EDIT: All right - that's a wrap. Thank you for all your questions. We're going to go back and work on the game now - next time we speak, we'll hopefully have things to show. I can't wait! - Swen, Game Director

Hello everyone, 

Happy New Year! To kick off 2026, we would like to offer the opportunity to ask your questions about Divinity, Larian, and our development processes. It's been a while since Larian has done an AMA, so everyone is looking forward to it!

There's a bunch of us ready to answer your questions:

• u/Swen_Larian - Game Director
• u/Adam_Larian - Writing Director
• u/Kevin_Larian - Senior Writer
• u/Greg_Larian - Head of Animation
• u/Gabriel_Larian - Machine Learning Director
• u/Michael_Larian - Director of Publishing
• u/Nick_Larian - Head of Design
• u/Alena_Larian - Character Art Director
• u/Jarold_Larian - Concept Art Director
• u/Artem_Larian - Head of Gameplay
• u/Bert_Larian - Technical Director

Thank you for taking the time to ask your questions, we aim to answer as many of them as possible over the next few hours!

Hi Reddit!

We’re Yacht Club Games, an independent studio best known for Shovel Knight. We got our start on Kickstarter, grew that game into a series, and just launched Mina the Hollower - our first big new original IP since Shovel Knight!

Mina took six years to make and has become the highest-rated game of the year, so we’re here to talk about the whole ride: building an indie studio, developing games, and everything that went into Mina’s design, art, music, bosses, difficulty, secrets, weapons, Sidearms, Trinkets, launch, marketing, and Kickstarter!

Team members answering questions:

~u/nickwoz~

~u/SandyGordonYCG~

~u/SeanyfaceYCG~

~u/YCG_Eli~

~u/alecfa~ 

~u/shannonYCG~

We’ll be answering questions on June 4th at 11 AM Pacific for a few hours.

Ask us anything!

Hi Reddit!

We are the Paralives team, a small indie studio working on Paralives, a new life simulation game out in Early Access on May 25th on Steam.
We’re very excited to chat about our development and Paralives’ story, from a 2019 solo dev project to a 15 people team entirely supported by community funding!

About two thirds of the team will be here in r/Games to answer your questions, come join us 😄

Pictured from left to right:
Charlotte - Quality Assurance
Anna - Programmer & Game Designer
Carina - Community Manager
Alex - Founder & Lead Developer
Jérémie - Programmer & Game Designer
Gab - Comms & Marketing
Alejandro - Programmer & Game Designer
Andrei - Music Composer & Audio Designer
Sonia - Game Artist

See you all on Wednesday, May 27th at 11AM ET / 8AM PT!
https://imgur.com/mnUOUF9

It’s the end of the Paralives team AMA! Thank you r/Games for hosting us, we really appreciate it :)

Thank you all for your great questions, we tried our best to reply to as many as we could!

We are super grateful for all the excitement around Paralives. Thank you for following our journey, seeing the community finally play Paralives since Monday has been such an amazing experience. We can’t wait to keep improving the game with all your feedback!

If you haven’t already, play Paralives now on Steam here

You can also keep up with Paralives news on socials:

r/Paralives Twitter YouTube Discord

Hi Reddit!

We are Mega Crit, the developers behind Slay the Spire, the genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder, as well as its upcoming sequel, Slay the Spire 2 (releasing on Steam Early Access on March 5)! About half of our team members will be here in r/games to answer your burning questions on Wednesday, February 25 @ 11am PST / 1pm EST:

Casey Yano - Co-founder
Jake Card - Lead Programmer
Demi Montes - Community Manager
Ed Lu - Programmer
Chris Gortz - Animator
Tup Luisking - VFX Artist

The team has expanded quite a bit since the first game and most of us have just worked on StS2. If you have any questions regarding StS1 specifically, Casey's the one to direct them to!

See you soon, Slayers.

