hi, it's another patreon diary post from gyrium! this time we talk about character design process and women (it's a character reveal) 👉 www.patreon.com/WHODUNNIT/po...

he's so eyeballs

just remembered ib exists. Fuck

going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman’s discretion

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

In the annual tradition, I'm putting on a sale for my birthday! Get 31% off of EVERYTHING in my store with the code "BIRTHDAY2026", running from today through to July 3rd :) www.stoutstoat.co.uk/discount/BIR...

i think everything i make is in some way me coping with the fact that im not ready to make a crpg

i don't have a lot of experience writing this kinda thing so be nice to me but YEAH! LOOK! rants about life/injuries + some sneak peeks at things + renpy tips + general happiness at life. WHADDYA KNOW

hey y'all, i hate to be asking this now of all times but there have been many complications with my move and i'm going to have to pay twice my rent while i wait for visa stuff to be approved. to help cover costs, i'm opening an online store for prints! shares appreciated ko-fi.com/jennayow/shop

since the last side project was a puzzle game im feeling the pendulum swing back to wanting to do a vn for a jam or something... hrm...

Okay... I get it... I've only been writing for games for a little while but the ellipsis is so alluring... Why not have a little pause...? Trail off mysteriously... before changing thoughts... ...or even picking the thought back up. Try it sometime... but watch out..........!

eating an actual fresh, local mango is life changing quite frankly

ive been learning so much spanish. spanish speakers your posts will not be safe from me... im already reading them as we speak...

play the vault of dr. basilia gyrium.itch.io/the-vault-of...

ok well theres a bug. yes, in my video game. im aware its unheard of but even angels may sin

🗝️ gyrium.itch.io/the-vault-of-dr-basilia

we did a weird puzzle jam! language translation. toxic old women in STEM. a disease with weird rules. games can be what the fuck ever

Pride, New York, June of 1990

one of the funniest things mauri and i say to each other while working on something is "so why is no one playing this yet."

Illumination.

one thing about both comedy and mystery is that they are hard to write. and i sure decided to do both at the same time

five years ago today i published my senior thesis project That Which Faith Demands, an interactive fiction game about salvaging a fallen mech made from the body of a god jannouna.itch.io/that-which-f...

⭐a new patreon post, just for a patrons! as of today, we start writing diary posts that discuss progress on EP02, some life updates, how we approach writing a scene, and some of the core themes of the game. we welcome feedback & questions in the comments. thanks! 👉 www.patreon.com/posts/ep02-c...

i think any discussion of getting into games needs to acknowledge the difference between pursuing game making as a craft vs game making as an industry

mowing a lawn has got to be the most pointless and wasteful endeavor the suburban mind has invented as an expectation to do with your time and that's not even getting into ecology about it

I heard this one's quite good

hello I was in the same cultivator sect as you six past lives ago. would you like to talk about erotic software games

vestige, the first city

i feel like the yankees are obsessed with playing baseball. almost every day they’re like oh, we’re gonna play a baseball game, or like oh, we’re gonna wear baseball uniforms today. and it’s just like, okay

i don't believe in posting through it or centering my Diaspora Feelings over what my family and friends are living through in real time so i will refrain from expanding this into a whole thread of angst. please donate to mutual aid efforts in lebanon www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

the more you try to design a man to be (conventionally) handsome, the less appealing they become... so only design weirdos that feel real in such a way that it loops back around to being appealing and, to the correct few, handsome. the connoisseur's motto

the court strategist has done much to seem approachable. can't you tell

i only have deeply unserious promo art ideas

thank you all so much for 9k downloads, across both itch and steam! it's a strong wind in our sails as we work on episode 2 ❤️ if you've yet to play it yourself, you can grab WHODUNNIT episode 1 here: s.team/a/4322950 #furryvn

“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”

This interview is banger quote after banger quote.

“In those days, the only way I had to work out the disagreement was to make a game where we could disagree." Emily Zhu (朱保敬) tells us about the cyberpunk wuxia of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword, and why genre alone fails to capture the RPG's belief that violence can be beautiful and liberatory.

"placeholder text" "concept art" either the temporary thing you put in matters to the process, in which case you need to get a human to work on it, or it doesn't, in which case you can just as easily put a bright pink rectangle that says PLACEHOLDER in and save everyone time and effort

It’s official - Carved in Stone is finally available in the USA, through the one and only @ipr.bsky.social ! You can order your copy directly from them (alongside a host of other beautiful books and games!) www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Carved...

🌕 Eleven months ago, the Moon was sent violently flying off course by a catastrophic explosion. Less importantly, the two maintenance workers on there have been stranded ever since. "The Moon Looks Beautiful Tonight: Definitive Edition", a Yuri VN, is OUT NOW! 👇 Play for FREE on Steam & itch 👇

AWESOME BEAUTIFUL ✨FREE✨ VN FULL OF LOVE IS OUT NOW!!!

my cover for TEN THOUSAND DAYS FOR THE SWORD the cyberpunk wuxia ttrpg by @dragonfucker69.bsky.social

ONE DAY MORE

journeymen's walking catastrophe #whodunnitvn #furry

"The Pentagon and the White House would surely prefer if the American public blamed the slaughter of little girls and boys on a faceless computer program and not the human beings who programmed that computer [...] or the commanders who can’t even tell us why this war is happening."

Foliage Shader is working great so far! 😤😤😤 #gamedev #shaders

couldn't quote repost but i feel like i have to say (and this might be a surprise to some) but i am completely neutral about baseball and might even go to say i don't like it that much at all

FINALLY had the chance to play this and what a treat. i genuinely can't believe this vn is free. super-stylish mystery work with great dialogue writing, gorgeous presentation, and also plenty of "the author's big interest is clearly on display" (in this case its baseball)

Howie whodunnit is so eyesballs