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Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP
MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue
Stripe feeling the pressure
ACLU put out a statement
CBC covered all this

What you are doing is WORKING
You are getting RESULTS
KEEP CALLING
KEEP WRITING
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

As you may have heard, thousands of NSFW games have been removed without warning from multiple platforms over the past few days. This sets a troubling precedent for the future of games.

If you want more information on why this is happening and how to help, read more here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

Digital graphic with the text "anti-censorship campaign" and screenshots of headlines about how multiple storefronts have removed NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors and Collective Shout.

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

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RPG Maker Jam Results & Future Plans The time has come, and the RPG Maker Jam 2025 Results have been announced! Kana.exe won in the Most Innovative Gameplay category and was a runner up for Best Narrative ! 🙌🙌🙌🥳🥳🥳 We al...

hatoge.itch.io/kanaexe/devl...

Kana popping a celebratory confetti cone thingy

The RPG Maker 2025 Game Jam results are out, and my entry kana.exe won in the category of Most Innovative Gameplay! We also got runner up for Best Narrative and 7th place in the public ranking 🥳 Thank you so much to the judges for all of their hard work and everyone else who left ratings on the jam!

Reasons to back Snowkissed Romance, our ‘90s dating sim, a thread 🧵

🩷 Fall in Love YOUR Way: Choose gender, appearance, zodiac + personality!
⛷️ Dreamy Setting: It’s winter break of 1994-1995
🌌 Nostalgic Romance: Your childhood friends are back and now they’re HOT?

(1/3)

Not sure how to do this. My partner and light of 19 years, @mitzistarkweather.bsky.social has been diagnosed with metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer.

We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.

If you’re able, we could use your help.

gofund.me/99a35bf2

Trans Representation Jam 25 A game jam from 2025-06-14 to 2025-08-31 hosted by Hatoge, sleepyboydev & cdrch. Welcome to the Trans Representation Jam 2025! This is an annual two months long Jam celebrating Trans Representation in...

The Trans Representation Jam 2025 has officially started! Submit your games from now until August 31st 11:59 pm CEST! Make sure to use the #transrepjam hashtag if you share any progress on bluesky. Happy jamming everyone! ☺️ itch.io/jam/trans-re... #transrepjam #indiedev #gamejam

a flock of pigeons are perched on a rooftop Alt: a flock of pigeons are perched on a rooftop

TODAY IS NATIONAL PIGEON DAY!! Please take a second to appreciate all that pigeons have done for humans in the past and how we domesticated them only to leave them to the city streets 🐦🌻

📅✨This weekend! It's the return of Drawfee Variety Hour! We'll be raising money for Trans Lifeline, June 7th 2pm ET-8 on Twitch!

Celebrate Pride - New translation added for Pride Month for A Year of Springs! On sale for 280 yen on Google Play A banner showcasing the three characters from A Year of Springs with rainbow flag colours in the background

A YEAR OF SPRINGS pride anniversary sale on itch.io, 25% off for the whole month

A YEAR OF SPRINGS 25% off and A YEAR OF SPRINGS game and soundtrack bundle 23% off on Steam

A YEAR OF SPRINGS is on sale for pride on steam, itch & google play! (sorry the length of the sale varies for every platform so just check the platform of your choice! 💦)

🎮 ayearofsprings.npckc.net

An edit of the "Don't Make Me Tap The Sign" meme from The Simpsons saying "Corporations do not care about you and you should support independent queer artists and creators and give them your money instead of these companies who will end up fucking them over because they don't care about the LGBTQ+ community"

Pride Month starts tomorrow.

I'm going to post this once again.

I made a drawing of Chase Colt from Mistrick! Actually, whenever I hear Malice Mizer's song "Baroque" I think of him, and I think he would wear Visual Kei accessories, So I made some redesigns on his clothes, I really liked it ＼⁠(⁠^⁠o⁠^⁠)⁠／ (Game by @hatoge.itch.io)

omg you tumblr sexymanified him even further haha but also he would absolutely wear this 🔥

Trans Representation Jam 25 A game jam from 2025-06-14 to 2025-08-31 hosted by Hatoge & cdrch. Welcome to the Trans Representation Jam 2025! This is an annual two months long Jam celebrating Trans Representation in gaming! Get i...

