New story event pack, Discord server and other news!
In this month’s story event pack, you can now use 4 of the items introduced in the Dark Young Expansion, in the base game.
Will you fight to the death for Black Annis' Claws? Or manage to track down the Osslein Phylactery in the underground ruins outside of Constantinople? Will you survive a deal with the Bargainer for the Voice of Lao? Or win a high-stakes poker match with Madame Fufu for her prized pinky ring of Albrecht the Fabulous? Any one of these ancient relics will undeniably imbue the victor with dark and sometimes fabulous powers.
You can now download the 'Relics of the Thousand Young' event pack on our Steam Workshop here. Just click subscribe and refresh your mods list ingame.
We will be adding monthly event packs at the end of each month, which we’ve started in March. Unfortunately, we had to fix an issues that caused the mods to not appear properly and for that reason April’s event pack is a few days late. We apologise for the delay, but now that everything is up and running properly again, we hope you enjoy the latest addition.
Join the cultish shenanigans on our Discord server
Our Discord server, That Fhtagn! Server, has been live for a month now and we had a lot of fun so far. We’ve almost completed the first community-written story event pack! As soon as the writing contributions are finalised, we will combine all the winning story contributions and upload it as mod for players to enjoy.
You can also hangout at #Madame Fufu’s, the best speakeasy in town where the only thing smoother than the jazz band is the bootleg whisky. Here you can just sit back, relax and order a drink from Fred O'Leary. We have a great prohibition drinks menu (order a Sidecar, Torpedo Juice, Monkey Gland and more) and the higher your rank, the more variety you can order.
We also have a Fhtagn! Adventures channel, where you will play out story events through a community voting system.
If you want to write your own mod for the game and would like help with that, please feel free to join our Discord server. It’s a great space to test ideas, get feedback and receive assistance and guidance from us.
You can join the server by clicking on the Discord button on Fhtagn’s main menu ingame or you can join the server here.
Linux and SteamOS compatible
Please note that Fhtagn! Is now Linux and SteamOS compatible.
The Creeping Madness - Concept Reel (TCM)
Fhtagn! is a text-based choose-your-own-adventure game, whose stories and world is based on our flagship title, The Creeping Madness, currently in concept development. Check out the Concept Reel below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyM8gY4rMEU&t=
The Creeping Madness (TCM) is Black and White meets Evil Genius in the 1930s, inside a Lovecraft novel, with a hint of Dieselpunk. You are a Cthulhu-esque Ancient One hellbent on walking the mortal realm once more. Build up your cult in secret. Summon powerful monsters and play through tactical scenarios from your favourite Lovecraftian novels, as you slowly infiltrate, manipulate, corrupt and drive people insane to orchestrate your return.
We created Fhtagn! to raise extra funds for TCM, we are currently hard at work on this project and we hope to share more news about TCM with you soon!
Connect with us
We want to remind you of the best way you can enhance and experience Fhtagn! We have various social platforms available from our website, twitter, subreddit, newsletter and our newly launched Discord server.
What the Fhtagn! are you waiting for? Talk to us!
Fhtagn! Discord server and other thrilling news
The year is in full swing and we’d like to share with you what we’ve been busy with and some interesting projects to come.
Fhtagn! Discord Server
Do you like...
✅ Interactive stories
✅ Fun community hangouts
✅ Imaginary bootleg liquor
✅ Cultist shenanigans
Then you will love Fhtagn!'s discord server!
There is only one thing we like more than making games and that is to connect with the community. We’ve created a Discord server, called That Fhtagn! Server, to connect with players and create a space for community members, who enjoy a fun community hangout, interactive stories and imaginative worlds, to just chill and enjoy the insanity together.
The server has various interesting channels, but below are a few examples.
#Fhtagn! Chat Where you can chat and explore the bizarre and maddening world of Fhtagn!
#Story Time In Story Time you can write short stories for the game and vote on other community members’ contributions. This can be a great way to practice your writing muscles, hang out with the community, have a platform where you can read a bunch of awesome short stories or just get a kick out of seeing people interact with your story.
#Madame Fufu’s Madame Fufu’s, is the best speakeasy in town and the only thing smoother than the jazz band is the bootleg whisky. Here you can just sit back, relax and order a drink from Fred O'Leary. This channel is meant to be a light roleplaying experience. Think prohibition, mafia, flappers, swing and jazz and fun words like “bee’s knees, giggle water, phonus balonus and zozzled”!
