Fan Project Guidelines
As long as fan works (creative products set in the Fallen London universe such as fan fiction, artwork, blogs, podcasts, fan vids, wikis and so forth) follow these guidelines, you’re welcome to proceed without asking permission:
- Don’t make money from fan works without our prior approval. (This does not include Let’s Play or review videos. We are happy for monetized review channels to feature our games.)
- Please include a statement crediting us and linking to the relevant games in a reasonably prominent manner. If there are multiple episodes of a work, please do this on every episode. For example: “Fallen London is © and ™ Failbetter Games Limited: www.fallenlondon.com. This is an unofficial fan work.” Where you have used our games as an inspiration for an Actual Play series, please be clear whether you have used our system (Skyfarer) or another one.
- You may use assets from our games, such as their logos and artwork (but not other Failbetter Games assets, or any soundtrack recordings), in your fan work – within reason. You may create screenshot mock-ups of Fallen London that feature your stories, but please include the disclaimer as above in an obvious place in every image.
- You own your fan work (apart from the pre-existing parts which you derived from the Fallen London universe, e.g. artwork or characters, which remain our property) and you’re responsible for it.
- Please do not impersonate Fallen London characters online.
- The team don’t read or link to fan fiction, but we may occasionally share fanart on our social channels. To be clear: we do not owe you anything regarding your fan works.
- These guidelines apply only to the Fallen London universe and not to any of our other work.
If you’re unsure of any of this, please email enquiries@failbettergames.com with details of what you’d like to make and we can offer advice.
(last updated: 1st November 2023)