been watching an old anime classic, and it's made apparent something that modern anime has forgotten. slapping travellators down absolutely everywhere so you don't have to animate walk cycles.

i am beyond hyped for this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VT...

My free itch games got a big weird boost on downloads yesterday, but there are more downloads than traffic to those pages so I suspect shenanigans are afoot. Some kind of scraping? I dunno.

Sniggering at people with fragile health. Pathetic. If you roll your eyes when you see someone masking, share a little joke with your buddies, please just stop a DAMN SECOND and wonder what it's like to be health-compromised in year 7 of an airborne pandemic. Then keep your take to your damn self.

to sell this one: whenever something suitably Dramatically Business happens in the story, a deep-voiced narrator says BUSINESS in the tone of a disaster movie trailer voiceover while the word BUSINESS pops up in all-caps. BUSINESS.

Final Profit: A Shop RPG manabrent.itch.io/finalprofit isthereanydeal.com/game/final-p... anticapitalist shop simulator/jrpg hybrid. yes, i said anticapitalist. how? well, you see, you must defeat the Lords of Business to topple capitalism, but that involves BECOMING a Lord of Business. funny af.

Final Profit is so good, I like any shop manager that lets you straight up kill people if you want. Begone, wretch!!!

you know you're dehydrated when you boil the kettle for tea and instead go to pour it into your yoghurt and muesli

It's that special time of year again where it's way too hot in Australia to be putting up with Winter bulls***. Oh, and Final Profit is 50% off for the Steam Winter Sale ❄️ 🛒 store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...

Last 12 hours in the Angeline Era launch sale - Thank you to so many for bumpslashing and searching over the last two weeks!!! The reception has been amazing and we look forward to making many more games!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

Angeline Era ($19.99) - bumpslash combat is back, and you've never seen it twist around your heart like this. a story driven by a blend of Irish mythology, Christian philosophy, and Japanese-American history, that prods at your soul as you wander. has a demo. store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

kids aren't immune to long covid. this research shows that some *lasting* fatigue in kids after covid infection is 2/3rds with consistent, unresolving chronic fatigue being 1 in 6 www.nature.com/articles/s41... for your kids sakes, you should be demanding air filtration in schools

Final Profit is the best "run a shop" game I've ever played, with a bullet store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...

The weather has blessedly relented and cooled down. But in spite of this, Final Profit is still on sale.

The IGAs Nomination Committee is officially retracting Debut Game and Game of the Year, awarding both categories to new recipients. Additionally, we are retracting one of the Indie Vanguard recipients. Full details can be found in our FAQ under Game Eligibility: www.indiegameawards.gg/faq

I've been doing this 'twelve days of business' themed video thing as promo for Final Profit. Today's day six, and i'm pretty clucked with how this one turned out. 🐔 www.tiktok.com/@finalprofit...

cool timeloop rpg that tumblr loves is 35% off in the steam sale! store.steampowered.com/app/1677310/...

I highly recommend Final Profit. I describe it as a shop RPG where capitalism is the enemy but you have the great idea to defeat the Business Lords by infiltrating them from within and becoming a Business Lord yourself, and it goes as well as you hope, and also there is a "horse dimension"

It's that special time of year again where it's way too hot in Australia to be putting up with Winter bulls***. Oh, and Final Profit is 50% off for the Steam Winter Sale ❄️ 🛒 store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...

if only there were something we could do about this out of control flu such as filter the air, but unfortunately there's no solution such as filtering the air so i guess everyone will just get a very virulent flu for christmas and hospitals will get overwhelmed and people will die (ps: wear a mask)

A new RPG Maker Spotlight is just around the corner! Tune in tomorrow, December 17 at 1 p.m. EST, to see over 15 games showcased from the RPG Maker community! This is also the final presentation! youtube.com/@skeletoncre... #rpgmaker #rpgmakermz #RPGツクール

I still remember the night they banned smoking inside NYC bars and restaurants. So many articles claiming it would be the end of NYC nightlife. It was 2003. Things can change. Faster than you might think.

