can everyone please stop being doomers about aging for two seconds so i can continue to be excited about being in my mid-thirties a decade from now

I am so SO excited to announce that Delphinium is published by Serenity Forge! It has been an absolute joy and an honour working with them, the game could not be in better hands 🩵

A friend of mine who runs these things always repeats something to me along the lines of "Playtests and Research isn't for telling you the right thing to do, it's to confirm to you that your assumptions are correct and that your intentions are getting through to the players" and that's stuck with me

I look at the renp'y/visual novel subreddits from time to time, and it makes me a little sad when people post their work with captions like "Would you play something that looked like this?" If you are looking for feedback, please... Ask something that doesn't invalidate your artistic vision!

Has anyone considered that, in Scooby-Doo, the message is there is no monster greater than that of man and the evil we do unto another? ...Ah, what am I saying... Of course no one's considered it -- it doesn't make any sense. Stupid, stupid, stupid! I'm such a fool...!

RPGMaker horror continues to advance, but I think that at its core, it's about a young woman doing a box push puzzle and getting instantly crushed to death because she stepped on the wrong tile. And perhaps something chases her, too.

am just now discovering the wikipedia birthday globe... how adorable

they will not let me post this for some reason but i refuse to be silenced

I guess it's still funny to me that I never watched End of Evangelion, and possibly never will. I am one of the only people on earth who was satisfied by the infamous two-episode "we ran out of money so now it takes place in shinji's head" ending. 0 plot answers 0 lore 100% "congratulations"

I know that we are in a "media literacy" crisis, but also you guys cannot go "get media literacy" for everything. Sometimes I completely understand what an author is doing and still go "man this sucks ass"

WHO WANTS TO BE THE EMPEROR? is a micro visual novel about an amateur assassin and an unlucky guard trying to hide a politician's corpse. It was originally made for the O2A2 jam 2024, but has undergone edits since its initial release. Takes about 5-10 minutes to play! Totally free! Link below!

Lenora and Mr. Guard in the modern day. He is no longer allowed to bring her to board game night after the Incident (they played Risk as a duo and were so good they dominated the game and started larping as evil dictators) #oc #emperorvn #doodle

Thank you! I've definitely thought about it, but I feel like a continuation would involve a heavy focus on murder plots and shenanigans, whose details I would be quite weak at fleshing out... If I ever figure that out, though, I'd love to pull it from the ideas vault. It's what they deserve.

I can't believe that, every now and then, someone still looks at "WHO WANTS TO BE THE EMPEROR?" I still wish that I hadn't been restricted by the 1k word limit (so much more I wanted to do with the pacing/conversation that I just couldn't), but I look back on it with pride!

Character concept I've had on my mind recently (no art): housewife whose husband and children all perish in the nuclear near-annihilation of the United States, immediate happiness and life fulfilment as she becomes a sort of lone rider/vaquero in the remnants of the American southwest

The hardest part about initially naming people in a foreign language is that you just have no innate understanding of what sounds good, or even of what associations that names may have in that culture. Like how the name "Eleanor Rockefeller" has a different feeling than "Mary Jo Hunter" in the US

THE CAT: Ha! You can't kill me! Go on - try it! Dr. Bohring: Alright. [shoots him] [the CAT explodes into a mist of blood and gore] [dead silence for a minute] [drip... drip... drip...] [second, identical CAT appears in doorway behind him] ["Woah! Looks like SOMEONE had a bad day today!"] #ktc

Tried to make the gluten-free version of Stella Parks's yellow cake, and instead created a beautiful American honeycomb cake with a delightfully thick layer of wet, chocolate-flavored sand #food

February 6th marks one year since the release of Episode 1. Since then, of the Devil has garnered nearly 2000 positive Steam reviews, making our debut commercial title one of the best received games to come out on Steam in 2025. Thank you all for playing.

Steam has apparently given up on showing me actual games I may enjoy in my discovery queue, and has instead decided that I either have an interest in the most low-effort horror games imaginable, generic knight and dragon aesthetics, or games titled "HUNTED AND HORNY: SLUTS OF THE WILD WEST"

it's just now occurring to me that i never ported any ancient catvn art over to here, even though they were THE ocs back in 2020 on tumblr for me

[1/2] thought about them again, so -- catvn doodles from yesterday #oc #catvn #doodle

hire me for 1 million dollars to write the most realistic, heart-warming dialogue for your creative projects

People are constantly arguing over whether a story needs realistic bigotry, and I think the simple answer is literally "depends on what you are going for." Boom fiction has been solved forever

reminds me of this great comic by junkworldusa www.tumblr.com/junkworldusa...

I feel like discourse regarding "fans of games who watch letsplays or YouTube summaries instead of playing the game" glosses over a very interesting concept, which is that viewing a walkthrough of a game or a summary of it can be considered its own narrative experience

80's fantasy games were like "so there's this sorcerer... and get this -- he's evil... and not only that, but he has the ENCHANTED OBJECT... can you traverse his TWISTY MAZE and save the lands?" and people would play this and go "Gaming Is The Future. We Are... Gamers"

emerging character type I keep putting into everything is "malnourished, androgynous individual who would like to be anywhere other than here, actually." I need more body diversity though so ONE OF these guys has gotta have a slow metabolism while maintaining a black tar personality, or working out

One of the best parts of living in my hometown is that during snow days, the people who drive the snowplows all seem to get together in a parking lot far away from town and do a group jack-off session instead of plowing the streets. It's quite an interesting and unique use of our taxpayer dollars.

Really informative, simple, researched guide on standing with your community and neighbors.

Lillie: I'M SAVING MYSELF FOR A VIRGIN TRADHUSBAND Mordred: 😢 I wish I could marry a deranged asocial religious fundamentalist... Demon: hey guys I'm da demon

I believe the best thing that my fellow Americans can do on social media right now is to perhaps stop commenting on posts from other countries about the US. I do not care if they are correct or incorrect or whatever. (Getting desperate) You gotta stop

They should invent writing criticism where you receive perfectly worded criticism on everything you write without having another person actually look at it and form opinions. Like this would be ideal for me

Looking through an old game manual for Adventure (1979), and this is making me cry laugh for no reason

On one hand, it's not good to criticize someone's writing as a "gotcha" moment re: their critical opinions, because the ability to write is separate from one's ability to understand and dissect a work. But on the other hand, when someone has a bad opinion and also can't write it's like crack cocaine

I watched the newest Jurassic Park movie this past week, and I was kind of amazed at how afraid of its own premise it was. This should be an epic movie about an illegal dinosaur heist. Why did this CEO hire a band of goody two-shoe mercenaries. "Killing dinosaurs is a SIN" okay buddy

I finally upgraded to Windows 11 because my computer started to actively perform worse, and oh my god. What did they do to their beautiful .txt files. "We have brought text formatting to notepad" get this shit outta my face!! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People were correct, though. Mel is pookie

Attempted to watch the Pitt, but unfortunately, medical shows are impossible for individuals with mysterious organ pain the doctors have gone "i don't know... that's scary" over to watch (me). Is there someone who can badly edit this show to be about a non-medical topic instead

Sometimes, people will try to hype up "Dark" as being a good show, because of things like "acting" and "it resolves well" and "good reviews" and so on. Well, I tried to watch it a few years ago, and you know what? *eyes turn red* I didn't like it...

is it actually our 250th anniversary this year... lmao. lol

becoming addicted to using proper grammar and punctuation online again (ignore the styling of this buskeet)

Made the non-alcoholic version of Stella Park's tiramisu........... phenomenally dreamy texture. I messed up and added too much almond milk to the soak, though -- next time I would either halve it, or add none for a more bitter flavor

One of the most important things you can do when writing is stick the landing. Cannot stress enough how important an ending is to people's perception of an entire work

Exciting New Year's Eve movie ideas: watching the Seventh Seal and lining it up so that Death's dinner appearance happens at midnight. Start 2026 off with a BANG! 🤩

Watched Arrival the other day. I enjoyed it, but I also thought that the first half of the movie was thematically mismatched with its second half, which is a critique that seems reasonable in your head but makes you sound like a pretentious, miserable wad when said aloud to family.

whenever i see people get yelled at for saying video games often have bad writing i feel like this

I need more commission examples before I fully open them to the public so I am offering one discounted commission at $50 usd for my 3d chibis (they'll probably end up being around $65-$70.) You can apply here at this google form if you're interested! forms.gle/y2TZ4FV2sKeh... thank you :o)

took a break from work to look back at my "list of things" this year, and it's still really funny to me that inbetween all the 80's dark fantasy movies I saw I also watched the seventh seal, not knowing it was a famously influential movie and expecting something on the level of krull (1983)