@flom
Writer, narrative designer and UI artist. Tea-Powered Games (Elemental Flow - demo on Steam!, Dialogue: A Writer's Story) | Freelance | WGGB Games Co-Chair | Interactive Fiction meetup host (She/her) Portfolio: https://teawithflo.com/portfolio/
The setting of All Will Rise is Muziris, #India. Despite being one of the most populous nations on Earth, India is so rarely represented in video games. We want to change that, and bring India’s rich history, traditions, complexity and culture to a global gaming audience! 🇮🇳 ❤️
#GameDev #IndieGame
❤️ STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED ❤️
Romantic Missions!
Social movements are all about gathering up emotional energy, and we fully believe that romance and desire have to be part of the energy that drives us towards a better future.
🔗: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
"And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in their stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone."
(Anne Sexton)
#TrailerTuesday
The @bigissue.com consistently writes articles and shares useful information on social issues (like last week's articles on @gameworkers.co.uk 's work against union busting, and deconditioning ourselves from consumer capitalism). If you dropped off other news sources, find your local vendor!
The Interactive Fiction meetup has a great free talk March 19th in London by @hanakogames.bsky.social (Long Live the Queen, Galaxy Princess Zorana, Black Closet, Magical Diary, etc etc!) Come learn more about what goes into these games' exceptional narrative design and puzzle structures 📚🧩
GAConf, IGDA-GASIG. Advancing accessibility for disabled players. Online conference, April 27th-28th 2026. Brighton social, July 2026.
The 17th (😮) #GAConf will be the Europe edition on April 27th-28th! Fully online, free to attend.
Two days of talks & networking, the central hub for the professional game accessibility community to come together, learn, share, & make connections.
Register at www.gaconf.com
#gamedev #accessibility
I'm excited to announce our next Interactive Fiction talk will be Rotating the Narrative in my Brain: Gamebooks, Fanfiction, and Simulationism by @hanakogames.bsky.social! I've been captivated since Magical Diary's magic&dungeon design, really looking forward to this!
www.meetup.com/oxford-and-l...
Downcrawl 2E and Skycrawl are this week's Bundle of Holding! Get both #TTRPG games and ALL supplements at tremendous savings while you can. Explore weird and wondrous environments in pointcrawl adventures through forgotten labyrinths and skyborne kingdoms...
bundleofholding.com/presents/Dow...
🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
HELLSCREEN 1.0 is OUT of early access!
It's a Retro FPS with Metroid-vania lite elements & a rear view mirror.
Yes, you can shoot behind you!
My favorite player description of it is
"The most fucked up driving game I have ever seen"
Buy it below!
Good food = Good vibes. 🍛✨ Today we’re spotlighting Dosa Divas, the vibrant narrative RPG coming April 14, 2026! 🤖🏳️🌈 The demo is available NOW on Steam! Click here for our full Cozy Corner preview: buff.ly/rTVUUTS
#Gaymer #IndieRPG #CookingGame
Here's Amnesty International's guidance:
media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...
"Settlement will no longer be granted automatically after a fixed period. Instead, migrants will need to earn it by demonstrating sustained good conduct, contribution and integration."
If you have anything to say about this, you've got until 11:59pm today.
I joined my union for lots of reasons: practical individual help (contracts, disputes, etc), networking and craft-related events, best practise and guideline docs, the guild's work with companies/the government... Every year I put more into the WGGB, so you can get more out of it!
#HeartUnions
I love hearing about the tools people use to plan out complex story structures!
(I keep going back to Twine for testing purposes, but I'd love to have a go-to for visual mapping)
The magazine itself is a fun read (and play), you can still grab a copy online
www.redbullshop.com/en-int/p/GAM...
Last year I wrote a choose your own adventure game running through Red Bull's gaming magazine, Gamepop, as well as an article on interactive fiction. It was really fun to work on, and it's wonderful to see it in print!
Blog post here: teawithflo.com/2026/02/05/r...
Uploaded my #GlobalGameJam entry a little early, just in case - if you have 10mins, try out Fur, Bone, Wood, Skin (an IF about the masks we wear and how it affects our relationships) #GGJ26
Good luck to all the jammers still jamming!
fminuzzi.itch.io/fur-bone-woo...
ALL SUBMISSIONS close end of day tomorrow Saturday January 31st. Submit! And take note: there will be no deadline extensions this year.
Florencia wearing a dark top, sitting behind a table with Writers' Guild QR codes, in front of a guild banner.
Getting ready to start the #GlobalGameJam at Goldsmiths - if you're participating, come say hi and learn a little more about unions. Don't let your passion for games be exploited! #GGJ26 @writersguildgb.bsky.social
Cropped cover for "The Drizzle Depths" showing woodcut art of a flooded Victorian street, rain drizzling down and faint stalactites dimly visible on a distant roof above.
Rain falls deep beneath the earth, and will not stop. How will you survive a damper, slimier, flooded underground? Can the Godswimmer be found? Will an Aquaeon Conclave be called? Sink or swim in...
The Drizzle Depths
Downcrawl Adventure Zine #3
#ttrpg
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
A Puzzle Game for Introverts!
SOCIAL CATERPILLAR is out now!
🐛 STEAM: store.steampowered.com/app/3514940/...
🦟 ITCH.IO: merlandese.itch.io/social-cater...
🐝 BANDCAMP: merlandese.bandcamp.com/album/social...
#indiedev #puzzlegame #introvert
All of Andrew's videos are a great watch - they have helped shape my thinking, and so much of Elemental Flow.
This latest video is another important one, reminding us of the power (gained and lost) of unions, and how much more there is to do.
Just signed this as a game dev - whether you make, play or share games, I would encourage you to look at the No Games for Genocide website and see what you might be willing to do to help the pledge.
I'll be there myself too, so if you want to work on a game together, talk narrative, Writers' Guild, Interactive Fiction, etc, come say hi!
Game jams can be a great opportunity for writers to work with a team, creating characters and stories for game types you wouldn't necessarily make on your own. If you're in London next weekend, there are still some tickets left!
Creators + the creative industries have spoken loud and clear about copyright + AI
A Government statement released today reveals details of responses to its consultation on the subject earlier this year + the results are overwhelming
Our response:
writersguild.org.uk/creators-spe...
NarraScope call for proposals is open! We're at the University at Albany, June 12-14.
Now accepting:
- Talks
- The Showcase (games)
- The Experience (new this year!)
blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/narr...
narrascope.org
THE DARK QUEEN OF MORTHOLME is out! Experience the final boss's side of the story. qwertyprophecy.itch.io/mortholme
I'll be at #advxconf #adventurex this weekend, come say hello 👋
I've also got two games on the AdventureX Steam event - Dialogue: A Writer's Story is on sale (a rare occurrence) and Elemental Flow has a public demo (3 hours of Solarpunk conversation RPG)!
store.steampowered.com/curator/3513...
