On Tuesday, US District Judge William Alsup confirmed that Anthropic and the authors "believe they have a settlement in principle" and will file a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement by September 5. The settlement announcement comes after Alsup certified what AI industry advocates criticized as the largest copyright class action of all time. Although the lawsuit was raised by three authors—Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Charles Graeber—Alsup allowed up to 7 million claimants to join based on the large number of books that Anthropic may have illegally downloaded to train its AI models. If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would "financially ruin" the entire AI industry.

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Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival 2025 Streamer + Press Form This is a form for streamers & content creators interested in covering the upcoming Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, a Steam festival running from September 24-October 1 for visual novels with roma...

if you're a streamer, YouTuber, reviewer, etc. and want to cover romance visual novels, I'm looking for people to collaborate with for my next festival!

reviewers will be contacted by developers in our visual novel festival about playing demos & full games. sign up here: forms.gle/Ebv2QWtnPavM...

I know a lot of northerners look down on us but there's a lot of minorities that live in the south, and specifically, there's a lot of *people* that live in the south. we're not some conglomerate of bigotry or idiocy, we're a diverse & large area of people. so please don't say we deserve no internet

I think there's a very delicate line between "being disappointed at Itch for not being prepared to handle shit they should have been better-prepared for" and "relentlessly yelling in public at the only games storefront that doesn't completely suck shit to make sure we never get a second one"

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We're looking for a social media marketing intern to join the team! (Remote, contract 3 months)

Pls email your CV to elsethgames(at)gmail(dot)com (don't DM me)

Shares appreciated 🥰

#hiring #internship #job #recruiting #recruitment #gamedev #vndev #indiegames

Itch.io isn't anti-LGBT. They've been continuously supporting my community, which is hugely LGBT creatives, in nearly every event we run through the site, including Trans Joy Jam, which made them exactly 0 dollars and they promoted for us.

They suck at managing crisis, but they're not anti-LGBT.

saw someone refer to "itch's social-media team" and i guess people are still not grasping the size of organization here

i am 90% sure the itch twitter/bluesky are run by the CEO, who is also the guy who wrote the website and continues to write the website

The fact that itchio is looking into alternate payment options and talking about all this like an ongoing situation instead of being like "these are the new rules and always will be, fuck off" says a lot about how much they care about this. I know you want to yell at them but they're working hard

If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos

Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done.

We got more than 1000 people.

So tired of hearing r18 works & games being shadowbanned/removed.
Like if it’s tagged appropriately what is the issue?
I also understand it’s an age concern thing but like the internet are not your children’s babysitters.

I’m just really saddened & tired by this…

SAY 👏IT 👏 LOUDER 👏

This isn't drama

This isn't just a 'typical day' in the world of content creation and vtubing. No it's more than that

An agency stole half a million dollars meant for charity

Everyone should not be silent on this. Everyone should be loud!

Ironmouse has left VShojo.

She claims the agency owes her a significant amount of funds, as well as over $500,000 to the Immune Deficiency Foundation.

See her full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwLb...

Spooktober 7th Annual Visual Novel Jam A game jam from 2025-09-01 to 2025-10-27 hosted by Stella @ MakeVisualNovels. Judge Passes Available Now Here (What's this?) The Sponsorship Drive is Live! We're looking for people and organizations w...

Spooktober VN Jam is coming and I'm pleased to say we've hit all base and extra funding goals!

Spooktober Visual Novel Jam is our biggest competition of the year. Running Sept 1st to Oct 1st, developers make Halloween themed visual novels and compete for cash prizes!

itch.io/jam/spooktob...

Someone asked me, "Stella, why do you guys run so many jams?"

Jams are opportunities and occasions to do something. The motivation is there already for a lot of people, but the direction isn't. Jams provide direction, and then developers create opportunities for others in their effort to submit

Blood Alchemy: O2A2 by OTOJANG Games Are vampires real?

My #O2A2 entry: [Blood Alchemy] is done!

It’s based on a long time idea I had but never got to fleshing out. It’s still has a long way to go but…here’s a sneak peek!

Hehe I’m happy with how the UI turned out tho!!!

#visualnovel #vndev #indiedev

Play here 🩸
otojang.itch.io/blood-alchem...

Not just one plugin, but the Feniks plugins have been great for implementing additional features with limited time.

YouTube video by cstevengomez The Adventures of Superman: "Clan of The Fiery Cross" (1 of 16)

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Did you know Superman has always been woke?

Listen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ol8...

The Clan of the Fiery Cross was a 16 part Superman Serial where Superman took on the KKK, over the air AND in Real life, this was partially responsible for breaking the back of the KKK at the time!

#Superman

Always make sure your code is simple and easy to read.

You’ll thank yourself when you have to go back over your code trying to find the bug.

Also, while some may disagree, write comments describing your code if you work with others or are prone to forget about your code afterward.

#gamedev #vndev

Aesir is looking for a Mongolian voice actress for an upcoming trailer. Help us spread this far and wide so we can find a talented person of actual Mongolian descent 🙏

This is me about Alabama. My home state constantly goes out of its way to embarrass itself. That doesn’t mean that the ppl there, especially those marginalized & stuck under that states’ oppressive systems — those who don’t make the rules, are any less worth saving. Harmed ppl live in red states too

Hey. Don't boycott small businesses in Red States or the US if you can help it.

Some of us are unemployably disabled and only survive through our small businesses.

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After being in a committed relation with Ren'Py for years...I am now offering my coding skills for hire!（ꏿ ω ꏿ)

You need branching, custom stuff, or better yet...animated GUI?! I AM HERE (ﾐዎ ﻌ ዎﾐ)ﾉ

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#OpenCommissions #renpy #visualnovel

can yall please actually show up and vote next time and every single time after that

VTubers are not AI-powered. Vtubing has nothing to do with AI at all. Some of them are against using AI, especially Gen-AI.

Why support a shitty corpo vtuber with themes we don't agree with, when you can support your local small streamer today! Theres so many that you're bound to find something you like

Imma be real chat I don't fuck with any VTubers who have l0li type models like that shit's gross. Block me or cancel me or whatever IDC that shit's weird. Acting like they don't have full creative control over the design?? These people KNOW what they're doing when they decide to use these models.

A Stitch in Time by Cydewyn, Frogcake Two immortal lovers finally find a place in each other's hearts

"...Two immortal lovers finally find a place in each other's hearts."

Over the past two months, I have been lucky enough to work with a team of talented people on "A Stitch in Time" - a historical-fantasy otome set in the Byzantine empire.

Play it on itch.io!

cydewyn.itch.io/a-stitch-in-...

Image: Faux-newspaper front page with headline “BREAKING NEWS: Workers Unite to Expose Political Interference, Censorship, and Rollbacks at Environmental Protection Agency.” Below, smoke billows from a power plant as a photo of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin appears beside a tilted EPA sign. Subhead reads: “One bad day at the EPA – Zeldin gets a wake-up call.”

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

At 7:59am, Zeldin - Trump crony and head of EPA - received the Declaration of Dissent from EPA workers.

Workers are uniting against political interference, censorship & rollbacks at EPA under Zeldin’s leadership.

Someone’s week is off to a bad start. (1/5)