Well! There we are! Me and Val! The handsomest men to ever grace the Indie game scene! It's an absolute honor to say Parfum Nostalgique has been featured on @polygon.com . I'm gonna go scream now. www.polygon.com/steam-adult-...

“She was not the only developer who reported the company singling out yuri content.” Games journalists really dropped the ball on itchio targeting yuri content, both SFW and NSFW The censorship of Toxic Yuri Game Jam hasn’t gotten any coverage from the games press

On itch io, payment processors, and the developers and creatives affected I wrote about the itch deindexing, stripe, a religious group & a call to action + shared amazing words from 25 affected creators who took their time to write me. 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁 #itch #indiedev #visualnovel #comic #novel

you can be frustrated with how itch handled the situation but you also have Got to focus on the actual source of the problem. i for one am going to call some credit card companies today.

i worked with our director RJ to put together a web page compiling phone numbers, emails, and petitions where you can make your voice heard - protect queer artists and sex workers and tell payment processing companies to end their awful policies harming safe spaces for creative art

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.

📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢 If your game got: • Deindexed • Removed • Payouts turned off Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you. 🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece. 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁

if you are an indie game dev and the art you want to make is being censored, don't let these fucking websites take away your creativity. do not depend on them for your audience. talk to each other. we will get through this if we fully internalize that we are developers responsible for our own work

Mercury, planet of bureaucracy #art

Come celebrate the beginning of Toronto Games Week outdoors at the waterfront! Meet some new folks and get hyped for the big event at sundown: a massive playable projection of Toronto-related games on the historic Canada Malting Silos! #TGW25 🗓️ Thursday, June 12th 8-11pm 🎟️ FREE!

My feelings covering Summer Game Fest, in LA, as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. pentopixels.com/article/summ...

cis people: a trans care ban is not just "oh they can't get surgeries". a trans care ban is taking away life-saving care. both mentally and physically life-saving.

Please read. We hoped that one of the many members of the Bluesky community from Gaza could be first to share this letter, but we were worried that their account would get taken down if they did. This letter is for @moderation.bsky.app, Bluesky leadership, and the wider community here. Thanks!

a decade ago, when i started writing about games as a hobby, someone asked me where i'd like to work someday. polygon was my immediate answer. i pitched them 12 times until i got my first commission. i've done over 100 stories for them since, and my editors shaped me into the writer I am today.

'tuna hake's underwater' now available on PC. "you are a fish who does tricks" store.steampowered.com/app/3521300/...

AAA is fucked. AAAA is fucked. AA is fucked. Indie is fucked. It's all fucked. I've never seen more across-the-board devastation in this industry in the decade-and-a-half I've been here.

This is my third game, about a small delivery robot in a ruined city. I wanted to explore things like: more descriptive text, game over states, inventories, cutscenes, etc. while telling a simpler story. Music by @laurentds.bsky.social! DELIVERY: treelet.itch.io/delivery #bitsy #interactivefiction

miku inspired by jet set radio #HatsuneMiku #jetsetradio

sharing again ahead of the weekend - i'm still grateful and honored by everyone's participation. if you haven't heard about spine, i've pubbed over 150 writers and counting, and there's a new piece every week. i cover most payments myself, but there's a patreon, too: www.patreon.com/c/intothespine

i spent most of my december putting this together. it's a massive collaborative effort, and it features some of the best writing i've seen all year. a great encapsulation not only of 2024, but everything around it, past and future. 102 writers who, despite everything, are still here.

i wrote a short blurb about Void Stranger for this - it's really humbling to be included along with so many skilled writers!! thanks to Into the Spine for letting me write again, and definitely take a look at the other articles in here!

love that well tended is in this thread ‼️ it's a really lovely game, and imo this whole thread is worth checking out

back on the text stuff, really liking the kind of heavy feel of this so far.

Looking for indie games outside the norm? Fortunately, I neatly package and deliver 10 (1 newly commissioned) of them straight to you every single month with Indiepocalypse! And if you work to check out the developers in any one issue you'll find a whole world of games! itch.io/c/689872/ind...

I want to make a personal appeal for the beautiful new game of Palestinian gamedev @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social. As nobody will fund a game about the 1948 Nakba, Rasheed is crowdfunding via launchgood.com/1948. I've been doing production advice on the game pro bono, and it deserves to exist.

Why does Unity keep making reasons for people to avoid it? All they gotta do is make engine, support devs, and charge in a way where you don't suddenly go out of business over your engine choice. On this episode of "Unity fucks up", apparently client revenue counts towards your own? Is that true?

if you're able to give, please consider helping, especially if anything claymore has made is meaningful to you

I made a tiny protest game about the terrifying reality of biking in Toronto without bike lanes marieflanagan.com/loserlane

okay, we're starting with this Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already! Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting) Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

I was already an award-nominated game writer but it's nice to also be an award-nominated narrative designer.

over the last few months, I've made a few more things since my Into the Spine article. in June I wrote for @unwinnable.com about my personal experiences with one of my favourite games, Katana ZERO! you can read it here unwinnable.com/2024/06/07/k...

Suicide Prevention is a very important cause to me and based on multiple skeets on my skyline: 📞 988 - National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (has text chat, too) 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Lifeline - 877-565-8860 🏳️‍🌈 Trevor Project - 866-488-7386 Or if you are in immediate danger go to the closest emergency room.

it's ME 🥳 I'm so happy I was able to write about this moment, huge thanks to Into the Spine!