We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

goddammit ebay what is the point of you having "filters" if you absolutely refuse to apply them to my search and keep giving results that don't match them?

when you go to a website to check a menu and make plans it would be nice if they warned you that they were going to flip to a new seasonal menu literally the next day not going to happen, but it would be nice

📖 WEBSTORE SALE 💓 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Yuri Nation, it's your time to shine! From now until the end of the month, you can grab select Girls Love titles for 40% off, only from the Yen Webstore! Shop now before these deals slip you by! buff.ly/B6RMUYh

user comment I saw today: "Not sure why you made these multiple updates of this game i mean most of us have already beaten the game, its best to make a new game" The game in question has been on sale for literally ONE MONTH. #gamedev

apparently tumblr thinks "Dickinson" is a porn term because it auto-blocked 90% of search results, many of which weren't even *from* the show

It's depressing how I've had to entirely give up shopping on etsy because they deliberately fake the search results, refuse to show actual matches, and cram results with AI nonsense and mass-produced items instead of the weird artist creations I'm looking for.

i've apparently been so worked up with zorana stuff all year that I either failed to notice or totally forgot that kara no shoujo 3 finally came out in English... after, like, the third recasting of the main character and who knows what other rewriting of the series.

if you played my game Thieves Of Dingirra: store.steampowered.com/app/617990/T... remember that doing a review really helps boosting the visibility of the game and helps other people decide if it's something they might enjoy as well 🥰

Today is my birthday. If you'd like to do something nice for me, you can: Donate to Feeding America, a nationwide network of food banks give.feedingamerica.org Or just tell a friend about one of my books that you've enjoyed. (Here's a big ol' list of them www.goodreads.com/author/list/...)

🎂 inkle is 14 years old today! 🎉

🥂SAVE THE DATE! 🥂 Galaxy Princess Zorana is set to launch on Steam on November 21, 2025 - that's two weeks from now! #gamedev #LongLiveTheQueen store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...

found out why my purse always felt so heavy even when I thought I didn't have much in it - several fistfuls of change had worked their way into the lining

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-... I imagined trying to get through bug reports written by an LLM and immediately got an honest to god headache. What do you mean I can’t even go back to the person who wrote it and ask for more details because there isn’t one, but it can still make shit up?

I want more people 2 check out my vns but Im so tired of trying to Market them lol......

update from valve - (same) build passed the checks this time. I now need to pick an actual launch date. So this is not quite exciting news YET, but wanted to let people know so they don't waste energy worrying or being mad about it anymore!

The demo for Elemental Flow is out now☀️That's ~3hours of conversation-centric Solarpunk RPG for you to play with. Whether you like it or not, leave us a review so we know what works for you and what doesn't! And if you do like it, a wishlist would be amazing =) store.steampowered.com/app/4004580/...

sometimes mental autocomplete gets a little lost - tried to type pandora when I meant patreon, and pandora hasn't been relevant to my life for... more than a decade i'm sure. then tried to correct to 'pantreon' which is likely a rather different sort of fan site

Audiobooks.com is so excited about the audiobook for Daughter of Mystery that they've revised the 50% off to 75% off! I'd love for this audiobook to do well enough that the rest of the series gets picked up in audio. And now, back to working on Alpennia #5. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

the feeling when discord flashes on the taskbar and you have to check eighteen different tabs trying to figure out who emoji-reacted

why yes i do think the resurgence of yue opera in china is cool as fuck. yue: no male actors. revitalizing a wuxia-centric form of performance by focusing on chivalrous sword fighting stories with anti-imperialist social messaging, classic move. stage as close to the audience as the village vanguard

i’m too lazy to use this but i feel like i’m cooking here

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

Haaaaa she's so cute I hesitated to peel the protecting layer ! @Steam get your shit together I need to play it so bad ! Thanks for all your hard work @hanakogames.bsky.social !

I am reminded of when the BBC contacted me about paying me for an old radio lecture. But to get payment I needed to be a contractor in their new portal, do a Right to Work check, then I needed to do the bias training, diversity and IT safety courses... when I refused, panic ensued.

It is not misconduct to unionize, and I hope that Rockstar and Take-Two face serious legal challenges for what seems to be a very clear-cut case of union-busting.

I'm so angry and upset right now. This is ridiculous

Steam has once again replied to my build approval request - and this time just outright lied and denied it for reasons that are provably false. Like, they're still claiming that the game says "Full Controller Support" on the page when that's NOT TRUE and hasn't been for weeks! #gamedev

one of our mutuals is missing, a halloween horror story

i'll be releasing my yandere horror visual novel the way we all go on steam tomorrow 🙏 🔪 store.steampowered.com/app/3422290/ #visualnovel #horrorgame

Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls bound to it. End a 50-year curse inscribed in blood and celluloid. KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play. brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

Start downloading and now because your favorite old media is about to be turned into the equivalent of this

people want to get rid of homeless people and ill say theres one weird trick, its right in the name

itch suggested I should put my spookier games on sale for halloween itch.io/s/165301/hal...

Cute Bite is on sale for Steam's Halloween event - which means the special Pumpkinhead encounter (and related limited-time achievement) is active again! Go forth and BITE! 🧛‍♀️ 🎃 store.steampowered.com/app/1586960/...

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Next up: the first adventure of Keith Campbell (legendary adventure columnist). This was designed for a team adventure-playing contest and is "for children" (based on books by the children's author Enid Blyton) but is much harder than that designation suggests. bluerenga.blog/2025/10/26/f...

Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

All Zorana keychains claimed in the kickstarter have now been put into the mail system! UK orders should arrive by the end of the week, international WHO KNOWS. But they're moving! #GalaxyPrincessZorana www.kickstarter.com/projects/han...

It's been a while, but I finally wrapped up my fan translation of a #yuri visual novel. I've been working on it since early June. I hope you enjoy the story! steamcommunity.com/groups/hella...

The English translation for Black Lily's Tale is now up on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1931940/...

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare. I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛 #NoHunger

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!!! 💿🎉🎉 DATING OF THE FUTURE is finally out on steam!! go play it right now!!!!

🤟🔥Akuryo Taisan🔥🤟

"cosy airport security game" is such a cracked pitch for a wholesome cosy game. missing the point of papers please so hard I almost respect it in its quiet evil. I wonder if you can do wholesome cosy "your body does not match what your passport gender says" patdowns

last day tomorrow and it's got €5398 left until the first stretch goal so i have pulled my last resort: dangling fat butch women in front of you all

The Gamer was pretty much the *only* outlet willing to stick their neck out for us adult game makers. Their coverage was invaluable in getting the word out about payment processor censorship 😥