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A colorful illustration of a bunch of tomatoes on the vine surrounded by tomato plants and flowers. Each tomato has a different goofy little face on it.

The tomatoes are starting to come up in the garden!! 🍅

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Save 10% on A Solitaire Mystery on Steam A collection of mysterious solitaires. The solitaires included vary from fairly standard cardgames to funky reimplementations of other games in solitaire form.

Hey, would you look at that, A Solitaire Mystery is out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3743220/...
#gamedev

Whoops sorry, just did!

Np! You can DM me for help later if you’d like. What you’re making clearly looks important

Does the Layoff Data sheet have a column for the year of each wave? You can add that to the countifs formula like (Layoff Data!A:A, $A3, Layoff Data!X:X, V$2) with X being the year column and V$2 as the different years

Same!! I recently blocked like a dozen obvious bots. How the hell did they even find my account??

Play visual novels. I promise you, they won’t bite.

Today is your 💥 last chance 💥 to purchase online tickets to NarraScope 2025! Join us on Discord for a fully hybrid conference experience. The ticket portal closes at 11:59 ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

City of Voices on Steam A short Golden Idol-like deduction game about a young girl who is catapulted from her suburban life into the mysterious world of the ancient Maya. Investigate a series of moments frozen in time. Exami...

The City of Voices demo is OUT NOW, as part of the @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social! Really hope you enjoy our Golden Idol-like :)

Huge thanks, too, to Thinky Direct, for including our new trailer in their live show just now!
store.steampowered.com/app/3342470/...

Someone made a website where we all collectively solve every possible 5x5 Nonogram (aka Picross) 😅

11,263 down, 24,965,248 to go! Let's do it, folks!

pixelogic.app/every-...

Hello fellow IF fans, game writers, players and story enjoyers! Our annual conference on narrative games, NarraScope, is less than a month away. As the event draws closer, I wanted to turn your attention to the trademark Big Thermometer on narrascope.org, which tracks fundraising for the event. We are currently at $15,005, which is 60% of our $25,000 goal. To be clear: NarraScope is not in danger of going under or being canceled. However, we rely on donations from both sponsors and individuals to make sure that we don't need to dig so deep into IFTF's treasury that it could impact our other programs you love – things like IFComp, IFDB, the Twine committee, and more. This year, contributions from both individuals and institutions have been lower than in the past, for reasons we can likely deduce by looking at the world around us. These contributions are what allow us to offer attendance at a significantly lower price point than many other conferences. The conference team is working as always to continue to fundraise, but we wanted to ask that if you have the stability and ability to do so, to consider sending IFTF a small donation. You can do so at iftechfoundation.org/give/, and if you want, put a note indicating that it is directed at NarraScope and how you would like to be credited, if you so desire. Additionally, if you know any institutions that may be interested in a sponsorship, please email sponsorship@narrascope.org with the details. This year's event looks to be our largest yet, with more programming, attendees and events than any in the past! Your support helps keep NarraScope and IFTF sustainable and ensures that the event goes off without a hitch. Our in-person tickets have totally sold out, but passes to stream talks live are still available through 18 June 2025. As always, we appreciate your support, and I’m excited to see many of you next month in Philadelphia! - Justin Bortnick, President, Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation

A message from IFTF's president about this year's event (don't panic!):

Meme in the style of "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign that says "you wouldn't overscope a project"

Get more from Grim on Patreon creating Interactive Fiction & Twine Resources

I'm still looking for work, and patreon remains the best way to sanction my buffoonery 🤠

there's a free tier, optional pledges from $2-$5, and an archive of almost 300 posts: monthly devlogs, Twine Grimoire updates, original fiction, and more behind-the-scenes 🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris

chart with three columns: Indie, AA, AAA and seven rows: Development budget, marketing, team size, publisher, graphics and technology, target audience, development time. Each cell has a funny but also pretty much true content

chart drafted by a friend about the difference between indie and AA, and AAA game developers

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

📣 Solo and small team game devs! 📣

Are you looking for visibility for your indie game? Then Tiny Teams Festival is the one for you.

Submissions for Tiny Teams 2025 will open on May 5th—we can’t wait to play your games!

#gamedev #gaming #indiegames

Heading out on a vacation! I wonder if I should use this time to relax with my family or stress about not using the time to game dev? 🤔

I wonder if any designers want to make themselves hated by suggesting a redesign for Ren'Py's error and utility screens.

yeah there's a direct through line between this ruling and anyone who bought that hogwart's game that trans people got screamed at for suggesting we boycott

OH it’s free. That explains it then, thanks

I watched a demo for blue prince last year and thought “huh neat” and I don’t understand how so many people I follow are talking about it. Was there an insane marketing ploy I missed or something

"This feature has become very popular among people who have no imagination" is perhaps one of the best and most damning things you can say about people who use gen-AI to regurgitate artbarf as if it's anything other than digital particleboard.

TOXIC YURI VN JAM A game jam from 2025-06-01 to 2025-07-14 hosted by nadia nova, deaddeaddeath, KillJill, Kyou System & thursdayrain. 💉🤕VISUAL NOVELS 😈💔 FOR GIRLTHINGS WITH SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM Hewwo, and thank yo...

girl love BUT EVIL
6 week vn jam with $2500 prize pool

itch.io/jam/toxic-yu...

“no yes” meme image, anime girl version. girl looks disgusted at: $80 USD AAA games. girl looks excited and impressed by: $30 USD indie games

Digital illustration of studio Ghibli Kodama spirits holding a flag: “If you claim to love Studio Ghibli but use the ChatGPT Ghibli image generator, then no. You don’t love Studio Ghibli. Even further, you fundamentally do not understand or respect Miyazaki and his art.”

It really is that simple❤️
#studioghibli #ghibli #hayaomiyazaki

Registration is now open for NarraScope 2025! Until April 11, full NarraScope 2025 memberships are available at a discounted Early Bird rate. Your membership provides access to all NarraScope talks, meals, and opportunities to sign up for workshops. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...