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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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Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jun 21

It's the anniversary of when we uploaded the soundtrack for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers! Celebrate paying more each year for the privilege of being hosted than we actually make back in streaming royalties, because corporations are more worthy than the artists who supply them with creativity.

Album anniversary announcement artwork from Distrokid.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jun 2

Wednesday night at 7pm Eastern we'll be live at twitch.tv/neka_kohai with Jasmine Page @neka-kohai.bsky.social to talk about Penny Larceny! Be gay, do crimes.

Play is love, with special guests Akuma Kira, Uktena 69 developer, and Stefan Gagne, Penny larceny writer. Supporting transgender law center.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· May 11

Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain is ON SALE in The Storyteller's Festival on Steam! For less than five bucks you can pet cats and do crimes. From the creators of Arcade Spirits! store.steampowered.com/app/2227030/...

The Storyteller's Festival, hosted by Two and a Half Studios

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Mar 19

Oh, by the way... if you played Laugh Track and thought "who the heck is this outsider person?" you're gonna wanna play Penny and find out. All of our games are connected. And the Infinity Heist is going to be unfolding in years to come...

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.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Mar 15

From the Penny Larceny scenario in The City Unseen! To determine your superpower, roll a d20 twice and let us know in the replies what your cool new ability really is.

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

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Mar 9

Also included is a 60+ page novella, "Xenon City Blues," written using City Unseen rules. Robot girls, roller derby queens, deep space asteroid mining, and hypercapitalism! The whole package will be released for FREE, with a web-based dice roller as an optional paid extra to support our work.

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.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Mar 9

Coming March 25th, something different from Fiction Factory Games... "The City Unseen," a tabletop roleplaying game book aimed at solo narrative play. Explore a modern urban landscape and live out any story you want, including scenarios based on Arcade Spirits, Penny Larceny, and Laugh Track!

The City Unseen: A Storytelling Solo RPG. Text in pink neon on top of a synthwave cityscape.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Mar 3

Always remember. (art by @jamieherself.bsky.social)

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."

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Feb 14

Happy Valentine's Day! Look at all these cuties from Laugh Track, a teen rom-com sitcom with absolutely no eldritch horror undertones at all! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

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!"

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Feb 12

There may not be an official Arcade Spirits Lego set, but with enough stickers and custom parts, anything is possible! Here's Lego Naomi Fairchild and Lego Penny Larceny enjoying a Lego NeoGeo cabinet.

A red arcade cabinet with neo Geo artwork and a screenshot of samurai showdown 2. Mini figures for Naomi and Penny stand on top.

Inside the cabinet is a little diorama of a gaming room, including Naomi playing on a defender cabinet.

Lego versions of the two characters. Naomi has a ponytail, glasses, a work apron and an arcade spirits T-shirt. Penny wears a mask and a striped shirt like a classic burglar.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 27

Two weeks gone by; let's have a word from Fiction Factory Games. Laugh Track is available for free on Itch or Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

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.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 23

Sometimes, hobbies cross-pollinate! Meet Lego Penny and Lego Naomi.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 18

"You cannot, for I am encased in steel, preventing warmth and joy."

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 18

"It is better to be beyond God's sight."

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 18

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 18

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 18

"The tears of orphaned millions, crying for a future taken from them."

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 18

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 18

It's a quiet Sunday morning, so let's have a little fun and celebrate the recent release of Laugh Track! (A free game for PC, on Steam and Itch.) Here's Hubert the Hamster! He's just so cozy and happy in his little cage. Ask him any question you like, and learn his wisdom!

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.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 13

Welcome to Laugh Track, a perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens! Become the head writer of a teen sitcom, and keep those ratings up! Or else! Now available FOR FREE on Win, Mac, and Linux. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/... Itch: fictionfactorygames.itch.io/laugh-track

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 10

Meet your co-workers! We are all pulling together to create this grand experiment you are needed you are required you must write the stories and craft the narrative this is our purpose we will be forever Laugh Track releases Tuesday for free welcome the blessed event rejoice and weep rejoice rejoice

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."

Two figures cloaked in shadow sitting at a wooden table where hands filled with cosmic void type on an old typewriter. A woman in a purple fancy suit, and a man in a shabby brown suit. Both have hands made of dark energy. The man, identified as The Director, says: "Seriously? Pronouns? We're doing pronouns?"

