#support indie devs

[jenofthefar]

Signalis Fan Art!!! - It was my brothers birthday recently and he really loves this game (and he's the reason I played it in the first place), so I thought I would make him a poster since unfortunately Signalis Merch is limited.

If you haven't played this game and you love dark sci fi cosmic survival horror games that are inspired by Silent Hill and Evangelion check this game out its amazing! I really can't wait to see what Rose Engine do next!!

Print available here!

[alexhillmystery]

Let's go! The Indiegogo campaign for my Nancy Drew-inspired mystery game, Alex Hill, is officially live, and I'll need your support to bring it to life! 👊

Join in by backing it at igg.me/at/alexhill and spread the word to your friends, communities, and favorite content creators. Together, we can make it happen! 🙌 🕵️‍♀️

[icemanzek]

Every time I get a positive comment on my games, I write it out on a sticky note and put it up right above my desk where I work.

If you enjoyed an indie game, let the creator(s) know! It means so much more than you’d imagine.

[ignis-aeternus]

This new Unity game thing is fucking stupid and I have many thoughts

Unity has been allowing people to make stuff with their program for years without any of this bullshit and all of a sudden, out of the fucking blue, they just drop the fact that now, if a game gets even the slightest bit of attention, the devs will need to pull out their wallets to feed the beast

It's like if Microsoft forced authors to give them money if the book they wrote using Word was successful

It's like if Ticonderoga, the fucking pencil makers, charged artists when their sketches got popular

THATS NOT HOW IT SHOULD FUCKING WORK

Fine, whatever, they're a company and need to make money to pay their employees, great BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY GET TO FUCKING GOUGE OUT THE REST OF THE MARKET FOR A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA PROFIT AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Capitalism generates a system where if you're not constantly and indefinitely generating new growth and new profit, you're not succeeding. You know what else is built on that system? A fucking cancer cell.

[azulhamsandwich]

wine and dined.

[redspringstudio]

We're so excited to a part of The Storyteller's Festival this year! Thank you @twoandahalfstudios for organizing this event ✨ If you love the art of storytelling, check out some of these fantastic games available on Steam!

Link to Steam ➡ https://store.steampowered.com/developer/TwoHalfStudios/sale/thestorytellersfestival2025

[efangamez]

Introducing: The EfanGamez Trans Mutual Aid Bundle!

TAP OR CLICK HERE TO SNAG YOUR TTRPGS!!!!

Hey y'all! I am a trans feminine nonbinary gamedev looking to start HRT in the coming months, and costs will be high for being uninsured AND starting new medication to help with my illnesses, so I need your help!

By reaching this goal and beyond, you can guarantee nearly an entire year's worth of HRT treatment. Anything beyond the amount would be used for housing, food, and clothing, all of which I would love to have help with. It's also my birthday this coming month, which is also an incentive, I guess!

Physical illnesses and mental illnesses have made it difficult to create this past year, and I am hoping with this big change to my life I can finally start living as my authentic self!

It's because of you beautiful people I'm still around today, so I ask you again to spread some love to Trans people and be a good ally / comrade today!

Here are some goals that I have if we reach certain goals!

$100 Goal: This will help some start up costs, including first doctor appointment and possibly first prescription.

- Reward: I'll host a game jam titled "Best of 2024" in January of next year where people can submit their best products made this year and can celebrate their achievements!

$400 Goal: This will help with going a bit beyond startup costs and can help start routine blood work tests!

- Reward: Previous rewards, and a free One-Page Wizard-Themed game will release about two months after this sale is done!

$1,000 Goal: This will really get us started on our journey, and can help us stockpile meds if necessary.

- Reward: Previous rewards, and I will release a sneak-peak of a secret cyberpunk project I have been working on for a while, and will release a BW, non-illustrated Alpha version in the next coming months!

$2,500 Goal: This amount will assist me in getting therapy alongside my meds so I can have as much assistance as I can on this journey.

- Reward: Previous rewards, and will release a setting pack for Disk Masters, my Pokemon-inspired TTRPG, that expands upon the world!

$5,000 Goal: This goal would help me thrive, assisting me with gender affirming clothers, therapy, a gym membership / personal trainer, and more!

- Reward: Previous Rewards, and will have enough money, therapy, and otherwise to make my life a better life worth living, and as long as physical illnesses don't wipe me out, should really ramp up production on the many projects I have in store!

Thank you so much for your consideration, and I hope that you can snag some games to help a Trans person out thus holiday season!

SNAG YOUR TTRPGS HERE!

PLEASE REBLOG!!!!

[midautumngame]

If you're looking for more narrative indie games by Asian devs and exploring Asian diaspora experiences check out Venba!

Venba is a narrative cooking game where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.

It just came out recently and is available on all major platforms, including Steam and console!

[antisocialxconstruct]

on my knees begging game developers to STOP putting their soundtracks on collectible vinyl records please I just want to own CDs!!!!!!

