A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):

I released Jailbird Nocturne just over a year ago! So I wrote a 30 page retrospective on just about anything about it I could think of - design, characters, narrative, themes, production, scale, reception, etc. Hopefully you find something in there of interest!

I made a GRAPHIC NOVEL with @madjesters1.bsky.social! BONES OF THE VOYAGER follows Nina, an indie director dealing with problems on set and her depression—which is embodied by a sarcastic skeleton named Vincenzo Get it on Amazon: bit.ly/4pkcVfV #BookSky #IndieBooks #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity

They've lost the 9yos

sometimes you gotta draw a political cartoon #696969 "The Sad And Regrettable War"

4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists. itch.io/b/3062

Life's finally stabilized enough and I have *just* enough assets made that I can share a screen of my current project! Working title: Motor Oil and Sword. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #rpgmaker #solodev

"[T]his article is in revolt against the puritanical notions of pornography as a monolithic evil, a space of degeneration and moral rot." An anonymous contributor affirms the value of NSFW content in a world that's increasingly becoming more hostile to it: unwinnable.com/2025/08/11/t...

Jailbird Nocturne is in the Queer Games Bundle! So, like, get it! itch.io/b/3062/queer...

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art. itch.io/b/3062/

wrote my final thoughts (for now) on itch.io removing and shadowbanning adult queer games and what i'd like to see more of in the near future: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

“A source that cannot be verified or remain consistent is useless.” Shout this sentence from on high.

Very cute lil relationship story by @alexandrah.bsky.social 💖 alchiggins.itch.io/bug-mystery-...

I want to repeat the phrase "being forced to undergo the wrong puberty" until every remotely persuadable cis person in the world sees it: denying gender-affirming care to trans teens isn't neutral or default, it's forced body modification.

Something the Skrmetti decision drives home: "Puberty blockers" should be abandoned as a goal; the goal should be HRT for any minor that wants it; puberty blockers should be a tool for minors who choose themselves they need more time to decide and *nothing else*. Compromising achieved nothing, here

My radio silence up to this point has mostly been because I hadn't made enough art assets for my current project to show anything off, but at this particular moment, I'm also moving, starting a new job, and running a D&D campaign, so game development is just straight-up not happening! :(

TRUMP SHREDS SKIN TO REVEAL TRUE FORM AS BELETH, KING OF HELL, DRAWING CRITICISM FROM DEMOCRATS Oval Office incident raises possible ethical issues, say some constitutional scholars.

farting while blowing your nose

I have said for years that polite, ostensibly supportive liberals quietly think in private that transition is a lifestyle choice, not medicine - a nice to have, ultimately boutique luxury that must be shelved during hard times. and they're going to shrug sadly and tell us that these are hard times.

this is like worse case scenario for me and many other trans people on medicaid. i will likely not be able to access life saving care if this goes through. can't state it any more - they're trying to eliminate us from existing. please call your reps now

you ever noticed how the far-right won in america, and trans people are losing all their rights, and the far-right lost in the UK, and trans people are losing all their rights

1. I am raising the alarm: If you are a transgender adult, your care is under threat by President Trump. You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans. The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults. Subscribe to support my reporting.

Submissions to QGB2025 are open now.

There's a few fun things I found in Monsterpunk's project file: 1) Early art assets for Danger Zone Friends! At the start of DZF's development, I was most comfortable making pixel art in Game Maker's image editor, so I made the original character portraits of Agnes and Lulu in Monsterpunk's file.

Surprise release! After 11 years, you can finally play Monsterpunk. alchiggins.itch.io/monsterpunk

Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Wrote a blog post about making my latest jam game. I feel like I'm in a weird place in my hobbyist/indie game dev "career" (eg, "do I even want to make games anymore?"), and doing a jam again has helped me start to unpack some things.

New game! Bug Mystery? The Explosion Speaks! A short visual novel/adventure thing made for the 2024 Glorious Trainwrecks Sekret Santa Jam! alchiggins.itch.io/bug-mystery-...

If you’re confused about why academics are panicking about the NIH overhead budget cut, this thread is a good primer, but especially this point. This budget cut will decimate universities across the country and the students, employees, researchers, and communities they serve

I spent over two hours watching 'Emilia Pérez,' time I will never get back, so I wrote down all my thoughts about the film. Thank you as always for your support! From penis to vagina! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/all-my-tho...

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care. While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"I've been using this software for 20 years, how hard could this be - "

I've sometimes theorized that some 2010s and 2020s of indie game hits have been a gold rush of who can transform goodwill/nostalgia towards freeware/abandonware into a Steam-friendly game the fastest. E.g. harvest moon -> Stardew, super Metroid -> hollow knight, flash platformers -> super meat boy

www.cavestory.org/download/cav... Reminder that Cave Story is free and available with a bunch of different translations! Do not give Nicalis your money! Buy Kero Blaster and also check out Pixel's other games!!

There's a *lot* more I could say but this is already a long thread. So I'll just end with, here's a petition: www.change.org/p/bluesky-mu... If you're cis and can tank Having Your Name On A List, it would be great if this petition just kept growing even as Bluesky tries to make all this go away.

youtube is a "cosmic horror" that granted me unlimited knowledge of all the music in the world in exchange for filling the planet with misinformation

I'm blogging about media again! All the recommendations this time around are queer; most of them are spooky. alexandrah.neocities.org/blog/posts/2...

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

"Wait so in Kingdom Hearts is his name Leon Squallheart?"

Now that everyone has migrated to Bluesky, I am just now realizing that I should *probably* post about my RPG Maker epic again. Animals! Devils! Escape a prison! Sassy banter! Destroy a prison! Confront the past! Fight a totally normal horse! Your apartment has four floors this time!

PLEASE REPOST Were you part of the community surrounding Mark Overmars' Game Maker from 1999 to 2006? Did you use sites and forums like Game Maker Games, Games Showcase, etc? I'd like to chat with you about the games and culture from that era for a video. Please reach out!

If you don't love ANY bad square games then you don't have a heart, if you love EVERY bad square game then you don't have a brain

New game ☺️ Heeheehee, I really like this one y'all. Partner played it for like an hour last night and had fun the whole time. Give it a play, try to beat my high score: www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/12447

Here is something to keep in mind tonight as the returns come in:

Aight, new project alert: I pecked away at this while working on Jailbird Nocturne, but I'm finally making a Card Games vs Literary Characters at the End of the World sequel in earnest.