anyway, you should read soulsov, my visual novel about the world's most sweetest nicest dad and the world's most problemest woman getting slammed into each other at 5000 mph. it's 20% off right now. 😇 gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping.

I love this terrible, terrible cover art so much.

once again looking forward to someday working on a project set in Aus/NZ so I don't have to look up stuff like 'which floor is the first floor in which countries'

'it sucks this playstyle isn't rewarded with any big unique sequences, I should fix that' and so, Mads became embroiled in writing one of the most complex and annoying sequences for this whole route

classic sewing moment: I bought patterns for a smoking jacket and stays (ie. 18th century proto-corset), and there are lots of notes on the stays that they're complicated and unusual and involve many steps the jacket instructions are almost twice as long as the stay instructions

misericorde is the best visual novel going right now and if you have even the slightest bit of interest in nuns ruining each others' lives (homoerotically) in a remote abbey you should play it immediately when part 3 comes out i intend to bite my computer in half to consume its essence

I am running a brand new comics festival! Melbourne Alternative Comics Expo (MAKE) is a 3 day celebration of comics makers across Victoria and wider Australia! 🤩 In addition to organising, I designed the branding and this year's poster! Check us out: makecomics.com.au

picked FF6 back up and oooooh my god they used to let RPG characters have distinctly different voices. I've recruited Cyan and his lines are juuust formal enough that Sabin can mock how he speaks without it being cartoonishly Forsooth Young Master-type formality. AND they're gonna suplex a train.

great thoughts on what 'meaningfulness' is in choices. There's a choice I originally put in Drac as 'flavour', where you (aptly) pick which food to eat in an early scene, and from a writer perspective it started as an 'I know what it does, not what it's for' option. Would this mean anything?

had a dream Lal and I went to Project Hail Mary (which we haven't seen) and it turned out to be four hours of Ryan Gosling walking around an alien mall. 90 minutes in I asked Lal when the little rock guy was gonna show up and they told me 'not until hour three'.

i think it's important to remember that there is no correct way to write a trans storyline wherein your work won't be misconstrued in the worst-faith manner possible by someone you should, in a better world, be able to shoot with laser beams. be unflinching. whoooo give a shit

the problem with watching an ur text anime like Utena is you start to realise everything is Utena. And also that nothing is hitting the heights of Utena.

Announcing... Asymptotes. Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection. On Saturday July 18th, we're running a showcase of abandoned games, with talks and panels on non-commercial and difficult to commercialise game-making. 👉 asymptotes.au

doing a revised version of a sequence I wrote a very long time ago where I discovered the big problem with the original attempt was that it wasn't overwrought enough

when i worked at a call centre we had pretty good hold music. when you transfer internally the hold music plays for staff too, so i always feel bad when i call places with bad music. the people who are hearing the most of it are the people who work there so it's a secret occupational hazard.

The Backrooms is Queering the Room

icymi give me one billion dollars for mario petanque

Happy Pride! I wrote a manifesto 🏳️‍🌈 madmacsfuryroad.itch.io/real-pride

visited some pigeons for pigeon day 🕊

Due to rising rents and gentrification, Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is set to take place in a 3-bedroom/2-bath condominium. paletteswap.site/dif...

I was multitasking playing KH1 with the Direct in the background so I feel like I manifested that

[email protected] @free-play.bsky.social and the new national games and play working group have released a new report to accompany the national cultural policy review outlining necessary changes for the sustainability of australia's local games industry

had to try and explain some 1920s/30s cultural context stuff a couple of days ago and I've been wracking my brains since like 'is this common knowledge? what's the best way to explain it? how did I learn it?'

so I have a copy of Lair of the White Worm (one of Bram Stoker's other notable books) but I've never gotten around to reading it, and I just learned that it's about an Aussie who kills the titular white worm by stacking a huge amount of dynamite on it how did I not know this before now

The sign every town should have #birds

MANIFESTO JAM 2026 An invitation/provocation for YOU to write a manifesto. Running for a full week from June 8th to June 15th (AEST). Participate and submit at: itch.io/jam/manifest...

doing exciting Drac things this week which means I'm basically in permanent ‼️ mode excitement! anxiety! excitement! anxiety!

We got this jar of caramelised onion spread and it's kind of the best condiment ever

June 1st

I love you.

okay I'm only like a quarter of the way through but this thing is melting my mind, it's an interwar drama but it's written in a 19th century epic style and the combination is incredible there's a whole chapter where a guy sits on a chair too extravagantly and causes his FIL to have a heart attack

thread of resources for VN dev, mostly ren'py links & creative commons databases ^_^ yay ^_^ 🧵

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

48 hours left to fund our Chinese fantasy game about solving your friend's murder, stopping your giant crane baby from eating rocks, and flirting with a moron who always thinks you're joking or making fun of him!!!

since I said this, I got it into my head that a relaxing and peaceful passtime would be to replay KH1, which means I am also busting out the:

I'm reading a translated French novel and I was worried I was being a bit Boss Baby about it because I was like 'wow... really reminds me of Monte Cristo' and then I looked up some reviews and other people were also saying 'ah, c'est le Comte' so actually. I'm worldly wise and cultured.

there's a scene transition in Drac that I couldn't think of dialogue for, so in the earliest version of the game it was 'haha that's fucked up. Welcome to Castle Dracula!' I'm doing a final pass on that scene now, and I still hate the transition, and I'm thinking of just changing it back to that.

thank you to everyone who submitted games to our nonbinary coded games event!! we now have a form for streamers & press who want to play/review games & be notified when the event goes live. if that's you, fill out the form here! 👇 forms.gle/4wx8bLegx9YT...

Deeply disrespectful to the entire Australian cultural sector that the Office of the Arts can't be bothered actually reading all the submissions people are working very hard on for the National Cultural Policy, and instead will be asking genAI for a summary. www.arts.gov.au/have-your-sa...

I've been revising another one of the really really old parts of Drac this week, and there's something magical about coming back to a piece of writing from several years ago and instantly seeing what it was missing/why it's felt incomplete the whole time

sometimes life is very stressful, but there are currawongs outside, so it's okay

they need to bring back the wacko level design sensibility from KH1, it was way more interesting than anything later in the series and while I love how the combat developed it sucks the levels got stripped back to a series of linear boxes with almost no verticality

i once again owe my life to antique tech nerds who upload videos of old equipment in use. so many film history sites with pictures of antique cameras and none of them explaining the steps of using them, one million enthusiast guys on youtube who want you to know about every little mechanism.

sometimes as a VN designer you have to just think up a really nasty bad end. for your health.

i'm looking up fun activities people did at amusement parks in 1931 and one of them is 'clowns that hit you with cattle prods'

Submissions to the National Cultural Policy close next Sunday 24 May. We need as many studios, gamemakers and sector support organisations to put in submissions. Freeplay's helpful guide on making a submission can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Went to the zoo, befriended a pigeon