Wispfire is nominated for two Dutch Game Awards this year! 🤩We're in the race with Herald: Complete Edition for Best Audio and Best Narrative. On December 3rd we will know who wins the prizes, so fingers crossed! 🤞 #awards #gameawards

Since we are going down memory lane, here is @wisproy.bsky.social from @wispfire.com presenting on Herald at the very first TIPC back in 2016! You can re-watch the talk over at www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4or... and of course see Roy's return to TIPCs on the GameDev panel this Thursday!

Want to play a branching narrative alt-history story this week? Well, you can! Herald - Complete Edition is now only $15 dollars in the Steam Autumn Sale. The #SteamAutumnSale will last from Sept 29 - Oct 6! Grab it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2199510/... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Wispfire is casting English speaking actors for our next game! If you are an experienced EU voice-over artist, or a VTuber who has the ambition to bring a vampire to life in a game, now is your chance! Please have a look at these paid jobs on wispfire.com/jobs #VA #VoiceCasting #VoiceActing #Vtuber

It was a lot of fun to talk about the creation of Herald and my research and design ideas behind it. As @wispfire.com we’re really proud that we were able to finally release this story in its complete state. I hope people will be inspired by it. And thank you Seoirse for the interview. 😁

You can buy Herald - Complete Edition now in the #Steam Summer Sale with a 20% discount. #indiedev #summersale #games

Some #indiedev advice. If the industry makes you feel you have to constantly keep talking about the new best thing you’re working on. Don’t! Your old games, even if they’re 20 years old, are still unknown gems to many. Your works, all of them, deserve to be seen well after the launch buzz dies down!

i need the industry to stop doing this because i genuinely hate that i have to keep writing these stories www.ign.com/articles/sta...

You're not just going to be exploring a fine merchant ship. Here's a brief tour of the abode of The Rani, a place you'll want to get pretty familiar with, if for no other reason than to be jealous of her interior design chops.

Who did you help out during the violin chapter? Choose carefully, you might make a powerful ally who helps you later on, or a bitter enemy who leaves you in the lurch when you need it most.

Our game has a lot of moments like this, where if you don't think through what you say, you'll have to deal with unintended consequences. Friction is a really important part of game design!

We've secured an overall positive rating on Steam! If you're into visual novels, adventure games, or choice-driven narratives, please give our little project a try. It's the culmination of a decade-plus of work, and we truly think you'll love it. #visualnovel #indiedev #indiegames #gaming

Nothing like a sunset yacht party. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. #indiedev #narrativegame #gamedev #gaming

Been writing and thinking about games a lot more than usual this year and it’s become apparent that the game industry’s ills are being conflated with the ill fortune of games media and it’s important to separate the two.

Herald is a story about justice, about freedom, about self-determination, and about doing your damndest to protect the people you can in a world that sees people like you as lesser. Find your family, and change the world. #indiedev #narrativegames #indiegames #gamedeveloper #gaming

On one hand, squashing bugs for Herald's release was a huge pain. On the other hand, doing it gave us the excuse to put together an entire folder of bloopers like this one. Unfortunately, we had to axe non-Euclidean Tabatha for the final release.

I just started this game 45 mins ago and I’m already low key hooked

On one hand, squashing bugs for Herald's release was a huge pain. On the other hand, doing it gave us the excuse to put together an entire folder of bloopers like this one. Unfortunately, we had to axe non-Euclidean Tabatha for the final release.

devil went down to herald he was looking for a soul to steal he was in a bind 'cause he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal (animating violin playing is hard)

When we say your choices in Herald matter, we mean it. This is a mockup flowchart of *one* short conversation, and though we had to zoom out so far it's unreadable, you can see how dialogue changes not just based on your responses, but by previous choices you've made.

It's awful to think about how many great artists we lost because of grifters harassing them into leaving. Many talented people I know left the industry because they don't feel safe or welcome anymore. Can't blame them for leaving a toxic environment, they deserved so much better though. #indiedev

Took us a while to come up with @wispfire.com, but that was also because we didn’t want a random silly name. Everyone was doing that and we are too cool for that shit. 😎

“Herald's message is more important than ever” Thank you for the shout-out, @controlmagazine.bsky.social ! (If you don't speak Dutch, Google Translate is your friend!) www.control-online.nl/2025/05/16/b...

