quantumwitchgame

[quantumwitchgame]

To sum up: they still think that trans peoples human rights are an online conversation, and expect the series to run for 10 consecutive years.

So let's get ahead of this right now.

I propose a media-wide blackout of everything Harry Potter related when the first season is released. No tweeting about it, not even to trash it. No posting online about it at all - No Instagram stories or posts, no TikToks, no snaps, no memes on FB, not a word on here, nothing. They will not commit themselves to 10 consecutive years of something if the first season flops. They might attempt a second season, but we can shoot that down, too.

I cannot still be dealing with the hate this woman has for us in 10 years. I cannot still be having this conversation when I'm in my mid-30s. I need her to be dead & forgotten by then, or used as a cautionary tale after her death. We can revive the fandom after she has died, depending what her will stipulates will be done with her bloodmoney. Okay? Is that a good enough compromise for you? You just have to wait for her to die, and not leave her estate & bank account to anti-trans stuff, and then you can get back to loving Potter. Deal?

But in the meantime, we need Warner Bros. to see that they cannot make money from this show. We need them to lose money. We need them to lose enough money that even JKR funding the entire project won't be enough for them to take the risk. Right now, they're saying that JKR's reputation & blatant transphobia have not impacted their ability to find more than enough people to audition for the series. We need them to rethink that. We need them to see that this is not the next Marvel-length franchise to get rich on.

Since I know some of you haven't participated in a media blackout protest before, here's how it'll work:

Don't hype the series / fandom / author / cast up in the lead-up to the series being released. Don't trash it, either. Ignore it. Forget about it. || This means that they won't get good word-of-mouth rates online, which means they will need to really push advertising to get enough people interested.

Don't watch the adverts online. Don't like or comment on the videos, not even with hate or pro-trans stuff. || Engaging with online ads or videos in any way gives them positive data, because it feeds the algorithm & let's them make money from the adverts. We don't want that.

When the series is released, don't watch it. Don't talk about it. Don't tweet about it. Don't post about it. Don't tiktok about it. Don't complain about it. Don't trash it. Pretend it doesn't exist. Ignore it. Forget about it. || They need their launch to earn them money, and even if you're posting about how bad it is, or posting anti-JKR content using the show's hashtags, even if you're watching it in order to know exactly what to complain about & critique, you are still giving them money. They still earn royalties from you watching it, regardless of your intentions. They still get word-of-mouth and clout from you posting about it, even if what you're saying is negative. You know the expression "There's no such thing as bad press"? This is what that refers to. It doesn't matter if you're sharing love or hate for the franchise, because you're still promoting it by saying its name. Also, an overwhelming amount of negative press online can and does lead to other people deciding to watch it to see why everyone is complaining, and arguing about it online, all of which feeds the creators more royalties. We don't want them to earn money from this.

Spread news about other shows & films & franchises & books. Get a fandom which has been dead for 10+ years trending again. Get anime shows & Futurama & ATLA & Adventure Time & Owl House & Over the garden Wall & some really obscure franchises trending across all social media platforms. Get something from the 80s trending in the Top 3 on Twitter. Engage with fandoms you're not even part of. Get BL shows trending in Netflix's Top 5. || This will completely skew analytics online, and it will flood people's dashboards with cmenough content that they won't see promotional content for the series we are blacking out. It will also show spikee data for which genres & shows are more popular & getting more attention & more royalties.

Share media with transgender actors / directors / crew. Share media with LGBTQIA+ storylines. Share pro-trans & pro-LGBTQIA+ content. Share & donate to fundraisers which help Trans & LGBTQIA+ people. Share Trans & LGBTQIA+ history. Show & Share Trans & LGBTQIA+ positivity & love & pride. Do all of this without acknowledging the series or creator we are blacking out. || This will show overwhelmingly positive & inclusive analytics, which will prioritise showing more of the same content. This is what we want the data to show.

Do not give in to temptation to look the show up. Do not look up the cast. Do not look up the directors or producers or executives. Do not look up the soundtrack. Do not put anything remotely related to the series into a search bar of any kind. || Search algorithms still store data, and if enough people look the same stuff up, it will show positive online engagement. We do not want this.

Do not give the actors hate. Do not tag them in hateful content online. Do not abuse them & do not bully them. || This is just unnecessary.

Give the blackout a cool-down period. Continue to ignore it for at least 10 days after the launch. || This forces the show's analytics to fall into negatives. If you suddenly start engaging with something immediately after blacking out the launch, the analytics show a delayed uptake - but it still shows them that people will engage with it, and that they will make money from it. We do not want this.

