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Following on from our consultation on Jewish Communities in Victorian London in June, which honed in on the lives and social landscape of Rachel and David, the two major Jewish characters in Mask of the Rose, we wanted to turn our attention to another significant character: Harjit Singh, a Sikh man recently arrived in London […]

Merry Christmas; Yule; or the holiday you hold most dear! It seemed particularly advent-appropriate to talk a little more about the importance of seasons and festivities in Mask of the Rose. The Mask of the Rose story is set in the earliest days of post-fall London. Many of you are Fallen London players, and you’ll […]

One of the questions Fallen London fans have been putting to us most is how Mask of the Rose differs from its progenitor. We’d like to shed some light on that today. It’s important to note that it is an entirely new genre for us, so apart from the lore and tone similarities, expect a […]

We’re just published the Steam store page for Mask of the Rose! It’s a pretty fun process, putting together a Steam store page. Or it is if you’re deeply interested in how people come across your game, and the careful construction of a store page which might help someone fall in love with it. (Which […]

You can learn more about Mask of the Rose and watch the video on Kickstarter. We’ll be back with more staff updates like this one during the development process! This blog is by our Art Director, Paul Arendt. Some of the character designs for Mask of the Rose seem to arrive fully-formed. Griz, for instance, […]

You can learn more about Mask of the Rose and watch the video on Kickstarter. We’ll be back with more staff updates like this one during the development process! Greetings, masquers! This update is a little bit different to our usual posts. It’s partly a look at making the game, partly a progress update. Pre-production […]

You can learn more about Mask of the Rose and watch the video on Kickstarter. We’ll be back with more staff updates like this one during the development process! This blog is by our Creative Director, and design lead on Mask of the Rose, Emily Short. “It was not that Holmes merely changed his costume. […]

You can learn more about Mask of the Rose and watch the video on Kickstarter. We’ll be back with more staff updates like this one during the development process! This blog is by our Director of Narrative, Chris Gardiner The Fallen London universe is more than ten years old and consists of actual millions of […]

You can learn more about Mask of the Rose and watch the video on Kickstarter. We’ll be back with more staff updates like this one during the development process! This blog is by our Art Director, Paul Arendt. Staging scenes in a visual novel is a little like directing a play; you have a set, […]

You can learn more about Mask of the Rose and watch the video on Kickstarter. We’ll be back with more staff updates like this one during the development process! From the moment we decided to create a Kickstarter campaign for Mask of the Rose, we knew we needed a bespoke campaign video. We’d already made […]