THANK YOU! we're biased but yeah, more reviews would really help! If you've played it and enjoyed it, please consider giving us a review!

we're here to help

"Is there any edge of the map that is far enough away that one can find freedom?" Thank you so much for the kind words, Fiona! fionahartmann.com/2025/05/13/h...

Vouch! Veerender is incredible!

if you don't have it yet you gotta get it. no lie. incredible art, incredible story -- if you like our game, you'll like this one too

LudoNarraCon is over and our launch discount is done, but if you want to save some cash on two great games, check out the High Seas, Deep Ocean bundle to grab both Sub-Verge from our buddies over at @interactivetragedy.com and our game for 10% off! #indiedev #gamedev

The same goes for us. It's sad to think about the fact that arts funding so many other places around the world has been slashed to a point where indie devs have wonderful ideas, but cannot get the funds to execute them, even if they're culturally important. Art is the most important thing we have.

This one is so real! 😭 Especially the parental trauma, it has layers. 🥹 #games #indiedev #gamedev

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As a studio that just released one of these types of games, we agree. I'm playing through Hundred Line right now, and just got to day 100, and it's stunning how people play with the medium to tell meaningful stories. Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 does it too. Please support these works of art.

In a game full of hard decisions, there's one that rises above the rest to test your character the way few others will. What did you do with the rooster?

Patch notes! We've squashed a ton of bugs (thank you for helping us hunt 'em!), so the game should run much more smoothly now! If you haven't yet, please consider reviewing, especially now that we've made these fixes! steamcommunity.com/ogg/2199510/...

Squished #shiba #inu wants you to check out the trailer for Herald: Complete Edition. And then buy said game on #Steam or #GoG, so she can get pets and a treat from her dad. A share and a like = a happy #doggo. 🐶 store.steampowered.com/app/2199510/ #indiedev #cute #games #dogs #dog #dogdad #japan

Thanks @fellowtraveller.games for organizing this event! We gladly participated here @wispfire.com enjoyed your enthusiastic support during the event and our launch weekend of Herald. Looking forward to more of these in the future. 😁

Thanks for the review, esteemed Steam Curator Beauty vs woke ugliness! It's true, our game is stuffed full of woke content. We're woker than a lifetime supply of Monster Energy. Thank you for helping us spread the word! Seethe.

I'm in love with our launch #trailer, it really capsulates everything the #game is. I want more people to watch it and tell me what they think. 😃 store.steampowered.com/app/2199510/... #indiedev #gamedev #steam #vn #gametrailer #history #adventuregames #videogames #sailing #games

ITS OUTTT The game I played on stream is out now !! go take a peek c: my frens made it ! 💛❤️💚

Have you played Herald yet? We'd love it if you left a review on Steam! It really helps us with visibility, and it also helps other people figure out if the game is something *they'd* enjoy too! 1 review = 1 forehead kiss from our entire team store.steampowered.com/app/2199510/...

Getting laid off is really starting to sink in and bum me out today — Friday was my first day of being unemployed, but I had previously taken that day off, lol — so to make myself feel better, I and my wife donated to the layoff fund. It's at 84%... help out if you can!

Thanks so much for the first look, y'all! We're so glad you enjoy it so far!

Then: ..., Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand, Herald: The Interactive Period Drama (@wispfire.com), Great God Grove (@limbolanegames.bsky.social), Detective Dotson (@dotson.in), Expelled! (@inkle.co), ... Catch me live at twitch.tv/Adli_HM :) Thx *subject to change - Post 3/5

Our buddy Charede is streaming RIGHT NOW, and is going to be checking out Herald after playing some Atomfall! Come hang out! #indiedev #gamedev #ludonarracon www.twitch.tv/charede

When we launched Books I and II back in 2017, Polygon instinctively understood our goal in terms of player choice, subverting traditional video game power fantasies, and examining colonialism. Colin Campbell just *got* it, and that was vital for helping other people get it too.

It really is a labor of love from all of us to you. 25% of the game is absolutely 100 percent free so that you can get a full sense of the game before spending your hard-earned money on it. We truly hope you give it a try.

I am so proud that Herald is finished and now in the #LudoNarraCon! And we did it on a shoestring budget, without the us of AI etc. Just a bunch of talented ppl who made this possible, and ultimately finished it because they kept going at it. Plz check it out, Book I is free! #majorupdate #indiedev

me, busting in to tell you about how the high-seas alternate-history anticolonial, unabashedly woke narrative adventure game Herald: The Interactive Period Drama is out right now on Steam and GOG store.steampowered.com/app/2199510/...