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Camille Nohra was a Failbetter incubee over the summer of 2018. She just released Miss Bullard’s School for Former Ladies (itch.io, $10): Miss Bullard’s School for Former Ladies is the only Old Continent boarding and etiquette school for women of “unfortunate circumstance”, who are not quite as normal as they once were, but still wish to […]

We have recently welcomed Giada Zavarise to our offices as part of our incubation scheme, to support her with coffee, fruit and insights while she makes literary RPG Selling Sunlight. Giada and her teammates Chiara Boscaro (Background Artist) and Anita Zaramella (Character Artist) took our questions on their project. How did Selling Sunlight come about? Giada: I […]

Today we’re launching Fundbetter, a fund for independent narrative games and interactive fiction. We want to pay our luck forward, and support game designers and writers from all kinds of backgrounds: first-timers, veteran game makers, LGBT+ and black and minority ethnic creators, people whose backgrounds are in linear fiction, theatre, radio, TV and film. We’re […]

We’re delighted to welcome James Long as our second incubee, with his game Top Secret. Incubation is a way for us to share what we have (a nice office, indie game expertise, fruit) and pass some advantages on to new developers who are making games we like the look of. We know James from the Oxford […]

A guest post from our first incubee, after his game was 300% funded on Kickstarter Greetings, scrumptious acquaintances. Did I get that right? I’m Harry Tuffs, an indie dev making a game called A House of Many Doors, and over the last few months I’ve been incubating at Failbetter Games. It’s been a fantastic experience, […]

Harry Tuffs, aka PixelTrickery, is our first incubee. Incubation is a way for us to share what we have (a nice office, indie game expertise, coffee) and pass some advantages on to new developers who are making games we like the look of. We met Harry at Develop 2015. We were immediately interested in his game […]