found the post of all time for the shit I be feeling lately, oh my fucking god

seeing people make things they’ve always wanted to make makes me want to finally make this

extremely absolutely phenomenally proud of @benjamilian.bsky.social for taking the grand prize at A MAZE. / Berlin for Trans Theft Horso!!!! the stream here is timestamped for (a minute of nice buildup and) four minutes of pure acceptance speech masterclass

The winner of the Most Amazing Award is: Ben Swithen with “Trans Theft Horso” 🦩🏆🌴 This game reminds us that, as right wing policies are on the rise, it is a radically political act to create queer joy. Long live gender gladness!🌈 #playfulmedia #mbbfunded #amaze2026

And last but not least, spritesheet for Edelweiss, our MC!

A beautiful evening under the sunlit Edinburgh Castle listening to @franceswrites.bsky.social in conversation with @hanfrankan.bsky.social at Waterstones Edinburgh - check out THE BONE DOOR, out now!

Annoy the living daylights out of both payment processors and your local government. Never let them know peace while they are disturbing yours.

Otome Games Celebration's 2nd year is wrapping up in a few hours, so let's talk about it. Last year was my 1st time ever running a Steam festival, despite being in several beforehand. I did a whole write-up about my experiences with that for my blog, but let's stick to this year. ⬇️

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

It's the last 25 hours to browse the Otome Games Celebration Steam festival! There's 140+ otome games from around the world with filters for discounts, upcoming games, demos, and even what kind of love interests you like 💜 Browse it all here: store.steampowered.com/curator/3422...

Community & Impostor Syndrome in the Games Industry gfsc.community/th/ The games industry is a big one. It's easy to feel like an intruder. Ben writes: Here's how I got into game-development, and three events which showed me the merits of community and cooperation in this solitary line of work.

Twenty people

Made a spritesheet as a visual guide for scripting, but this may work as marketing material 🤔

wow discord is dying as usual. anyway go check out my otome steam festival that I did by myself because it's only up for 2 more days store.steampowered.com/curator/3422...

Absolutely massive day for Sheffield Greens. Welcome to our new and returning councillors 💚

I’m told my acceptance speech upset some of the BBC journalists who were in the room. I said what I said and it’s the truth 🤷‍♀️

Thank you everyone who's shared the Act III + IV thing! And thanks for the lovely comments - you're far too nice. 💖 I'll be trying to get the release shipshape over summer. Here goes nothing! (Forgive me for reblogging a bunch of QRTs in a row hahaha. But how often do I get to do that! ✨)

I cannot wait to cry my face off (again!)!!

this is one of my fav vns btw i've been anticipating the release of the last acts for years you should all check this out i love this vn, it's incredibly well written with some great characters 🙏

Well hello……… The final chapter of one my favourite indie VNs ever is coming along sometimes in 2026, aaah (It's alternate-history WWI, with a choice of fine men to date depending on your wartime ideological leanings. it's great and tragic and so fun!)

My absolute favourite indie VN (if not just VN period) is up for sale and the final parts are releasing this year!!!!!! If you haven't checked out Because We're Here and like tragic otome, WWI or just good writing in general, please give it a try!

I've been really looking forward to the next (and concluding!) part of this visual novel. Delighted and excited to hear it's coming soon. (Its creator Eike is the first person I turn to for advice on any game-makery matters).

The store page for Because We're Here Acts III + IV is now live on Steam! Releasing Q3 2026. Wishlists appreciated. ^^ store.steampowered.com/app/1075020/ And Acts I and II (as well as a slew of other wonderful VNs) are discounted as part of the #OtomeGamesCelebration! Check out the event page~

Peach Knight 🍑 12x16” gouache on watercolor paper

Our Life: Beginnings & Always is making its return to the Steam Otome Festival! 🥰 As part of the festivities, the OLBA DLCs are now on sale from May 4th-11th! We are honored to be included, and hope you take a moment to check out the 140+ other festival titles, too. 💕 #OtomeGamesCelebration

The #OtomeGamesCelebration hosted by @crystalgameworks.com is upon us! For a full week, Chronotopia will be available at a special discount (40%) and multiple lovely people will be playing the game on their channels 💖. store.steampowered.com/developer/cr...

The #OtomeGamesCelebration is now live on Steam 🎉 My historical otome visual novel set in Iceland, With Eyes of Ice, is 50% off during the event! Check it out if you like pretty boys having mental breakdowns and drama 🙏✨ ❄️ store.steampowered.com/app/2355830

Our game is taking part in the Otome Games Celebration on Steam! Breathless Winds features a tra‌ns heroine and four different characters to romance - including Gallardia, your hunky childhood friend, and Valerian, a cool and broody prince. Check it out while it's 50% off!

If your Parker is Posey, then things will be rosy But if your Posey is Parker, things get much darker

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oh no i had more thoughts (1/2)

This is the tiny Usagi Yojimbo we all waited for. Stan Sakai can make anything cute. Look at the grizzled old horse. That horse has opinions.

Grass type Pokémon Elite Four outfit

Let this serve as my semi-regular “if you haven’t been reading Usagi Yojimbo what’s wrong with you?” Post. Getting a few decades worth of some of the best comics ever made for €22 is honestly a steal. You’ve no excuse now and you’re come to understand how lucky we are to have Stan Sakai.

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I still can't believe Lucie game is out now....... thank you everyone who's tried it so far!!!

sopranos youtube comments are always like "damn. ice cold kill from a real gangster!" on a clip of a crying man frantically beating someone to death for implying he's gay or his dick's small or whatever

watching through the sopranos with ashleigh & appreciating how it works perfectly for both the audience who see badass mob guys doing cool mob things & the audience who see insecure clowns doing silly bullshit

I’d add words of wisdom from my stepmother—“A hobby is something you spend money on. If you make money on it, it’s a job and you’ll eventually need a new hobby.”

The job of a critic is not to tell you if something is good or bad, it's to lay their sensibilities on the table and tell you whether they liked something and why, and you're meant to infer by comparing yourself to them whether you might be interested in it. Critics need to be weird for that to work

Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon is out now! ✨ Our Victorian vampire otome features: 🦇 ability to be a vampire or a human with consequences for each 💖 3 male love interests with 6 endings total 🔪 a murder mystery over 220k words Play now: store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...

Kasane teto is 48 years old

the tangible claustrophobic nature of Sonic Adventure 2's sound design

IT IS THE WORST WINTER ON RECORD. FAMINE GRIPS THE CONTINENT. A sullen trans woman and her Cis Ally™ best friend navigate a world based on the real history of Austria in HUNGERWINTER: a short visual novel set in The Lovely Ladyverse. Available for FREE at: das-kunstkollektiv.itch.io/hungerwinter

I choose to believe this is how most 90s arcade race tracks were initially conceived #gaming #retrogaming #arcade

mozart’s opera ‘don giovanni’ poster illustrated by yoshitaka amano

Tell you friends about the Internet Archive. I was absolutely shocked none of my friends even knew it existed beyond the waybackmachine, and they were dazzled at how many resources they provide. It's such a vital and important resource, especially in our time of erasure of facts and culture.

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

I made an art-book for Trans Theft Horso. It can be found on Steam, and has a hundred colourful ebook pages full of animals, illustrations, facts and faces, with a lot of early/unused versions. store.steampowered.com/app/4393460/... - I mean to bring at least real-world looking-at copy to A MAZE.

we all know I have no life, so: