🩸📚 I wrote a short story called Reaching Out — speculative horror about grief, memory, and crossing a line you can’t uncross. 💙📚🪐 I’ve made it free for readers who want it. #readersky #cyberpunk #indieauthor

Small indie-author win: while setting things up for @pagebound.bsky.social I noticed Lonely Nights on High Rooftops reached 10 ratings on @goodreads.com 🖤 I’ve dropped the price too — so if you’re looking for a gritty cyberpunk revenge story 👀 💙📚🪐 #indieauthor #readersky #cyberpunk

Finishing up documentation for my Game Project, the time has come to dive back into the manuscript I wrote for the follow-up to Lonely Nights. Tackling cycles of violence, budding resistance, and of course, the crippling weight of profits over people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T3j...

Pretty sure I've finalized my slides for my first-ever public talk on video games marketing. I'll be presenting it at buff.pxl.be It's a talk designed to transfer my MarComms experience and knowledge I've gained in AAA to Indie game devs.

Genuine question to sate my curiosity; are there gaming equivalents to trends in romantasy? You know, the Fourth Wing kind of stuff. I know about romancing npc's in cyberpunk/baldur's gate type stuff, but I feel like thats backstory and not the "main event", yknow?

With creating a game, I'm finding inspiration in a lot of places. Today I stumbled onto Visual Synths, and I'm mindblown. www.instagram.com/reel/DE2MgRH... Look at this! I love everything about this.

Here's a milion dollar bakery idea in the vein of cro-nuts; Tirami-Choux. A Choux pastry, filled with Tiramisu instead of creme pattisierre or whipped cream. #bakery #justthinkingoutloud #AICouldNever

Flotsam builds some hope at world's end: aftermath.site/flotsam-impres...

My friends @duckosaurus.bsky.social released a new trailer AND a demo today! youtu.be/74DgGGw60to?... Give them a view, try out the demo, and let them know what you think! #indiedev #blueskygaming

At the @belgiangames.be #belgiangameawards as a free agent this year!

Hot dang Foundation season 3 was good!

As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead! So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.

I saw someone comment "Privatize the profits, socialize the losses" and my word, what a fantastic title that would be for a @rageagainst.bsky.social song

Just the wrote the end to the "boss fight" chapter of this story/game I've been working, and damn. I tend to put pieces of myself into what I write, but this was an abnormally emotional one for me. I hope I get to share it some day. #indiedev #indieauthor #amwriting

I haven't seen the movie, but I just finished reading #AmericanPsycho for the first time, and.... wtf is this book? Extremely gruesome and graphic murder scenes, mixed with a constant drone of restaurant reservations, and random album reviews? Plot goes nowhere? I'm surprised by all this.

This game I've been working on is releasing TODAY! It's been very fun being a lot closer to the dev process than I am otherwise. Can't wait to see what players get up to! #indiegamedev #indiegame #VR

Love it when comes to snuggle in close like this 🥰

“At first it feels like exploration. Then it feels like entrapment.” — @_robynreadsbooks Today’s the last day to get Reaching Out FREE! 🕯 Get it before it’s gone → natchaistappers.com/short-stories/ (Or get it free anytime by joining my mailing list) #FreeBook #SciFiHorror #BookPromo 🩸📚🪐📚💙

There's a show on Flemish tv @vrtnws.be called "This is not a murder mystery", which is a murder mystery involving Dalì, Magritte, Man, Ernst and more, and it's SO good. Really appreciating the additional docu to the show as well

“Not just sci-fi horror — a story about love and grief.” — @sci_fi_gem Reaching Out is FREE until Nov 3, across all major platforms. 📖 Get it or join my mailing list here: natchaistappers.com/short-stories/ 💙📚🪐📚🩸 #FreeBook #ShortStory #SciFiHorror #IndieAuthor #BookRecommendation #AmReading

Does Spotify have settings, like Pinterest, where you can choose to opt out of AI music? I just got catfished hard, and I can't stand it.

