#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.

[the-lady-hestia]

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.

[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!

[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.

[efangamez]

3 (!!!) Days left to Help Me Exist Again!

Grab $80 worth of games for $25! PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS!

In this bundle, you can obtain:

GRIM, a retro FPS styled TTRPG inspired by Quake.

Neon Nights, a cyberpunk TTRPG with nearly infinite build variety, and it's two MASSIVE expansions!

Wrath of the Undersea, a TTRPG where you play as vengeful Eldritch peoples trying to reclaim the colonized surface.

Disk Master's expansions, where you can live out your Pokemon or Digimon dream on pen and paper!

This money will go towards affording therapy, medication, possible HRT (I am still deciding), and a new computer for work and enjoyment.

This money is life-saving, allowing me to not be on the verge of living with my parents in a transphobic county that is damn near a sundown town for trans people. I really need this money to live, and I would be eternally grateful if you could reblog and send this sale to someone who you think would help.

[tricitymonsters]

Tri City Monsters is a multigenre visual novel that throws you head first into a supernatural underworld right in your own home turf.  Meet hot monsters living their lives as humans and get swept up romancing either version.

TCM features:

Choose your name and pronouns

Choose your body type for 🔞 Scenes

Romance the monster or human forms

Decline spicy scenes without getting punished or breaking hearts

Gorgeous character artwork by @totatoti​

A fun an unique cast

Discord with regular events, rampant blorbo bonking, and fun, laid back community.

Patrons get early access to completed chapters, special fics, Q&A sessions, behind the scenes and process shots, asset galleries, and writing requests.

Mori’s intro is free to play on itch.io

Amir’s intro is in early access to Patrons!

And coming soon, Akello!

[blank-house]

I came across your demo recently and immediately fell in love - I would like to give both Percy and Cameron lots of little smooches please and thank you 🙏🙏

Also this is isn't a question but I love the little nods to other visual novels on the title screen <33 (Blooming panic rose/Our life B&A heart and sunset scene) - did you ask GBPatch a good while ago about adding the OL thing in? Because if so I remember seeing that tumblr ask LMAO

Dawww thank you for playing! Percy and Cameron would both giggle under the onslaught of smooches :,)

Haha yeah I asked for permission a while ago. Granted when we did oto jam that was purely added in there out of admiration. But since we’re moving forward, I doubled back and reached out for an official go ahead, and lucky for us they were kind enough to say yes! Same thing with robo :,)

There are other nods to VNs in the title screen too! Like Intertwine and O@TPT (Online at The Perfect Time)— there’s even a Project Blue reference there ^^ the devs who made those games are straight up homies so if you can check out their works that would be super lovely!

Especially @crescencestudio who is the creator for Intertwine because they’re about to release an enhance demo for their game Alaris!

[world-of-lang]

it was nice while it lasted

[lunaraydue]

Happy Pride! 🌈

Want to read a queer movie-length kinetic visual novel? Absolutely free? Consider checking out Sunshine & Roses!

Sam Williams is 50 and stagnant. When he decides to try some gardening to rebel against the monotony of his life, a chance encounter with the owner of the local gardening center shakes up more than he expected. Heath Rhodes is older than Sam but so full of life-- he should be everything that makes Sam feel bad about himself, but Heath's unabashed joy and kindness draw him in. As their relationship blossoms and Sam is contacted by his estranged daughter Daisy, he must learn how to nurture both his new plants and new relationships. It's not all sunshine and roses, but spring is in the air, and the tenderly grown flowers smell sweet.

Sunshine & Roses is a 20k-word story of sweet, heartfelt romance between older gay men that discusses queer identity across generations, the impact of the AIDs crisis, queer horror films, and never being too old to discover yourself and find happiness in life.

This pride month, consider supporting queer indie devs and maybe play this queer little story! It's completely free to play and it'd bring me and the amazing team who worked on it a little extra joy!

🌻Check out Sunshine & Roses here!🌹

[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!

[peevishpants]

Lines -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> Colours

Made on DrawnTogether

I worked w/ Pop Sandbox last year and had a great time exploring DrawnTogether, the app they built & handling their social media. It's a free Exquisite-Corpse-inspired phone app where you draw segments and link them up with segments made by other people, then colour it to make a cohesive artwork.

You can check it out ✨here✨, and if u do sign up, find me as @/weiwei on there!! >:)

Top Section drawn by @/miriiahh on ig Middle Section drawn by @/angela.reit on ig Bottom Section lines & overall colours by... it's-a me...! mario..! :O

[anirlcryptid99]

[cultofgalaxy]

Hey folks!

Last call for commissions as I want to start dedicating 100% of my working time to the game!

All commissions/donations go towards funding Kinoko and the project, we want to make this game the best we can make so any help with donating, commissioning me or even just reblogging would much be very appreciated! 🌟⭐️✨

Characters on detailed backgrounds

Characters on simple backgrounds

Characters coloured/shading

Lineart

Sketches

If you're thinking of commissioning me a detailed drawing I will always show a sketch before I work on the actual product.

Providing references and detailed descriptions of the character you want can help me visualize better on the drawing.

Thanks for checking out my blog, it means a bunch, remember to reblog and help spread the word! ❤️❤️❤️