[drawntodie]

Want to be digitized into a new browser game? Vote here 🖤

[shmowder]

yk it's always something when a game borrows from middle-eastern culture, aesthetics, and mythology or just outright takes it all as the main hook, and when you check the long list of supported languages, Arabic is nowhere in sight

[reel-fear]

Bendy And The Power Of Representation

So those graphic novel pages huh? Seems I posted my cover post at just the right time because literally minutes after I was informed the preview pages came out and uh. This is Buddy and Norman!

Oh dear... I'll put the full graphic novel pages down below but I have so much to say on how awful this is it'll need several posts. However, right now I want to mostly talk about representation and briefly touch on why it's so damn important + inform others about the current shit Mike and Meatly are saying about the books n such.

Now note: All the things I'm saying below are based on my personal experience, maybe some people don't care about seeing the representation of their identities in the media they consume. Maybe some will think I'm merely being dramatic and I might be but I'm not lying when I say I personally believe being represented and seen in the media you consume can be one of the most wonderful feelings in the world.

Look I'm not here to argue with people who think that Norman in particular was never meant to be a person of color, I would argue he is very coded but the points I'm making here are not about how Norman particularly had to be black. The point I want to make is the lack of diversity in our cast in general and how Norman's design has heavily dwindled it considering most people [including myself] rightfully assumed he was at least one of three black characters in our cast. Not according to this though and looking at the the rest of the pages our chances of seeing any kind of decent diverse character designs dwindle more.

So firstly... Buddy a character who has been said to experience discrimination for being Jewish, lacks any kind of ethnic features at all. That's... Cool but yeah I think this shows a rather grim future for the character designs as a whole.

Also, Norman... As I mentioned he was largely assumed to be black due to his southern dialect, his voice, and other factors. But nope, he's a generic white guy. With... Gross looking hair tbh...

Sadly this is not the first time the topic of poor representation has come up concerning Bendy either.

[note how he disregarded the other mentioned minorities and specifically cites LGBTQ+ characters]

This sucks as a response but sadly considering Mike's recent behavior it seems to fall in line with the Bendy team's general lack of care towards representing anyone who isn't straight and white.

So how did Mike respond to all of this? Well...

TDLR - "Who cares if the Graphic Novel we're selling to our fans for full price sucks, we now no longer consider the books canon."

This is horrible, I know Mike and Meatly are only really in this for the money, the fact BATIM is in the state that it is proved that, but they really couldn't have been less obvious about it?

So basically when it benefited them, AKA when it meant people would have to buy the books to understand important lore like Boris' identity... [the character you spend all of chapter 4 trying to rescue] They were considered canon... At least the author sure thought so.

Hell even in the tweet Meatly made here he doesn't say the books aren't canon, he just says they're not needed to understand Bendy's world. Now Mike is using that as a shield instead of doing the right thing and saying "You're right, the poc in our fanbase deserve better we'll have it fixed right away!" Like most reasonable people would considering how his studio has literally been accused of bigotry, poor rep, and general lack of diversity before. Why risk making more people avoid this franchise?

Also just... Imagine how insulting it would be to be an author who helps flesh out so much of this world and gives its characters depth like NONE of the games have managed to do, filling in plot holes, creating a timeline for events, etc... Then because they couldn't bother to change the graphic novel for ur story to be better they instead throw out all ur writing and declare it non-canon.

If I were her to put it bluntly I'd feel insulted and horrible. Why make her do all the work of making sure her works align with the timeline and game's canon if they're not part of it?

I can't speak for her obviously but Meatly and Mike know of her account, so speaking out against this could very much risk her being fired or at least not allowed to work on Bendy anymore... So I would take all her tweets on this situation with a grain of salt. She very much is not in a position where she could be honest if she was against this.

So with all that history now, the question I'm sure many are wondering is... Why does this even matter? Who cares how diverse the characters are when it doesn't affect the story?

Well for one thing, if you think like that consider having more empathy for your fellow human beings but also it does affect the story. One of DCTL's themes is about the bigotry of the period it is set in.

Now the Bendy team has managed to make the discussion of this book centering around their bigotry which is ironic in a way I almost find funny... Though this entire thing is just a bit too hurtful and upsetting to find any humor in, at least for me...

But another thing is representation can bring people such joy when it's done with care. It really shouldn't be understated how far it can go to make people feel more comfortable in their own sense of self to have a franchise choose to represent them and their experiences. I know this from personal experience.

Now if you've been following me for a while, you know I'm a big fan of Transformers. I no longer engage with it much due to baggage from the fandom's awful treatment of me, but before I left I remember being able to witness the release of Transformers: Earthspark first few episodes.

These introduced the Maltos the family who meets the Transformers and serve as our protagonists and guess what?

It's a family of Filipinos!

