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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 […]

“Parabola shifts. Alignments crumble. London enters the fray. Too far in to turn back. An invitation therefore. To one who has wandered deep in Parabola. War comes. Will you take up arms?” A final rumble of thunder and you are soaked with rain. The sky clears. The storm departs, its invitation delivered. Following the Election […]

A Vatican spy descends to London, leaving chaos in her wake. Why has she surrounded herself with a congregation of adoring Rubbery Men? To what uncertain end does she drive them? And what lies dreaming in the vat she’s left behind, waiting to emerge… Written by Nigel Evans Art by Tobias Cook Editing and QA: James […]

Recently we shared a message from the Fallen London wiki editors, to announce that they would be moving the wiki to a new site. This has now happened – here is the latest update about it from the editors. Hi everyone! After the previous post, you might know that the Fallen London Wiki is moving […]

We know the Fallen London wiki is a useful resource for many of our players, so we very much appreciate the work the editors put in to maintaining it. The wiki will soon be moving to a new home, and the editors asked us to share their announcement about it here to help get the […]

Yes, for real. At last, you can invite other players for tea at Beatrice’s tea shop. This is intended as the final replacement for dining; something that has the same sense of presence and shared space without the technical issues dining had. The structure should be familiar from Coffee at Caligula’s, but the rewards, costs, […]

Establishing a Cast for Our Story One of the first things we did during narrative pre-production was invent the ensemble cast for Mask of the Rose. We knew we wanted a range of character types, with varied ethnicity, age, gender, body type, and social class. Along with demographic variety, we wanted a variety of perspectives: […]

We decided pretty early in Mask of the Rose pre-production that we wanted the characters to appear solid and painterly. There were three main reasons for this: -We wanted to distinguish the look of the game from other visual novels, which tend towards line drawing and flat shading. -We were aiming for a visual style […]

An uninvited visitor appears in the fog. He seeps into your lodgings and occupies the bathtub; he spills crumbs on your carpet and tea on your favourite chair. What does this fog-man want – and how can you get him to leave? And why is he so fixated on chess? Written by Harry Tuffs Art by […]

The Feast of the Rose is now entirely over, and Lilac is no longer available to accept Masquing. What to look forward to next? Through early March, we’ll be continuing to make small updates and improvements, but the next major new event in Fallen London will be the Parabolan War. Elected as Lord Mayor in […]