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Hi folks. We've got a big wadge of content coming your way this Friday. We're just putting the finishing touches to the next episode of Ambition: Bag a Legend (of which more in a bit) and Nigel's brand new Cheesemonger stories are ready to launch too. We've been adding new content all week: You'... [More]

Last week we introduced a new face to Fallen London, a Mr Benjamin Villein of the Ministry of Public Decency. Like all our major characters, he immediately discovered the joys of social media and began kicking up a fuss, which culminated in a bitter flame-war with Huffam, our resident journalist,... [More]

Hurrah, it's the final chapter of our esoteric trilogy of brain splurges. This one is frankly unlikely to make any sense unless you've already checked out parts one and two. Onwards! Next up, we have Faust’s Tea Party, a social narrative concept which I have illustrated by cackhandedly photos... [More]

Being the second installment of our dry, technical and somewhat diagram-infested discussion of storytelling within the casual browser game format. Part one is here. So, where were we? Ah yes. Storylets: the basic building block of EB. here they are: If you’ve played the game at all, you&rs... [More]

The Echo Bazaar team was in London last week for The Story, an informal gathering of folks interested in storytelling. As it turned out, several speakers decided simply to tell stories, which was a little worrying for us, since we arrived at the Conway Hall with a big old bag of narrative theory. A... [More]

  Hi folks. The EB team was at The Story last week, talking about the difficulties of squeezing complex narrative structures into a casual gaming framework. Big thanks to the estimable @matlock for the invitation. Quite a few EB players were there (80% of them, according to one tweet...) but ... [More]

  Some of the icons in Echo Bazaar took a mere twenty minutes to create from sketch to site, while others - usually the simple ones - took many days.  The most extreme example of this is the little button that gives a tweetable postcard of your location, which took two weeks, fifteen ... [More]