Cyrano is a tragicomedy, but there was just a touch of extra, unintended tragedy that we have removed with this update. And as a bonus we've added in a Save/Load game system! Now if you quit the game, your place in the story will automatically be saved and you will be able to continue from where you left off. Revolutionary! Let's see other games do THAT!

Full release notes:

• Your progress is saved when you quit.
  
• Explicit save wipe option in settings menu.
  
• Fixed throwing a card never killing more than one enemy.
  
• Fixed throwing a card damaging dead enemies.
  
• Fixed issues quitting during a battle.
  
• Fixed game crash after collecting every card.

Dan and Kelsey have an informal chat about their time in the games industry and the projects they've worked on.

Kelsey Beachum
Kelsey is a game writer and narrative designer. She's best known for her narrative work on the BAFTA- and other-award-winning space adventure game Outer Wilds (2019), for which she was named a 2019 Nebula Award finalist. You might also know her as one of the narrative designers from The Outer Worlds DLC. If the similarity of those titles confuses you, don’t worry — she's confused about how this happened, too.

Dan McPhee
Programmer and designer and doer of all the things, currently for Obsidian Entertainment.

Kim and Fahmi have an informal chat about their time in the games industry and the projects they've worked on.

Kim Belair
Kim Belair is a writer, narrative designer and co-founder of Sweet Baby Inc, a narrative development company based in Montreal. Part of the games industry since 2013, she's worked with companies including Ubisoft, Rocksteady, Insomniac, KO_OP, Valve, and JuVee Productions to bring games and stories to life. Beyond narrative work, Kim is an advocate for representation and inclusion, and is currently leading an initiative aimed at supporting, training and empowering marginalized developers. Find her everywhere @Bagelofdeath.

Mohammad Fahmi
Fahmi is an indie game developer, consultant, and freelance writer based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

He was the chief editor of a local Indonesian game media, Tech in Asia Games, and was the writer and game designer of Coffee Talk and What Comes After. He's currently working on a new game (do I need to mention with whom?) while trying to get more Indonesian games known to the world.

Colin and Ziba have an informal chat about their time in the games industry and the projects they've worked on.

Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell has been writing professionally about games for more than three decades, including stints at IGN, The Guardian, Polygon, Edge, and Next Generation. He is currently the author of daily newsletter How Games are Changing the World. www. howgameschangetheworld.com

Ziba Scott
Ziba Scott calls himself Popcannibal and lounges around Boston making games that explore the lines between fantasy and meaningful actions. And sillier stuff too. His decade as an indie has been full of original games, contract work and friends. Also awards: BAFTA for Games Beyond Entertainment, IndieCade Europe Grand Prix and nominations for The Game Awards, Independent Games Festival and the Unity Awards.

Designer Greg Lobanov (Chicory, Wandersong) takes a look at how characters and story can be leveraged to solve age-old game design problems.

Greg Lobanov
Greg Lobanov is a game designer from Philadelphia living in Vancouver, Canada. He likes making colorful, whimsical adventure games in Game Maker and has been doing so for over 10 years now. Projects include Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Wandersong and many others.

Charles Cecil, renown developer for Revolution Software, 40 years has developed titles across all formats and has dedicated his time towards the ever growing field of narrative in video games. From turn of the century Paris to the far fetched future where A.I must be subverted, there are no subjects that he's not thought about, or written about.

Charles Cecil
Charles Cecil MBE ‘Industry Legend’ has 40 years experience in games. In 1990 he founded Revolution, today one of the world’s leading adventure game companies. Charles, is a BAFTA Cymru award winner for BBC’s Doctor Who games, and was nominated for a Writers’ Guild award for Broken Sword - The Angel of Death. He Executive Produced Sony’s The Da Vinci Code game, and Robert Zemeckis’ Christmas Carol. Charles sits on the Screen Yorkshire Boards and has been a visiting lecturer at York University and NFTS.

Tune in for an overview of the work we've been doing at Flavourworks to innovate new storytelling technologies and design philosophies, starting with our debut experiment "ERICA" and leading to increasing ambitions over 2021.

Jack Attridge
Jack Attridge is Creative Director and co-founder of Flavourworks, a digital entertainment studio based in London. Jack’s career spans across studios such as EA, Rebellion, Mind Candy, and 22cans. In 2015 he setup Flavourworks to realise his vision for a new form of interactive storytelling. The studio’s breakthrough design and technology has gained support from some of the industry’s biggest names. Their first title ERICA, an interactive live action drama, launched in 2019 for PS4, and 2021 for iOS.

Game designers often have a unique challenge: storytelling with death as a beat, rather than an end of a character. The average roguelike has more deaths in it than three Hamlets. How do you make your games and narratives "make sense" in this low-key morbid situation? Listen to designers of various kinds of games think through these problems, and mistakes they've made regarding it in the past!

Tanya X. Short, Tyler Sigman, Tarn Adams, Adam Saltsman

The Captain of Kitfox Games and lead designer of Boyfriend Dungeon, Moon Hunters, and more. She also co-edited Procedural Generation in Game Design and Procedural Storytelling in Game Design.

Tyler is the lead designer and co-founder at Red Hook Games, famous for the Darkest Dungeon series.

Tarn Adams is also known as the Toady One, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress. He also co-edited Procedural Generation in Game Design and Procedural Storytelling in Game Design.

Adam Saltsman is the lead designer and co-founder of Finji, creators of Overland and publishers of Night in the Woods. He also created the legendary Canabalt.

Can games make the world better? They can certainly try. Each of the games in this panel -- Garden Story, To Be With You, and Solace State -- has a message and goal that goes beyond the hope of "having fun". In addition to providing an engaging experience, they are trying to convey specific areas of reflection and action they hope their players take by the time they've reached the credits. We'll discuss the power of narrative, and how each of these developers fuse real-world experiences, storytelling, and game design to create an unique experience that helps players consider the world we live in today, reflect on how they can make it better, and perhaps, begin to take action.

Jenny Windom, Cara Hillstock, Picogram, Tanya Kan

Cara is a queer, chronically ill, black writer, narrative designer, and variety streamer on Twitch. She's passionate about reframing the associations tied to “gaming” and “gamers,” making room for diversity, inclusivity, and compassion in the gaming space. She's also passionate about exploring interactivity through game design, and crafting experiences through games that expand empathy and help people learn about the world.

I'm a Filipino gamedev from Hawaii, developing and pixeling since I was a kid! I enjoy long walks on the beach and being bad at video games. Currently, I'm working on Garden Story, my first full-length title, which is set for release in 2021.

Tanya Kan is the Executive Producer and Director of Vivid Foundry, a Canadian game studio creating dramatic games that reflect the social changes of our time. Tanya has worked in the Interactive Digital Media industry for 8.5 years, creating digital media for games, an amusement park, fashion storefronts, real estate, illustration software, and providing narrative and game design consultation to incubators and studios. Tanya is currently developing the award-winning Solace State, a cyberpunk choice-driven drama game about young hackers and activists speaking truth to power in a militarized biotech city-state.

Jenny Windom specializes in communications and community for indie games, and is most interested in using both those fields to make room for increased kindness and equity across all facets of the industry. In addition to working at studios like Rose City Games (Garden Story, Floppy Knights) and funds like Kowloon Nights, Jenny also strives to curate and highlight indie games through her livestreams and content creation.