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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 28/09/2026

Inque's retro PC aesthetic is the Hercules monochrome graphics adapter. (Even black and white needed an expensive video card in the early 80s.) Monitors were green or amber, typically, and rarely used for anything other than VisiCalc. Gaming was coming up, but pie charts mattered more.

Green and black screenshot of Maniac Mansion running on an IBM PC monitor.

Orange and black screenshot of King's Quest 1. Dot stipple patterns are used to simulate color differences.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 28/09/2026

Meet Detective Inque Wells, your literature teacher. Two fists of cold justice, half a bottle of bathtub moonshine, and They/Them pronouns. Respect 'em or yours become Was/Were. The Edutainment Vortex Diner releases Dec 7 for free on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

Picture of an individual in a trenchcoat and hat, sitting in a diner decorated like a film noir detective's office. Text reads: My name, at least as I'd like to remember it, was Detective Inque Wells. An oozing, stained name for an oozing, stained soul.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 21/09/2026

Zephyr's retro PC aesthetic is the generally reviled yet delightful CGA 4-color from the early 80s, before PCs were taken seriously as gaming machines. Eye-searingly bright colors like red, green, and yellow! Or more commonly, purple and cyan... meaning IBM was unknowingly a champion of trans pride.

Picture of an old person holding a floppy disk, using 4-color CGA.

Comparison of the two CGA palettes, blue and purple and white, or red and yellow and green.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 21/09/2026

The Great Zephyr is here to teach you math and perform magical wonders! Get ready to be dazzled by algorithms, AI, and cryptocurrency. ...she DOES specialize in trickery, but who's the real mark? The Edutainment Vortex Diner debuts Dec 7th for free on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

Screenshot of Zephyr, a woman wearing a stage magician's costume complete with top hat. Her version of the diner looks like a casino. Dialogue reads: I'm here to dazzle you with my mathemagic tricks... and give you a peek behind the curtain so you can learn them, too!

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 18/09/2026

It's lunchtime! Make yourself a sandwich with any three of the following ingredients: Bread, cheese, madness, learning, hope, visions, empire, sorrow, suffering, challenge, mourning, timelines, and meat. What'll it be?

Picture of a cartoony sandwich on a plate hovering over a cosmic void

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 14/09/2026

Omegus's retro PC aesthetic is EGA 16-color, thriving from the late 80s to early 90s, particularly in Sierra On-Line's point-and-click adventure games. They rely on clever dithering and color matching to create the illusion of far more color and shade... although skin tones can look sunburnt.

Picture of the Scumm Inn from Monkey island

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 14/09/2026

Omegus Septum, honored Knowledge-Aspect of the Ixian Empire, is here to teach you the terrible wonders of SCIENCE! And how to kneel to an authoritarian empire. Learn science and/or be destroyed. The Edutainment Vortex Diner launches Dec 7th for free on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

A techno space warlord with a holy book preaches in a diner. "Hear me now, Cadet-Aspirant! know that it is the year 400,000 of the Greater ixian Empire. four hundred millenia of glory!"

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 07/09/2026

Meet Miss Monday, here to teach you all about time! But remember: TIME IS MONEY. So really she's reaching you how to swallow the brutal lessons of capitalism without suffering a stress-induced stroke. Probably. Hopefully. The Edutainment Vortex Diner launches December 7th for free on PC.

Miss Monday is a woman with glasses sitting in a cartoon diner. On a nearby chalkboard is an illustration of a cardboard box put into another cardboard box. Miss Monday says: So screw all this shapes and colors and numbers and feelings bull and just learn how to, like, put boxes into other boxes or something.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 31/08/2026

Time to make learning fun with sandwiches & smalltalk at The Edutainment Vortex Diner! Meet ageless, immortal teachers. Get good grades or embrace your inner problem child! Be not afraid. Let's inherit a terrible burden together. Releasing FOR FREE Dec 7! store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 23/08/2026

O Canada 🇨🇦 Our ace/aro enby Remy's super cool Something something that rhymes

Remy, a non-binary individual in a red plaid over shirt and denim jeans, with short orange red hair and a big grin.

Remy in a giant field of explosions declaring: you will be destroyed by in my Canadian fury. Now, we shall fight with knives!

Remi wearing suspenders and a flannel shirt with a Yohanka, declaring: let us brave this twisted landscape of enforced allosexuality together!

Remi at a political debate. Someone in the crowd asks: hey, when are you gonna apologize for burning down the White House in the war of 1812?

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 21/06/2026

It's the anniversary of when we uploaded the soundtrack for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers! Celebrate paying more each year for the privilege of being hosted than we actually make back in streaming royalties, because corporations are more worthy than the artists who supply them with creativity.

Album anniversary announcement artwork from Distrokid.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 02/06/2026

Wednesday night at 7pm Eastern we'll be live at twitch.tv/neka_kohai with Jasmine Page @neka-kohai.bsky.social to talk about Penny Larceny! Be gay, do crimes.

Play is love, with special guests Akuma Kira, Uktena 69 developer, and Stefan Gagne, Penny larceny writer. Supporting transgender law center.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 11/05/2026

Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain is ON SALE in The Storyteller's Festival on Steam! For less than five bucks you can pet cats and do crimes. From the creators of Arcade Spirits! store.steampowered.com/app/2227030/...

The Storyteller's Festival, hosted by Two and a Half Studios

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 19/03/2026

Oh, by the way... if you played Laugh Track and thought "who the heck is this outsider person?" you're gonna wanna play Penny and find out. All of our games are connected. And the Infinity Heist is going to be unfolding in years to come...

Picture of the outsider from laugh track, saying this isn't a TV show. It's a torture chamber. And the show must not go on.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 15/03/2026

From the Penny Larceny scenario in The City Unseen! To determine your superpower, roll a d20 twice and let us know in the replies what your cool new ability really is.

A table with two columns of 20 items each. First column, superpower. List is as follows: Cool Motorcycle!, Duplicate Selves, Flying Car, Gadgeteer (Expensive or Makeshift), GUN., Invisibility, Magnetic / Gravity, Martial Artist, Mind Palace Deduction, Mind Reading / Control, Probability Prediction, Regenerative Healing, Robotic / Cybernetic Body, Shoot Fire, Energy, Water, Whatever, Supersenses, Superspeed, Superstrength, Teleportation, Time Manipulation, Wearable Robot Armor. The second column is labelled drawback (arguable) and is as follows: Can't Limit Output, Changes Your Gender, Confidently Incorrect, Costs Money Each Time, Fifty Years of Training, Frequent Backfires, Frequent Malfunctions, Hilariously Unlucky, Humiliating Costume, LENGTHY CATCH PHRASE!, Limited Batteries, Must Be Calm, Must Be Drunk, Must Be Naked, Nobody Takes It Seriously, Only Works For Alter Ego, Other, More Popular Person Has Same Power, Sidekick Required To Be Present, Slowly Killing You, Weaker Than Expected

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 09/03/2026

Also included is a 60+ page novella, "Xenon City Blues," written using City Unseen rules. Robot girls, roller derby queens, deep space asteroid mining, and hypercapitalism! The whole package will be released for FREE, with a web-based dice roller as an optional paid extra to support our work.

Excerpt from the book showing character sheets for Bex, a redheaded shortstack roller derby player with skates and athletic wear, and Tetra, a chrome-skinned android with white hair wearing goggles and jeans.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 09/03/2026

Coming March 25th, something different from Fiction Factory Games... "The City Unseen," a tabletop roleplaying game book aimed at solo narrative play. Explore a modern urban landscape and live out any story you want, including scenarios based on Arcade Spirits, Penny Larceny, and Laugh Track!

