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Falling Block Jam 2025 A game jam from 2025-09-13 to 2025-09-22 hosted by davemakes. Falling Block Jam celebrates the combination of blocks and gravity in video games. Think Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Panel de Pon, Dr. Mario, and L...

Falling Block Jam is now open for sign-ups! In September, let's put our own spin on this classic genre combining blocks and gravity in games. #FallingBlockJam
itch.io/jam/falling-...

Text: Alistair Aitcheson @ QGCon 2025 A photo of a clown in a French maid's uniform, smiling and holding her cheek, inside a rainbow overlay

I'm taking my interactive clown show to Montreal this September for QGCon, the Queerness and Games Conference!

@qgcon.bsky.social

I've been following this conference for years and years, and to get to be a part of it, among legendary artists and theorists is a dream come true.

really annoying to hear the ghosts in pacman called "ai" when in reality they're the souls of 4 teenagers who broke into an arcade one night on a dare

It’s almost impossible to come up with an exhaustive list of unacceptable products to sell, so often we have to take content reviews one at a time. If an issue arises with your account that isn’t already covered by our policy, then we will contact you and share what options you may have. If you've collected money while in violation of terms, we may be forced to refund or freeze all pending transactions, as accounts that are in violation of our terms are not eligible for payouts.

Itch's new content policy is:

1. We can't tell you what violates the rules.

2. If you violate the rules, we take all your money. Not just the money from that work, ALL your money from EVERYTHING you've ever made.

I don't care how much of a smol bean Itch is, this is not a viable platform.

Faggot Games: An Urgent Warning — Darling Demon Eclipse How do I express this to you, the faggot game designer who is most likely to read a blog about TTRPGs with such an aggressive name? You have to do it now, and loudly, and into the future. You have to ...

something something write faggot games now more than ever, now even if you don't usually write erotica, now for all of us, for those that need to remember we're human despite being banned, delisted, and erased.

little sister necrophilia crying to her older sisters zoo and pedo because no one takes her seriously anymore. "they didnt even include me on the itchio list" she says, while her older sisters bully her and...well. you know

NEET Ozma Postmortem | SloaneTVBand Get more from SloaneTVBand on Patreon

Now live on the Patreon: a post-mortem of NEET Ozma, the media analysis / criticism site I made for exclusively transfem writers / editorial.
The site still exists, but it never became what it was supposed to be. Why?
www.patreon.com/posts/neet-o...

WTF. This is insane. If I publish this joke it would cost me $2000 that I've already earned

i am complying with itch's new policies and making a wholesome and payment processer-friendly version of my game

I went to a variety show last night, and a 16 year old furry clocked me and came over to show me her pokemon fusion art and animal fusion ocs. it was really sweet :)

The thing with these is that payment processors/Itch can do some very broad readings of these. They seem specific but the devil is in the wording.

YouTube video by Hollandspiele Player Counts: Scaling in Board Games

New video essay! This time I'm joined by special guests @colewehrle.bsky.social , @xoe.gay , @jdragsky.bsky.social , Erin Escobedo, and @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social as I explore the impact of player counts & scaling on the types of experiences games create.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-s2...

I'll be attending @qgcon.bsky.social this September! I'll be showing off my artgame about recovery from bottom surgery and checking out all other other artistic and commercial games made by awesome queer folks
www.qgcon.org/2025/arcade

I have two adult games and now I'm gonna have to think about hosting them myself

gamedevbrook.itch.io/dilation-sim...
gamedevbrook.itch.io/pee

Just checked against my list of queer adult games I keep maintained and, fuck, this is brutal

Prior to this adult games didn't show up as quick results in the search bar, now they are just gone from searches altogether

itch was the last platform hope we had for adult queer games going forward 😔

people are already like "don't push against itchio! Push against the payment processors!"

Hey, you know what would help push against the payment processor? If Itchio helped. At all. Even a little bit.

But no, just no warning, no notice, just an axe to our necks. They aren't your friend.

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

This is terrifying. projects are being hidden, some even removed entirely. all for what? I thought itch was the best place for queer art and works. I've hosted multiple educational and artistic pieces there!

🚨🚨🚨 Indie website itch.io has just rolled out a major shadow ban of NSFW content. This drastic escalation in censorship already seems to affecting trans authors.

TRANS AUTHORS ON ITCH: Please check you pages.

I am going to report on this TONIGHT. To those affrcted, DM me with any info.

discord vers/top be like: be a good girl and collect my orbs. finish my quests. do you want a free nitro trial? are you single? watch this add for free glorps. don't you want a bingy? this server is halfway to its boost goal! he're some server tags. i'm not like other chat clients. behold our newest feature: embed scoreboards into messages! are you single btw?

permadeath gamedev where you cancel the game if it ever crashes during development

Meme, upper text: The Myth of Artistic Freedom Man says: I want to draw it Woman says: I want to see it MasterCard and Visa logos say: I DON'T! Bottom text: ISN'T THERE SOME RANDOM PAYMENT PROCESSOR YOU FORGOT TO ASK?

My pinball dating sim is officially OUT!

Pinball Crush is a chill cozy game with a silly dating sim progression system. Steam and Itchio links below! 💖

#pinball #datingsim #indiedev #indiegame #godot #pixelart #cozy #stream #itchio #arcade #cutesy

QGCon

I'll be in Montreal for www.qgcon.org in September! Anyone know of what else to do while up there? Or any people to meet?

I remember watching GDQs in early transition and seeing that they had to turn off twitch chat when a trans person was even just reading donations aloud and now there are kaizo Mario runs where there are four trans people on camera and a crowd cheering behind them.

Are you a trans or queer game dev with a demo or released game?
Fill out the form for a chance to have it demoed in the 10PM-1AM EST block of our stream!
tinyurl.com/bdfed63u
- Entries will be added to the "Wheel of Woke"
- A new game will be chosen every 20 minutes
- All entries will be published

the cover of SUZI, with art by robbi burns. a woman lying down with metal pipes extending from her body, and a dismissive/sad look at the viewer. her pose is a reference to the Sleeping Hermaphroditus

coming soon: SUZi, a new TTRPG about sex robots! everyone starts with the same character, you play a solo game with lifepaths to figure out how you broke free, and then you work together to stay safe from humanity and eventually transcend the limitations of form
(art by @robbiaburns.bsky.social)