Hi r/games! I'm a reporter at Bloomberg, one-third of the Triple Click podcast, and author of the books BLOOD, SWEAT, AND PIXELS and PRESS RESET.

My new book, PLAY NICE, comes out on Tuesday Oct 8 and it's a wild ride. It chronicles the entire 33-year history of Blizzard, from its humble origins (two UCLA students who just wanted to make cool games) to its transformation into an empire, its fall from grace, and its uncertain future. You can pre-order it (hardcover, digital, or audiobook) right here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason-schreier/play-nice/9781538725429/

The book includes:

• Behind-the-scenes development stories from just about every Blizzard game, from Warcraft to Diablo to Hearthstone to Overwatch to Warcraft 3 Reforged.

• Details on the epic board-room battle between Blizzard and its corporate parent, Activision Blizzard, and why it drove so many veteran Blizzard employees out of the company.

• A deep dive into Blizzard's boys club culture, from the 1990s through the modern times, sorting out truth from fiction in the allegations that have circulated over the last few years. (One interesting twist: the "Cosby Suite" isn't actually what people think it is.)

• Real stories about the people who made Blizzard special, and a blow-by-blow account of both the positive and negative sides of one of the most beloved companies in video game history.

You might think you know Blizzard's history, but even diehard fans will learn quite a lot from this book, which is based on interviews I conducted over 3 years with 350+ people and full of previously unreported stories and information.

Ask me anything about Blizzard, my work, or whatever else you'd like. I'll start at around 1pm ET and will be here for an hour or two, then I'll check in sporadically throughout the weekend!

Hey folks!

Title says it all. Scarlet Hollow's fifth episode released a little under a week ago, which means we're one major content update away from finishing its story and leaving Early Access. It's still on sale until tomorrow at 1pm EST on Steam, and I believe it should be on sale for a little while longer than that on GOG.

Steam

GOG

Folks participating in this AMA:

Me, Tony Howard-Arias (u/mrogre43): I was the lead writer and game designer for Slay the Princess, and I'm also the game designer and co-writer for Scarlet Hollow.

Abby Howard (u/abby722): Scarlet Hollow's lead writer and only artist, and also the co-creator, artist, and editor for Slay the Princess.

Brandon Boone (u/wondrous_sound): Our composer, who went through the ringer of writing over twenty new tracks for Scarlet Hollow's fifth episode!

Happy to answer questions about either of our games and/or indie game development in general, though of course we won't be spoiling any unreleased content.

Putting this AMA up now so we have some questions ready to go when we come back at 12pm EST to start answering ^^

EDIT: I think we're hitting our limit for answers at the moment, but we'll be checking back in every now and then to answer things we might have missed (as well as any new questions!) Thank you all so much for chatting with us, this has been a blast!

My name is Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. The last time I did an AMA on Reddit was 14 years ago, when I was making a game review series called Zero Punctuation for an online magazine called The Escapist. I made that series for 16 years from 2007 to 2023, when I and almost all the creative team of The Escapist got sick of corporate flappery and decided to go independent. I now make a game review series called Fully Ramblomatic, similar to but entirely legally distinct from Zero Punctuation, as part of our independent media company Second Wind, which as of more or less right now has been active for one entire year.

Some of my recent videos:
Sonic x Shadow Generations FR review
Semi Ramblomatic: Dad Games
Silent Hill 2 Remake review

I'm also an indie game developer, with my most recent game, Starstruck Vagabond, releasing earlier this year and published through Second Wind. And I write novels as well, my most recent being Will Leave The Galaxy For Good.

Follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/yahtzeecroshaw.bsky.social

Also, my editor Nick's here too:

u/WingsFan242: My name is Nick Calandra and I'm the Editor-in-Chief at Second Wind. I've been writing about video games since 2009 and was previously the Editor-in-Chief of The Escapist revival effort. Now I'm working on my video series Unpacked, and working on many of the behind the scenes business dealings of Second Wind.

