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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 28/09/2026

🌟 Presenting the LudoNarraCon 2026 Official Selection 🌟 🎮 51 narrative indie games 🗓️ October 8–15 PT on Steam 💙 Supported by @jacobgeller.com, @lookingfor.game, @remapradio.bsky.social & @thisweekinvideogames.com 🌐 More info at bit.ly/FTLNC2026 📬 Sign up for our newsletter to stay updated!

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 28/09/2026

Ready for a first taste of The Hearth & Harbour? 🥘 The first-ever demo will be playable on Steam for LudoNarraCon on October 8th! Make sure you wishlist below to receive all the latest updates 🍽️ bit.ly/HearthHarbou...

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Ben Kosmina @kosmologyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m really, really excited for you to see what @saltstonestudios.bsky.social has been cooking up (pardon the pun) They’ve been working incredibly hard, it’s gonna be really exciting to see people play it! Whip up some eggy bread to celebrate!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did yous know we have a community discord? It's the best place for cool sexy people to get progress on the The Hearth and Harbour's development progress, mostly through uhh fun and exciting new bugs 👉 discord.gg/TX6XGyTmSC 👈

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We also may or may not be working on a The Pale Beyond tumblr sexyperson competitive bracket... Don't you want your favourite The Pale Beyond character to also be voted to be the hottest? Then join the Discord and have your say! 🍑 discord.gg/TX6XGyTmSC 🍑

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The orange order isn’t going to survive another 2 generations. It’s the sweaty after thought, the ideological algae of a clogged colonialist beer belly gone wrong.

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It will be abandoned by its masters, and the rest will eat themselves into something more reasonable. It’s embarrassing to see them sell their wilting power with the time they have left. It’s will me misremembered by the future as a confusing geriatric cosplay and no more.

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026

Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our directors are, unfortunately for interviewers, the chattiest chatterboxes in the world 😅

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 24/09/2026

Get your reading glasses ready; this is a long one! 👓 @saltstonestudios.bsky.social sat down with us earlier this year to chat about all things The Hearth & Harbour 📖 Cozy up with their extended interview, and don't forget to wishlist The Hearth & Harbour on Steam ☕ bit.ly/HearthHarbou...

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The Hearth and Harbour - Saltstone Studios Extended Developer Interview! - Steam News

For fun, here's the full 8 page interview with Saltstone!

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Offended on the behalf of all adelies everywhere

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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 22/09/2026

Haha this makes me so, so happy 🥰

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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 22/09/2026

Also, follow @jessanight.bsky.social and @saltstonestudios.bsky.social - they rule and make extremely cool things! 💖

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In this month's blog post, The Hearth and Harbour writer Eric Rivers talks influences and inspirations for the game! From Harvest Moon to It's a Wonderful Life, and a few things in between! saltstonestudios.com/2026/09/21/n...

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Narrative Design and Inspirations for The Hearth and Harbour

Writer and Narrative Designer Eric Rivers discusses The Hearth and Harbour’s narrative influences and inspirations – from other games, to films, literature and stage plays Any game, any…

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some of the games that inspired our game (except they get a little more unhinged as they go on...) #indiedev #indiegames

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

The LLM's statistical picture is always incomplete: it sands off, rounds down or truncates the final couple decimal places, and those smoothings make all the difference, the way the pinch of salt makes all the difference to the chocolate.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

Surprises are *everything*. A surprise is the seam of gold in the wall of quartz; it's the friend who confesses they've fallen in love with you; it's the moment when you and the party and the GM all come up with an amazing way to kill the dragon and then roll a natural 20.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

Surprise is the difference between Pi and 3.11111111111111111111111111111... Dylan going electric is a surprise. A surprise is Miles Davis choosing *not* to play a note in a phrase. A surprise is Picasso's cubism and Kahlo's mustache.

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

A screenshot of the pale beyond showing a female character caught in a ships rigging. She’s wearing a yellow winter coat and is holding an old camera, trying to save it from dropping into the sea

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Full disclosure, the discord did vote for Stanberry, but Stanberry couldn’t even be trusted with the captain’s hat

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itch.io @itch.io · 16/09/2026

Good Folk Cafe: Forage for wild plants, craft bespoke dishes, and delight your mysterious otherworldly clientele not-here-not-there.itch.io/goodfolkcafe

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everyone’s yelling at me but I’m right

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

you kind of take care of them, in a sense

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 06/09/2026

From a faceless placeholder to a fully realised protagonist, Jess from @saltstonestudios.bsky.social shares the research, design and visual language behind The Hearth & Harbour's handsome (and slightly dishevelled) player character, Kit Purcell 😍 Check out the full breakdown below 👇

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The Hearth and Harbour - Steam News Hub

Updates, events, and news from the developers of The Hearth and Harbour.

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Pale Beyond is (extremely flatteringly) part of the Narrative Masterpieces Humble Bundle! $185 worth of gorgeous video game stories for $13, and a chunk of change donated to charity for your trouble 💖 ✨ www.humblebundle.com/games/narrat... ✨

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 29/08/2026

Doggust day 29: Pâtisserie 🥐 I was on the fence about dachsbun until I saw one in pokopia and now I've seen the light.

