Alex Higgins

A brief defence of dialogue choices In games, the player needs to have something to do.

A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):

Thank you! :)

Thank you! It felt bad the first couple of months, but I'm feeling much better about it now

A Jailbird Nocturne Post-Mortem

I released Jailbird Nocturne just over a year ago! So I wrote a 30 page retrospective on just about anything about it I could think of - design, characters, narrative, themes, production, scale, reception, etc. Hopefully you find something in there of interest!

Headshot of Lynn Almengor holding a copy of the graphic novel, "Bones of the Voyager" by Lynn Almengor and Janet Figueroa.

Cover of the graphic novel, “Bones of the Voyager” by Lynn Almengor and Janet Figueroa. A young woman with white hair and glasses stands on a stage decorated with a red curtain and stars hanging from the ceiling by strings. She’s trying to use a video camera while a skeleton wearing a black-and-white checkered ska getup interrupts from behind her to take a selfie.

I made a GRAPHIC NOVEL with @madjesters1.bsky.social!

BONES OF THE VOYAGER follows Nina, an indie director dealing with problems on set and her depression—which is embodied by a sarcastic skeleton named Vincenzo

Get it on Amazon: bit.ly/4pkcVfV

#BookSky #IndieBooks #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

I remember playing it to completion way back and thinking it was really cool! It definitely represents that late 2000's/early 2010's era of indie game dev in the best way

man sits in fox news studio. he says "I hoped it wouldn’t come to this. But, they wanted a war. and they’ll get one." he is wearing a shirt that says "I <3 War" he's wearing a badge that says "please let me start a war it is my birthday" he's wearing a medallion that says "war is kool!" he's got "WAR" tatood on his neck he's got three medals that say "W" "A" "R" he's wearing an armband that says "war" he's holding a gun that says "special gun for civil war" he's wearing a hat that says "#1 WAR FAN" the news ticker is on the bottom of the screen, it says "Regrettably, it has come to this. We Didn’t want a war, but"

sometimes you gotta draw a political cartoon #696969

"The Sad And Regrettable War"

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 80 over a background of genderfluid pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Thanks! I'm excited by the ideas; just hoping I can follow through

Jailbird Nocturne gave me a permanent taste for long-form storytelling (ew oh no), but I don't want to spend 4 years on a game ever again, so I'm hoping that embracing an RPG/novel hybrid format will enable me to tell a larger story faster than I otherwise could.

Moreso than my previous RPG's, I'm experimenting with leaning more heavily on prose. While the world map and dungeon(s?) will be rendered, the idea is that everything else (e.g. cutscenes and towns) will be conveyed through text.

Rival nobles set off to rescue a princess from a tower but everybody has a complicated relationship with the "prince and princess" thing. It's like Revolutionary Girl Utena meets We Know the Devil but everyone is riding a motor scooter because hell yeah.

Life's finally stabilized enough and I have *just* enough assets made that I can share a screen of my current project!
Working title: Motor Oil and Sword.
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #rpgmaker #solodev

logos for online game distributors itch dot i o and Steam, with itch in pink on the left and steam in dark blue on the right

"[T]his article is in revolt against the puritanical notions of pornography as a monolithic evil, a space of degeneration and moral rot."

An anonymous contributor affirms the value of NSFW content in a world that's increasingly becoming more hostile to it: unwinnable.com/2025/08/11/t...

Also, this should be (and seems to be) the case, but if someone else who purchased the bundle could confirm to me that buying the bundle provides access to Jailbird Nocturne's paid bonus content, I would deeply appreciate it!

Jailbird Nocturne is in the Queer Games Bundle! So, like, get it!
itch.io/b/3062/queer...

illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.

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Mimidoshima On itch.io removing adult games and what to learn from it

wrote my final thoughts (for now) on itch.io removing and shadowbanning adult queer games and what i'd like to see more of in the near future: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

“A source that cannot be verified or remain consistent is useless.”

Shout this sentence from on high.

Exactly!

I'm always shook when I go to a neocities site and the about me page says "I miss the old pre-social media internet, also, I was born in 2009."

a new version of D&D where you open up the Dungeon Master's Guide and Wizards of the Coast has taped a dollar to the inside cover

Bug Mystery? The Explosion Speaks! by Alexandra Higgins Find your ex's bugs alongside sentient explosion

Very cute lil relationship story by @alexandrah.bsky.social 💖 alchiggins.itch.io/bug-mystery-...

Aw, thank you so much for playing it John!

I want to repeat the phrase "being forced to undergo the wrong puberty" until every remotely persuadable cis person in the world sees it: denying gender-affirming care to trans teens isn't neutral or default, it's forced body modification.

Something the Skrmetti decision drives home: "Puberty blockers" should be abandoned as a goal; the goal should be HRT for any minor that wants it; puberty blockers should be a tool for minors who choose themselves they need more time to decide and *nothing else*.

Compromising achieved nothing, here

Thank you! The D&D is nourishing. The other stuff, not as much yet

My radio silence up to this point has mostly been because I hadn't made enough art assets for my current project to show anything off, but at this particular moment, I'm also moving, starting a new job, and running a D&D campaign, so game development is just straight-up not happening! :(