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Creators of award-winning visual novels Arcade Spirits, The New Challengers, Penny Larceny, and The Shadow Over Cyberspace! (Contact: stefangagne@gmail.com)
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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/...
Steam NextFest promotional art for Laugh Track by Fiction Factory Games. Runs from October 13 through 20. Game demo available. Logo is a grainy cartoon picture of a stylized television set covered in light bulbs, with a scared looking teenage girl whose glasses reflect an old TV NTSC test pattern.
October 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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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.
October 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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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.
September 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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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.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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.
September 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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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!
September 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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.
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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!
Juno in a panic, confronted by an armored officer with a "NICE" logo. Cat peeks out from the ceiling behind him, looking annoyed. A mechanical sign reading "Ratings Opportunity" hangs from the ceiling. Juno says: I haven't seen her, nope! Not me! She isn't hiding right now in the ceiling!! 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.
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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.
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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!
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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"Fravlek dornu?"

* translation from the Divine Language of Chaos: "Monday okay?"
A sign shaped like an old television set lined with lightbulbs around the edges, with text reading "soon." A cartoon girl with glasses and curly brown hair peeks in from the corner.
August 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I am business person. I am best at doing business. Observe my keen skills at negotiating business with business entities!
And obvious form letter offering money for fiction factory games and suggesting I go talk to their AI Chatbot. Me replying that I would be happy to negotiate in return for $452 million, 13 fresh human kidneys, the soul of your firstborn son, and absolute domination of at least one island nation and then I told him to fuck off.
August 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Bachelor #5 is... apparently not ready to show their face quite yet! But if you join our Discord or Patreon, you'll learn more about them. And they'll make their public debut at Steam NextFest in October! It's must see TV!
A logo shaped like an old television set, with a ring of light bulbs around it. Text reads: Soon. A cartoony girl with curly brown hair and glasses peeks in nervously from the bottom of the screen.
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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It's time to play... "Date a Datesim!" In which various visual novels from Fiction Factory Games, all represented in the Steam Summer Sale, compete for YOUR love (and dollars where applicable)!

How do you know which game is right for you? Read the thread and find out, dear contestant! 🧵
"Date a Datesim" logo on a cartoonish metal device with light bulbs and TV dials. Presented by Fiction Factory Games.
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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"Okay, I've played all your games by this point. Whaddya got for me next?"

You can find out right now by joining our Discord or Patreon. And we'll be talking about it more here on Bluesky as we approach Steam NextFest in October. It's Must See TV.
A wall of various retro television sets.
June 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Everything is connected.

What level are you at?
Iceberg meme, with items listed at various depth levels. Sky: Arcade Spirits, 20XX Alt History, Woman in Black. Surface level: Label:The New Challengers, Polybius, MKULTRA, The Iris Collective, SparkSoft, Number 23. Underneath 1: Penny Larceny, Captain Infinity, The Gigaverse, The Passengers, Hauke-Alexandros, Continuum, Serum 23. Underneath 2: The Shadow Over Cyberspace, The Ghost Monsters, Artificial Minds, Plateau of Leng, Strange Aeon. Underneath 3: Anachronauts, The Faerie Court, The Orbitals, Mass Capacitors, Shift Engines. Iceberg bottom: City of Angles, Patient 23, Jack Hayes, The Lucid Child, Blood Resonance. Dark 1: Floating Point, Netwerk, The Programs, The One, Spark, All Work And No Play. Dark 2: Unreal Estate, RealWare, Reality Engines, Reality Adepts. Dark 3: Sailor Nothing, The Purification Ritual, The Yami-Gaia. Dark 4: Laugh Track, "Management", Nine Lives, Juno's World. Dark 5: The Time In Which You Cannot Have Pizza On a Bagel.
March 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Finally hung our shingle outside our (nonexistent) corporate storefront!

Because our games are free. Because we're tired of throwing elbows with other Indies. Because we just want everybody to enjoy art, regardless of their wallet.
A sign outside of a store, reading I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.
February 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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"Why did you release The Shadow Over Cyberspace, a full sized narrative game, for free?"

1. Why not
2. It's not about quarterly profits
3. You can pay us if you want anyway
Screen capture from an old VHS tape. It reads: Internet power, online games. Shareware games ask for small payment. This is voluntary. Pay if you like the game.
February 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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We're pleased to be participating in #TheStorytellersFestival 2025, with our modempunk horror game: The Shadow Over Cyberspace!

Bargain with eldritch horrors, hack websites, and resist the Strange Aeon of Y2K. Available for FREE on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/2982530/...
The Storytellers Festival 2025 logo, combined with the logo for The Shadow Over Cyberspace.
February 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Indeed, love is in the air in Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain!

Wait, typo. Let me check my notes. Ah -- "crime." Crime is in the air in Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain! And love too I guess we can have two things why not
Penny Larceny, a in a black and white striped shirt, domino mask, knit hat, and black gloves swinging on a rope while Gibson the cat yelps and hangs on to Penny's backpack. Caption reads: Stealing your heart is the perfect crime, valentine! The Overmistress in an elaborate red dress with silk gloves, looking sultry and flirty. Caption reads: I'd happily engage in a lurid, steamy, thirty-participant tantric ritual with you, valentine! HATE-4000, a beige mainframe computer from the 1960s. Caption reads: My hatred is eternal and will bury your pathetic species in graves of their own making, valentine! Doctor Mayhem, a man in a lab coat with a big blush on his face. Caption reads: Hey, wanna play doctor? Valentine? ...oh god I am so sorry that was awful look I haven't dated in a long time and I'm a bit rusty at this please forgive me maybe this wasn't such a good idea
February 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Looking for love this Valentine's Day? In Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain, you can:

😘 Date Criminals! (Scandalous!)
🏳️‍🌈 Use Pronouns! (Egads!)
💸 Fight Capitalism! (Gadzooks!)
🐈 Pet Cats! (Uwu!)

Available on Win, Mac, and Linux: www.fictionfactorygames.com/pennylarceny/
Picture of three characters with blushing, flirty expressions. Doctor Mayhem, a latino male in a doctor's coat with glasses and long rubber gloves. HATE-4000, a beige computer mainframe with tape drives and printer feeds and a happy expression on their monitor. And The Overmistress, an African-American female in an elaborate red occult dress with tasteful sideboob and a haughty expression.
February 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Thanks, Siri.
Boba boy reminder
January 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Livecraft, Laughcraft, Lovecraft.

...although I'm pretty sure The Shadow Over Cyberspace's comedy, queerness, and progressive dogma would cause him to achieve 2,000 RPM in his grave. Could we hook up his corpse to a generator and power the eastern seaboard?
An old laptop computer with a trans pride flag overlaid on the plastic monitor bezel. Pixel art of a smiling girl with a ponytail, wearing a shirt with "AZA" printed on it. Speaker is named Azathoth. She says: I may miss the hugs, but I'm so much happier as an Artificial Mind. I'm the girl I always wanted to be, cute and fun and friendly! Everybody likes me!
January 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM