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Hey all. I’m Toby, one of the artists at Failbetter Games. Since I joined the company last year I’ve been helping build the world of Sunless Skies, creating some of the environments, icons, effects and animations that make up the High Wilderness. We’ve come a long way since The Reach (the hub region), and have […]

The votes are in! We are very pleased to announce that this year’s Fin de Siècle in Fallen London fan art competition winners are: 1. “The Echo Bazaar” by Alex McCauley What our artists had to say about the piece: “Really nails the conjunction between Fin de Siècle and Fallen London tone and style; ornate, […]

Delicious friends! After a week of painstaking debate, our artists have decided the top ten fan art submissions. We are now in need of your vote to determine the top three candidates: Please head over to our survey and vote for which three pieces you think best fit this year’s theme of “Fin de Siècle […]

Delicious friends, we’re always exceptionally impressed with your incredible Fallen London art, and so we’re excited to hold another fan art competition! This year, we’re celebrating the Early Access release of Sunless Skies, the spiritual sequel to Sunless Sea. One of the main artistic influences of Sunless Skies is art nouveau, and so we thought […]

Top Three Winners of the Fan Art Competition: The Zee The results are in! The top three winners of this year’s fan art competition are: 1. “For Your Own Good Compass” – by Yaiba  2. “You Are Not Alone” – by LonerBear 3. “Drownie Song of the Deep” – by Kuyuan We will be in […]

Our Exceptional Story for October 2015 is Discernment, a story of love and infernal theology by Em Short. For the first time in Fallen London’s history we have a guest artist! Mark Penman has contributed a piece for Discernment’s promotional artwork – the front cover of the story, if you like – and the character […]

Hi folks, Paul here. I’ve been meaning to do an arty blog for ages, and since most of my time at the moment is spent making new terrain, I thought I’d go through that process for you step by step.  This isn’t especially technical, but it’ll make more sense if you’ve got a passing knowledge […]

Paul Arendt: flensing weapons do you have any steer on this? is it still basically harpoons, or flechettes or something? Alexis Kennedy: er well the equipment in question: Leadbeater & Stainrod ‘Britomart’ Flensing-Cannon Stampshod’s ‘Calvary’ Prong Launcher Caminus Yards Heart-Ender so there you go. prongs, flensing, shaft through the heart I guess my main steer […]

Fresh art from Paul! All these enigmatic souls are going into the game now. You can find out more about them in the Fallen London Hallowmas content… THE BANDAGED POISSONIER. There are finer fish-cooks, but none more final.   THE GENIAL MAGICIAN. His experience with smoke and mirrors may be useful. But he can become disconsolate […]