Duskpunk launched 24h ago. The response has been fab! ⭐GamingBible: "9/10 Exceptional" 🧠RPS: "Duskpunk has piqued my curiosity" ✨The Pixel Post: "Duskpunk’s storyline fascinated me from start to finish" Don't wait to grab it: there's a hefty launch discount! store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...

For context, a 9/10 from GamingBible means: "These are the games that don't just get into our head and our hearts, but our blood and guts, too... the ones we'll be talking about as essential decades from now. We're talking Breath of the Wild and The Last of Us, Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger"

Do yourself a favour and don’t miss out on this one 💪🤩

Duskpunk launches today. If you played Citizen Sleeper or Dishonored, but wished it was more about revolution, you should check this game out.

My survival RPG Duskpunk is OUT NOW on PC!! The war left you with two assets: your life and your sanity. Keeping both will prove a challenge. youtu.be/EcXl0rwyjWo

HOLY CRAP IT'S AT NUMBER ONE

I shared this a few weeks back - a Citizen Sleeper like, perhaps the first?

Looking forward to this! If you need more reason, here's my first impressions.

Duskpunk's been spotted in the Steam charts! I launch in SIX HOURS. Excited!

Duskpunk launches TOMORROW! ⚙️Gritty steampunk RPG 🧭Explore a strange city full of weird characters 🔥Spark a revolution! 😈...or use the chaos to your advantage! If that's up your street, please check out the Steam page! store.steampowered.com/app/2610880

How would you survive, if you were worth more dead than alive? In my new game Duskpunk, corpses are repurposed into fuel to power the War to End the World. How would you escape that fate?

Less than 2 weeks before my gritty Dishonored-inspired RPG comes out! 🧭Explore a dystopian city 🫂Find community 🗡️Shank the Emperor, he deserves it If you want to support but have no money or time, no worries! Taking 10 seconds to wishlist is also helpful! store.steampowered.com/app/2610880

For folks who think Rockstar firing 30+ workers in the union isn't union busting - what do you think union busting would look like? Do you think they'd come right out and be like "Yep, we're union busting"? Is that what you'd need to hear before you believed that's what they were doing?

It’s here! ’The Prince of All Rats’, Fallen London‘s Exceptional Story for November, was written by yours truly. I hope you enjoy the seduction of our self-styled prince!

I've loved dice rolling through Duskpunk's opening! www.gamesradar.com/games/advent... @jamespatton.bsky.social

Another gem to discover? I'll definitely give it a look! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2610880 #gamedev #indiedev #steamdemo #freetoplay #newgame

Duskpunk is launching November 19th! I'm so stoked to show everyone this strange dieselpunk metropolis. You can wishlist here, or check out the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...

The first(?) Citizen Sleeper-like launches in a few weeks! Have had my eye on this and the demo was very much its own game with its own strong vibes. Definitely recommended for Sleeper fans 👇

🗣️ Release date announcement!!! My Citizen Sleeper inspired antifascist RPG DUSKPUNK is out Nov 19th. Survive on the streets of a Steampunk city consumed by war. Fate hangs in a roll of the dice. Will you join the ranks of the powerful… or become part of the revolution? youtu.be/q2P4ruI8FPU

why do I distract myself from launching a videogame by designing and daydreaming about another videogame? Brain borked.

Some of my favourite backgrounds from Duskpunk: 🎸The Arclight, a steampunk bar 💉 Opium-style drug den 🧐 Parliament, run like a crooked business 🚨The bluecoats caught you!

What's it like inside my head?

Thanks for the shout-out!

Anyone fancy storming the imperial palace? In Duskpunk, my dice-driven RPG, you can help kick the Emperor off a balcony. Or you can arrest him quietly, if you're boring. store.steampowered.com/app/2610880

After being buried for days, it looks like Duskpunk crawled out of the Nextfest labyrinth to reach the frontpage of CRPGs? Or is this just random chance?

Any nextfest devs who are wondering why your demo doesn't have a nice big green button on your Steam page: you need to click this tick box! Kind of maddening that this isn't the default. Learn from my mistakes! 🤣

Thanks for the shout out for Duskpunk! Yeah, I wanted to create a dice mechanic that 1. Felt especially like gambling and 2. Where there was a "hill" to get over (the normal distribution of rolling 2d6) so the player felt a sense of unexpected lightness once their stats were high enough.