Other channels include Interactive Fiction, Writer’s Nook, Mod Room, Official News etc. Don’t be a stranger, come check it out!
Monthly event packs
Every month we will upload a Fhtagn! event pack (downloadable mod) with interesting event stories, beginning with March. You can now download the first event pack, which contains 8 backstories that will feature in cycle one of Fhtagn!’s intro stories. These stories will give your character a randomised backstory, with a unique new flavour. Each backstory is a wildcard that will give you massive starting strengths and weaknesses. Will you be the corrupt politician, the twin sister with a dark family secret or a lovestruck loafer on an African adventure? The backstories will not only entertain and make you laugh, but more than one might creep you the hell out! To access the mod, just go to your Mods button in-game, select More mods and subscribe to the Character backstories mod. Enjoy!
The Creeping Madness - Concept Reel (TCM)
Fhtagn!’s world is based on our flagship title, The Creeping Madness, currently in production. Check out the Concept Reel here.
The Creeping Madness (TCM) is Black and White meets Evil Genius in the 1930s, inside a Lovecraft novel, with a hint of Dieselpunk. You are a Cthulhu-esque Ancient One hellbent on walking the mortal realm once more. Build up your cult in secret. Summon powerful monsters and play through tactical scenarios from your favourite Lovecraftian novels, as you slowly infiltrate, manipulate, corrupt and drive people insane to orchestrate your return.
We are currently hard at work on this project and we hope to share more news about TCM with you soon!
Connect with us
We want to remind you of the best way you can enhance and experience Fhtagn! We have various social platforms available from our website, twitter, subreddit, newsletter and now our newly launched Discord server.
What the Fhtagn! are you waiting for? Talk to us!
Dark Young expansion is now live: Sacrifice your friends and summon a new Ancient Horror!
Hi there fellow World-enders!
Finally, you can sacrifice your friends and summon an Ancient Horror in the new Dark Young expansion. The expansion includes a new cult, new Ancient One, now with useable items, more stories, new game mechanics and more investigators.
There is a new cult in town – The Thousand Young (selectable from the Cult Select Page). These sycophantic backstabbers are devoted to the All-Mother and Mother only wants the best and the brightest. You have 6 rounds to build up the required stats needed to use the ritual items in the final ritual, but you also need to outwit your “friends” and make sure it is them on the chopping block and not you.
The Dark Young expansion is now live and you can find all the fixes, changes and additions below.
Features and Updates
New cult
New set of role cards
Sacrifice, voting and escape systems
Set of escape cards
AI Players
Dark Young
Encounters with the Dark Young
The Ancient One's minions can be a part of the defence phase
Some items have special endings when used in the ritual
Building mouse overs will now have status indicators for the Dark Young
Vote movement summary with vote leader being indicated at the end of each round
Items, buffs and henchmen added to the game
Additional stories and events
Event summary screen now has tooltips on the icons
Changed the way tooltip legends are accessed with the keyboard and gamepad. It is now toggled instead of displayed while the button is held down and the keyboard button changed from Alt to Shift.
Added 21 new achievements
Fixes
When the player has more than 4 mods installed, all will now display in the mod list
Defence achievement for Cthulhu is now achievable
Player order based on player influence did not take the starting player order into account when two players had the same number of influence points
Generic fallback event will no longer cause a game breaking error
Scrolling through the list of available resolutions with the controller now scrolls all the way to the bottom
Building mouse overs now correctly scale. Previously the mouse overs on 4k monitors were extremely small.
Thank you
Thank you for supporting Fhtagn! and helping us to improve the game, we appreciate you all!
Dark Young expansion launches on 22 October 2018
With the Halloween season in full swing, celebrate the most frightful of holidays with an expansion that will both chill and tickle your funny bone! On 22 October 2018, we will be launching The Dark Young expansion for Fhtagn! - Tales of the Creeping Madness.
The expansion includes:
New cult
New Ancient One
Now with useable items
More stories
New game mechanics
More investigators
In its first instalment, this party/boardgame-esque game saw the cult of The Dreaming Eye trying wake the thing of the idols, that green, sticky spawn of the stars (can you guess who?) to claim the world. Now, there is a new cult in town – The Thousand Young. These sycophantic backstabbers are devoted to the All-Mother and Mother only wants the best and the brightest.