Only 2 more weeks until #Transrepjam returns again this year! The optional theme this time is found family ☺️ Come join our low stakes, beginner friendly 2 month long jam all about trans representation in video games, ttrpgs, comics and more! itch.io/jam/trans-re...

YouTube video by Seed by Seed Jump the Track - Release Trailer

💥 JUMP THE TRACK - is OUT NOW 💥

🏃 Save your life
🤝 Rally forces
✊ Overthrow the system

Seed by Seed is a game dev cooperative, and we're self-publishing this game, so we truly need your help 💖
youtu.be/ce8VkKx4SVM

I get a lot of random spam submissions to my jam as well... you can actually ban them from the jam, though it's a bit hidden in the jam options. Then again, nothing is keeping them from just making a new account and doing this spiel all over again 😔

I sometimes get comments like "Why is this gay??? Stop making everything gay!" and I find those comments very funny because I imagine the little homophobe being all excited and pumped to play my game & then recoil in shock and horror, when they realize they've accidentally consumed the gay. 😂

Discord recently partnered with a Generative AI called DomoAI and apparently they’re in every server but sneakily don't show up in the member list. However they still use the art/images sent in the server to train their AI. To bypass this, people have found the AI’s ID so we can ban them. The AI has already been banned in this server, but for anyone here who has a server or is in another art/creative space, please use this advice and ban the following ID using the /ban command. 1153984868804468756 It may also be smart to start watermarking your pieces.

More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers.

The ID is
1153984868804468756

Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will.

#Discord

anime style illustration of a long haired man in a white shirt laying in a field of purple and white flowers with a melancholic look on his face. the text reads: You killed him once before. Will you make the same mistake twice? Asphodelium a dark fantasy BL visual novel coming to Steam & itchio June 18th

You killed your former guild leader when he betrayed you for a cult. Now, a man claiming to be his doppelganger asks for your help. Will you make the same mistakes, or will things be different this time?

Our dark boys love visual novel Asphodelium releases in 1 month!

🔪 Wishlist: s.team/a/3139260/

Oh man, sorry you have to deal with that too :( I hope itch can ban that ip adress or something. There's definitely a lot of children of itchio, and I'm afraid they may not have been taught proper internet safety and end up clicking on those links...

A comment saying "Download Updated Version here - " with a censored link.

I keep getting this same spam comment over and over on one of my games on @itch.io . I keep banning them, but they just come back with a new account. Anyone else experiencing this? It's really annoying D:

Trans Representation Jam 25 A game jam from 2025-06-14 to 2025-08-31 hosted by Hatoge & cdrch. Welcome to the Trans Representation Jam 2025! This is an annual two months long GameJam celebrating Trans Representation in gaming! G...

The Trans Representation Jam is returning again this year, running from June 14th to August 31rd! Hope to see you there! itch.io/jam/trans-re... #gamejam #indiedev #transgaming #transrepjam

Come join my non-competetive game jam about creating more trans representation! 💪 (and please ignore the typo I am very tired)

We Might Be About To Lose A Powerful Force In The World Of Video Game Preservation "When you do the maths, we are completely out of cash in September"

The nonprofit Japanese Game Preservation Society (JGPS) is running out of money and will have to shut down soon if they can't find a way to raise money. They have been critical in preserving Japanese games.
www.timeextension.com/features/we-...

finished 95%of chat pages

Version 1.1 | Major Bug Fixes I've been receiving a lot of bug reports over the last week, some of which have been game breaking. This game was made for a ranked game jam, so I'm not currently allowed to alter the main file on thi...

The 1.1 version is now live! Please download this version if you want to play the game 🙏 I fixed a lot of major bugs and improved overall performance. hatoge.itch.io/kanaexe/devl...

Tldr; depending on the type of game, silent playthroughs can be great accessibility tools but let's players should 100% respect devs boundaries around them. (4/4)

That beid said, when it comes to story heavy and esp. paid games I completely agree with you that people shouldn't make silent playthroughs without permission. I do think they are a luxury so a silent playthrough should be up to the dev to distibute if they wish to, possibly monetary. (3/4)

There are other accessibility reasons where it's physically harder for someone to game or they don't own a pc. Of course it's still up to each dev to define their boundaries for these things, but it might be good to consider uploading silent playthroughs yourself if you're able to! (2/4)