If anyone's confused about the difference between Literary Success and Commercial Success: - Literary Success is VtM — Bloodlines - Commercial Success is CoD: MW2-2

The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. Read more here: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/in-2023-24-australians-paid-more-than-4-times-on-hecs-help-than-gas-companies-did-on-prrt/

More art! RaneboPets again - this time for another user - ranebopets.com/character/Tr... I really like how this came out

Personally if a thing that developers hate in game development also is a scarlet letter that makes players try to kill the game, I wouldn't do it instead of trying to hide it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epic-ga...

From my current WIP, The Pale Company. Plot twist: the Great War vampires already had irreverent nicknames! - Sleepy: insomniac - Firefly: chain-smoked in the trenches - Shingle: has small pox and shingle scarring - Blitz: mistook artillery for lightning - Henker: the chillest guy in the trench

The People v Robodebt is nominated for a Logie www.sbs.com.au/whats-on/art...

Watch it (three episodes) here www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

Aww the co-creator of FTL came out as trans and issued an update for the first time in years just to change her name in it 😭 love that game.

Microtransactions. Listen, fat cats: you've had the run of the mill for long enough. Time to sit the fuck down and actually let us make the games that people will enjoy

Ahoj! I'm a Sapphic urban fantasy and horror author, with 8 years experience as a narrative designer and writer for games. My current project: "Vampiric Great War veterans do antifa work in Trumpist America, while their US Army Ranger recruit watches 100 years of PTSD catch up to them"

New Pride data from SWR: The adult industry is dominated by LGBTQ+ creators. Nearly 70% adult creators say they fall somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum (including half the men in the industry.) And women make up 74% of creators. The adult industry is an industry of queer women. Where's our float?

BAFTA-nominated Vampire Therapist is hated by libertarians and stunted men and beloved by the strange and irreverent. And it's 35% off during the Steam Summer Sale! If you haven't played it yet, there's no better way to beat the heat than by being undead. 😅 store.steampowered.com/app/2481020/...

Grogu is the perfect mascot for the modern Star Wars fan-base: a 50-year old baby

Ahoj! Pleasure to meet you. Keeping it brief: 1. 8-year vet in narrative design and writing. Worked across indie and AAA on fantasy, history sims and sci-fi games. (Taking contracts!) 2. I write Sapphic fiction! www.amazon.com/dp/1764756304 3. Smol projects and ebooks here: jadedsynic.itch.io

Ahoj! Pleasure to meet you. Keeping it brief: 1. 8-year vet in narrative design and writing. Worked across indie and AAA on fantasy, history sims and sci-fi games. (Taking contracts!) 2. I write Sapphic fiction! www.amazon.com/dp/1764756304 3. Smol projects and ebooks here: jadedsynic.itch.io

✋ This is why I bothered to publish on itch[d]io, despite them kowtowing to Collective Shout's pearl-clutching. Hell, if you're doing it rough and ask me nicely, *I will give you the files* so you can have something to read

Reminder to buy your ebooks from authors. We will let you own your download. We won’t repossess the contents of your kindle.

All my ebooks are DRM free, because you should get to keep what you pay for.

Purgatory Dungeoneer's on sale for 50% off ($4.99) for the Steam summer sale! If a game with literal hundreds of playable characters, a comical amount of builds and party compositions, and a 15-20 hour storyline is something you're into, it's a great time store.steampowered.com/app/1963010/...

Also it's my only game that's gotten enough reviews to reach Very Positive, but every additional review still helps (and it'd be wild to see this game someday reach Overwhelmingly Positive)

You know it's still Pride Month, right? And that there are games (and a book) developed by a Trawlwoolway Palawa transbian, right? Most of them are free! jadedsynic.itch.io

Grogu is the perfect mascot for the modern Star Wars fan-base: a 50-year old baby

Me and my bestie(s) seeing there's Abominable Intelligence in something we liked...

If a purchase isn't ownership, piracy isn't a crime

You know it's still Pride Month, right? And that there are games (and a book) developed by a Trawlwoolway Palawa transbian, right? Most of them are free! jadedsynic.itch.io

Explain to yourself why men who get mad that you call it the “men’s World Cup” instead of just the “World Cup” are being stupid and entitled. got it? Is it fixed in your mind? That’s what you sound like when you whine about being called Cis

Hey, Adios is 45% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/... $10. 2 hrs. One of the best voice-acted games in history. Two men who love each other very much are trying to persuade the other to stand down, because if one of them doesn't, the Farmer will have to be killed.

So I'm back on my bullshit, now that Her Bloody Creature is out: go.bsky.app/JGX6rtV These raunchy writers and amorous artists will indeed scratch *that* itch. If you don't know them, now you do. And if you did know them... game sees game~

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

wishing every european a very please stay hydrated and do whatever you can to stay cool

So we've been doing this chuffed for six months but because the housing situation is so shit Anna's not been offered anywhere to move to. If you are in Victoria and have a spare long term room please reach out to her.

#FilmSky Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great. Surprise. This flopped by Hollywood standards. And yet, it's the cornerstone of what we consider "gothic action film"

So I'm back on my bullshit, now that Her Bloody Creature is out: go.bsky.app/JGX6rtV These raunchy writers and amorous artists will indeed scratch *that* itch. If you don't know them, now you do. And if you did know them... game sees game~

Woah! Very rare narrative design assistant role go get it!

A wild mix of sapphic horror tropes playful, eerie, and delightfully chaotic.

Huh, this is doing numbers... who wants lesbian cosmic horror with NO AI in the dev process whatsoever? jadedsynic.itch.io/her-bloody-c... www.amazon.com/dp/1764756304 You're helping me pay rent!

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Take a leaf out of Echo's book and bloom on your own terms. 💚   Greenhearth Necromancer is a cozy game about a non-binary necromancer raising a garden from the dead — made by a queer-led studio! 🌈   🔗: store.steampowered.com/app/2127570/Greenheart_Necromancer/

Use your sick pay

There, something narrative and programming can agree on

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Unreal quadrupling down on AI? Well, if you're considering Godot, keep in mind that the last version that was not made with AI contributions was 4.5. You can perhaps extend some courtesy to 4.6, but 4.7 openly includes AI-generated code and LLM-assisted changes. Do with this info what you will.

There, something narrative and programming can agree on

Hey fam. I'm pretty much fucked on food. I have no ebt left for the month. We're out of milk and every single form of easy or safety food for me. I'm genuinely not sure what I'm going to eat tonight. I literally haven't had a real meal all day. I had a pickle for breakfast fam. I'm kinda cooked..

Since Her Bloody Creature is *almost* done, one cool fact about the POVs: - The Librarian: was studying psychology - Leah: she's a Gunnai and Yuin woman - Snow: won a city-level Yu-Gi-Oh championship at 11 - Mya: her shotgun is a Winchester 1887 - Claire: speaks fluent Aramaic, Mycenaean and Latin

There is memetic Strine goodness in it too

Hey, heard you needed a new WLW fix. Did you know I almost called this "I Hooked Up With a Cute Monster Girl and I Became One Too"? 📚🌈 #BookSky a.co/d/0cLFVfcX

Hey, heard you needed a new WLW fix. Did you know I almost called this "I Hooked Up With a Cute Monster Girl and I Became One Too"? 📚🌈 #BookSky a.co/d/0cLFVfcX