i just think it's weird that all the people who make all our favorite games are broke and can't fund their next project. like maybe there's something fundamentally wrong with this industry idk

I recently finished @finalprofit.bsky.social, the experience of which changes palpably depending on how Generous or Ruthless you are. And of course there's Disco Elysium's many different approaches to builds and interactions, which can lock you out of a lot of stuff depending on your choices

12. Hi, do you want old school rpg vibes but also more modern views on economics and gender and stuff? Also do the mechanics of tycoon games hit just right but also you're fully aware of their problematic nature? Final Profit man. It's your final destination. manabrent.itch.io/finalprofit

With the current discourse on how Steam doesn't moderate reviews, I feel it's a good time to revive this conversation. Earlier this year they quietly enabled the 'helpfulness system' that ends up highlighting negative reviews at the top, while hiding the positive. This has been terrible for indies.

With the current discourse on how Steam doesn't moderate reviews, I feel it's a good time to revive this conversation. Earlier this year they quietly enabled the 'helpfulness system' that ends up highlighting negative reviews at the top, while hiding the positive. This has been terrible for indies.

It’s crazy how powerful negative reviews are on the steam system- the whole thing seems set up to give overwhelming power to like 5 bigots vs literal hundreds of normal people. Valve just seem to love amplifying loud losers

I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.

Have you seen Final Profit? It's an aussie shop rpg that I feel like nailed the actual shop running better than Recettear while also being extremely funny in a similar way. store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...

New Blog Post: Mainstream Games Coverage is still Awful: mokkograd.net/posts/2025-1...

Do I know anyone who worked on Kpop Demon Hunters or is close to one of the people who worked on it? Hoping to make a present for a bunch of 6 year olds who are fans of the movie.

I wasn’t expecting an RPG Maker game to be one of the best shopkeeper sims available, but here we are! It helps that Final Profit is pretty funny and has an anti-capitalist bent to it. It also has an endless mode if you want more after the 15-20 hour story. store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...

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it's genuinely harder to make a good parody of capitalism nowadays but sometimes you build up your satirical world so well that it supernovas and everything is funny again

It's creator day on itch where they don't take their usual cut so now is a great time to pick up 4 great games for the price of 1 itch.io/s/169922/kit...

when you think you're singing up a storm, but then you check the recordings on the morrow and it's all hot garbage.

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed RPG Eternal Strands? With a free demo which you can play through the entirety of the opening chapters with no restrictions on play time?

Itch Creator Day! For maximum -𝕓𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤- My game is an award winning 𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐒-𝐓𝐎-𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐏-𝐒𝐈𝐌 rpg about 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐌. Incrementally improve your earnings and work your way up in the world of business on your quest to dismantle the system 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯... manabrent.itch.io/finalprofit

It's ITCH'S CREATOR DAY! Time to support your favourite creators and, if you are one such creator, plug your projects! Comment below with either: (a) ONE game/supplement/hack on itch OF YOURS that you'd love to see more people playing! AND/OR (b) ONE of the above, but someone else's work! 💛

Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!

tried to google 'suez canal incident' on ios and it autocorrected to 'sue anal incident' very different search results.

is this why we make games? lol a review from 2023 with a bunch of upvotes got edited this month, which pushed it back into algorithmic relevance and sadly coincided with a drop in sales. it's mostly anti-woke ideology unrelated to the game, but when I flagged it as such Steam did not remove it.

is this why we make games? lol a review from 2023 with a bunch of upvotes got edited this month, which pushed it back into algorithmic relevance and sadly coincided with a drop in sales. it's mostly anti-woke ideology unrelated to the game, but when I flagged it as such Steam did not remove it.

trying to decide if my headphones breaking down around black friday is good luck or planned obsolescence.

Biz is feelin' it today. But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit! On sale now! store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...

Biz is feelin' it today. But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit! On sale now! store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...

You can tell he is a real indie developer because he isn’t looking to ride it out for clout the way a studio of 60+ full time employees would have ✌️