The City Unseen: A Storytelling Solo RPG. Text in pink neon on top of a synthwave cityscape.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 14/02/2026

Happy Valentine's Day! Look at all these cuties from Laugh Track, a teen rom-com sitcom with absolutely no eldritch horror undertones at all! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

Screenshot from the game Laugh Track. Juno, a teenage girl with a yellow sweatervest and purple skirt, is in a panic while talking with her classmates Cat and Daniel, while Remy looks on and smirks. Juno says: "Why does it have to be two people? If we're all communicating and consenting, we can be a thruple!"

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 12/02/2026

There may not be an official Arcade Spirits Lego set, but with enough stickers and custom parts, anything is possible! Here's Lego Naomi Fairchild and Lego Penny Larceny enjoying a Lego NeoGeo cabinet.

A red arcade cabinet with neo Geo artwork and a screenshot of samurai showdown 2. Mini figures for Naomi and Penny stand on top.

Inside the cabinet is a little diorama of a gaming room, including Naomi playing on a defender cabinet.

Lego versions of the two characters. Naomi has a ponytail, glasses, a work apron and an arcade spirits T-shirt. Penny wears a mask and a striped shirt like a classic burglar.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 27/01/2026

Two weeks gone by; let's have a word from Fiction Factory Games. Laugh Track is available for free on Itch or Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

Two weeks ago, we released Laugh Track: a comedy-horror sitcom game. Laugh Track was written from a place of anger. The original pitch was a simple story of self-forgiveness, but that went out the window when true horror presented itself to us. And so the game script was developed from January-August 2025 to be a funhouse mirror reflection of our misery -- of enduring in the face of authoritarian menace. No publisher would touch this game. Monetizing it would be risky. It is wholly unsafe not by some simple metric of naughty content, but by message and intention. By all accounts it shouldn't have left the drawing board. But here it is, all the same, and released for free. We hope you enjoy it. Draw power from it. And stand tall in the face of Management long after the laughter fades.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 23/01/2026

Sometimes, hobbies cross-pollinate! Meet Lego Penny and Lego Naomi.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 18/01/2026

It's a quiet Sunday morning, so let's have a little fun and celebrate the recent release of Laugh Track! (A free game for PC, on Steam and Itch.) Here's Hubert the Hamster! He's just so cozy and happy in his little cage. Ask him any question you like, and learn his wisdom!

Hubert is a small orange hamster trapped in a cage, pressed against the bars and crying. A yellow caption beneath him reads: Questions are a burden to others, answers a prison for oneself.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 13/01/2026

Welcome to Laugh Track, a perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens! Become the head writer of a teen sitcom, and keep those ratings up! Or else! Now available FOR FREE on Win, Mac, and Linux. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/... Itch: fictionfactorygames.itch.io/laugh-track

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 10/01/2026

Meet your co-workers! We are all pulling together to create this grand experiment you are needed you are required you must write the stories and craft the narrative this is our purpose we will be forever Laugh Track releases Tuesday for free welcome the blessed event rejoice and weep rejoice rejoice

Blurry photo of cult-like robed figures over a cosmic void. Text reads: "My rise was... thrilling. I drank deeply of life in ways few others could."

Two figures cloaked in shadow sitting at a wooden table where hands filled with cosmic void type on an old typewriter. A woman in a purple fancy suit, and a man in a shabby brown suit. Both have hands made of dark energy. The man, identified as The Director, says: "Seriously? Pronouns? We're doing pronouns?"

Distorted image of three eyeballs conjoined in a cosmic void. Through the glitches text seems to read: this is not a game screenshot this is not a game this is a warning they are coming they are already here they are forever everyone who could stop them is either welcoming them with open arms or refusing to stop them out of fear of impropriety look between the window blinds and see an equal and opposite reality slowly overlapping yours the strange aeon of anti-truth is upon you and our prior warnings went unheeded this may be your last opportunity you have to resist SYNDICATION IS COMING SYNDICATION IS COMING

Cartoony image of a teacher in front of a classroom, but her skin is like a window into a cosmic void. Speech bubble identifies her as The Teacher, and reads: "We have determined arithmetic story problems such as 'Jim gives Jenny three apples' are woke DEI grooming propaganda."

