i dont know if he was actually being condescending or he just talks like that like some people don't know how to like or talk about nerd things without pretending they're too cool for it. however I simply love to play and draw

I had one bizzare exchange I think I can tell people now. So a semi regular comes in and sees I'm working on my laptop and he asks what I'm up to and I say VN scripting bc idk how to lie I guess and he's like awww that's cute. :) are you gonna put it up on itch io??? make it big?????

Wrote most of JKHA at the card shop bossman was just like "do they use their phones? kinda unrealistic kids these days are always on their phones :(" and I ws just like don't got time to factor that in I only have 2 months to complete yaoijam

Trying to condense down this month into the patreon post but it's gonna be a rambly one "hit my 50k writing goal! now let me talk about card shops for the other 90% of this post :)"

making vn is easy you just write a book and then you read back each line from that book and think what facial expression are they making and then you draw each expression and then line by line you add a tag for the face they are making. the best part is you only have to do this a few thousand times

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@ekkoberry.bsky.social i fw ur games i guessssss

i also have been playing so much chao garden (SA2B)

August Patreon post up! www.patreon.com/posts/august... pics of misc stuff I got up to in the month too but the biggest thing is hitting 40k words for JKHA yaaay (aiming for 50k in September!!)

Hey! If you didn't see earlier, my Yaoijam game came out today! You can play my boy's love game about baked goods for free (or pay-what-you-want) over on itchio!

it's hard to think of anything less productive in your ""support"" for NSFW creators than harassing itch and being a hateful reply-guy to them. doing absolutely nothing would be more productive

for every 1 comment you make disparaging or harassing itch you have to make AT LEAST 10 calls to payment processors / banks / politicians / etc. this is a rule I'm enacting now

steals the sun

FRIDAY IS MISSING?

Drawing until I'm sick of it last month WORKED I'm already past my wordcount goal total for the month I'm ON IT

sakura miku

(working on JKHA) whenever anything weird happens its never the other two its always nala without fail

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I spent part of july playing a lot of Demon Bluff I /really/ like it Playtest is insta-access if you wanna give it a go too: store.steampowered.com/app/3522600/...

I don't suppose anyone has a spare vgen code do they... I'm not in a rush to do commissions but I'm thinking about it in the future.....

making a visual novel is hard enough - but how would you make one by yourself?! I collected advice from over 30 solo visual novel developers and compiled them into 1 article! read it here: arimiadev.com/how-to-make-...

u can find the vn on steam here... store.steampowered.com/app/3446430

i'm working on my failgirl demon queen yuri vn now the mc is kind of pathetic but that's fine, i'm sure she'll wind up with a cute girlfriend in the end ☺️🙏 #yuri #yurivn

I spent part of july playing a lot of Demon Bluff I /really/ like it Playtest is insta-access if you wanna give it a go too: store.steampowered.com/app/3522600/...

All done with my July wrapup post yippee www.patreon.com/posts/july-2... technically a break month but I feel like I did so much (and so much happened ofc with the wider dev community)

While this is a good step on the part of itch, it will only re-index unpaid content (Not even "pay what you can" content). This means NSFW creators are still unable to make money on *any* NSFW content they put on itch. The payment processors are allowing this hoping we'll deescalate KEEP CALLING

Update from itchio: Free NSFW content will be reindexed, Stripe points the finger at banks. Looks like it’s time to also call our banks

usagi so tuff so fearless #chiikawa

lord knows my improvisational skills/flexibility when it comes to storytelling is lacking and it feels like the kind of skill(s) I could quietly curate by enjoying the physical games side of things

I still think I'll enjoy the little pocket I've found myself in this past month or so but hmmm. hmmmmmmm

Sticking my head into the ttrpg space bc I found a game I vibe with that isn't ryuutama and wow the change in culture's kinda wild

[Artfight 2025 Set 2] 1. @ekkoberry.bsky.social’s Xael 2. @awumarill.bsky.social’s Umwelt 3. @purplenamako.bsky.social’s Namako 4. @zenoslots.net’s KANI #artfight #artfight2025 #teamcrystals

btw i finally decided to make a patreon owing to recent news (games being randomly pulled from storefronts). you can check it out here if you're curious! 🍤 patreon.com/ebihime

itch released a statement and confirmed it was the same goddamn group, Collective Shoutout, that forced steam to remove adult games: itch.io/updates/upda...

I'm ace, but even I realize how important it is to protect ero media. to conservatives, anything queer is porn. but even if they did theoretically stop at porn - which they won't - it's still important to protect it because ero media deserves to exist. it's a form of expression for people.

This isn't just affecting games hosted on itchio... Comics, books, zones, etc with these tags are also no longer searchable. This is going to impact indie scenes across the board if not challenged!

my horror vn, sweetest monster refrain, was removed from itchio. it was only available on itch so now it can't be accessed anywhere. i didn't receive an email about this or any warning. thanks a lot itch thats really cool 👍

Everything back to being secure I haven't had any issues since and I even got my lost account back. happy days

I've never had an issue with anything like this and I know better than to click on weird links or so much as acknowledge bots's existence so ???????????????????????????? I guess it must have been some kind of data breach I got caught in ? no idea

i keep thinking "ok, that's everything!" but ig my old dormant main was an acc I forgot about I'm sick of this!!!! makes me wanna cry its been so pervasive this past month

aaaaand turns out my (old, unused) twitter main acc got hacked too. filed a report with X but if it werent for a few people i wanna talk to on there I'd nuke all of it god wtf is even the point of 2FA and a phone number it doesnt do anything

first week of artfight over and i did almost as much art as last year in the one week yaaay

water control's a thing in watercolor but not like this. not like this

gouache got hands

??? #nomnomnami #lwt

as unfortunate as the hack was its been nice getting a "um are u ok" from ppl i havent talked to in a while. the world is full of light and love

i just want to play artfight ;_____ back to drawing

😭ok i think that's over with. pass changed apps removed EVERYTHING off. I had 2fa and a phone number set up on the acc so ??????? idk why that didnt do anything

ok i think. its fixed I HOPE ITS FIXED