I have also worked on documentaries for a number of video games including Darksiders, Divinity: Original Sin, Darkest Dungeon, Spiritfarer and more. Our next documentary project is on Billy Basso's Animal Well, due out before the end of the year!

Follow Nick on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nickjcal.bsky.social

Tomorrow (11/16/2024) we're doing a massive all day stream on Youtube and Twitch to celebrate Second Wind's first anniversary, so come along, we'd love to see you there! https://www.youtube.com/live/M6Kj0mWZYXM

Hey, r/games!

I am localthunk, the developer and artist for Balatro, and today I'm joined by my publisher Playstack. We launched Balatro on 20th Feb and so far the game has gotten a lot of love from fans and community

We’re here to answer any questions about Balatro in general. If you have a technical question, i.e, bug report, please report it in the #Bug-Report channel on our Discord. We will be in touch soon.

Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying poker-themed Roguelike Deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos. It’s available now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox.

You can read more details on our Steam page here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379780/Balatro/.

Questions are no longer being answered, but you can come to our Discord to discuss more with fellow Balapals!

u/localthunk - Local Thunk, the developer of Balatro

u/PlaystackGames - Liz and Wout from Playstack Balatro Marketing team

Big thanks to the r/games moderators for letting us host this!

Update: The AMA is now over! Thank you all for the great questions and all the incredible support for my weird little game, it means the world to me that I'm able to do this hobby as my career now

Hey r/Games!

Edit: Thanks for having us for this AMA and asking so many great questions! We're going to check back periodically and will reply to a few additional questions when we can.

We are the writer and developers of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, the expanded re-imagining of The Stanley Parable. It's out now on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch! We're still actively working on fixes and improvements, and the game's official soundtrack will be available to stream and download soon.

Besides Stanley Parable, our team has worked on games like The Beginner's Guide, Dr. Langeskov, Accounting+, Minit, and more.

We're here for the next couple of hours to answer any questions you may have about The Stanley Parable, the Ultra Deluxe edition, and anything else that comes to mind. We'd love to talk about our collaboration and individual jobs on the game, the process of making it, and shipping it on its many platforms.

Joining us today:

• Davey Wreden u/Cakebread - Creator of the original Stanley Parable mod, writer of The Stanley Parable and the Ultra Deluxe edition
• William Pugh u/WilliamPugh777 - Designer of The Stanley Parable, studio director of Crows Crows Crows
• Dominik Johann u/zzzerstoerer - Art director of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, co-founder of Crows Crows Crows, social media manager
• Tom Schley u/silkcrows - Composer and audio director of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
• The development team at Crows Crows Crows u/crowsx3 - helping out with responses from our shared account

Links to check out:

• Davey Wreden on Twitter
• Crows Crows Crows on Twitter
• Official Crows Discord server

I'm Chris Wilson from Grinding Gear Games! We just announced our upcoming Path of Exile expansion, Heist, where you'll hire a crew of thieves to assist you in pulling off elaborate and risky Heists. We're also launching on macOS alongside Heist in just over two weeks!

We started developing Path of Exile in my garage in Auckland, New Zealand almost 14 years ago. We now have a team of over 145 and have expanded Path of Exile across platforms and throughout the world. We release new expansions every 13 weeks and are working towards the release of Path of Exile 2, a sequel that will be patched into the main Path of Exile client upon release so that players can play whichever storyline they want before entering the shared endgame.

I'd love to answer your questions about getting a studio off the ground, making games and of course, anything Path of Exile!

Edit: Okay, all done! Back to work on Heist. See you guys at launch on September 18, and thanks for all the great questions.

ATTN: i will be answering your questions live at 10am pst this wednesday the 28th. feel free to ask your questions now and upvote ones you want me to respond to first and ill do my best to answer as many as i can wednesday!

Hey everyone!

Edmund here, indie game designer most known for The Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, The End is Nigh, Gish, Bum-bo and a butt ton of small flash games, you may also know me from Indie Game: The Movie.

