Come to Fallen London
Echo Bazaar is a Twitter connected, turn based browser game produced by Failbetter Games Ltd.
Message from Failbetter Games: Contributors, please make sure you've read the FBG Fan Project Guidelines before adding or amending content. Thank you, delicious friends.
Urgent Message from Failbetter Games:
The Stories and Ambitions sections of this wiki, possibly others, ignore the Fan Content Guidelines linked above, in particular the section quoted below:
"Q. You say you don't allow 'content dumps'. What's a content dump?
A. We don't want our content reproduced in a way that allows people to read through it in a narratively coherent way,** as if they were actually playing it in-game… without actually playing it in-game! We're OK with reference guides: we don't like substitutes for the game. Imagine if a Reader's Companion to Lord of the Rings just reproduced whole chapters, so you could read that chapter without buying the original book. "
It's currently possible to read all the way through a number of stories with no effort. Could the contributors please remedy this as soon as possible? For example, by removing all the quoted content, leaving only summaries and / or quality effects. Do please note that we only give permission to reproduce our copyrighted content under the Fan Guidelines.
This wiki doesn't seem to have a talk page function, so I've created a page for Questions About Fan Guidelines to clarify what we're happy with and why. Do also feel free to ask questions on the Community Forum
Useful Sites
The game entry point is at http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com
Another address is now at http://www.fallenlondon.com
The Failbetter homepage is http://www.failbettergames.com/
Failbetter Games has a blog at http://blog.failbettergames.com/
Game announcements here: http://twitter.com/EchoBazaar
The discussion thread at Unfiction Forums is here.
A voluntary list of UnFictioneers who are playing is here.
There is a fan-created unofficial forum here. (Registration required).
Facebook?
Echo Bazaar is starting a slow movement towards supporting Facebook as well. Neither Facebook nor Twitter will be competing, but rather each will both offer a way to log-in to the game, as well as unique content. A link list will be compiled soon for this feature, but as it's scattered at the moment, this may take up until official release.
In the meantime, you can have fun with the original Facebook game content: Benjamin Villein of the Ministry of Public Decency.
Press
Reviews and such.
- Horror Meets Shopping at the Echo Bazaar at The Escapist: an article and interview with the PMs.
- A babbling gameplay review and a personal account of NPC interaction by player Jane Doh
- OneLargePrawn has a brief review… But it mentions the wiki, so we link it.
- Taymar posted this review for MMORPG Info.
Cool Swag for sale! (Available again!)
The official Echo Bazaar merchandise store has opened once more. You may find it here.
In addition:
Delicious Wallpaper
How's the wiki coming along, anyway?
The wiki is currently in pretty good shape. We have added a lot of content and are adding more daily. We've taken the position that it is better to spoiler something than not when info may detract from your enjoyment of the game, intentionally or not. To see what we've been working on most recently, click on the 'Recent Changes' link on the left.
What's New?
We are adding content on the storylets for the four primary locations. Watchmaker's Hill is in the best shape at the moment. This will take a while. We're also updating the new locations added in Book 2. Book 2, Part 2 is the current content cap. We've also moved Menace under the Story menu so that Cards can have their own dropdown. We are currently adding content to the cards that test your Qualities and for the Bronze Bordered Cards. See Watchful Cards for an example.
Get in touch!
If you have comments, suggestions, queries, inquiries, points of interest, praise, lofty words, presents, questions, ideas, content or (G-d forbid) complaints, feel free to shoot us a tweet with the hashtag #ebzwiki. The e-mail once listed is no longer in use.
A note on spoilers
This is a wiki meant purely for informative purposes. As such, where there may be spoilers to certain plot threads or methods of obtaining certain items or qualities. It is possible, even likely, that we will NOT provide any warning. Consider this your spoiler warning. Nevertheless, we have taken the position that it is better to spoiler info when it is feasible to do so and when info may significantly detract from your enjoyment of the game. Spoilers usually look something like:
All images and directly quoted text are © Failbetter Games Ltd. and are used by permission.
Failbetter Games asks that you read the FBG Fan Project Guidelines before adding content to this wiki.