Step sideways into another dimension where time, memory, and grief blur into something far more terrifying. 🎃 Get it free on all platforms → natchaistappers.com/short-stories/ Or sign up for my mailing list to get it 🩸📚🪐 💙📚 #SciFiHorror #ShortStory #FreeBook #IndieAuthor #HalloweenReads

Practically crushed my finger in the door today, so that's the current excuse why my writing is slow. #indieauthor #amwriting #scifihorror

Just trying to invoke some cozy horror vibes from my neck of the woods. #indieauthor

I'm writing a story that I'm turning into a video game, and it's been so fun to do. Seeing early concept arts come back that show you the vision of your words in someone else's mind, reading that the story has brought folks who'll be working on the game to tears... Let's hope we can make this real

Motherfuckers want to make our night sky a subscription service.

I only started Skate. today - and one of the most glaring things to me is how they've tried to make corporate and city council 'cool'? What's all that about? And the flippin' AI bug? The skating itself feels good so far, but I'm thrown off by the corporatism. Skate used to rep the culture better

Not to be a cynic, but how long do you think it'll take before the cease-fire breaks because now Israel has nothing to lose?

Today!

Another great review for 'Reaching Out', this time by _robynreadsbooks! I love it when people appreciate the atmosphere and "vibe" of my writing. Makes me feel tingly inside. I'm also thrilled that readers enjoy my blend of sci-fi horror. #indieauthor #scifihorror 🩸📚🪐

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ by @sci_fi_gem for 'Reaching Out'! Really loved this review, and was pleasantly surprised she called out 'Lonely Nights on High Rooftops' again as a must read too 🥰 #indieauthor 🩸📚🪐 #toberead

I'm going to be so for real; this novelette/game I'm writing the story for is the best thing I've ever written. Can't wait to get it into your hands - be it in a book or through a game! #indieauthor #writing #gamedev

Goodreads: 16 ratings | 10 reviews | 4.44 ⭐ StoryGraph: 9 reviews | 4.31 ⭐ Thank you so much for reading and leaving reviews! ❤️

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

A wonderful 4.5 ⭐️ review from @adperfectamconsilium over on bookstagram 🥰 What did you think about 'Reaching Out'? #indieauthors 🩸📚🪐

Looking for a high-octane roguelite FPS fix? @galacticvault.bsky.social is it! 🔥 A colleague of mine worked on this and it is a banger of a game. Last time I played I had a lot of fun, very addictive. Check it out, because it is Chef's Kiss! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq9p...

iiiiiiiiiiiiiin case you missed it: Submissions are now OPEN for Day of the Devs: @thegameawards.com Digital Showcase 2025! Submit your game here, then join us LIVE Wednesday, December 10th for the digital showcase! Video Games!!!! dayofthedevs.org/submit

If ever there was an image that showed you why my heart is the way it is.

Bad Omens just continue to knock it out the park. I love that they're not beholden to the genre, and are taking the songs where they instinctually feel they should go www.youtube.com/watch?v=pebU...

I smudged my house with sage, for the first time ever since moving, to get bad juju out. 2 hours later, I crack off a piece of my tooth filling. Chat; am I the bad juju? Horror plot; I cleansed myself and now my body is falling apart.

Happy to report that this is my first video game writing out in the wild 🤖

"You tried to patch me out, but all you did was unbind me." 🤖👾⚔️ #VRForever

As much as I enjoy Bluey, I am constantly looking forward to watching more Hilda with my little guy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCoj... I love the message, I love the folklore-inspired creatures that aren't evil, all of it. I love this show.

Don't hold back.

What is up with @ticketmasterben.bsky.social charging nearly €60 for metal band concerts? I like @badomensofficial.bsky.social , I like Dayseeker, but pricing the lowest tickets at nearly €60 is just exclusionary to any young fans wanting to go, and will not grow the fanbase of these growing bands?

I like writing the visual beauty in horrific things. This paragraph was like a massage for my brain. Have you read 'Reaching Out' yet? Be sure to rate/review! Get it for free on my website by signing up for the email at the bottom, or buy it. 🩸📚 #booksky #bookrecommendations 💙📚 #Quote

I'm playing Oxenfree II through netflix on my ipad. And while I'm loving the story, as I did the first, the constant crashes and frame jitters kinda throw me off, ngl.

I have deep respect for Hermen Hulst, but I don't understand how you can equate the success of Astro Bot, as well as failing early and cheaply, with "intentional creation of massive IP's" ?

I just really liked writing that. Excerpt from 'Reaching Out' natchaistappers.com/short-stories/ 🩸📚 #booksky #bookrecommendations 💙📚 #Quote