I made a tarot board game - and a sneak peek of my next video game... Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that a game I designed is launching on Kickstarter as we speak! Sefirot is a board game that uses gorgeous tarot cards. It's about reaching enlightenment and self-knowledge. It's from the [...]
Continue reading "I made a tarot board game – and a sneak peek of my next video game!"Hello again to the Clockwork Flock! Just a quick reminder that if you want to back my tabletop RPG, The Hidden Isle, now's your last chance! If you need a reminder, the game uses beautiful Tarot cards instead of dice, is set in the Renaissance and is about fighting tyranny and injustice. There's also a [...]
Continue reading "Only 48 hours left to back The Hidden Isle, our Tarot-based RPG!"Hey Clockwork Flock, just a quick note to let you know that our Tarot-based pen and paper RPG is finally live on Kickstarter! Here's a quick summary: The Hidden Isle is a pen and paper RPG that uses Tarot cards instead of dice, set in the 16th century on the secretive island of Dioscoria. It [...]
Continue reading "The Hidden Isle, our Tarot pen and paper game, is live on Kickstarter!"Hello Clockwork Flock, I’m afraid I have some disappointing news to share with you. To rip the band-aid off quickly, I’ll get right to it: Danny, the other founder of Clockwork Bird, has had to leave the studio. Why? The reason is simple: Clockwork Bird has always struggled to make ends meet, and we finally [...]
Continue reading "The Clockwork Bird duo are going separate ways"Hi again to all our flock members! It’s been a while. If you’ve forgotten who we are, we’re Clockwork Bird: a two-person indie game studio that made Silicon Dreams, that android interrogation sim from a few years back. This ol' thing! Sorry we’ve been so quiet the last few years! We’ve been working behind the [...]
Continue reading "New Kickstarter incoming: a Tarot-based TTRPG powered by card divination"Hey cyberpunks, it's finally here: the free Silicon Dreams content update "Fatality & Fame" is out now! You can grab it via Steam or itch.io at a 20% discount! We've talked a lot about how we think this game is ripe with stories to be harvested, in this update we're pleased to introduce you to [...]
Continue reading "Fatality & Fame is out now!!!"Hello again, cyberpunks! Time is flying by but we wanted to take just a few minutes to share some exciting news with you! The Fatality & Fame update is coming very soon to Silicon Dreams and will be released as a free update to the base game! Keep reading below to see everything that will [...]
Continue reading "Fatality & Fame"Salutations, cyberpunks! Danny and Jamie here to tell you what this Clockwork Bird’s been up to since we released Silicon Dreams. The short version is: critics loved it, it sold ok but not great, and we’re planning a free update with new content in the next few weeks! (More info on that to come in [...]
Continue reading "Silicon Dreams: A Micro-Postmortem"Silicon Dreams just received a major, much-asked-for update: the ability to rewind the story and replay previously seen scenes! Here's the lowdown: Rewind isn't available until you've finished at least one playthrough. (Dying counts!) A lot of players said their first playthrough was really tense, and we worried that introducing rewind might take that away [...]
Continue reading "New feature: Rewind!"Thank you, thank you, a million times thank you! In the week since launch there has been quite the surge in the number of deviant androids being interrogated! We appreciate each and every comment and review that you have left Silicon Dreams - we’ll be forever grateful to all of you who have reached out [...]
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