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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now!
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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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portablecity.bsky.social
If you can, please help my friend help his dad stay housed:
umlauthuth.bsky.social Chris Huth @umlauthuth.bsky.social · 1d
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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Buy Huth a Coffee
Become a supporter of Huth today!
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November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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moochava.bsky.social
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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kaittremblay.bsky.social
Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now!!

15% off on both Steam & Epic!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...

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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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hookland.bsky.social
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.co
🎂 inkle is 14 years old today! 🎉
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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hthrflwrs.bsky.social
I! LOVE! INTERACTIVE! FICTION!!!
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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hthrflwrs.bsky.social
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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flom.bsky.social
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 =)
store.steampowered.com/app/4004580/...
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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hthrflwrs.bsky.social
Q-UP is OUT NOW and BUNDLED with UNFAIR FLIPS!!!
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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brunodias.bsky.social
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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moochava.bsky.social
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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cedre.bsky.social
A fanart tribute to the fantastic game that is Disco Elysium ✨
Disco Elysium fanart depicting a night scene next to the Dolorian Church of Humanity, the church's windows and door are shining, on the right side, the 2 main characters of the game are on a boat going to the horizon on a sea reflecting the brightly colored sky, lights are shining of rainbow colors, almost like northern lights.
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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caraellison.bsky.social
‘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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brunodias.bsky.social
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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direkris.itch.io
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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roannasylver.bsky.social
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. 💚💚💚

www.choiceofgames.com/noblesse-obl...
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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jannouna.bsky.social
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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jannouna.bsky.social
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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leena.reuben.games
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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hadrassians.bsky.social
went to see frankenstein this weekend 🫀
#art #frankenstein2025
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social
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 ⛵🐙

youtu.be/qh2nfllI8fg?...
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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summerfallstudios.com
🔥 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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yourkyotowife.bsky.social
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:
Wax Heads by Pattatue Games, coming 2026. I'm a writer on this game! The image shows a character, Tee, wearing a pink longsleeve and holding a vinyl she just pulled from its purple slipcase, about to putvit onto a record player. Tee has aqua hair with lime green bangs, she's wearing glasses and headphones around her neck. In the background, a man is looking through a vinyl rack. Oddsparks, released this year, nominated for the Deutsche Entwicklerpreis. I wrote on this game, too! The image shows your character, wearing a red cloak with yellow accents and holding a wooden staff. Under their arm, they're holding a wood spark, a tiny creature that looks like a tree stump with googly eyes. They're lookingvdown onto an assembly line from their vantage point on a cliff. Mars Vice, a queer visual novel. The image shows a woman of colour in an olive turtleneck holdingba to go coffee cup. She's quishrd between several anthropomorphic animals. She's looking grumpily up at her partner, a male lion. Mythwrecked! I'm it's lead writer. The image shows Alex, a woman if colour with a poofy bun of natural hair, shorts and a tankntop, in front of several other characters.
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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yourkyotowife.bsky.social
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
hpowellsmith.bsky.social
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