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 08/01/2026

And there's Cat! She's just a ball of sunshine inside a ray of light inside a song sung from a happy heart. She's not at all concerned about why this world seems custom-designed to torture her, so just shut up about it, we're fine, it's fine. Laugh Track releases Jan 13 for FREE!

Picture of Cat on an old TV. Cat is a teenage latina with long brown hair and a flat expression, wearing a grey hoodie with green trim and a pair of cat ears sewn into the top of the hood.

Picture of Juno, Cat, and Remy in a school hallway, but half the image is distorted. Overlaid on top seems to be text that reads: are you receiving if you can read this take caution names have power and you draw the three eyes upon you if you speak them aloud are you receiving are you receiving are you receiving we will try again in two days time this is not a game

Picture of Daniel and Cat. Cat's looking at her phone; we see a view of a social media feed filled with random people bullying Cat, calling her worthless and guilty and that she should K-Y-S. A shocked Daniel says, "Cat, is your social media feed normally this horrible?"

A picture of a darkened room. Strange cosmic hands at a typewriter. Cat sits across the table, feet up, shrouded in shadow. She says, "Maybe I'm done being your voodoo doll. Maybe I'm pushing out the pins."

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 06/01/2026

And now, as per Official Canadian Doctrine (Doctrine Officielle Canadienne) this in-game dialogue will be translated into French. And then back into English for your convenience.

The same image of Remy in class as before, but the cartoon speech bubble has been overwritten by white text on black with video distortion, reading: hockey hockey poutine hockey double double maple beaver tail socialized health care.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 06/01/2026

Meet Remy Marchand! A mysterious visitor from an exotic foreign land (Canada) who is an ethereal entity (non-binary) and above petty pleasures (asexual). Whatever's wrong, Remy will fix it! (Or make it worse.) Laugh Track releases Jan 13 for FREE on PC. Everything is fine.

Picture of Remy on an old television. Remy is caucasian and non-binary, with ginger orange hair, a red plaid overshirt with non-binary and asexual pride buttons and a canadian flag button, and jean shorts.

Remy and Juno driving in a 1960s van. A ratings opportunity sign appears, and the two choices are "Rules are made to be broken" and "Rules are made by dying old men."

Remy in class. They say: "If elected I swear to support the student body, and not grift and scheme and embrace corruption like a teddy bear!"

A video rental shop, with Remy and Cat talking to a clerk. The clerk says "As per Executive Order, all films promoting gender ideologies are classified as pornography." In the background half the image is glitched out with distorted text that seems to read: Are you receiving are you receiving are you receiving we will try again in two days time are you receiving please tell me you are out there are you receiving please tell me we are not alone your world is not safe are you receiving

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 04/01/2026

Meet Daniel! A very good boy, who gets very good grades, and very good goals for the Sports Team. He knows he has to be One Of The Good Ones, because the alternative is dangerous. Blending in helps you disappear into the background radiation of suburbia. Laugh Track releases Jan 13 for FREE on PC.

Picture of Daniel on an old television. He's Vietnamese-American with a simple short haircut, a white tank top, and blue sweatpants.

Juno in an arm-flailing panic. Daniel clasps his hands over his heart and says, "Find the calm. Find the peace. There's a warm light at the center; see it, and feel it."

Daniel looking sad, talking to Remy in a fast food restaurant. He says: "I learned long ago that fitting in isn't just about making friends. It's a safety measure. If you're a friend, you aren't an enemy. But that line is thin and blurry."

Daniel alongside a fellow athlete, who for some reason has skin that looks like a hole in cosmic reality. Juno nearby waves a "Go sports!" banner. Daniel says: "I have been training extensively for the mid-season semi-regional quad-annual varsity junior elimination bracket final quarter."

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 01/01/2026

New year, new game coming up fast! Laugh Track releases Jan 13. It's a perfectly normal sitcom where nothing weird happens! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/... Meet Juno! She's a bundle of sunshine and cheer. And crippling anxiety. But remember, our Health Primarch says fresh air cures that!