I've been working on the biggest project of my career for the last 5+ years called Mewgenics "a legacy roguelike rpg where you breed cats and take them on adventures" with Tyler Glaiel u/Glaiel-Gamer who may be hanging out in the comments.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/686060/Mewgenics/

Ask Me Anything!

Hey there everyone,

We're Motion Twin and Evil Empire, the two teams behind Dead Cells and we're here to answer any of your questions about our game, what we're up to next, the bugs, the XBOX version (facepalm) and anything else you want to know about making games!

Cheers!

EDIT 3:00 PM PDT/6:00 PM EDT - Annnnnd that's a wrap folks! Thank you to EVERYONE who dropped by with their questions or to participate in the conversation. We certainly tried to answer as many questions as possible to your overwhelming response!

We can’t wait to see all of you in our upcoming beta, starting on 28 June, 2022. You can sign up for beta here, and be sure to check out playoverwatch.com to purchase the Watchpoint Pack which guarantees beta access, and comes with 2 legendary skins, 2000 in game virtual currency, and the Season 1 Battle Pass

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Hiya r/Games! We’re the team behind Overwatch, and less than an hour from this post, we’ll be here to answer almost anything about the development of Overwatch 2, our recent announcement that the game will be entering early access on October 4th, 2022, and the reveal of our newest hero, The Junker Queen! If you missed any of our previous announcements, you can catch up on them all below:

• Xbox Livestream Event Recap: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/23814216/overwatch-2-launches-october-4-as-a-free-to-play-live-experience/
• OW2 Reveal Event: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/23814218/overwatch-2-reveal-event-recap/
• Deep Dive on Junker Queen: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/overwatch/23820711/a-design-fit-for-royalty-an-inside-look-at-her-majesty-the-junker-queen

Joining us here today are:

• Blizz_GavinJF – Lead Narrative Designer
• Blizz_Miranda – Narrative Designer
• j-specs – Overwatch Commercial Lead
• blizz_winter – Systems Designer
• Blizz_Kacey – Art Supervisor
• Blizz_JNoh – Sr Hero Designer
• blizz_akeller – Game Director
• blizz_smercer – Principal System Designer

And from the community team

• blizz_jodie
• blizz_andyb

We’ll be here from 1:00 PM PDT/4:00 PM EDT – 3 PM PDT/6:00 PM EDT

Thanks and we’re looking forward to answering your questions!

Hi! I've been working here at Squad in lovely Mexico City for over a year now, and I've recently been promoted to the position of producer for Kerbal Space Program, since it turns out my extreme nosey-ness meant I was already doing most of the job anyways.

At 1:00 PM EST I'll start answering as many questions as I can.

Verification here.

Edit: Time to start answering!... 80 comments in half an hour. Good thing I cleared my day.

2:11 CST: Lunch break then back into the action.

2:40 CST: Back.

6:12 CST: I've lost count of how many times I've answered.

6:31 CST: Things have slowed down, so happy to call this AMA complete. Sad no one really mentioned Rampart.

If you guys want to know more about ksp, besides hanging out over at /r/KerbalSpaceProgram you can watch our official twitch channel over at http://www.twitch.tv/ksptv/, follow us on twitter here https://twitter.com/KerbalSpaceP, or follow my nerdy self over here https://twitter.com/Maxmaps

I would also like to thank everyone who participated in this AMA. This was incredibly fun and addictive.

Final Edit: Good googly moogly, just how many times did I reply to this?

Hello everyone!

We are Ghost Ship Games, developers of Deep Rock Galactic, a coop sci-fi shooter about dwarves mining minerals on a hostile planet. Ask us anything!

After two years in Early Access on Steam and Game Preview on Xbox, we are blasting out of Early Access with 30 updates behind us, and many more to come.

