The Audio Design Award goes to Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson, by @ritualstudios.bsky.social @iamdovetail.bsky.social
Art by Tamara Duplantis!
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The Audio Design Award goes to Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson, by @ritualstudios.bsky.social @iamdovetail.bsky.social
Art by Tamara Duplantis!
The next game I saw was Generic Dating Simulator. This game hurt me in a great way. Once again really smart writing here. You feel guilty for even playing it, because it really feels like a Dating Sim written by Daria and she's judging you.https://rennykins.itch.io/generic-dating-simulator
A screenshot of a dating sim where a moth woman is welcoming you to her cosmic dating bar.
This is a Cosmic Horror/Humor infused dating sim that uses contrasting art styles and fonts to embody each datable character. Smart writing, great music, and holy fuck the character design. Like this moth lady? THIS MOTH LADY.
One of the coolest things about teaching is that you get to see students make really cool shit. At Open Studios I got to play a few of our students games that they've worked on this semester, and they were fucking fun. A quick 🧵. First up, A Visit From Venus. justmicahh.itch.io/a-visit-from...
Log 1....is this on?
Hello! We are Studio T12, a small indie game development team out to make creepy, artistic, and narrative-focused games!
Playtest demo for "Silent Numbers" is available NOW!
studio-t12.itch.io/silent-numbe...
#indiegame #indiedev #visualnovel #gamedev #gamedevelopment
I'm sooooooo close to being done with this indie game I've been working on since 2019. It's about helping your weird suspicious internet bff solve a boyband mystery
In a joint email statement to WIRED, Consume Me developers Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson say that although they expect their game will be reinstated, it is “completely unacceptable that payment processors are conducting censorship-by-fiat and systematically locking adult content creators out of platforms like Itch where they can be fairly compensated for their work.” Hsia and Thomson say that doing so at the behest of groups like Collective Shout “should raise many alarm bells, especially since the position of these right-wing groups is often that ANY LGBTQ+ content is ‘adult’ by default.”
Consume Me devs @qdork.bsky.social and @apthomson.bsky.social say Collective Shout's mission to protect women and girls is doing the opposite. "Their actions here mainly serve to cut off income streams for adult content creators, many of them women.” www.wired.com/story/steam-...
Leaf mentioned in the official itch discord server that the open case they have with Stripe right now is probably the most critical right now. Submit a complaint to Stripe here: stripe.com/legal/compla...
Need to know what to say? Use this: bsky.app/profile/void...
#itch #censorship
The camera is pointed down at a messy table with a human arm poking through a hole in the tabletop. The arm is surrounded by random-seeming objects: a white board and marker, a slide whistle, rope, a plastic bone, flowers)
Me (Harper ferry) hiding under the table before the game began, with the hole in the table visible over my shoulder
Some photos from The Sentient Severed Arm at the UCSC Lighting Studio. Video inbound.
ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people
who know it's dumb can't break free
And once you've made a script, you can move on making it a 2D game using Binksi
smwhr.itch.io/binksi
Making _a_ Video Game _is_ easier than you think.
it’s hard to get americans to care about people in prison, but it’s *bad* for trans women inside & a lot of us rn are one wrong interaction away from being entangled with the law, through no fault of our own.
if you’re cis & there’s a trans person in your life you care about, you should read this.
Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮
We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
A column of fire envelops an RV in a pine forest late at night.
My bedroom and office reduced to ashes. The metal walls and roof are largely destroyed, revealing the forest beyond.
A class C RV gutted by fire. The heat of the fire has killed most of the plant life in a nearby garden.
A segment of an RV's exterior wall. The heat of the fire has melted through the aluminum panels.
An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues.
gofund.me/47306b15
Critical Mass is officially one year old today! 🥳 Take turns drawing cards, adding to a shared map, and asking each other meaningful questions about what it means to keep one another safe in the street when we’ve decided to be dangerous together.
I launched a new project last week! "Play With Your Own Junk" is a collection of free games you can play with stuff you already own.
It's my way of making space for anticapitalist art that challenges overconsumption and the carbon impact of large-scale product production.
youtu.be/aMs-FkVK7K4?...
Trans allies- there are way more of you than there are trans people, so we need you to speak out in public comments against State Dept making it impossible for trans people to get or keep accurate passports.
The freedom of movement is a fundamental human right. Don’t let the government erode it.
I’m performing in Los Angeles for this Trans Day of Visibility Fest! If you’re in SoCal, come through!
If you're in LA, come to my Trans Day of Visibility Fest happening March 30th in DTLA.
11 non-binary, trans, & 2 spirit artists performing electronic & experimental pop music. Support weird art!
withfriends.co/event/229479...
🥚🍳 boshi's place is in town with syzygy at GDC! 🥚🍳
We’re partnering with syzygy SF on thursday, march 20th for a night of free-range indie games from the east AND west coast! no GDC pass is required! (only 2.99)
6-11pm | Syzygy SF
395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103
Tickets and details ->
Join us Friday, March 14 for "I Seem Agical," a live showcase of some interactive games by game designer, animator, and illustrator Blake Andrews
Blake Andrews - I Seem Agical
Fri., Mar. 14, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
www.indexical.org/events/2025-...
For all the Weird Little Narrative Games and VN Devs going to GDC:
Do you make visual novels? Do you make weird little narrative games (positive)? Come talk shop and meet other games industry people who also do this!
Thur Mar 20
12-2PM in Yerba Buena
Please share!
lu.ma/4se4oevj
I’ll be around!
REMEMBER KIDS
when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query
Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down.
This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless
South of Midnight’s Southern Gothic folklore world is rooted in authenticity
Fahmi Mohammad was a beloved Indonesian game dev who created Coffee Talk and What Comes After. His final game, Afterlove EP is about learning to live with grief. It was completed by his studio after his passing.
It's a slice of life visual novel + rhythm game set in Jakarta.
Bandmates, we just released Pikselnesia’s dating-meets-rhythm game Afterlove EP on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5 🤘
This is a tale of finding oneself, and is the swansong of beloved Mohammad Fahmi, the late creator of Coffee Talk.
Trailer 👇
Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
