This is the funniest reason for a character in a romance game to be non-romanceable

what fixing this sequence has done it's worth it it's worth it it's worth it

my beautiful wife dorohedoro has returned after six years... welcome back dorohedoro

there's a bit of drac that you'll play and think 'i bet mads did revisions on this that week they watched the thing'. and you'll be right.

happy tdov! i've been putting all my feelings in the video game i'm working on so please check back in (?) months for reflections on gender in an era of queer precarity (and dracula is there)

we watched the Castlevania musical! what an experience. Olrox was there, the Dark Priest Shaft caused the French Revolution, and there was a fairy dance number.

[sighing] it does matter whether the writing in a video game is good or bad

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

Shadow Hearts 🫀 swap out all the bullshit sluice gate interstitial levels for extra exorcism/monster-of-the-week stories a la the Dollhouse and Kowloon levels 🫀 tidy up the character models so Yuri doesn't look so goofy 🫀 give Alice a full character arc, and more plot for Keith+Margarete+Halley

made a guy! surprised how well he turned out

I finally watched The Thing start-to-finish last night (previously I'd seen it on TV and missed parts of it), and damn that thing sure can thing

starting to suspect that the reason I cut all these scenes so short in the old version is just that I was afraid of doing the important load-bearing emotional character stuff badly and went 'ah! can't do it badly if I just don't do it'

"it's in me, too." fanart for THE WORKS OF VERMIN by hiron ennes

book good book good book good belle epoque-ish bug themed fantasy count of monte cristo in a doomed and decadent city obsessed with the opera

one part of this sequence is now the longest continuous scene in the game 🫣

currently reading a book I like so much I want to bite it in half to absorb its essence. I'm at the halfway point so please cross your fingers with me that it sticks the landing.

on the topic of both Faust and branching narratives, I'm thinking about PS2 classic Shadow of Memories today

I hate the collapse of search engines so much. I tried to look up which countries have regional variations of Faust (like how Poland had Pan Twardowski) and it would only give me results for Pokemon because of the word 'regional' 💀

thinking about pacing because i get in late/get out early'd too hard on a pivotal sequence in drac and now i have to put all the connective tissue back in to make it work. and it feels way better like this! and i know why i did it the other way! but oh my god! why did i cut these scenes so short!

a common rule in fiction writing is 'get in late, get out early' - basically that you should start scenes at the moment closest to the drama and finish scenes as soon as the drama has peaked, to avoid dragging things out unnecessarily and keep the pace moving along

before we were hot for hentai we were

there's a Drac side character who won't show up in the Early Access routes but gets mentioned a few times in them, and today we changed her name to fit her background better, and it instantly (1) made her character a lot clearer (2) made me wish she showed up sooner

I've been doing some script reformatting stuff today and it's very Cool and Exciting to be handling old sections of Drac and thinking 'yes! these are all good!' mmm love to feel pride in my work

once again I find myself invoking the baby bird Waluigi comic while making notes for Drac www.tumblr.com/obligatorymo...

I keep reading litfic because I can't find any genre fiction that I like right now, but it means that I keep reading stuff that's kind of depressing, and so I'm like, hoping some light turns back on in my soul soon that'll let me enjoy a Fun Book

the sheer disappointment of leftovers that are not as good as they were fresh

Sometimes I see all this news about the future of video game graphics and think about the fact that some of the most emotionally powerful moments I've experienced in the medium were just 2D character portraits making a unique expression I hadn't seen up to that point.

medieval fiction writing is mostly about saying people are eating a vegetable and then having to frantically check if that vegetable was available in your setting yet

WIZARD PUNKS!!! is OUT RIGHT NOW! Go play it! store.steampowered.com/app/3332770/... #wizardpunks #indiedev #gamedev

today's 'wow! history' discovery: Mary Shelley was friends with a trans guy, Walter Sholto Douglas, and helped him get documentation so he could legally marry his wife and move to France. Where he became personal friends with Lafayette?????

there's one sequence in Drac that's already had three full rewrites and now I'm going back in for Rewrite Number Four. please let this be the last!! it was conceptualised before the rest of Drac was even a thing, too, so it's like. eight full years of taking shots at this particular sequence.

I could not be more stoked to announce CONTINUE, a defiant, new games magazine that aims to celebrate and interrogate the culture, creativity and community of videogames. The Kickstarter is now live below. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

I'm reading Claude Mckay's Home to Harlem, because I really enjoyed Romance in Marseille, and it's fun how well this 1928 'guy feels out whether his new friend is cool with gay stuff' dialogue still holds up

you get a bunch of dorohedoro posts because i finished a big piece of work last night and i'm in the Cursed Zone today where i ought to give my brain some recovery time but i'm struggling to think of relaxing or fun activities. so the lizard is just bouncing around in there like a screensaver.

dorohedoro is beautiful because it's all about the question 'would you drink the liquefied souls of your angry ancestors to become a foot taller. you WILL become a vessel for their subsumed rage, but you WILL ALSO be really tall'

my One Fear with Dorohedoro s2 has been 'what if they have no budget and all the cool backstory sequences end up ugly' so the trailer opening with a bunch of beautiful shots from it has been so reassuring

new tag yourself just dropped

difficult...! honorary mentions: Misericorde (which wasn't an option), Metal Gear Solid 2/3/4 (couldn't pick a favourite of the three), and FFVII

van helsing, screenshot, game boy advance (2004) www.mobygames.com/game/66012/v...

moon's haunted!

there was a week one year where someone got a bet going to see how many teachers they could convince to play The Hannah Montana Movie in class, and I don't know how far it spread, but I personally watched it in three classes that week otherwise, we watched The Miracle Maker a lot

just played through a game that whipped out both a surprise 'the guy and girl who barely interacted were deeply in love the whole time' and an 'ancestral doomed yuri curse upon your house' twist in the last half hour and i feel like the latter was bait they threw in to make me forgive the former

when you write some narration that, incidentally, captures how you're feeling about the scene you're working on

Key Fairy is officially released! Buy it, lest ye be slain! store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...

we immortalized the SEAGULL PIT into our Video Game 💎✨ #seagull #pit #gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev

as Mads of Today, my most hated enemy is Mads of Last Year Who Did Not Write Any Notes On What They Were Doing With This Craft Project I Want to Resume. How could they do this to me.

WHAT

solid entry into the 'most pointless use of a leafblower' competition: a guy leafblowing the side of the highway in rural victoria