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

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If you can, please help my friend help his dad stay housed:
I gotta do a bigger post but:

it looks like I'm going to need some financial help covering costs of helping my dad

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November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Paul Wang's Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters is out now!
Save 20% on Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters on Steam
Topple the vampires from the streets below! Will you unite the homeless, the gangs, and the secret hunter societies to defy vampiric rule? An interactive novel set in the World of Darkness extended un...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now!!

15% off on both Steam & Epic!!
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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 | Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Soft Rains Games
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November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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🎂 inkle is 14 years old today! 🎉
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I! LOVE! INTERACTIVE! FICTION!!!
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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just finished reading Will Not Let Me Go by Stephen Granade. holy shit, what an incredible work.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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The demo for Elemental Flow is out now☀️That's ~3hours of conversation-centric Solarpunk RPG for you to play with. Whether you like it or not, leave us a review so we know what works for you and what doesn't! And if you do like it, a wishlist would be amazing =)
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Elemental Flow on Steam
A modern RPG with no combat, only conversations. Follow Clara, a young woman returning to Latin American-inspired Jacaranda to figure out her place in a Solarpunk world. Using Clara's magical communic...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Q-UP is OUT NOW and BUNDLED with UNFAIR FLIPS!!!
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Author interview is up with Paul Wang, whose new game, Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters, comes out November 13th!
Author Interview: Paul Wang, "Hunter: The Reckoning—A Time of Monsters"
Originally published at: https://www.choiceofgames.com/2025/11/author-interview-paul-wang-hunter-the-reckoning-a-time-of-monsters/ Topple the vampires from the streets below! Will you unite th...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A fanart tribute to the fantastic game that is Disco Elysium ✨
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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‘Special thanks’ is for people’s dogs and cats. Not for people who spent five years of their lives actively developing a videogame for you
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls bound to it. End a 50-year curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.

KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play.

brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
Kinophobia by Bruno Dias
Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.
brunodias.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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You don't hate sex scenes, you hate couples without a drop of chemistry shoehorned into Ikea erotica
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Just finished (first playthrough of) NOBLESSE OBLIGE by
@hpowellsmith.bsky.social! Atmospheric and masterfully characterized Gothic romance, perfect for romantic Spooky Times. Gotta play at least twice more. Also, Pascha is Baby. 💚💚💚

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Noblesse Oblige
Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart?
www.choiceofgames.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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but an important balancing act is also to let the player be annoying in return.
October 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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games writers. your mission is to write as many annoying characters as possible. i believe in you
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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what’s this then www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases

remember remember the 5th of november 👀
Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox
Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.
www.deadstaticdrive.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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went to see frankenstein this weekend 🫀
#art #frankenstein2025
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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We just released the demo for Sea of Rifts, our systems-driven naval roguelike RPG!

Take the helm as Captain, assemble a motley crew, and engage in tense, ship-to-ship combat as you explore a shattered reality. RimWorld meets Sunless Sea, with a dash of Dredge thrown in ⛵🐙

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Sea Of Rifts Demo Release Trailer
YouTube video by Out of Bounds
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October 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🔥 Malys is OUT NOW in 1.0! 🔥

For a game about demons, you've all been absolute angels - thank you for your support along the way & we're so happy to share Malys' full release with you 🖤

Check out the launch trailer and then get exorcising below!

Malys 1.0 Launch Trailer
Malys is OUT NOW on Steam!Play the game via bit.ly/playmalysExorcise the infernal and exact vengeance in this unholy roguelite deckbuilder from David Gaider ...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Hi everyone, I'm urgently looking for any work. I'm a writer and narrative designer, I offer game consultations and mock reviews, I localise between German and English, I can write copy. If it needs words, I'll do it! Here's some games I've written on in the past:
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Two games I've worked on, Oddsparks and Tiny Bookshop, are nominated at the Deutsche Entwicklerpreis (German Development Awards)!
Congrats to my fellow devs :)
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Back on the chapter-planning train after the fun of editing, and looking forward to setting future me up for misery by outlining a bunch of deliciously complicated stuff
October 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM