Tex Makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️

YouTube video by Qualbert Gaming Catto's Post Office | Adorable Cozy Kitty Indie (100% MEOW Playthrough)

Concatulations to the wonderful team at In Shambles Studio and @cultgames.bsky.social on the launch of Catto's Post Office! 😻

We'll have a full review up soon for this adorable bite-sized locally-made #indiegame. In the meantime, here's our 100% MEOW playthrough: youtu.be/w2nMB-891rM

I believe that everyone has the power to make trash games!

If you are having trouble brainstorming game ideas... Go outside.

A screenshot from the game Key Fairy, broken up into vertical bands of different colour palettesm

Colour Palettes!

I wanted to compare colour palettes in Key Fairy, and ended up accidentally producing this image!

Melbourne folk, go play HyperRouter! It's truly indescribable!

Oh me oh my! I may not be in Melbourne, but my game is, so go play it!

Monday Motivation

(what do you mean, it's tuesday?)

Video games were one of the first sectors to employ incompetent and callous bosses in the 1990s, with the Cacodemon from Doom...

Anyway, my next blog post is going to end with a terrible 1000 word essay on what a roguelike is, and how the core meaning of the genre has completely changed due to a few games.

I just remembered that google's search algorithm prioritises high word count!

In searching for a minimum length to be ranked in their search, the top pages swore blind that "length doesn't matter", in the most repetitive, obtuse, 2-3k words I've ever read.

Nah, you wrong dog, Imagine Games! Can you even imagine???

It's like a film, but you can taste it!!!

I..ima..Imagine Games!?!

Everyone wants “diverse voices” in the industry.

But only if they have nothing to say.

It's... interesting, that industry lobby groups *will* fight tooth-and-nail to let Mortal Kombat characters rip each other's spines out.

But when the backlash is against sexuality, and queer experiences in games, they seemingly have nothing to say.

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"I never wanted to fight" is so real!

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:

credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think

Larger corporations, and systems of power, get to be treated like forces of nature.

Oh 100%! part of why I like game Dev is that I can switch between tasks and roles when my brain needs something new

Okay, sick of hearing companies are “hit” by layoffs. How about “committed layoffs”, “performed layoffs” or “enacted layoffs”?

Our language pretends it’s an act of god - not an act of “leadership.”

1.5 years o' development!

#gamedev #notpixelart

Opening Unity, showing a loading bar just starting.

Still opening unity, now the loading bar is further along.

THEN vs NOW

#thenvsnow

Drăculești: a romantic horror narrative game Play as Renfield, survive the terror of Castle Dracula, and find love in the darkest night in romantic horror game Drăculești.

dracula is gay and needs your help!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

Haha I've got you right where I wanted you!

Five? reasons to make your game pretty ASAP! (Number 3 will make you say “what?”) I believe that it’s worth investing some time developing an aesthetic early in prototyping, even if it risks “wasting work”!

I wrote a thing about aesthetics in the prototyping phase!

neighbourhoodsnake.com/2025/07/23/f...

Read it and weep, haters!!!

P.S. I'm trying my hand at clickbait, please don't feel obliged to either read it, or weep, even if you consider yourself a "hater".

We also do this! It keeps all the dialogue short and swe..

Dracula bows, gesturing at the Draculesti logo. We've reached 50%!

The Drăculești Kickstarter campaign has hit 50%!

Thank you to everyone who's backed it so far. 18 days to go...! Please keep sharing, spreading the word, and supporting Dracula. You have his eternal gratitude 🖤

www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

Woot woot!

Graph by: @tomscott.com

A graph created by the youtuber Tom Scott, with the Y-axis being how "Awesome" an idea is, and the X-axis being how much "Effort" an idea will take. The point of the graph is that, for creative projects, you want the level of effort to at least be proportional to how cool the idea is!

Don't make me bring out the graph!