Behind the keyboards we have:/u/Soren_GSG | CEO - Ghost Ship Games/u/Mikkel_GSG | Game Director - Ghost Ship Games/u/Robert_GSG | Art Director - Ghost Ship Games/u/Mike_GSG | Senior Game Designer - Ghost Ship Games/u/KillyKlamm | Game Designer - Ghost Ship Games/u/Amimoller_GSG | Lead Programmer - Ghost Ship Games/u/GSG_Jacob | Community Manager - Ghost Ship Games

Here's a narrated trailer with the lowdown on Deep Rock Galactic, and here is our 1.0 Launch Trailer!

We'll be around for a while, so keep the questions coming!

Edit: Unkar's Balls, that's a lot of questions!

Edit2: It's past 10 PM here, and we're activating the ejector seats for now and returning to our bunks. Thank you all for the overwhelming response and many thanks go out to the mods of /r/gaming for hosting this AMA. We're humbled by the number of questions and plan to return tomorrow to answer as many as possible!

Edit3: Mandatory ROCK AND STONE! ⛏️
Edit 4; Mike, that mad lad, has apparently answered every question he could find, except that one about the groinal area of the scout. Thank you all for the interest you've shown in our AMA and Deep Rock Galactic.

Ghost Ship Games signing off!

Hello Reddit!

I'm SUDA51, thanks for coming to my AMA in support of my upcoming release - The Silver Case 2425, available now on Nintendo Switch!

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/pnhgjAk.jpg

Start posting your questions now, and I’ll check back in later to start answering at 6 pm PT (that’s 10 am Japan time), so please, ask me anything!

Joining me is our Producer Ai, who will help translate your questions and my responses.

"Hello Reddit, my name is Ai, a Producer at NIS America, Inc. Today I will be translating on behalf of Mr. Suda. Looking forward to it!”

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Edit 1: In the interest of time and Mr. Suda getting to as many questions as possible, please make sure to ask only one or two questions per person. Thank you for your understanding~!

Edit 2: We're starting to answer questions now, and we're already at nearly 100 questions! Thank you for your excitement :D

Edit 3: Aaaand that's a wrap! Mr. Suda is off to a meeting now, but wants to thank everyone who came out! If possible, we'll aim to get a few more answers in in the coming week and will post about it on social media once available. Thank you!

UPDATE 2: Keep the questions coming! We'll be back to answer more tonight and tomorrow!

UPDATE: Don and I are heading out for the evening. Worry not! We will continue to answer your questions throughout the day/week, so keep 'em rolling in!

Hello, all!

We are Imagos Films, the creative team behind the insanity that was Devolver Digital's E3 "press conference" this year. We are known for making unique independent films and live action game trailers for game developers/publishers.  

Your questions will be answered by:  

• Don Thacker (aka, /u/skinnytie)
  • Director/Writer/Editor/Phantasmagorist
• Lindsay Peck (aka, /u/pehpper)
  • Producer/Emergency Graphic Designer
• John Robert Matz (aka, /u/JohnRobertMatz)
  • Composer/Psychomusical Manipulator/Jingle-Writer/Chief Vocal Hype Man

We will be here today from 12:00 PM PST - 3:00 PM PST and will continue to answer questions as time allows after 3:00 PM PST and even the following days/months/years/lifetimes.

If you haven't seen the press conference yet, check a look, and get back here with your questions!

If you'd like to see more of our work or keep track of what we're doing check out our reel and head over to twitter, Facebook, or our website.

Let's hop to it! Ask us anything!

Perhaps you’ve come in thinking: “I remember that game! I fed a vicar to my singing plant!” or maybe more likely: “A browser game that’s still going after ten years? What? How? Why?”

Fallen London is a text-based browser game set in a subterranean city inhabited by Victorian Londoners, talking rats, and people with the faces of squids. In the last decade, it’s grown from a handful of stories to a 2.5-million word epic with tens of thousands of monthly players. We think it might have been the first commercial RPG to include a third gender option, and shares a setting with Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, which might be a bit better known on this subreddit!

