HNW is part of the 🏳️‍⚧️🕹️ Trans Games Zine 🏳️‍⚧️🕹️ project—a community-based platform built by the lovelies at @softchaos.games. The TGZ features interactive essays, games, and not-games from many of my favorite people. Do check out all the amazing projects in the collection thus far! transgameszine.org

Strangers on the Net by @softch by @softchaos.games is awesome enough it made me sign up for Gamefound, which I'd been avoiding—not on principal, but because I don't need one more platform. But here we are. I find it preposterous that it hasn't already funded. gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Strangers on the 'Net campaign so far! 🌈💖 Can you help us keep the momentum going? Please share the campaign with people you think might love it and vote in our latest poll about what you'd like to see in our next updates! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

We've been working to get this into your hands since we started doing theatre festival runs of it in 2020. Now's the time! 💖💖💖

Interested in playing an online RPG that takes place on a fandom forum in 1999? Curious about Strangers on the 'Net? Get ready to gossip, roleplay, flirt, fight, fall in love, confess your secrets, explore your identity, and confront what it meant to be a teenager online in the 90s.

Hello, hello! Check out our latest Gamefound update to listen to a series of cool Character Creation Cast episodes featuring Strangers on the 'Net character creation and to have a chance to play in a game of Strangers hosted by the Soft Chaos team! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

two of my games on itchio have been deindexed, Cyber Sext Adventure and The earth is a better person than me. both are games about queerness and the complexity of sexual desire

Yes! @prairieeyes.bsky.social is back with an interview with Elissa! "I used to do a lot of fandom RP, and a lot of my old RPs are just gone forever. I wish I could go back and read them [...] So in some ways this is like getting to have a piece of that memory back." comradery.co/softchaos/po...

Had a great fireside chat with @gamerella.bsky.social and @jessromarcotte.bsky.social at U/Day in Montreal! We talked about the role of game jams within, and outside, the game industry. ICYMI, you can read my white paper on game jams for free online: gameartsinternational.network/thats-my-jam...

If you want to know what it's like to play Strangers on the 'Net, you don't have to take our word for it! Here's @prairieeyes.bsky.social's interview with Willa, one of our early playtesters!

Strangers on the 'Net has been in the works for a few years now. Here's an interview with Willa, an early playtester in a Sailor Moon-inspired game. "I would absolutely say that it is completely worth it both in time investment and pledging." comradery.co/softchaos/po... #rpgparty

You can listen to @jessromarcotte.bsky.social and @squinky.me talk with Willem from @indiegameacademy.com about worker co-ops and how we manage to make games like Strangers on the 'Net 💖💖💖 The episode is out now! www.spreaker.com/episode/all-...

If you haven't heard @softchaos.games in the pre-launch phase of crowdfunding their game 💻STRANGERS ON THE 'NET 💻 Follow and share their page through this link: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Our tiny wizard is making his way around the world.🧙🌎✨ That is to say, Mammoth Island's 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 is now available in Dutch! Download a copy for free on @itch.io. mammothisland.itch.io/spellbinder/...

Really excited for this next episode of Intrapology! @softchaos.games has helped with some worldbuilding exercises and @squinky.me plays the role of Paris!

This, and so many moments of my own, are why I want everyone I know to get the chance to play this game. Wow, Allison, right in the feels. 💖

We've done it; we've reached 100 followers for the preview page! So, here's why Allison feels this is the most important game that she has ever designed (and maybe ever will). If you've followed, thank you! If you haven't, maybe this will encourage you to! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

So close to breaking 100 campaign followers! We'd love your help in getting there today so that we can share what we think is a pretty great post with deep Soft Chaos lore 👀💖💖💖 Follow our pre-launch page at the link in the quoted post!

Such a great chat today! I loved the community's questions. It's clear that folks need alternatives to the cycle of hiring and lay-offs and burnout that are so common right now. We hope Soft Chaos can help model alternative ways of working and help share what we learn along the way.

Today, @jessromarcotte.bsky.social and @squinky.me went on the Indie Game Lunch Hour with @indiegameacademy.com host Willem to talk about coops! Take a peek here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyiw... We are currently in pre-launch for Strangers on the 'Net! Follow our project page here!

i wrote about it for fanbyte, but of course it got nuked in the fanbyte apocalypse, but here's an archived PDF version for curious minds media.journoportfolio.com/users/67979/...

i played a star trek version of strangers on the 'net a few years ago (via discord) and deeply enjoyed it!!! back it if you can!

Do it to support Soft Chaos, my three-person worker co-op that loves making awkward, intimate queer games... ...Or do it for the POG slammer 😁! Either way, please follow our preview page for Strangers on the 'Net!

POV: 👀 your friend left their chat open on their computer and they're flirting up a storm — do you keep reading? These are some past chats from games of Strangers on the 'Net! Please follow our Gamefound #rpgparty preview page and help us spread the word about our upcoming crowdfunding campaign!

OK, I have been keeping the lid on this for so long!!! Don't tell my other projects but this might be my favourite experience that I've ever designed with Soft Chaos 😜 I'm so glad we're ready to share it with the world outside of festival runs. Following us also provides us with launch resources!

Y2K, A/S/L, LOL! Soft Chaos is crowdfunding our hit interactive theatre Discord larp about identity and fandom, Strangers on the 'Net for #RPGparty — Roleplay like it's 1999! Follow our preview page to be notified on launch and get an extra gift if you back it ✨ gamefound.com/en/projects/...

2025 Premiere Scenario: Thunder Only Happens When It's Raining by Soft Chaos (@softchaos.games) You are ghost musicians. The band drama from when you were alive keeps you trapped on a purgatorial tour bus.

In case you missed @jessromarcotte.bsky.social and @squinky.me's GDC talk last month, we posted the full text here: comradery.co/softchaos/po... By the way, now that Comradery is in beta, you can subscribe to get our posts in your email for free (we still appreciate donations, of course)

"The fantasy of escaping the machinery of capitalism is the central delusion holding us back from liberation." At GDC yesterday, Ty Underwood (front) and @softchaos.games founders Jess Rowan Marcotte (left) and D. Squinkifer explained how worker-owned game studios can protect indie developers (1/2)

Hi, I made a new game! It's called *deep breath* A Post-Apocalyptic Dinner Party in Purgatory with a Dysfunctional Polycule: squinky.itch.io/purgatory-pa... I also wrote a blog post about it here: comradery.co/softchaos/po...

Curious about what Soft Chaos members have been up to creatively? This month, check out a post from @prairieeyes.bsky.social on her personal practice and current projects. comradery.co/softchaos/po... And get ready for an update from @squinkifer.bsky.social next month!