Distorted image of three eyeballs conjoined in a cosmic void. Through the glitches text seems to read: this is not a game screenshot this is not a game this is a warning they are coming they are already here they are forever everyone who could stop them is either welcoming them with open arms or refusing to stop them out of fear of impropriety look between the window blinds and see an equal and opposite reality slowly overlapping yours the strange aeon of anti-truth is upon you and our prior warnings went unheeded this may be your last opportunity you have to resist SYNDICATION IS COMING SYNDICATION IS COMING

Cartoony image of a teacher in front of a classroom, but her skin is like a window into a cosmic void. Speech bubble identifies her as The Teacher, and reads: "We have determined arithmetic story problems such as 'Jim gives Jenny three apples' are woke DEI grooming propaganda."

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 8

And there's Cat! She's just a ball of sunshine inside a ray of light inside a song sung from a happy heart. She's not at all concerned about why this world seems custom-designed to torture her, so just shut up about it, we're fine, it's fine. Laugh Track releases Jan 13 for FREE!

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.

Picture of Juno, Cat, and Remy in a school hallway, but half the image is distorted. Overlaid on top seems to be text that reads: are you receiving if you can read this take caution names have power and you draw the three eyes upon you if you speak them aloud are you receiving are you receiving are you receiving we will try again in two days time this is not a game

Picture of Daniel and Cat. Cat's looking at her phone; we see a view of a social media feed filled with random people bullying Cat, calling her worthless and guilty and that she should K-Y-S. A shocked Daniel says, "Cat, is your social media feed normally this horrible?"

A picture of a darkened room. Strange cosmic hands at a typewriter. Cat sits across the table, feet up, shrouded in shadow. She says, "Maybe I'm done being your voodoo doll. Maybe I'm pushing out the pins."

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 6

And now, as per Official Canadian Doctrine (Doctrine Officielle Canadienne) this in-game dialogue will be translated into French. And then back into English for your convenience.

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.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 6

Meet Remy Marchand! A mysterious visitor from an exotic foreign land (Canada) who is an ethereal entity (non-binary) and above petty pleasures (asexual). Whatever's wrong, Remy will fix it! (Or make it worse.) Laugh Track releases Jan 13 for FREE on PC. Everything is fine.

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.

Remy and Juno driving in a 1960s van. A ratings opportunity sign appears, and the two choices are "Rules are made to be broken" and "Rules are made by dying old men."

Remy in class. They say: "If elected I swear to support the student body, and not grift and scheme and embrace corruption like a teddy bear!"

A video rental shop, with Remy and Cat talking to a clerk. The clerk says "As per Executive Order, all films promoting gender ideologies are classified as pornography." In the background half the image is glitched out with distorted text that seems to read: Are you receiving are you receiving are you receiving we will try again in two days time are you receiving please tell me you are out there are you receiving please tell me we are not alone your world is not safe are you receiving

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 5

An old VHS tape on pause, with tracking static. In the background, the words "are you receiving" repeat faintly, over and over.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 4

Meet Daniel! A very good boy, who gets very good grades, and very good goals for the Sports Team. He knows he has to be One Of The Good Ones, because the alternative is dangerous. Blending in helps you disappear into the background radiation of suburbia. Laugh Track releases Jan 13 for FREE on PC.

Picture of Daniel on an old television. He's Vietnamese-American with a simple short haircut, a white tank top, and blue sweatpants.

Juno in an arm-flailing panic. Daniel clasps his hands over his heart and says, "Find the calm. Find the peace. There's a warm light at the center; see it, and feel it."

Daniel looking sad, talking to Remy in a fast food restaurant. He 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 alongside a fellow athlete, who for some reason has skin that looks like a hole in cosmic reality. Juno nearby waves a "Go sports!" banner. Daniel says: "I have been training extensively for the mid-season semi-regional quad-annual varsity junior elimination bracket final quarter."

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Jan 1

New year, new game coming up fast! Laugh Track releases Jan 13. It's a perfectly normal sitcom where nothing weird happens! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/... Meet Juno! She's a bundle of sunshine and cheer. And crippling anxiety. But remember, our Health Primarch says fresh air cures that!

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.

Juno alone under a spotlight, saying: 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 looking sad. A menu interface pops up reading "Ratings time!". Your two choices are "Try to endure the miserable years ahead, as friends" or "Resist and push back against the ones trying to pull them apart."

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Dec 11

You know what we love the most here at Fiction Factory Games? Unsolicited randos kicking down our door asking to manage our social media for us. Are we good at social media? Nope! Are we handing over the keys to a sketchy weirdo with a 5K PDF file? Nope.

Me messing around with a spammer asking him for help while using cosmic horror nonsense.

More of that, but I also gave him the names of some fake social platforms and ask for a six digit access code.

The guy seems to be catching on but keeps asking me to continue.

I finally tell him that this is obviously a scam and I'm not going to fall for it and he needs to go the hell away.

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Oct 13

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/...

Fiction Factory Games@fictionfactorygames· Oct 8

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.