running a game jam this month. pick some time in the next two weeks to make a small piece of interactive art in a small tool. 🙂 details inside itch.io/jam/smilejam

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

botan episode 4 is very good, foreshadows the yearning ambience of the manga. excited to see more :)

the main reason to write criticism: you can point to it whenever people ask you for your opinion on a work, so you don’t have to type out the same rehearsed responses over and over again

for people who regularly read my non-fiction writings (criticism, interviews, travelogues, etc.), what would you like to see more of? anything you want to see me cover more?

Well, my turn to make one of these posts. Yesterday was my last day at The A.V. Club. I got laid off and the site’s Games section is basically gone. It was a pleasure working with Garrett and our freelancers. If anyone has opportunities for games/TV/film journalism or consulting please let me know.

for people who regularly read my non-fiction writings (criticism, interviews, travelogues, etc.), what would you like to see more of? anything you want to see me cover more?

Have some time today and will be updating my Games Writing Resource document: will thread some of the stuff I have added. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

finishing up Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. i can see why this chapbook is so acclaimed. some excellent prose poetry on the black american experience and how racist the usa really is. if someone wants to get into poetry, i’d probably recommend this.

re: my recent takes on 'degenerates for wokes': "adult woman criminalized for possessing sexualized images of her own self-representation" has *fascinating* implications for adult women of certain body types possessing images of their actual self

no idea why i’m on the list — i wouldn’t have known without a bunch of people following me — but i love being on lists that say nice things about me.

Over 200 active video game publications. Text. Audio. Video. Reporting. Criticism. Analysis. Blogs. Sites. Networks and wikis. Even in its incomplete form, the document is a treasure trove! I hope it helps you find your next favorite blogger, essayist, reporter, video maker, podcaster, and more!

forgot to highlight this game on bsky, but i’ve been recommending The Red Pearls of Borneo to folks on various spaces. i was impressed by how it approached its Obra Dinn-esque mechanics, and the SE Asia colonial history was fascinating too. it’s free. store.steampowered.com/app/4488860/...

The sequel to The Red Pearls of Borneo is now up for wishlist on Steam. A demo will be available during the June Steam Next Fest: store.steampowered.com/app/4644870/...

if your work of art is a 6/10 masterpiece, let me know. always hungry for them.

Full Metal Daemon Muramasa Visual Novel Review (Minor Spoilers) Adam reviews Full Metal Daemon Muramasa, a famed visual novel of the early 2000s that’s also a minefield of content warnings.

enjoyed playing Beeswing last night, 1-2 hours. it’s an autobiographical game sketching personal moments in rural scotland and it’s got some nice lyrical interludes, though it’s admittedly janky at times. i think it’s low-key inspiring to see a game like it: jackspinoza.itch.io/beeswing

For @scrmbl.com, I wrote about one of the great underground indie RPG classics, Nepheshel

may or may not publish an itch chapbook based on my NaPoWriMo works. if i do, i would certainly spend some time revising them.

been thinking about Writing and how your enemy is perfectionism: you want to appear the best and get to the substance of your writing, so when your first draft inevitably reads like shit, you get disappointed and quit. i’ve been thinking how the writers i admire are ones who revise crap into gems.

been thinking about lyrical poetry and whether they can extend to other mediums. i was pleased to learn that, of course, tabletop rpg and analog game designers are on top of this. time to do a mini-research sprint: immerse.news/a-game-witho...

is The Beginner's Guide toxic yaoi

seeing friends and friends of friends pick up Lessons in Love … this will make waiting for the new update so tolerable.

incorporating reading at least one poem a day is the best addition to my daily routine.

happy lesbian visibility day xoxo

having spent a few days not playing Lessons in Love, i think i’ve grown dependent on it. all i do every day is chime in conversations about the game and read the poems it’s referenced. can’t wait for the next patch. i am always looking back on the game so fondly lol.

NHK World just released a fascinating documentary about the 50 year history of Comiket. Definitely give it a watch before it is taken down on May 3rd. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... My favorite part has to be the moment where they show a guy selling doujinshi about baseball umpires. Love that guy.

“We felt that there were not enough yuri visual novels with extreme themes we were particularly into, so we decided to take it into our own hands.” Meet 17 queer developers working on "less sugary" and, yes, even "toxic" and "bleak" wlw romance games:

Nancy 4/24/26

Nancy 4/23/26 … 🐈‍⬛

kamiina botan

a relative getting into anime through kimetsu no yaiba asked me what my favorite manga of all time was. and i was cycling through the most appropriate titles in my head: Fire Punch, Kamiina Botan, Kitakawa… thank god i actually read a few popular action manga once in a while.

new pitch

上伊那ぼたんは実に

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

tfw i’m regressing to my analog horror/found footage fixation again thanks to some silly long vn

LiL ch4 thoughts so far (a year of patches left): this game may be the best exploration on mental health and trauma. the gut punches i feel come from how obvious the signs are, but i never realized it. i feel like a bad friend who should've intervened months ago, so all i can do is listen.

Having received so much love for our good old #MoonChild game, we are happy to give love back to the game community by releasing the Moon Child source files + assets. Details can be read in the ReadMe text. We're looking forward to see what you're going to create! 💚 bitbucket.org/rhinoid/moon...

I decided to re-register an account to enjoy the memes of our 1990s #MoonChild game. 😁👍 I designed Hoi and Moon Child. Reinier van Vliet coded it, and Ramon Braumuller made the soundtrack. Play Moon Child online: proofofconcept.nl/portfolio/mo... Moon Child Archive: archive.org/details/Moon...

i wrote an article interviewing 16 developers + me working in the toxic yuri visual novel space. it took over a month and it cost me a laptop. my favorite piece of writing thus far. enjoy: bsky.app/profile/moth...

スペアミント 味だけが残った 甘くて冷たくて

Angeline Era's is today's Steam daily deal!! i put it on sale at the deepest discount yet.. 25% off (under $19!). a game full of strange places, combat and Bumpslashing awaits! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

someday, more people will realize my article on toxic yuri vn jam is freewalled (you simply need to register) and not paywalled lol.

finally found the time to sit down and read, and @kazehai.com comes in with a complete barn-burner of a quote (talking about lac-pochette centennial)

yay! #portfolioday i'm elise and i make visual novels (sometimes other stuff too!) with yuri and queer themes. any kind of character art makes me very happy~ 🌼 imcoffeecats.itch.io 🌷 imcoffeecats.neocities.org (desktop only)

i was interviewed for this article (and there's my Video Game), go n give it a read!

im in here! you should take a lookie loo and read through :D