Now look I'm not Filipino, but I am half Mexican and I have a lot of love for that part of me. So seeing the representation of any Spanish culture in this franchise I loved made me so happy! I remember just watching the first episode I was happily telling my partner how fun it was to see people like me and my family in a world I love!!

But it didn't end with the Maltos in fact... There was another character who spoke to me, their name was Nightshade. Their pronouns are They/Them and they spoke about it on the show! Not just mentioning it and moving on but actually sitting down to speak about their experiences...

This clip in particular really turned them into an absolute favorite among fans and well... I'll let you see it for yourself.

This scene... Fills me with a joy I cannot describe. It is the creators of a franchise I love telling me they see people like me and find the stories of people like me important enough to include in this series. There really is nothing like being able to say there are Non-Binary characters in a franchise I have so much love for. I was far from the only one too.

This is amazing, this is wonderful, this clip and character were moving to so so many people and...

This is a joy the Bendy creators have no interest in giving their audience. They don't care how you feel as a queer and/or black person, which... Hurts...

I... Discovered I was trans while in the Bendy community... It was where I learned the word Non-Binary and started using it for myself. To me Bendy will always have that connection... But the devs themselves seem to hate the idea of being forced to actually represent that in their games... And I still haven't really gotten over that pain or betrayal if I'm being honest.

So...

With Norman now being portrayed as white here, we are down to two black characters. Thomas [who Meatly has claimed is white in the past] based on a vague conversation with Sammy in DCTL they could easily ignore... And Jacob.... A book exclusive character which according to Mike means he is non-canon.

If we don't count Thomas' vague talk with Sammy about disrespect as confirmation he's black [which the devs don't seem to think so] then we have one black character in all of Bendy... And he recently got retconned into non-existence. Great.

Look... The Bendy fanbase has always been full of wonderfully diverse designs for the staff and even more diverse people creating them. Bendy's fandom was built with the work of queer people from all kinds of places.

If the Bendy team continues to show how little they care for anyone who isn't straight or white... I wonder who they are counting on to buy this book or in general financially support their franchise?

I know right now, I am furious, I am hurt and I most certainly don't feel like buying a book that's currently just a massive fuck you to the fans and I hope I've expressed why I feel this way in an easy-to-understand way here...

Either way, I will not be forgetting this anytime soon and I hope the fanbase does the same. Maybe just maybe, if there's enough backlash to this series of horrible decisions they'll learn better.

Right now, it's kinda of our only hope for a better future, and if you know any poc who are into Bendy right now... Maybe consider making sure they're feeling okay.

I know from experience how much this sort of thing hurts, to have the creators of a world you love straight up tell you they don't intend to fix the fact no one in their stories represents your identity or life...

What I'm trying to say is...

This is a really low point for Bendy and its fans... Even more for the poc who have to witness such ignorant and careless attitudes from Mike and Meatly towards their feelings.

Please don't forget them when you discuss these tweets or this situation. That's exactly what Mike and Meatly want right now.

For them to be unrepresented and therefore... Unheard.

[alexhillmystery]

Wanna talk about the game?

Hi all! I wanted to let you know that there forums for Alex Hill! It's meant to be a place of community centered around a love of games! Check it out and let me know if there are any topics you'd like to see a space for in the forums.

Development for the game is a little slower this month. Right now I'm focusing on the Indiegogo Campaign which is taking a lot of my time and energy. When I'm not focused on that, I'm working on the script for the game. The story is important to me, and I want to make sure it's done well!

If you'd like to contribute to keep game development going, support me over on Indiegogo. I'm so thankful to everyone who has been an encouragement and who has given to this game so far!

[modelxis]

Vent: you just have...the god of destruction living inside your head...this entire time?

Aile: erm, not "entire time", he does retrieve back into area N where i had set up some game consoles for him to play-

Aile took out picture of Omega Zero playing the Switch, Gameboy, DS ...etc...

Aile: now he get to verbally abuse online players instead of me

(Omega zero in the distance: HAH, skills issues-)

[the-shifting-long]

2 be clear as a general rule i Do think watching someone play a video game is enough to be a fan in the majority of cases like if u know the intricacies of the gameplay and lore and such does it realllllllly matter if you didn't do it with your own hands. but there are Specific games that are either majority-gameplay and low on other factors or are so heavily informed By how someone chooses to play them that watching another person do so misses the point. slay the princess occupies a weird niche-i don't think it's like, impossible to be a fan if you've never played it directly and only watched playthroughs, i'm not gonna be a snob if you've never touched it, BUT the aspect of player choice and in particular that first blind playthrough and what that says About the player is also so deeply ingrained into the game's themes of perception that i can't in good conscious say anything along the lines of "if you can't play it yourself [x] playthrough is fine" like i'd rather someone did piracy than did that.

[lesbianjunimo]

i would like to announce that my gf has convinced me to buy a6 when episode 9 comes out because i am a fully grown woman with some disposable income “who should feel free to spend money on her blorbos” so. gay rights