The Café is open! Come join myself, @madilynnalchemist.bsky.social & @runiadawitch.vtubers.social for The Shadow Over Cyberspace! Links below & in bio! #Vtuber #VtubersUprising #ENVtuber #LGBTQIA2 #cosmichorror #pngtubers #horror

Meet Daniel! He's a good boy. He's a nice boy. He's popular, he's strong, he's well-liked by all. He's fitting in. He's doing his best. And he knows he could get ostracized and demonized at the drop of a hat if he ever stops being what they want him to be. Laugh Track demo releases Oct 10th.

I think it's becoming clear that if you like indie creators, you're going to need to support them any way you can. And that doesn't mean money, just spreading worth of mouth can be powerful as well.

PRETTY sure we're okay under Bluesky's new censorship policies, but who even knows at this point? If we get booted here, we have a Mastdon. If booted there, we have an oldschool website. If that gets shut down, we're still on Steam and Itch. If booted there, we will snail mail thumb drives dangit

Hey, kids! Back in the day, we had these magical things called "websites" you could go to which delivered what you were looking for WITHOUT also giving you a flood of horrifying unrelated content recommendations! Wow! Anyway, we have a Laugh Track website now. www.fictionfactorygames.com/laughtrack/

Don't forget wishlisting a game you are even remotely interested in or just think looks cool really does help indie developers SO MUCH! (Even if you don't plan on buying it, wishlist it to help)

Love Arcade Spirits? Keep an eye on High Elo Girls. Preferably two. Or three I mean I'm not here to tell you how many eyes to have that ain't me

Here's Remy Marchand! Foreign exchange student, ace/aro, non-binary (assigned Canadian at birth) and living their best life. A rising star that only goes up, up, up! Assuming Remy can navigate the weirdness of this suburban hellscape. Laugh Track demo launches Oct 10 as part of Steam NextFest!

Want a sneak peek at a prototype we're working on for 2027, including some guest characters from 2026's Laugh Track? Tune in tonight! (Caution: Gameplay is very, very rough. Like primeval wood. Unrefined ore. Etc.)

Meet Juno Margaret-Anne Tuplowski Jr., star of the wacky teen sitcom "Juno's World"! She's a Gaia-loving, charity-supporting, friend-uplifting gal! She also has an undiagnosed anxiety disorder, but her granola parents don't believe in therapy or vaccines. Oof. Laugh Track demo releases Oct 10.

Now would be the perfect time to wish list our upcoming game, Laugh Track, on Steam! Play god as writer of a weird sitcom, where-- What? Steam is down? How is that possible, did someone nuke Seattle? ..."silk song?" The hell is a silky song? It's about bugs? Steam has bugs? I'm so confused

Soooo… I should mention this while I scream at everyone to wishlist this game and keep an eye out for the demo on Oct 10… See this burly young Vietnamese-American guy having a super normal day? It me. I’m playing Daniel in Laugh Track! Thanks again for the opportunity, @fictionfactorygames.com!

I'm really looking forward to this! Full disclosure, I am a voice actor in this game, playing a teacher! It's gonna be great to hear my voice in a game!

Here's a quick FAQ for our upcoming game, Laugh Track, condensed down for social posting. "Price?" "Free, optional donation." "How?!" "Patreon and Arcade Spirits sales." "Voiced?" "Somewhat." "Genre?" "Visual novel." "NOT A GAME!" "Eat a butt." "Pronouns?" "Over a dozen." "EWW" "Again, eat a butt."

Everything is normal... Completely Normal... PERFECTLY NORMAL, EVEN. You should wishlist and play Laugh Track when the demo comes out Oct 10 to hear me as Juno! Just an everyday girl, in an everyday world! Where everything is ... Absolutely Normal!

Introducing... Laugh Track! A perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens. Write a wacky teen sitcom and keep those ratings high, or else! Or else what? Don't worry about it! Win/Mac/Linux Demo out Oct 10 (for Steam NextFest), full game Jan 13! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

"Fravlek dornu?" * translation from the Divine Language of Chaos: "Monday okay?"

Anyone up for an announcement next week? Asking for a friend Me, am friend

For reasons which are entirely arbitrary and not coincidental with anything... Content creators! Do you like to know about a game before the demo is released at Steam NextFest so you can plan ahead, or do you prefer the announcement to hit at the same time as the event to keep the hype hot?

We pretty much torpedoed our media presence by pulling up stakes and leaving the bird jail emerald mine forever. No doubt we would have more game sales and awareness if we stayed. But screw Twitter. Let it die. Rather be an unknown on bluesky than be more chum for the muskrat.

Here's a video essay on the Demo Scene -- where code and art combine. The retro demo scene of the 90s greatly inspired our game "The Shadow Over Cyberspace," in terms of culture and aesthetics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQ7...