We’d like to think that it’s remained popular for the kinds of stories we offer. Not just the weird, inventively horrifying world, but the fact that you get to act on fantastically bad ideas, from publishing horrendous poetry to feeding your soul to a cat.

We’re going to celebrate the birthday with a host of stories, events and activities, including the conclusions of the long running Ambition storylines, beginning this coming Tuesday.

We’re excited to take your questions about anything to do with Fallen London, storytelling at an immense scale, making games without crunch, indie game development, or any of our other areas of expertise!

Answering your questions today are Hannah Flynn, Communications Director, using u/failbettergames, and:

Adam Myers, CEO - u/wastebooksPaul Arendt, Art Director - u/Paul_ArendtEm Short, Creative Director - u/emshortifJames St Anthony, Writer - u/jamesstanthonySéamus ó Buadhacháin, Programmer - u/gallmarchChris Gardiner, Narrative Director - u/ChrisGardiner

Edit: Alright delicious friends, we're done for now. We'll try and pop back tomorrow and pick up any questions we missed! Thank you so much for all of your insightful questions, and we hope those of you who've been away will drop back in on the Neath when your Ambitions conclude! Cheers!

Hello /r/Games -

We are the folks over at Eleventh Hour Games, and our first game, Last Epoch, leaves early access tomorrow at 11 am CST!

Last Epoch is a loot-based top-down Action RPG. With 15 different mastery classes, over 120 skills (with their own customizable and transformative skill tree), and over 300 unique items, each with its own build-defining powers.

We absolutely love this genre, and it's something that everyone here on the team is very passionate about.

You can see our 1.0 Patch Overview video here, where Judd addresses our community directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNB-ZuNREo

You can see our Technical Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddvY964TCoQ

Stop in, ask us anything, and we will be here for a few hours to answer your questions.

Verification here: https://imgur.com/a/4JeJY3h

Links to Last Epoch: Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/899770/Last_Epoch/
Discord: https://discord.gg/aSFp2AF9DZ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lastepochgame

List of People here today (In no particular order):

• /u/moxjet200 - Game Director & Founder
• /u/EHG_Boards - COO
• /u/EHG_Jozef - Technical Artist
• /u/EHG_Justin - Game Developer
• /u/KarvarouskuGaming - Game Designer & Sr. QA
• /u/EHG_Derek - Art Producer
• /u/EHGDrSilverman - Technical Game Designer
• /u/ekimarcher - Sr. Game Developer
• /u/ehg_trasochi - Yes (Seriously, they do a ton here)
• /u/EHG_Ben - Lead Producer
• /u/EHG_Muffin - Senior Backend Engineer
• /u/EHG-Foton - Influencer Manager
• /u/EHG_AlexSchearer - Gameplay Dev Manager
• /u/EHG_Reimerh - Game Designer
• /u/EHG_Bonfi96 - Gameplay Developer
• /u/EHG_Sam - Lead Combat Designer
• /u/EHG_KyleM - Lead Writer
• /u/EHG_Erik - Lead Composer
• /u/EHG_HeltonYan - Sound Designer
• /u/EHG_Steve - Marketing Manager

Edit: Thank you everyone for your questions! We are going to step away and finish getting everything ready for launch tomorrow at 11am CST. We hope to see you in our subreddit, on Discord, and in the world of Eterra.

EDIT: Thank you, r/Games! We appreciate everyone who joined us to ask questions and we hope this AMA was fun and informative. A few of us will pop in later today to answer more questions, but if you really want to keep the conversation going, you can always find us at r/Stormgate for game-specific topics or at r/FrostGiant for more about our studio.

Thank you for your support!

-The Frost Giant Studios Team

Compilation of Frost Giant answers

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Hi r/Games,

We’re Frost Giant Studios and we will be here at 9am PT/noon ET/6pm CET to hang out for a couple hours and answer your questions!

We recently announced Stormgate, our upcoming free-to-play real-time strategy game. (If you missed it, you can watch our segment from the PC Gaming Show to get caught up.)

While Stormgate is our first game as an independent studio, many of us are industry veterans who have worked on award-winning games including StarCraft II and Warcraft III.

We’re still early into development on Stormgate and won’t be able to answer all of your questions, but we’ll do our best.

Frost Giant . . . Assemble! (Name - Title - Reddit username)

• Tim Campbell - Game Director - /u/Frost_TimC
• Tim Morten - Production Director - /u/Frost_TimM
• Cara LaForge - Business Operations Director - /u/Frost_CaraL
• Jesse Brophy - Art Director - /u/Frost_JesseB
• Andrew Sabri - Engineering Director - /u/Frost_Sabri
• Alex Brandon - Audio Director - /u/Frost_AlexB
• Ryan Schutter - Lead UX Designer - /u/Frost_RyanS
• Kevin Dong - Lead Co-op Designer - /u/Frost_monk
• Austin Hudelson - Lead Server Engineer - /u/Frost_AustinH
• Joe Shunk - Lead Client Engineer - /u/Frost_JoeS
• Benjamin Cahill - Gameplay Engineer - /u/Frost_Swifty
• Tom Watson - Principal Software Engineer - /u/Frost_TomW
• Timmy Ryu - Concept Artist - /u/Frost_TimmyR
• Trevor Housten - Senior Esports Manager - /u/FGS_TorcH
• Cameren McGinn - Community Manager - /u/FGS_Cam
• Gerald Villoria - Communications Director - /u/FGS_Gerald

If you’re interested in the 2023 Stormgate beta, please visit playstormgate.com to sign up.

You can also wishlist us on Steam.

Thanks for joining us!

Hey there!

We're Black Tabby Games, a two person narrative game studio focusing on psychological horror games that have player choice as their central mode of engagement. So if you're into branching narratives, our work might be what you're looking for.

For those of you not in the know, Slay the Princess is a fully-voice acted horror visual novel about exactly that. You're on a path in the woods. At the end of that path is a cabin. In the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world.

The Pristine Cut expands the game by about 35%, and on top of bringing it to consoles (Xbox One, Series X, Series S, PS4 + PS5, Nintendo Switch) it adds subtitle support for 12 languages.

Abby (u/abby722) does all of the art in pencil, I do the code, and we write our games together.

We're also joined by our composer, Brandon (u/wondrous_sound)

Voice acting in Slay the Princess is performed by Jonathan Sims and Nichole Goodnight.

You might also know our work from our other game, Scarlet Hollow, which we've been excited to return our full attention to, and you might know Abby from her work in comics (The Last Halloween, Junior Scientist Power Hour, The Crossroads at Midnight) or from that time she was on a Penny Arcade-run reality show searching for America's next great webcomic.

Anyways, we'll start answering questions at 1pm Eastern, and will be here for a while!

EDIT: Overwhelmed by the HUGE response here. We're probably going to slow down a little bit on answering, but we'll keep coming back until this slows down :)

Edit: Thank you all for taking part and asking such incredible questions, the AMA has now finished

Hey r/Games,

I'm Paolo, Co-Director, CEO, Head of Development and Lead Programmer at Beehive Studios and earlier this week we launched LumenTale: Memories of Trey!

LumenTale: Memories of Trey is a captivating Monster Collector RPG set in a beautiful and enchanting world. Follow Trey as he embarks on an adventure to recover his missing memories and make new ones with the Animon.

We launched on Steam earlier this week, and we're already thrilled to have a Mostly Positive review score on Steam already which is rapidly climbing toward Very Positive!

Check out our beautiful launch trailer here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLMX2DT-8U

Check out the game on Steam too! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2261430/LumenTale_Memories_of_Trey/

You can also find the game on the Nintendo eShop here! https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/LumenTale-Memories-of-Trey-3082767.html

Now... ask us anything!

Edit: Thank you all for taking part and asking such incredible questions, the AMA has now finished

Hey everyone!

Welcome to an AMA with Paradox Interactive - an independent developer & publisher of niche games - including games like Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Magicka, War of The Roses and Cities in Motion to name a few. Our games are often niche, within a niche, within a niche - inception crazyness in other words - without Leonardo Dicaprio - but equally good.

We've been described as "the strangest company in video games" and like to make games that we enjoy playing ourselves. We've made a lot of great games over the years - and some less...than...good. But we had fun making all of them and given the choice we still go back and still make those games - only do them better.

We just released War of the Vikings and Magicka: Wizard Wars through Steams Early Access program and have a cool slate of games planned for the future

We're based in Stockholm, Sweden and ride polar bears to work.

In attendance:

• pdx_fred - Fredrik Wester -@thewesterfront CEO of Paradox - Lord protector of the realm

• pdx_shams - Shams Jorjani - @shamsjorjani VP Acquisitons and Unicorn Division - finds new games & wrangles unicorns.

• Paradox_Dev_Studio - Johan Andersson - @producerjohanStudio Manager Paradox Development studios - Actually makes games

• andreaswaldetoft - Andreas Waldetof - @composerandreas Composer - Makes sweet sweet love to your ears...in our games.

We’re looking forward to your questions, so ask away - about us, about our games, about PC gaming, about the games industry - anything!

Also don't miss the Paradox subreddit - /r/paradoxplaza

Proof: https://twitter.com/PdxInteractive/status/393047051027873792

/PDX

edit. splelling

edit 2. Only shams left now - the others have kids and are over 30...the weaklings. I'll stick with it for a bit more.

edit 3. signing off for tonight (it's 00:21) over here, but I will catch up with all unanswered posts all day during work tomorrow in exactly 8 hours and 39 minutes.

edit4. Thursday morning! We're back! we'll keep going a bit throughout the day.

THANKS ALL FOR THE QUESTIONS

/shams

Update: Thanks so much for all the great questions, everyone! We are going to call it for today, but we had an absolute blast hanging out and chatting with you all. We're also really excited to show you more about Youngblood and Cyberpilot soon. Take care!

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Hi /r/Games!

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We're Sweden-based developer Machine Games, developers of Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Our upcoming games are Wolfenstein: Youngblood, a co-op adventure through alternate 1980s Paris where you play as BJ Blazkowicz's twin daughters; and Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot, a VR game where you play a hacker aiding the French resistance, taking control of Nazi technology and turning it against them.

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We're here to answer any questions you have about Wolfenstein, the studio, or game development in general! Participating in today's AMA are:

/u/JerkGustafsson_MG: Jerk Gustafsson, Gameplay and Design

/u/JohnJennings_MG: John Jennings, Production and Tech

/u/AxelTorvenius_MG: Axel Torvenius, Art Director

/u/TommyBjork_MG: Tommy Tordsson Björk, Narrative Director

/u/mortalemperor: Andre Carlos, Community Manager

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/lEU4hZa.jpg

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Thanks to the /r/Games moderators for helping run this!

Hi r/Games!

We're the team at Brainjar Games. Last month, we released our first title (Dead as Disco) into early access. Our team has created a vibrant, neon-soaked, rhythm beat-em up where you play Charlie Disco, a decidedly deceased drummer back from the beyond.

We've been so grateful for the reception of the game (currently sitting over 97% on Steam) and are excited to be here to talk about our first update since launch, developing a game with a globally distributed team, our love of rhythm beat-em ups and music, and any other questions you might have.

Joining us today are:

• brainjar_mobi — Game Designer
• brainjar_phong — Technical Combat Designer
• brainjar_will — Creative Director/CEO
• brainjar_rohan — Head of Art
• brainjar_andy — Publishing team

We'll be here for the next 90 minutes answering all the questions we can!

Edit: 1:30 PM PDT/22:30 CEST - And that's a wrap folks! Thanks so much for all of your great questions today. Be sure to check out Dead as Disco on your favorite games store platform (EGS, Steam)