This world is sour. And here, sourer still – a rotten knot of rust and ruin, boiling beneath the real. A Hollow. Hollows is our upcoming full-length all-singing-all-dancing game which features: If you’ve enjoyed Chris and Grant’s work on Spire and Heart (or indeed one of the dozens of other titles to their names) then […]
Maz said: “Grant, you should write more dev blogs. And not one every seven weeks when you remember; regular ones.” Well – seven weeks on, here’s a dev blog, because I remembered. CORRUPTION I finished Corruption last week. We aren’t doing XP in a normal fashion, because that would be too straightforward, and instead we […]
PAY ATTENTION. Can you feel it? A wretched knot of rust and ruin. A creeping cancer beneath the skin of the real. A wound in the world. A HOLLOW. The Isles – your home, the haggard heart of a lost empire – is beset by them. Sickness, murder, madness and poverty wash across the land in […]
We announced EAT THE REICH earlier this month to thunderous acclaim: but what is it? Details below: THE GAME EAT THE REICH is a pun that got way, way out of hand. I’ve been experimenting with the concept for about a year now after realising that “REICH” and “RICH” are very similar words and going […]
Time For An Auditory Adventure Til Death Do Us Heart, the official actual play for Heart, is now streaming! Come join the gang as they go on an ill-fated journey to stop a wedding down in the…
When you’re in a Hollow but you’re not in a fight against an Entity, you’re in the Exploration stage of the game. Surrounding each Entity in a Hollow are blasted hinterlands of rotten unreality where…
This country is built on our bones. Labour made The Isles strong. The Empire couldn’t have existed without mills, shipyards, factories and foundries, and the owners and workers (but mostly the owners) of the nation…
Dead gods make fertile soil. Before the rise of the empire, the average Islander believed dozens of malevolent gods and spirits were ever-ready to punish them for transgressions against inscrutable laws. Ramshackle amalgamations of folk…
Nothing is meaningless. The Conclave is older than Hollows. In fact, it’s older than most institutions that persist in The Isles, but the fact that it specifically predates the first known Hollow is significant. It’s…
The Crown We were great, once. Before smokestacks and presses, before looms and workhouses, before cutting-edge science and an empire that spanned the globe, the Isles were a place of quiet majesty. Of noble knights,…
The Isles are a state in mid-collapse – it might even have collapsed already, depending on how high you set your standards. In recent memory the Isles had an empire and industry; it had pride.…
Hello again! Welcome back for the final part of Kieron’s advice on writing the best, sharpest, hurtiest, scenarios for the DIE RPG! You can catch up on the first two blogs here and here. –…
Hello, Producer Chant again, popping by briefly to hand you back over to Kieron. If you haven’t already, you might find it helpful to read the first part of this blog series before you go…
Pride month is complicated. If you’ve been following what we do for any length of time, you probably know that Rowan, Rook and Decard likes to make games that are about something. These games make…
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