You have 6 rounds to build up the required stats needed to use the ritual items in the final ritual, but you also need to outwit your “friends” and make sure it is them on the chopping block and not you. For every successful round you complete, you get ‘Not It’ stacks, which you use in the end of the game to determine who will be sacrificed to dear Mother. The player who receives the most votes will become the juicy glazed ham on the altar in the Dark Forest. Or will they? Should you be voted as the sacrifice, you will have the chance to escape and GTFO outta there!
Don’t miss out on this thrilling experience and remember to update your game on 22 October 2018!
Check out the expansion trailer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9PFGOTjh28
New ways to talk to us!
At Design Imps, we have a passion for connecting with the community and to be part of a project where as a community, we can all contribute to making the games we all want to play. To further cement this philosophy, we have created two new avenues for you as the community to interact with us and we want to remind you of the best way to enhance and experience Fhtagn!
Fhtagn! subreddit
The first way for you to communicate with us and help us to create the game that you want to play is through our new subreddit! We hope to share some informative and fun topics on the subreddit and to create another space where we can connect with players. So why not join us and let us know about your favourite stories in the game, which stories you would like to see or share with us a story that you want to write in our Content Creator!
We have opened up testing to the community! If you want to take part and help us improve Fhtagn! in a practical way, check out our discussion of how you can get involved.
Share your mad genius with the community!
When we created the Fhtagn! Content Creator, the idea was to empower players to create their own content and become actively involved in content they were playing in the game. If you wanted stories that are more sinister or about a certain topic, you could either download a mod or write it yourself. The game really shines in co-op with friends, so how about creating a campaign or fun stories for you and your friends to enjoy! There are so many possibilities.
Write stories for Fhtagn! with these easy steps:
Start with an idea (about anything you wish and as funny or as serious as you want);
write an intro for the story event;
choose two actions;
choose a stat for each action;
write pass and fail stories for each action;
and viola, you have a playable event in Fhtagn!
No programming is required and we are committed to simplifying the app as much as possible to make sure anyone can create their own stories. We’d love to know how we can assist to make this experience as enjoyable and as easy as possible, so let us know what we can do to help either in the discussion pages or in the subreddit.
Dark Young Reveal
It’s been almost a month since the launch of our mini-game Fhtagn! - Tales of the Creeping Madness and we are excited to announce our first major content update, lovingly called the “Dark Young update”. Okay, okay, we admit we could have chosen a subtler name and if you know anything about Lovecraft, it will be no surprise to you who the new Ancient One will be, but we just couldn’t resist! So without further ado … Iä! Iä! Let’s get this party started!
What can you expect:
The Dark Young update includes a new cult who worships the All-mother. This cult is far more back-stabbing than the Dreaming Eye, since Mother does not look kindly on failing and her children know that she will not suffer the weak to live.
To help even the most altruistic player embrace their inner backstabber, the game mode includes two new mechanics.
“Disappointed Mother” will cause the player to spawn Dark Young across the map and let’s just say they didn’t come to congratulate you on a job well done.
“Survival of the fittest” gives players stacks of “Not it!” whenever they pass an event or complete special objectives. At the end of the game players will use their stacks to determine which of them will be the sacrifice, but beware, Mother will not be happy if there are no snacks for her little babies.
These are just a taste of what you can expect! We are looking forward to have the update in your hands as soon as possible!
Updates, Features and Fixes - V1.0.9
Hi Everyone! We're in full swing with the Dark Young update, but have not forgotten about those nasty bugs and nice-to-haves! Thank you all for your patience with the growth process, we really appreciate it!
Features
We really wanted to give credit to our modders for the excellent work they have done, so from now on when you play a mod, you will be able to see the mod and the modder's name at the bottom of the story area.
Fixes
Can now scroll through the mod list using the controller's right stick.
Controller stick threshold checks were faulty. Thresholds being checked correctly now, and change to controller threshold increased.
Moving down on Mod screen with top button selected jumped to bottom button. Now correctly flows from top, to mid, to bottom.
Content Creator fix: Partial destruction of buildings should now correctly only destroy the correct option, instead of the whole building.