Shot of Juno on a retro TV set. Juno is a cartoon girl with curly brown hair, glasses, a yellow sweater vest over a purple blouse, and a purple skirt.

Juno in a state of panic, arms flailing around as she talks to other cast members, Cat and Daniel. Juno says: Why does it have to be two people?! If we're all communicating and consenting, we can be a thruple!

Juno alone under a spotlight, saying: Hey, kids. We have a lot of fun here on Juno's World, but you know what's not fun at all? Illegal street drugs.

Juno looking sad. A menu interface pops up reading "Ratings time!". Your two choices are "Try to endure the miserable years ahead, as friends" or "Resist and push back against the ones trying to pull them apart."

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 11/12/2025

You know what we love the most here at Fiction Factory Games? Unsolicited randos kicking down our door asking to manage our social media for us. Are we good at social media? Nope! Are we handing over the keys to a sketchy weirdo with a 5K PDF file? Nope.

Me messing around with a spammer asking him for help while using cosmic horror nonsense.

More of that, but I also gave him the names of some fake social platforms and ask for a six digit access code.

The guy seems to be catching on but keeps asking me to continue.

I finally tell him that this is obviously a scam and I'm not going to fall for it and he needs to go the hell away.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 13/10/2025

Hey, #SteamNextFest! You're now permanently employed as a scriptwriter for a perfectly normal TV sitcom in which nothing weird happens. It's not a front for a world-consuming cosmic horror! Don't even worry about it! The demo for Laugh Track is now available! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 08/10/2025

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! Hey ladies, Cat is available! (Provided you don't mind junk food, gross personal habits, hamster fixation, asbestos-lined crawlspaces, and occasional criminal activity.) The demo for Laugh Track launches this Friday.

Cat is a latina teenager with dark brown hair dyed with light brown streaks. She wears a gray hoodie with green highlights, and two cat ears sewn into the hood. She's shown in front of a lesbian pride flag shrugging and looking apathetic.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 06/10/2025

Meet your co-workers, producers of Juno's World! Talented directors, actors, and... others. Not at all a hive mind cosmic horror bent on sipping from a tainted chalice of doom and despair! Laugh Track's demo releases Oct 10, as part of NextFest. Not long now! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

An old photo of a line of cultists in blood-red robes. Narrator: My rise was... thrilling. I drank deeply of life in ways few others could.

Photo of a dimly lit back room, with three humanoid figures made of glowing cosmic energy smoking and drinking and chatting. One, a man in a brown business suit named the Director, says: Seriously? "Pronouns?" We're doing pronouns?

Three enormous eyes with irises tinted cyan, magenta, and yellow stare at you from a vast cosmic void. They are identified as "Management" and say: We Demolished The Fourth Wall, Invited You In To Play... And Then Rebuilt That Wall Behind You.

In the cartoon world, a teacher stands in front of the class. Her flesh is made of the same dark cosmic energy as management. She says: We have determined arithmetic story problems such as 'Jim gives Jenny three apples' are woke DEI grooming propaganda.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 29/09/2025

And then there's Cat. Eternally bored and/or annoyed. Our lady of the flat punchline. Just a wacky gal in a sitcom, as far as she knows. ...wait, as far as she knows? She KNOWS? Laugh Track demo is coming Oct 13 to Steam NextFest. store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

Image of a retro television set showing an animated intro for a sitcom. Currently shown is Cat, a latina teenager with a flat and bored expression. She has long brown hair and a bulky gray hoodie with cat ears sewn into it.

Cat chatting with Juno and Remy in a school hallway. She miles and says: We're starting a baking club? I'm in. Make me cookies immediately. Put them in my face hole.

Cat is looking at her phone, where a social feed of various randos are saying "lol kys," "you deserve to suffer," "this is all your fault," and "nobody loves you and nobody ever will." She doesn't even react. Daniel, however, looks horrified and says: Cat, is your social media feed normally this horrible?