After the cool down period, mock it. Remember the mocmery that the Velma show got? And you've seen the mockery of the Rachel Zeigler version of Snow White is getting? And how that is impacting the ratings for Songbirds & Snakes because people don't want to watch her, at all, in anything? That is what we need to create on purpose. || If a show gets hate, the creators can use it to feed controversial interest in the show - 'Come watch this to see why people are hating!'. It's as beneficial as positive reviews. They can recover from it. But mockery? Mockery & dismissal is far more difficult to recover from, as it does more damage to their names and reputation. People do not want to be associated with a project which was mocked after it lost them a lot of money. Audiences are also much less likely to engage with a series which has been publicly mocked, compared to hated.

Only mock it for the same amount of time as the cool-down period. || This prevents the series from getting a large spike in analytics.

After this, ignore it. Move on. Talk & post about other stuff. Watch other stuff. || This will result in the show's analytics returning to negatives, and remaining there.

This is a strategy which is proven to work. It has worked for multiple franchises. It is behavioural analytics. It will work for this, but only if we commit to it & get enough people taking part.

All we have to do is:

Do not watch the HBO HP series

Do not post about it online

Ignore it

Do not play, stream or buy any games related to HP

Do not rematch the movies on a streaming service - JKR will still earn royalties from that

Do not post about JKR during the media blackout

Share pro-trans & pro-LGBTQIA+ content & history instead

Support trans creators & actors

Mock the series after the cool down time & then move on

Stick to this method. It WILL work.

And to dispute any attempted justifications for engaging with it:

"But she won't be involved!" || She is listed as an executive producer for the show

"But it's not the actors' fault!" || Actually, it is. The adult actors should know better than to involve themselves with this franchise, and the child actors' parents should know better than to exploit their children's desire to be famous &/ or their love of the series, because the adults should be socially aware enough to know that this franchise will harm their children in the long run.

"But what about my childhood nostalgia!" || What about trans people's human rights & dignity? What about trans children who don't think they'll make it to 18? What about the fact our Prime Minister is selling out transgender rights of his people for Trump? Wht about all of the trans people in the UK who are now facing the possibility of losing more of our rights? What about all of the little trans girls & boys & envies who saw those TERFs celebrating stealing their legal right to identify as their gender, with champagne on national TV? What about trans children who won't be able to go on 100% reversible hormone blockers because JKR funded the vitriol which made them illegal? What about all of the trans women & girls who just lost their legal rights this week? What about our right to legally exist? What about privacy rights and medical & legal autonomy for women & afab people in the UK? What about all the trans people who just watched 21 years of work & progress go down the drain in one afternoon? Are we not worth as much as one of the many memories of your childhood?

Nobody is saying you're not allowed to watch the DVDs or pirate it or read the books or listen to CDs or records of it. Just do not use streaming services for any of it, do not use YouTube, do not talk about it on Twitch & don't post about it online.

We need this franchise to die. We need the producers to see they can't make enough money from this to justify continuing it after the first season. We cannot still be having this argument in the mid 2030s.

We need to get ahead of this right now and stamp the fire out before it kills more trans people.

You understand that buying a Tesla = supporting the Elongated Muskrat & Trump. You understand that buying McDonald's or Starbucks funds Isreal & harms Palestinians. You understand that watching Sandman supports Neil Gaimen.

So why is it so hard for you to apply that exact same logic to JKR, when you can see the harm she is causing in real time to real people?

[quantumwitchgame]

Hey folks! I'm a queer solo indie dev, and my silly little queer game about lesbians getting involved in ancient feuds between old gods is finally launching! On the 24th!

Can't believe it's actually happening! I've been working away at the characters and story for 2 years literally from my back bedroom 😁

And it's all about the characters and their choices - multiple endings and paths through the story, if you get into the lore you'll be playing it again and again. The script is 32000 words! But you'll need to play though again and again to see it all 😊

AND it's super queer!

You can wishlist it here if you like the look of it (oh yeah, and you can pet the cat😻)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3100650/Quantum_Witch/

[quantumwitchgame]

Little pixel art tip about skin tones! I finally figured out how to do dark skin tones without them becoming greyscale or ashen, and now the Oldarth Twins finally look how I wanted them!

The trick is RED. If you take the white skin tone, move the hue towards red, and then reduce the brightness/value. You end up with a rich dark tone. Do the reverse to go the other way!

[quantumwitchgame]

Thanka to everyone who got my silly pixel game post to 2000 reblogs ❤️💜❤️💜❤️💜

Hey tumblr, I'm a solo game developer. very queer. My game Quantum Witch is a point-n-click meets platformer, with multiple endings and meaningful choices, where a town of lesbians fight god. You know, a typical queer Tuesday.

And I finally got it on steam! Maybe you want to wishlist (witchlist) it?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3100650/Quantum_Witch/

Oh and it has a lovely cute cow that you can pet.

[quantumwitchgame]

@v-a-t-i-o I could not find a way to reply to your reply... so here's a work-in-progress of one of the heroes of the QW story, Lexi.

[quantumwitchgame]

The nintendo gamecube wasn't actually a cube.

But how many gamecubes would we need to make an actual cube?

For this I'm assuming we remove the awkward handles, and have a gamecube of 110h x150w x161d in mm

Let's figure out how many we'd need to make a gamecubecube.

First, get the prime factors of each dimension

110 = 2 5 11 150 = 2 3 5^2 161 = 7 23

The product of the prime factors is 265650 so each edge of our gamecubecube is going to be 265650mm.

Now we can see how many gamecubes would make up our gamecubecube.

It would be 265650/110 high = 2415

265650/150 wide = 1771

265650/161 deep = 1650

So with those dimensions, we'd need 7,056,992,250 gamecubes to make a gamecubecube

I don't think it's practical to get hold over over 7 billion gamecubes to form a gamecubecube that's over 265 meters high though.

But I feel better for knowing this.

[quantumwitchgame]

More portrait work on Tyra, Ren, and Lev today!

[quantumwitchgame]

Hello my tumblr lovelies, the Quantum Witch demo has been released :) It lets you explore a few locations from the beginning of the story, and even get up to the first big story event!

I hope you enjoy it, and all reblogs very much appreciated :)

[quantumwitchgame]

I'm so non binary, such a mixture of genders, that I'm like what would happen if a man and a woman had a baby

[quantumwitchgame]

my least favourite programming constructs are now null and void

[quantumwitchgame]

[quantumwitchgame]

Cats are perfect

[quantumwitchgame]

Finished up the water effects today 😀

[quantumwitchgame]

Bit of a wall of text personal vent here. But there's also a MYSTERIOUS screenshot too so, please forgive me :)

It's getting more and more difficult to do and get paid for creative stuff. Especially if you're a new small creator. And ESPECIALLY if you're in a minority, ESPECIALLY ESPECIALLY if that minority has anything to do with skin colour or queerness. And ESPECIALLY ESPECIALLY ESPECIALLY if it's a combination of the two, which is not the case with me and I acknowledge completely that I will have an easier time because of that. Let's come back to this later.

So I was talking to marketing types who saw the screenshots of Quantum Witch and were not that enthusiastic. They either suggested some generic resources, or gave candid (but kind) advice that the indie market is FLOODED with pixel art platformers and my hopes of QW being A Thing were... misguided. And as such, they didn't want to take my money and offer services for something they didn't really think could be what I wanted.

I liked that a lot. They were honest, ethical, candid. I knew I could trust their feedback because they turned down my money.

So I sent them a pre-release version of the demo. (Yes, demo! It's coming soon!)

And they got back to me quickly.

Apparently it's charming, well written, brought smiles to their faces frequently, and has a lot of potential. It has a decent shot at making it.

So I have a glimmer of hope. Because I'm lucky enough to have a day job where I can put aside some money to finance marketing, there's a chance this could be a success. A chance.

And if it IS a success and I end up with an audience, this post is proof of my promise to use whatever fortune brings me to help those who are struggling, to lift folk up.

The chances are small. But this is how I'm going into it. Wish me luck :)

[quantumwitchgame]

I’m back from the dead and I brought biker catra. This took too long to do :’)

[quantumwitchgame]

Ok here it is, the final trailer for Quantum Witch. Lesbians vs God you say? Pettable animals? Weird obscure references? Oh yes!

AND you can witchlist it here :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3100650/Quantum_Witch/?utm_source=trailer

(please reblog this, It's been two years of work so far and I have to do this marketing thing and I haven't got a CLUE)

[quantumwitchgame]

your friendly lesbian gamedev here saying oooooooooh new title screen :)

You can wishlist it (witchlist it) on Steam right now!