswampghost.bsky.social
Written by @bravemule.bsky.social and beloved horror novelist Cassandra Khaw
Music and sound by me!

The Silence Under Your Bed by Kevin Snow

Two teens tell tall tales.

bravemule.itch.io

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10d

Communal ossuary. Observatory of the dead. Possibly both, neither or more. There are portal dolmen which refuse us certainty. As archaeologists we are never immune to mystery. Our dance with it is delight. Our dance with it is the Long Neolithic manifesting. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 10d

If you're looking for a spooky read this October, my entire Sacred Dark trilogy is dripping with gothic drama, featuring three queer romances about witches, shifters, and ghosts.

Buy the series: tinyurl.com/j2jjvucx
Book pages: www.maypetersonbooks.com/books/

Lord of the Last Heartbeat, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a cyan flower blooming through silver chains.

The Immortal City, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a mountain city in violet and blue tones.

The Calyx Charm, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a smiling young trans woman with flowing red hair and violet eyes, surrounding by swirling violet magic.

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 11d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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