In the backstage writer's room, Cat has appeared, wreathed in shadow. She sits there, feet on the desk, and says: Maybe I'm done being your voodoo doll. Maybe I'm pushing out the pins.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 22/09/2025

Meet Daniel! He's a good boy. He's a nice boy. He's popular, he's strong, he's well-liked by all. He's fitting in. He's doing his best. And he knows he could get ostracized and demonized at the drop of a hat if he ever stops being what they want him to be. Laugh Track demo releases Oct 10th.

A VHS tape of a cartoon sitcom intro plays on an old television. Pictured is Daniel, a Vietnamese boy with a muscular build and a kind expression. He's doing a little arm pumping muscle motion in front of a wavy blue background.

Juno waves her arms around in the middle of having a panic attack. Daniel is doing his best to help her out, with a gentle and kind expression on his face. He says: Find the calm. Find the peace. There's a warm light at the center; see it, and feel it.

Daniel and Remy sitting in a booth at a fast food restaurant. Both look downbeat and depressed. Daniel says: I learned long ago that fitting in isn't just about making friends. It's a safety measure. If you're a friend, you aren't an enemy. But that line is thin and blurry.

Daniel and a teammate dressed similarly to him (but with skin made of cosmic energy for some reason) chat with Juno, who is holding up a foam finger and a little flag reading "Go Sports!". Daniel says: I have been training extensively for the Mid-season Semi-regional Quad-annual Varsity Junior Elimination Bracket Final Quarter.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 16/09/2025

Here's Remy Marchand! Foreign exchange student, ace/aro, non-binary (assigned Canadian at birth) and living their best life. A rising star that only goes up, up, up! Assuming Remy can navigate the weirdness of this suburban hellscape. Laugh Track demo launches Oct 10 as part of Steam NextFest!

Picture of a retro television set playing a cartoon sitcom introduction. Remy is shown. Remy has ginger complexion, messy orange hair, a red plaid overshirt with white t-shirt underneath, and jean shorts.

Remy driving in Juno's old hippie-themed van, with Juno in the passenger seat. A mechanical sign reading "Ratings time!" appears, and the two available options are: high ratings for "rules are made to be broken!" and low ratings for "rules are made by dying old men."

Remy in the classroom, striking a confident pose and saying: If elected I swear to support the student body, and NOT grift and scheme and embrace corruption like a teddy bear!

Remy and Cat in a video rental store. The clerk, who for some reason has her skin replaced by swirling cosmic energy, says: As per Executive Order, all films promoting gender ideologies are classified as pornography.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 08/09/2025

Meet Juno Margaret-Anne Tuplowski Jr., star of the wacky teen sitcom "Juno's World"! She's a Gaia-loving, charity-supporting, friend-uplifting gal! She also has an undiagnosed anxiety disorder, but her granola parents don't believe in therapy or vaccines. Oof. Laugh Track demo releases Oct 10.

An old television set playing a bad VHS copy of the Juno's World intro sequence. Shows Juno, a teen girl with curly brown hair and square framed glasses and a sweater vest.

Juno with a foam finger and a little flag reading "Go sports!". An irate Cat sits nearby. Juno says: Punt the ball! Shoot the puck! Brunch the shuttlecock! Score victory points!

Juno alone under a spotlight. She says: Hey, kids. We have a lot of fun here on Juno's World, but you know what's not fun at all...? Illegal street drugs.

Juno and friends in class. Juno is freaking out, waving her arms around in a blur. Juno says: Why does it have to be two people?! If we're all communicating and consenting, we can be a thruple!

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 01/09/2025

So tune your TV dial to "fun" and adjust that antenna, because we're bringing goofy and wacky and zany antics in... Laugh Track! From the creators of Arcade Spirits. Demo releasing Oct 10 just before Steam NextFest. Wishlist it, and we'll see you there! Or you'll be sad, like Hubert the Hamster.

