Transcenders 💖 Truer than You

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Which platform is your preferred one for playing narrative games? 🎮

#indiegames #visualnovel #narrativegames

It was a pleasure to get to talk to @enbykaiju.itch.io about Truer than You and other things that matter a lot ✨💖

TICKETSSS! 🌈💖

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A very busy first day in our Swedish booth at Tokyo Game Show with demoing, meetings and even Japanese tv visiting!😎 #indiegames #indiedev

Today we pitched our studio and upcoming project at ”pitch & fika” at Tokyo Innovation Base! #indiedev #indiegame

YouTube video by Douglas Holmquist - Topic Truer Than You

The soundtrack can be found at most music services 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3n9...

Getting to do such things is what really makes it worth being a creator ✨

We were blessed with a live performance by Douglas Holmquist and Susanna Lundgren, playing songs from the soundtrack. Susanna’s voice is truly angelic, and we are so honored to have those songs in the game 😍

Douglas Holmquist and Susanna Lundgren performing songs from truer than You

Bobbi presenting Truer than You and talking about the creation process

Audience listening to songs from Truer than You

We recently gathered friends and collaborators to celebrate the release of Truer than You❣️ It was wonderful to get to share the joy and process of something that has been in the making for such a long time 😍

#gamesareart #indiedev

Image showing all the selected games for Adventure X

We're super happy thet Truer than You will be part of Adventure X @adventurex.bsky.social this November! Check out all the participants here 😍 www.adventurexpo.org/exhibitors

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 56 over a background of lesbian pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a rainbow striped worm that's broken into lines like a platforming game. there are transgender pride color mario sprites throughout.

🏃💨 We've passed $56,000 for queer artists! Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game . . . even adjusted for inflation from 1985.

itch.io/b/3062

Folks the preasure is working! Stripe retracted their comments on forbidding people from buying LGBT games, visa is working with some JAV sites again. Even Steam is cuitting ties with Paypal for now!

It's working! Keep calling! Keep sending mail! We can win this if we keep going!

Now would be a good time to start making demands. Like reinstating payment processor support for DLSite.

Yes, even for the stuff you think is gross and weird and wrong. Because it's fiction.

Needless to say we loved our new acting gig 😆 All the drama of our first Truer Than You playthrough is here: youtu.be/9imW3FqXP4s?...

@transcenders.bsky.social @biggamesmachine.bsky.social #TruerThanYou

Adult content restrictions could pave the way for anti-LGBTQIA+ content bans Could bans on adult content easily be extended to deem LGBTQIA+ content as ‘mature’?

Adult content restrictions could pave the way for anti-LGBTQIA+ content bans

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/w/

Choose Wisely Festival The Choose Wisely Festival is a choice-based narrative games celebration.

Do choices matter in your narrative game?

There are only 14 days left to submit your game to the first ever #ChooseWiselyFestival on Steam!

Join a fantastic line-up of narrative games this winter.

Submissions: choosewiselyfestival.carrd.co

#gamedev #indiegame #games #steam #indiedev #vndev #IF

Spoke with an anon source who had an interesting insight into Visa policy. Per a convo with their bank on the Steam/itchio situation today, Visa put new restrictions into place due to a new "government policy." The exact phrase used by Visa. No specific country was listed as the source of the policy

Just updated the article with quotes from @transcenders.bsky.social, @ninamarie.bsky.social and some more cases of games impacted by this ongoing struggle.

Will probably put out an article about the payment processor's statements and such in the near future. Get in touch if you've been ringing!

Do it! 😍🏳️‍🌈

The Queer Games Bundle is live, and Knife Sisters is part of it! Get it and over 300 works while also supporting queer creators 🏳️‍🌈💖 @queergamesbundle.bsky.social

PC Gamer is also covering steam/itch now
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I played a visual novel about the terror of having a 'casual' boss and a job that wants you to conform to society's expectations—but not the ones involving economic stability Truer than You is about working for an app run by a guy who definitely wears cartoon socks in the office to show he's not just a regular boring manager.

"Truer than You is a visual novel about the gig economy. You're hired by a start-up run by a techbro who wears 'fun' t-shirts—always a warning sign—to complete vague tasks delivered via phone app." ☺️ www.pcgamer.com/games/visual...

Regarding the adult themed games crackdown:

The Dutch Game Association has flagged this issue with the European Games Developer Federation as we believe we can have a bigger impact on a European level.

However, I still strongly recommend you also bring up the issue with your local association.

Some very good points in this blog post! ✨

Hey, as someone who makes a living off selling adult games, I would really appreciate people helping to push back against censorship by payment processors. These puritanical extremists pressuring them have been successful because they've made a lot of noise, so we should be making even more noise!

Dont stop contacting Visa/MC, but Itch needs Stripe specifically pressured right now.

I just wanted somewhere to post my weird gay video games. Why can’t they leave us alone

I need the 1.3 million people who signed the Stop Killing Games petition to also sign this. This will kill games too. Doesn't matter if the games get made but there's not platform able to sell it.

📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢

If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off

Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.

🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.

🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