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Narrative design // Honor Bound, Royal Affairs, Noblesse Oblige, Crème de la Crème, Blood Money from Choice of Games // Date Everything, King of the Castle, Love Island, Fallen London // they/he // hpowellsmith.com
The threshold sings a song of seduction. Shoreline. Riverbank. Wood edge. The witch hears it as summoning, as a promise of magics. It is a kiss in her ear, a pull upon her her bones. The witch is one who answers the call of wonder. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
22.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 159 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 2After nearly four years in hardcover, SPEAR is finally available in paperback. Same book, same delicious interior illustrations, just a few more nifty quotes on the back :)
21.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 119 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 22WE ARE LIVE! Dying with nerves and excitement. Please help us realise All Will Rise by supporting our kickstarter! Plot your revenge against the billionaire class and play the demo now! #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
16.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
New interactive fiction game: red-autumn.itch.io/lilac-song
It's pretty short, and it's kind of a companion piece to Social Democracy: An Alternate History.
Congratulations, that's brilliant!
20.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations!!!!
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Another tool! Ink Explorer.
Visualises the shape of an Ink story and lets you play through from any point, watching variables (and tweaking them), keeping track of visit counts, and letting you snapshot and restore the state.
Early days - hope it's useful to someone!
medium.com/@wildwinter/...
if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"
15.02.2026 08:03 — 👍 5562 🔁 1599 💬 43 📌 57
It's my birthday, hurrah! For my birthday I'd really love as many shares on this post as we can make happen!
Hi, I'm AK, and I write exceedingly queer books! Feel free to ask me about them!
ravenswordpress.com
First job this morning was to decide which expensive trenchcoat a character should be wearing, and I think I've settled on one (and if your stats are right, you can tell it's not pure wool)
13.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good on you for going for it!
13.02.2026 10:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This what a Game Narrative Kaleidoscope looks like 👀
13.02.2026 10:19 — 👍 113 🔁 18 💬 10 📌 2I know the feeling, good luck on the walk!
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A peaceful illustration of a young witch (Samar from the game Spirit Swap: Lofi beats to match-3 to) with pink horns and over the ear headphones, sitting on their bed in front of a big window. The window is surrounded by pothos vines and witchy knickknacks, and her Familiar, a pink round Frog with a unicorn horn, sleeps happily loafing next to her.
What would life be like if you moved to a city where plants carry magic like cables carry electricity in our world? What does a queer Arab fantasy world feel like? We’re making a solo-journaling TTRPG set in that world for zine month🐸 sliding scale PDF available!
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Totally understandable having the mixed feelings, but congratulations and best of luck for when you start!
12.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SHAPE
12.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She's the best! <3
12.02.2026 12:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A somewhat-famous actor also went to my school, but he was four years younger than us and adorable so no bullying involved there, thankfully
12.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0On high school famous people: a musician who's now I think slightly niche-famous? bullied me and my now-wife homophobically in high school, she beat him up then threatened him when he tried to say she started it, and he never bothered us again
12.02.2026 11:39 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Yes to this whole thread but especially this part. The idea that we have some kind of collective social responsibility to find a use for these products because companies have already invested so much money in them is the exact inverse of how a healthy economy should function.
11.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 47 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
I've updated KINOPHOBIA, my horror-mystery parser game from last year's Halloween, with a number of typo fixes. Meaning that now is an *even better* time to play it, if you haven't already – it's legal, it's free, and it's actually quite hard according to most players. brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
09.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 58 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 1Hope you get well soon! I've got a cold today as well, hate how it puts a dent in work momentum
09.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Heya! I'm garin, a freelance artist and currently I'm looking for work and open for commissions!
Feel free to hit me up anytime!
garincomms@gmail_com 📩
OUT NOW 💀 #bandcampfriday
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Congrats that's incredible!!!
06.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For the past few Bandcamp Fridays I’ve been a little self conscious posting about it, since I haven’t released any new music in awhile. However! People are always super cool and nice and supportive, and I’m very grateful 💚
So pls check out my music. It may not be new, but I’m still very proud of it
sometimes a romance confession scene is you and your new evil girlfriend plotting the bi awakening of your straight female bestie
06.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oooo this looks so nice!
05.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aw, glad he's feeling better! Hope he continues to improve
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CloisterFox issue 2 cover: on a blue background, a deep sea diver's visor reflects outer space.
I've got 4 mildly damaged copies of CloisterFox issue 2. I've listed them at a discount. Then they're gone. Gone!
Six beautifully illustrated tales of weirdness and woe by:
🗝️ Malcolm Devlin
🗝️ Elou Carroll
🗝️ Ashley Stokes
🗝️ C.B. Blanchard
🗝️ Laura Elliot
🗝️ Ray Newman
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