Duskpunk by @jamespatton.bsky.social is about bringing the Citizen Sleeper format to the industrial gothic of Blades in the Dark, with some of Disco Elysium's political sensibilities. Extremely generous demo, I could not finish it in 4 hours. store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...

Duskpunk, my dark steampunk RPG inspired by Citizen Sleeper and Dishonored, is in Steam #Nextfest! ⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city 💣Spark revolution! 🚩Take down the Empire... 👿...or put a new dictator in power? Play the demo now!🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...

Duskpunk, my dark steampunk RPG inspired by Citizen Sleeper and Dishonored, is in Steam #Nextfest! ⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city 💣Spark revolution! 🚩Take down the Empire... 👿...or put a new dictator in power? Play the demo now!🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...

"I'm sure I don't have THAT much content still to write. Let's do a quick check." Finds more than a mortal man can write. "Oh."

The Dot Matrix Dune Conservation Software Pirates of the Caribbean Twelve Thousand Angry Men

Brother Rejchek: the first friendly face you meet in Duskpunk, when he scoops you off the cobbles. He's deeply religious. So he cares for the poor... but has unwavering loyalty to the Emperor, the "Little Father".

Game design is so fun. Today I found myself asking, "What is a corpse worth?"💀

This. Austerity is how the rich make the poor pay instead. When all's said and done, it's a way to avoid taxing the rich, and is done to maintain their profits at our expense.

big recommend!

ICYMI: I announced my next game, antifascist RPG DUSKPUNK You’re an escaped soldier with only two things to your name: your life and your sanity. Keeping both will prove a challenge. Explore the streets of a steampunk city, gather friends and allies, and spark revolution in a world consumed by war

ICYMI, I just announced my "Citizen Sleeper meets Dishonored" RPG I've been working on for the last 2 years! ⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city 💣Spark revolution! 🚩Take down the Empire... 👿...or put a new dictator in power?

The story of my current game is a miserable guy with no money desperately trying to scrape together enough to survive under capitalism. Nothing to see here. 😗🎶

(Small) thread incoming! Duskpunk, from @jamespatton.bsky.social and small team around him, absolutely stressed me TF out and I can’t wait to play more. The demo is available RIGHT NOW on Steam.

Revealing my next game: DUSKPUNK. ⚙️ Gritty Steampunk Survival ⚙️ Choice-driven RPG mechanics ⚙️ Sprawling city, painterly art ⚙️ Fate hangs in a roll of dice ⚙️ Who to trust? Who to betray? Free demo out now. youtu.be/MCoNSYX2jDY

Yep! Soon launching Nibiru Revisited :) y'all be playing amnesiacs in an Ancient Mesopotamia-inspired space station, with journaling and survival mechanics galore :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/xan...

My friend Laurie is Kickstarting a Tarot-powered mountaineering TTRPG (what? that sounds unusual and interesting, right?) It's in its last hours! YOU CAN USE MAJOR ARCANA TO GENERATE MOUNTAINS Looks like it's reached its goal but just barely - can we give it a bit more of a boost? #ttrpg #tarot

My friend Laurie is Kickstarting a Tarot-powered mountaineering TTRPG (what? that sounds unusual and interesting, right?) It's in its last hours! YOU CAN USE MAJOR ARCANA TO GENERATE MOUNTAINS Looks like it's reached its goal but just barely - can we give it a bit more of a boost? #ttrpg #tarot

My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

Make sure you're supporting who you're supporting for the right reason.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

Being a game dev/narrative designer is weird. Right now I'm at "I sure hope someone reports a game-breaking bug, so I can procrastinate from rewriting the game's opening scene!"

I was a Firaxis narrative designer/writer and lost my job today. Any help sharing leads on new opportunities would be great! Over 3.5 years, I contributed to Civilization VII and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, helping turn maps, mechanics, and chaos into memorable stories. See my work benreeves.carrd.co

I'm still looking for testers for my story-rich steampunk narrative game! DM me if you're interested, all you have to do is play and send me an email every time something breaks. #indiedev #gamedev