🚨 Release Date Announce!🚨 Just revealed in the @womenledgames.com showcase, Letter Lost, the totally normal post office sim where 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 weird happens, is coming June 10th! ✉️ Review keys have gone out, so check your email! 📬 #SummerGameFest  @summergamefest.bsky.social @flatninegames.bsky.social

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

thinkin about him

Our game is finally live on the app stores!! Whisper Castle is a f2p casual merge game with a campy soap opera inspired mystery romance story. Christine has finally left her terrible husband after finding out his tech startup was a scam, but now she has to rebuild her life--and an abandoned castle!

Hello. Job leads have been few and far between this year so far, and job hunting outside my discipline to make ends meet has been fruitless and demoralizing. I have not gotten a paycheck since October. I could use help making rent this month. “Thank you” - Stella PayPal: @StellaSacco Cashapp: #$SACC

you ever just get sad about capitalism

Have a safe and happy Pride, friends! And, as ever:

If you are weird about asexual people this month you owe me $100

QRP with your pride flags

happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art

all else aside, I think this was the start of a shift for a lot of people- realizing their government was absolutely capable of helping them, but actively choosing not to

Hey, the next time somebody starts telling you about evil Sweet Baby Inc, just remember that the whole outrage around us is that games we have worked on have Black characters, queer characters and women in them.

I would die for Ted.

This is so cool. We have such little rep in any kind of media, let alone games. 🖤🤍💜

you ever just get sad about capitalism

I will spend my whole life fighting for the idea that every weekend should be 3 days

WAHHH IT’S LIVE!! so thankful for mothership giving me the opportunity to talk about my very first fandom and the rampant sexism of the early 2000s. love to all my kh girlies now and forevermore <333

An announcement about our upcoming release of Letter Lost!

HIRE STELLA

the restorative power of pressing your face directly onto your dog

I’m actually doing really well despite the Circumstances. it is always the fucking Circumstances

norco rules. if you want to experience another soulful text-heavy game in this week of zero parades, also check out our debut at Radiant Array, Interstate 35! store.steampowered.com/app/3283890/...

It's nice to have a clear explanation of why the new guidelines were so bizarre. Kickstarter was attempting to draw the shape of what Stripe has been challenging on the platform. I'm glad they're pulling the policies, but it's also clear this problem will follow us to any website

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

highly recommend this game! it's so charming!

my little pokemon

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

I’ve had a few consulting gigs wrap up and now have time in my schedule for new projects! I’m a game writer with six years of experience working with AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, Star Trucker, and [REDACTED]. Full resume and portfolio: www.nessacannon.com

My partner got the full emergency alert with all the important information and I got this text. What are we doing here

my little pokemon

Rasheed is literally risking his life for this game. Israelis could decide to capture, torture, or murder him at any point for daring to share the truth of the Nakba or Palestinian culture. He truly believes in games and their power to tell these stories. Please help his courage not be in vain.

d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

No, sorry, that’s not Calvin, that’s his alter ego Mr. Leg

New week, new #WishlistWednesday recommendation! Letter Lost is a mystery/horror game taking place in a post office. But something’s off. The job is hiding secrets, and the office itself is full of mysteries you’ll have to uncover... 💜 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3624790/...

"We believe you have the right to spend your money as you wish on any product it is legal to buy" should, frankly, be the bare minimum and it is weird that this is not something retailers are willing to fight over.

In the big picture, I'm really conflicted on this kind of thing. I don't want to be like "media should sanitize itself to make sure it's a good influence on the kids!!" but also like. Helmets save lives. And more kids will wear them if they see the cool kids in their favorite media wearing them.

Another day hard at work at the FBI. I managed to get an 8.9 in a near-major publication for a slightly twee indie game and I changed the outfit of a female character in a AAA shooter. I still don’t quite see the vision behind what we’re doing but I’m sure it’s important

happy 20th to taking the hobbits to isengard

Boy, Mixtape sure hits different if part of your own high school experience was a kid dying from a skateboarding accident because he wasn’t wearing a helmet

oh are we talking about specific coming of age stories? well it doesn't get more specific than this jannouna.itch.io/cut-them-off

Actually a really good and enjoyable coming of age story that’s not about white people and features a lot of great original black music is South of Midnight

You've pleased Liv. This bodes well. Thank you for 15,000 wishlists, and we'll see you very soon. store.steampowered.com/app/3624790/... #indiegame #indiedev #upcominggame #mysterygame #gaming

I KNOW some of you love gay people who love suffering

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

If you dig Mixtape, def recommend checking out Wax Heads too, which also dropped this week. Similarly a game about music, but from a different angle. More focused on how music can be a pillar of local community. Nice puzzle hook, some rad original tunes. store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/...

I will absolutely gatekeep you out of the pearly writing gates if you use AI, if you use AI to write then you are not a writer, full stop. "But it's part of my process" no shut up you don't have a process, clicking a button on the plagiarism machine slurping up all the water is not a "process."

So many cool games came out this week and I don't know which one to play first. Why would they inconvenience me in this way