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DOROHEDORO SEASON 2 IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS! MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT LIZARD IS ALMOST BACK!!

New poster for "Dorohedoro" Season 2. Broadcasting begins on April 1, 2026.

hosted a movie night yesterday, my worst yet, none of these things were good and I don't think any of us gained anything from watching them (except maybe Jason X)

got so used to writing in the present tense for visual novel reasons that i keep accidentally present tensing for real things that happened in the past

watched Dracula 3000, a bad movie made worse by the fact it only has like four draculas in it. false advertising.

The Dear Hunter... are real!!

whenever I work on Luminiţa scenes for Drac I have to listen to Sabrina Carpenter to put myself in the right mindset. to get the appropriate effect for her when playing the game, please play 'Taste' from a speaker in another room. thank you.

Loot that drops when defeating me: • Hairtie (Low Elasticity) - 100% • Bird Photo - 90% • Novelty Socks - 90% • Eyedrops - 40% • Imported Raspberry Cordial - 20% • Phantom of the Paradise DVD - 10% • Crissaegrim - 0.5% • Hairtie (High Elasticity) - 0.1%

put a scene in-engine I was desperately worried wouldn't work and it's... good? in fact all three of the high-stakes scenes I just put in-engine work well in the VN format? they're good? the game is good?

Really incredible, critical study of Australia's public funding ecology for game production by Zainab Darbas in MIA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I've been trying to read/watch/play a lot of good highbrow stuff lately to make sure I'm in the right headspace for revisions but I think I overdid it and now I need to douse my brain in schlock or something to cool it off a bit

locked in the last of the revised branches that allows you to do my #1 dream game thing in draculesti: if you choose to skip the romance in our romantic horror story you can now get a pure horror version of the story

doing revisions on a sequence where I was like 'I'm pretty sure I got this structural idea from somewhere specific, but where...?' the answer was an anime I watched like ten times one summer when I had no internet as a teen

our neighbours are having a party and someone is currently playing the flute loudly and badly by our shared fence. beautiful.

A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them. It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!

hiiii, it's my birthday on Monday and our game is like 100 wishlists away from 10k wishlists!!! would be a nice birthday gift to Me to wishlist it 👁️🫦👁️ It's a silly queer detective dating game set at an art school ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/2537020/...

reading an entirely unrelated book and it's full of Dracula references... I can't escape him.

fixing up a couple of scenes I intentionally left for a later pass of the script and because it's all the stuff I had trouble with the first time around I've been fully in the 'I am so great/what am I even doooinnng' cycle this week

we don't talk enough about how funny it is that in tokimeki memorial 2, you can press L1 during conversations to gamble on calling girls by a different name and if you fuck up and she hates it (because you two aren't close, etc), it worsens your standing with her in a completely avoidable self-own

The thriving Australian video game scene has over 150 projects in active development. So we compiled them all into one handy resource. Join us in celebrating amazing Aussie projects and take a look at the 150+ Aussie games of 2026 and Beyond! Read Here: checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

woah!!! ive been working on a LARP for the past few months and our tickets just went live. if you want to hit evil spirits in a forest for a weekend maybe check us out? www.trybooking.com/DIMEK

Started playing Perfect Tides: Station to Station on the basis of people saying it's full of relatable undergrad experiences... and the first class in the game is about Adaptation (2002), which was the first film I studied in undergrad Mara Whitefish you're just like me for real

For #MVNA this year I'm releasing code for improved particles in #Ren'Py like falling leaves, snow, rain, and fireflies, and I wanna include ready-to-use particle art with it. Would you be able to draw leaves or snowflakes? Let me know! Details & Contact: feniksdev.com/mvna-art/ #gamedev #vndev

Did You Know there was a Resident Evil stageplay set in Western Australia. Because this is something I've just learned.

There's been a lot of Discourse around international events lately, & I'm curious as I'm hearing so many different takes from different people. What events ARE you considering attending if you're an indie dev or indie publishers for the first half of 2026? vote.easypolls.net/6972e6d36e70...