"The weather will continue until morale improves."

If you like visual novels and/or quirky boys full of anxiety and existential dread, you really should play this game!! (Please the Domino Fan Club needs more members)

Switch enjoyers! ...switch one, switch two? Either way, you've got arcade esports competition with friendship and romance on tap -- Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers, the standalone sequel, is only five bucks right now! That's cheap, but the game's rich in heart! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

We recently switched to a Patreon driven, free game release based process. Aside from donation DLC, it's a key means of recouping dev costs. But if Patreon soaks itself in AI tools, we will abandon the platform. Lace every bridge you cross with explosives, just in case.

I still chuckle about the villainous supercomputer HATE-4000, who acknowledges the irony of being a computer who identifies as non-binary

Regarding Stripe and the itch delisting. Remember: this is not about explicit content - a LOT of LGBTQ+ games are being caught up in it, Stripe's customer service anecdotally has said it's because Stripe doesn't support the sale of queer content. Quote here from the Penny Larceny character artist.

Keep up your calls and complaints to payment processors because this is where the bans are going, nothing accidental about it.

Play the game deemed TOO HOT for Collective Shout! With SCANDALOUS and UNMUTUAL notions like: 🙀 Talking cats (impossible!) 💸 Economic inequality (nonsense!) 🏳️‍⚧️ Protection of trans folks (horrid!) 🍆 Dirty jokes (exploitative!) Penny Larceny, on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2227030/...

Arcade Spirits (Fiction Factory Games, 2019)

Over the past month, independent content hosting platform Itch.io has been systematically banning queer & NSFW content. We talked to creators about how this impacted them, and how they’re fighting back. Written by @thefreeradical.org and edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social

I am business person. I am best at doing business. Observe my keen skills at negotiating business with business entities!

penny larceny dot zip

Itchio has re-enabled adult content but only for free games. Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain is not free, nor is it pornographic. Zero nudity and all sex happens offscreen in a detail-free comedic way. And still delisted. Stripe, Visa/MC, and Collective Shout can collectively eat our butt.

Appleseed's Indie Game Of The Day! Day 10) Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain by @fictionfactorygames.com The game has you take on Penny Larceny, a thief who dates/does crime with supervillains The writing in this game is phenomenal, with amazing social commentary & anti-capitalist messages

We're playing Domino today! No, not dominoes - Domino, singular, for @fictionfactorygames.com Arcade Spirits day!! Hurray!

Domino walked so Doug could run

On itch io, payment processors, and the developers and creatives affected I wrote about the itch deindexing, stripe, a religious group & a call to action + shared amazing words from 25 affected creators who took their time to write me. 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁 #itch #indiedev #visualnovel #comic #novel

Itchio has posted their updated terms: itch.io/docs/creator... ...which are pound for pound the same things the payment processors have stuck every other website with. Overly broad, mis-interpretable, and messy. And Penny Larceny, a game with no nudity and no graphic sex, is still shadowbanned.

Live with @7ebben.bsky.social and @candyqueenchuck.bsky.social for some more arcade spirits! www.twitch.tv/nyakubs

"Given that games with queer themes are open targets, and the games industry is a collapsing carnival of cruelty in search of the last dollar, and the Strange Aeon rages on, has this changed your plans for your next project?" Yes, it's reinvigorated them. See you in October for the pilot episode.

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

Somehow, ValiDate was not unlisted on Itch despite all of our tags. fuck censorship, you can pick up a copy for FREE until the 31st enjoy ;) validategame.itch.io/validate-str...

Maybe we could find out. Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain has been shadowbanned from @itch.io . This is a game with absolutely no nudity whatsoever. Any sex between characters happens off screen and is implied rather than described. But because it has naughty words and queer themes, Visa and MasterCard now hate us.

There's no grand steam sale going on right now, but you can get our modempunk horror game The Shadow Over Cyberspace at 0% off right now! Because it's zero dollars. It's just free. No micro transactions or other bullshit, it's just free because why not. Enjoy. store.steampowered.com/app/2982530/...

Deep in the game development mines lately, so pardon the quiet. Stuff's gonna start popping off pretty big approaching Steam NextFest. If you'd like to put on a hardhat and join us down here, we are offering in complete beta tests to the bold and daring on Patreon! www.patreon.com/fictionfacto...

If I had a nickel for every time my favorite character in a dating sim was named Mateo, I’d have two nickels! Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice

Say what you want about the Foot Clan but clearly they understood the appeal of third spaces for building a community

Arcade Spirits... TWO!?! It's true! The world of 20XX, where video arcades never went away, continues on into Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers! Import your past decisions or play fresh, it's a great story regardless! And it's only three bucks!? Nice! store.steampowered.com/app/1484620/...