The way forward
As we mentioned before, we are hard at work on the Dark Young update and we will be sharing some of the progress shortly. We also have some special plans for modders, which we will reveal soon. Other than that we will be sticking to our patching schedule, to fix any of those annoying bugs, as they creep out of the Depths. Thank you all for your support! Stay sane!
Updates, Features and Fixes - V1.0.8
Thank you to everyone for playing Fhtagn! and for the incredible feedback we have received so far. It has been a week since Fhtagn! launched and all kinds of Yrm-Tahl worms had come out of the woodwork. Don’t worry, we have maxed out our Sanity and Animal Husbandry and we have wrangled up those troublesome critters (bugs) and banished them for good!
This update focuses primarily on the way Fhtagn! deals with user created content, specifically in the way new mods are uploaded and updated on the Steam Workshop. For modders, please look at the updated Content Creator document, for changes. You can see what has changed in the revision history, on the first page. To all the achievement hunters out there, we added 16 new achievements for you. Finally, as we mentioned, we tracked down a few bugs and implemented fixes for them, details below.
Features
Investigator can now become a part of the ritual – Every ritual needs a pesky investigator, don’t you think?
Added “how mods work” info and “how to create mod” infographic to the mods screen. We don’t want you to miss out on all fantastic and insane stories created by the community.
Steam workshop update - Mods must now have a preview image. Because everything looks better with pictures.
Steam workshop update – Existing/published mods can now be updated. If you wanted to change the love interest in your story from a Shoggoth to a Mi-Go – now you can!
Added 16 new achievements. Oooooh, shiny!
Fixes
Elder signs are now correctly awarded for stats at or above 10 on the score screen.
Can no longer open the elder sign unlock confirmation with controller, if you do not have enough elder signs.
Spending riches on event option is now reflected in the event summary.
Button active state no longer removes button side images.
Steam cloud data now being loaded when the game starts to avoid syncing issues when playing on a different PC, or with multiple accounts on the same PC.
Fixed an issue with character anti-climaxes, where anti-climaxes based on stats showed too frequently. This was balanced out so that anti-climaxes based on role and stats have an equal chance of appearing.
Fixed an issue with follow-up events which didn’t trigger properly and the events will now trigger more consistently.
Found and fixed a few typos.
The Haunter of the Dark mod has been down-scaled slightly to make the first couple of follow-up events a bit easier (it is still very difficult though, so BEWARE!).
The way forward
We are hard at work on the Dark Young update, which will include more investigators, a new Ancient One, with new game mechanics and plenty of backstabbing. We will also continue to improve the game and Content Creator based on the feedback from the community.
Thank you for all the support and we hope you’re enjoying the game. If you haven’t done so yet, check out the new mods on the Steam Workshop, the community has done an excellent job!
Announcing the end of the world with the release of Fhtagn! on 22 May 2018!
We are excited to announce that our story-adventure mini-game, Fhtagn, is releasing on Steam tomorrow, 22 May 2018! The time is finally at hand to perform the great ritual and everything has been meticulously prepared. The sacred spoon of Scoo’p has been polished to an evil gleam, the Shoggoth was given a juicy bone and the altar was sprinkled with ketchup (the Ancient One’s favourite). All we need now is for you to fulfil your ritual role and to end the world for good… or evil in this case!
To help you prepare for your fiendish role, we’ve created a gameplay video that will provide you with a sneak peek of what to expect. You will need all the help you can get when you battle investigators, corrupt cops and Ancient horrors, as you traverse the unsuspecting town of Arkham.
The story-adventures don’t end when you’ve completed the game, you can download playable mods from the Steam Workshop or you can create your own Lovecraftian events (or any story you want) with our content creator.
We’re looking forward to ending the world and descending into madness with you! ːsteamhappyː
Slight misalignment in the Stars
It is with regret that we announce a delay in the release of Fhtagn! At Design Imps we strive to release a product that is as bug-free as possible and a game that we feel excited about playing – and most importantly, that you will feel excited about playing! Unfortunately, we cannot in good conscience release the current version of the game as there is still much testing and polish to be done, to bring it to a standard that we feel happy with. We apologise for this delay and hope to get the final product to you within the next few weeks.
We hope you can bear with us a while longer and that you will be pleased with the end result. Till the stars align … M’rgl B’rgl!