A dachsbun is sleeping curled up on an orange cafe chair next to an orange cafe table. There's a white cup on a saucer on the table, and a tall rectangular planter with some monkey grass in it behind.

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Coreyartus @coreyartusimagery.com · 23/08/2026

Cara has gone out of its way to opt out of scraping. Tech bros are just doing it now out of spite. Legal action is required. Artists have to help themselves—no one else cares. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cara-...

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Donate to Help Cara Fight Scrapers with Legal Fund, organized by Jingna Zhang

Cara is an artist and social platform built by a small group of volunteers to gi… Jingna Zhang needs your support for Help Cara Fight Scrapers with Legal Fund

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

there's an upcoming game about the Gaeltacht that's doing the rounds on socials that's riddled with GenAI. Their excuse is "I'm making this game in my own time while I have a young family", which is not an excuse if you think of the thousands of games released by folks who didn't need to use GenAI..

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 25/08/2026

In The Hearth & Harbour, Lewthport is brimming with unique characters to create a fully realised city 🏠 But how many characters are enough? How should they look? 🎨 Lead Character Artist Katie from @saltstonestudios.bsky.social digs deeper into the design process in the monthly blog

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The Hearth and Harbour - Designing a City’s Worth of Characters - Steam News

Lead Character Artist Katie talks about how they approached designing a city’s worth of characters

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Hearth and Harbour is a restaurant management game, but it's also inspired by RPGs and immersive sims!

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The importance of character relationships, and the constant tension of the world's troubles threatening to encroach on your new home, add a little bit of spice to the feeding people and keeping the lights on. And what good's a restaurant with no spice?

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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 16/08/2026

Hey! Are you an indie dev who doesn't use gen AI and have a game you're currently promoting? I'm looking to make a starter pack and you could be in it! Reply below with a link to your game 👇 go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hello! We don’t use AI for any of our games (we actually hand-draw most of our art)! We’re currently working on our next game, a restaurant management narrative RPG called The Hearth and Harbour ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/2528170/...

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The Hearth and Harbour on Steam

Transform a run-down restaurant and build a new life for yourself in this management RPG. Decide what kind of restaurant you want to create and what kind of person you want to be. As a storm brews out...

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Jess Campbell ✨ @jessanight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ham practice !

A pages of sketches of hands in different poses, for drawing practice

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This month's blogpost is by character and prop artist Katie Noble!! Katie talks us through the challenges of designing enough characters that the city of Lewthport feels alive, and the player feels part of a bustling community 🥞 saltstonestudios.com/2026/08/10/d...

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Designing a City’s Worth of Characters

Lead Character Artist Katie talks about how they approached designing a city’s worth of characters for our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour I’m Katie, character and prop artist [another c…

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 07/08/2026

Before a single line of code, @saltstonestudios.bsky.social's The Hearth and Harbour started on paper. Ethan shares how a handmade board game prototype helped shape the restaurant gameplay, stress systems, and core game loop! 📝

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 07/08/2026

Doggust day 6: French spaniel. Theory about how Mercury un-retrogrades. 🐶🗯️ #doggust2026

Ink painting of a green-brown and light blue spaniel barking at the night sky. The are lots of yellow yelling speech bubbles to represent all the WOOFS and BARKS. A big beam of white is blasting up at a tiny blue planet.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are orbiting the sun. Mercury is going the opposite direction. It remarks "Oh..." The Earth has some noise lines coming off it, to show how loud the barks are.

Two panels of Mercury making a u-turn and joining the other planets in going the same direction. It shouts "sorry!" to the dog, who is smiling up at it. (I am aware this is not the scientific explanation of this phenomenon.)

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We will not comply with the EHRC 'guidance', and neither should you. Take action for trans liberation.

Today, the EHRC ‘guidance’ comes into force. imposed by ministers without any democratic consent, the ‘guidance’ is a sham. ignore it.

today, many trans people will feel scared and isolated. that is what the state wants. they want us to hide, to sit passively, waiting to be saved. but there is nobody coming to save us. we will save ourselves.

that means trans people need to take action. see our action guide for advice, security info and vital info on how to bash back.

they want us to be afraid of them.

we must make them afraid of us.

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 03/08/2026

We’re hiring - come join the Fellow Traveller marketing team as a Product Manager! This is a senior role leading the marketing for some very cool games. More info and how to apply here bit.ly/FTPMJob

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Job Opportunity - Product Manager — Fellow Traveller Games

We have the rare opportunity to join the Fellow Traveller marketing team as a Product Manager. Product Managers play a key role at Fellow Traveller, taking ownership of a portion of our game…

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birbwell | FREEDOM; SUN ON MY SKIN☀︎ @birbwell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

post-pale trans woman nutlee .. one of these days ill design her a real actual outfit.. i just wanted to draw her happy #thepalebeyond | #art

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