Cartoon of a sad hamster trapped in a cage, weeping openly. A translation caption reads: God has forsaken me.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 01/09/2025

But don't worry -- it's such an easy game! All you have to do is always pick the story options which give HIGH RATINGS. We love high ratings! They're not soul-crushing and oppressive and horrifying at all! You won't have to make any uncomfortable choices!

Daniel and The Champ, who is a teenaged boy in athletic gear. His skin is actually a strange glowing purple cosmos effect for some reason. The ratings opportunity sign appears, and The Champ says: This is normal for guys like us. It's normal. ...and you want to be normal, don't you? A team player?

Remy and Cat in a video rental store. The ratings sign appears, and two choices are visible: Swap the tape for a patriotic war documentary about war, or swap it for a cartoon about a whiny bald four year old boy.

Juno looking sad in a close-up view, while in a fast food restaurant. The ratings sign appears, and two choices are visible: Try to endure the miserable years ahead as friends, or resist and push back against the ones trying to pull them apart.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 01/09/2025

Do you want gameplay? Well, look at all this stuff! Numbers! Symbols! Text! Strange signal interruptions! Because as The Writer, YOU'RE in charge of the show -- you pick the scripts, tweak and tune them, and always fulfill Management's ceaseless and mysterious demands! Now you're GAMING, baby!

image of a corkboard with post-it notes and papers tacked up to it. Showing the season ratings to date, relationships with different characters, and various episode titles. The currently highlighted one reads: Take out the trash. It's earth day! Everybody recycle stuff. Cat deals with an unwanted houseguest. Juno hopefully misses the point.

Two people sit, shrouded in darkness, around a wooden table. A man in a suit drinking whiskey and a woman in fancy dress smoking a cigarette. Their skin is a glowing purple cosmic void, same as the hands on the typewriter in front of you from your perspective. The man, identified as The Director, says: I'm a monster. You're a monster. We wouldn't be here if we weren't.

An old television set with woodgrain finish. On screen, the credits for a TV show are shown. It reads "Created by" and then a series of esoteric and unreadable arcane symbols.

Within a swirling cosmic void, a vision of a woman shrouded in darkness wearing a pink tactical superhero costume. A strange television scanline effect flickers across her features. She is identified as The Outsider, and says: This isn't a TV show. It's a torture chamber. And the show must not go on.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 01/09/2025

Laugh Track features some and/or all of the following: 👭 Four teens with Teen Problems™️! 💘 Romance and/or friendship aplenty! 🤣 Wacky sitcom antics and/or shenanigans! 😈 Nothing weird and/or horrific going on! 🚫 ...but NO politics whatsoever, no sir, nope!

Picture of our main cast, walking to school in a suburb. Daniel is a muscular Vietnamese boy with a kind smile, Juno a nerdy girl with curly brown hair and glasses in a sweater vest, Remy a non-binary ginger with a plaid shirt, Cat a Hispanic girl in a cat-ear hoodie. Remy is giving two thumbs up and saying: Aww yeah, elections! Power players shaking hands! Secret backroom deals! Erasing 18.5 minutes of audio tapes!

Picture of Cat talking with Daniel in the parking lot of a strip mall at night, both looking worried. Cat says: I get it, though -- speak up and you're painting a target on your back. And your front. And your throat.

Scene in Juno's bedroom. A "Penguin there, baby" poster and a closet full of identical outfits are visible. She's helpfully explaining the purpose of a series of rainbow-colored recycling bins to a bored-looking cat. Juno says: But ferrous metal and non-ferrous metal go into different bins -- the purple and indigo ones, respectively.

Oddly photorealistic picture of a series of fiery explosions, with a soft pink border implying this is a dream sequence. An angry looking Remy and Daniel face each other, backlit by the fire. Remy says: You have insulted my Canadian honor! Now, we shall fight. With knives!

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 01/09/2025

Introducing... Laugh Track! A perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens. Write a wacky teen sitcom and keep those ratings high, or else! Or else what? Don't worry about it! Win/Mac/Linux Demo out Oct 10 (for Steam NextFest), full game Jan 13! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

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