Given the news yesterday, I've seen a lot of speculation about the logistics of running events, and I wanted to give some perspective on the challenges of it in the current moment. madmacsfuryroad.bearblog.dev/the-1000-pro...

I interviewed Freeplay's co-founder Katharine Neil a couple of years ago about its origins & legacy. There was SO much fascinating stuff that I couldn't publish but I'm still really proud of the piece & feel as if documenting this stuff holds a tiny bit of importance too.

But the tldr is that Victoria was unique in that — until last year — its creative agency was interested in non-commercial screen arts. Federally and in practically every other state, screen arts especially games are exclusively the domain of screen commercialisation agencies.

An update: Unfortunately Freeplay didn’t secure multi-year funding and is potentially looking at its last year of operation. We’re exploring what comes next & want your input. Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026 Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...

fwiw, I wrapped work at Freeplay last month, so all comms at the moment are from the board! If anyone has any questions about their announcement, please direct them to the main Freeplay emails or fill out their survey.

as a writer, the magic of the visual novel is when you put the bare script in the engine and you're like 'this is nothing', and then the visuals and the audio get added and you're like 'whoa! this is something!!'

Lal and I are watching Legend, which neither of us have seen before. How much of the budget did Ridley Scott spend on glitter????

after multiple years of reading books ranging from 'bad' to 'objectively good but not quite my thing', I finally read a book that I unconditionally loved, but it had an ambiguously ?bleak? ending so my exact emotional reaction has been 'wow!!? that hurt!!?'

I got given this box of chocolates for Christmas where you have to look up each chocolate individually online to get allergen info and I feel like I'm birding or something with the amount of effort it takes to ID which ones I can safely eat

The Dracula and Ghost routes for Drâculeşti are each long enough that I've started forgetting pieces of either side when I think too hard about the other one. Like I'm over here minding Dracula and you're telling me the Ghost [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]?

yyyeeesssssssss 👁️👁️

got the biiig Drac task done 🦇 now I have many small and medium Drac tasks to do BUT that's a huge weight off my mind

Kind of staggering to try and comprehend the level of incompetence and hate that led to this moment. Even this final statement stinks like dogshit.

so I'm rewatching some 'Dracula experiences modernity' scenes from different movies and I'm still mad at how badly Dracula Untold did it. Dracula Untold did most things badly but it's so funny that they couldn't even like, colour grade this scene to give it a feeling other than 'yep that's a street'

I'm reading a Gatsby retelling and it's off to an inauspicious start with Daisy excitedly talking about how she loves the green light on her dock

today's research journey: digging up an old phone operator book to find out whether someone could drunk dial berlin to london in the middle of the night in 1931

Black Sails; already a great show that got elevated to an exceptional show on the strength of its final episodes. The kind of ending you'll rotate in your brain for the rest of your life in awe and despair at the trick they pulled off and the questions it raises.

We are once again putting together the ultimate list of upcoming Australian-developed video games. Tell us about your game: forms.office.com/r/d4E0jdPQGw Share or tag any Aussie game dev you know so they can be involved in the coverage! @igea.bsky.social checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

when you're writing the moment of highest drama in a script and you get the Jester's Urge to puncture it with a campy reaction

now that its sequel has started I am once again asking people to read Unsounded, a long-running fantasy comic dear to my heart, about a thief girl and her spellcaster bodyguard going to collect a debt from her cousin. Disaster ensues. www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/co...

Unsounded concluded in August! Please welcome its direct sequel, "THE RED COST," now live with a 25 page prologue to start things off (nudity warning)! Enjoy❤️ www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/Th... Regular updates begin next Monday!

basically for the past three months I've felt like I'm trapped in an unending shonen anime fight against Dracula where every week we tune in to see if it's over yet and it's not and everyone's like 'cooome ooon' but I think he's almost dead. the morning sun has almost vanquished the horrible night.

classic kiwi experience of realising your friends have possibly all known one of your friends from high school for many years, and it's just somehow never come up