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hello, truly sorry to do this but i'm struggling to keep my head above water, it is very difficult to find work while trans and autistic on terf island. anything helps, though please do not feel obligated, i have been through worse and am lucky to have a partner to get me through this. thank you.

💡🚪new game: baetyl a lateral thinking puzzle maze, with a mysterious story... 🧀made for BRIEFS 2025 - CHEESE be sure to check out the other games as well! ❤️

New Game: Blank Page Boogie-Woogie. A game-designing game for making quick and silly games with your friends. All you need to get started is a pen, some paper and some willing co-designers. illomens.itch.io/blank-page-b...

i did it you can stop thinking about it, i just solved The Male Loneliness Epidemic downpour.games/~doruk/solut...

making downpour game at lunch i think this one will heal the world

dear reader is a cool game because: -i have no intention of reading most of these books but it's great to get a taste through playing -it makes me think about prose a lot -using sentence structures as puzzles is also pushing me to reflect on patterns in writing -is fun uncool bcs: -only on ios

The support for the Games for Palestine charity bundle has been immensely appreciated these past weeks. With 6 days to go, we are about $14k from reaching $100,000. Please RT and support the bundle itch.io/b/2979/play-...

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

Awesome bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

🎉 iGGi Researcher talks! 📅 Sept 10–11 • University of York Next we have game design research, featuring: ✨ Doruk Balci - @dorukb.bsky.social 👀 Full lineup: www.iggi2025.org/talks-panels... Learn more about the speakers: www.iggi-phd.org/students #iGGiCon #GamesResearch #GameDesign

im the programmer in this... its good... play it when it comes out or else

Strip the humanity from the things we do and create. Embrace conformity with a new template made by those who don’t care about existing humans except to exploit them, excusing their scrabble for increasing wealth by waving at technocentric utilitarian religions that happen to align with their egos

made another downpour in a (short) flight downpour.games/~doruk/hey-l...

thought this was anthology of the killer for a sec

doruk's first downpour downpour.games/~doruk/the-c...

drawing on the train.. my old friend

i changed my phones Brough icons to unsettling david lynch characters so i wouldn’t play them so much, it didn’t work and now these are canon to me

The blog continues to grow... I've added a GIGF roundup as well as more book reviews, the latest gig I went to, and a whole new zines tag: hotelpaintings.neocities.org

we did it! now im gonna move the goalposts! we're actually soooooo close to $100k now...... in fact we are just under $5k away. wouldnt it be nice to get more cool in-game art of vampires/ghosts kissing renfield... dont mind if i do! back the drac for more kissing! 💋 bsky.app/profile/hara...

Yuha’s Nightmares — Announcement Trailer is live 🥳 youtu.be/cx_NiCPe-G0 #gamedev #YuhasNightmares #IndieGameTrends

(while pulling bricks out from the pillar holding up the ceiling) we should have more than one pillar holding up the ceiling

Infrastructure work is some of the most invisible/thankless, esp w/in cultural contexts, but it also is the thing that lets cool stuff happen, esp w/in cultural contexts. Easy to say it's slow or inconsistent or shouldn't be on the back of one guy, but you need will & resources to change that too

Yo! If you're looking for an excuse to make a game (digital or physical) and win a delicious pizza (physical), the next Pizza Jam 🍕 starts Sept 12th Itch.io/jam/Pizza-Jam-Pizza-Prize-15 So far: 🎮700+ games made 🌎Ive had pizzas delivered to Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Norway, USA, China, Argentina...

under present day rampant online censorship, and the way it’s affecting queer art & games… it’s a good time to point out that there’s a lot of DIY ways to distribute your work that don’t rely on a third party… like… github.com/9001/copyparty “turn almost any device into a file server”

held the first session of make and break club yesterday day, here are some thoughts fuzul.bearblog.dev/make-and-bre...

The game is now called A Line Held Tight. It's a sci-fi visual novel about a miner's strike. Here are some of the portraits from it

“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩

york folks, i'm starting to run weekly workshops about alternative, low-tech digital tools. running the first, trial session monday next week. come by, play and make a zine!! sign-up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/make-and-b...

There is a secret Forbes council conducting extensive research for finding the "1 under 1", going from village to village to locate The Chosen Entrepreneur Baby.

Who needs a game rec app when you have the domino club randomizer domino.gallery/randomizer/

FALLSTRUKTUR - Out Now (free) Descend through a world of dream-like geometry 20-60 minutes of playtime >>> store.steampowered.com/app/3674270/... by @rlnbrl.com, @fakefrogsonly.bsky.social and me!

york folks, i'm starting to run weekly workshops about alternative, low-tech digital tools. running the first, trial session monday next week. come by, play and make a zine!! sign-up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/make-and-b...

Work is stupid and pissing me off please Play my games (now re-listed!): coleo_kin.itch.io Buy my book: emreed.net/more_bugs Enjoy my cool blog: hotelpaintings.neocities.org

BREAKING: cool things to check out 😌

riso printed some posters for zine fest

Wrote about all my swirling thought-threads about the itch.io adult de-listing situation on the blog. Also added some links and book reviews! hotelpaintings.neocities.org/posts/2025-0...

feels as good a time as any, given current events, to replug the most popular thing i've ever written: dominoclub.itch.io/good-writers...

they installed DOOM on a starling

july blogpost fuzul.bearblog.dev/july/

More finished drawing of this sassafras tree #trees #ink

Ok, I guess I'll link to each of my games that have been de-listed for using the "erotic" tag and why I used it. Why not! They don't show up on itch search/recs anymore so...

july blogpost fuzul.bearblog.dev/july/

By the by, the link page on my site has a ton of home pages by gamedev/artist peers, along with a bunch of other online resources I find interesting. www.farawaytimes.com/links.html

>ask the author if their history book is about the material reality of everyday people or about Ideas >she laughs and says it's a good history book sir

You really get that speech from The Dispossessed when you realize everything that was enjoyable and beneficial to you about the Internet has been mutilated by commerce, advertising, and offering people more ways of selling out for less benefit

bloody eck

“Maybe they should’ve just moderated the obvious cases” ah yes that’ll do it. The defining characteristic of moral panics is that their goalposts are fixed in place and their requests sincere and limited.