Fiction Factory Games

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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)

Album anniversary announcement artwork from Distrokid.
Play is love, with special guests Akuma Kira, Uktena 69 developer, and Stefan Gagne, Penny larceny writer. Supporting transgender law center.
The Storyteller's Festival, hosted by Two and a Half Studios
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.
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
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.
The City Unseen: A Storytelling Solo RPG. Text in pink neon on top of a synthwave cityscape.
4-panel meme using Laugh Track characters. Juno: "It's OK to ask for help." Remy: "You're not a burden." Cat: "Murder is okay." Daniel: "Your feelings matter."
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!"
A red arcade cabinet with neo Geo artwork and a screenshot of samurai showdown 2. Mini figures for Naomi and Penny stand on top.
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.
Penny has green hair with a black hat, a black domino mask, and a black and white striped shirt. Naomi has a brown ponytail, glasses, and a work apron with the arcade spirits logo.
"You cannot, for I am encased in steel, preventing warmth and joy."
"It is better to be beyond God's sight."
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"It is where fun goes to die."
"The tears of orphaned millions, crying for a future taken from them."
"Embrace oblivion."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
An old VHS tape on pause, with tracking static. In the background, the words "are you receiving" repeat faintly, over and over.
Picture of Daniel on an old television. He's Vietnamese-American with a simple short haircut, a white tank top, and blue sweatpants.
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.
Me messing around with a spammer asking him for help while using cosmic horror nonsense.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cartoon of a sad hamster trapped in a cage, weeping openly. A translation caption reads: God has forsaken me.
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!!
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.
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!
We see a stack of old television sets. Cartoon characters screaming appear on them as studio audience laughter blends into screaming. End cards say: Laugh Track, a perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens. Demo releasing October 10, full game January 13.
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.
And obvious form letter offering money for fiction factory games and suggesting I go talk to their AI Chatbot.
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.
"Date a Datesim" logo on a cartoonish metal device with light bulbs and TV dials. Presented by Fiction Factory Games.
A wall of various retro television sets.
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.
A sign outside of a store, reading I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.
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.
The Storytellers Festival 2025 logo, combined with the logo for The Shadow Over Cyberspace.
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!
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.
Boba boy reminder
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!
Logos for all four games mentioned, along with characters from those games: Naomi, Rhapsody, Penny, Gibson, and Cthulhu.
Picture of a human eye, overlaid with a strange yellow sign, pixel art of a chess board desktop wallpaper, and CRT scanlines.
Picture of an old laptop monitor. The plastic bezel around the screen is scratched and wreathed in flames. On screen, pixel art of a black woman named Nyarlathotep with long curly hair, a plaid shirt, and an angry expression. Text box reads: When I say "death to fascists" I include all fascists, yes. Every throne, from the yellow seat of Carcosa to the shores of R'lyeh.
A suburban home at Christmas time, with a tree and presents, A strange pixel art figure of a man in a business suit with writhing tentacles for a head leans against the tree, casually chatting.
Naomi from Arcade Spirits dancing happil, while wearing a snowman-themed crop top and an work apron with bellows and bows and fuzzy edges.
Doctor Mayhem, a Hispanic male in a white lab coat, says: "The healthcare industry turns on greed and misery. They call me villain, when they're the true villains!"
A mid-century kitchen, with a 1990s computer desktop on the kitchen table, refrigerator, waffle iron, checkerboard floor. The room is bathed in a strange purple and pink light as the cosmic swirl of energy first seen in Penny larceny is seen through the window.