Jett Barker

Introducing... 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔹𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕥, available now on itch.io!

👁️‍🗨️ Liminal mystery/horror game
🗡️ Visual novel meets dungeon-crawler
🌌 6 endings
🗣️ Full voice acting
✨ It's free! It's union! It's got a 12-track OST!

Our team of 8 made this game in a month. Enjoy!
jettbarker.itch.io/the-beast

"Nova's Ship" is an extremely serious game where nothing absurd happens. Ever. (...I'm joking.)

azufx.itch.io/novas-ship

The bloopers are too powerful for Bluesky's video limit, so here's a 2-part version in two posts—or you can watch the entire thing in one go via www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sU...!

“You imagine that” is actually the most devastating part of this to me

It’s such a poignant wtf is wrong with you that you think that is smart response

a physical copy of my game parfum nostalgique. it's a circular USB card custom printed with my main character on it with a flip-out flash drive and a blue tassel attached to a blue shell-shaped perfume bottle card in a watercolor style.

a physical copy of my game parfum nostalgique. it's a circular USB card custom printed with my main character on it with a flip-out flash drive and a blue tassel attached to a blue shell-shaped perfume bottle card in a watercolor style.

I am once again showing off how cool the physical copies of my game are.

And I am once again reminding you that I have a free zine about how to make your own physical copies here:
priro.itch.io/holdingthebaby

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Hilariously, I don't think that was one of the buildings with many ghost sightings.

(I lived in my school's ostensibly most haunted building for 2 years + had 0 run-ins with anything weird, because…if ghosts exist, I reckon they operate on "You don't bother them; they don't bother you." Like bees!)

When I was in uni, I spent a fair bit of time in the music building despite not being a Music major or minor (voice lessons, access to recording spaces, etc).

Lovely building! Near and dear to me!

…also felt *super* weird + confusing to navigate if you were in one of 4 identical hallways at night!

As someone who genuinely finds Gothic architecture "cozy," there's much to be said for "All the little nooks are comforting—but the shadows on the walls *do* look a bit odd at times."

The "friction" exists in real-world spaces, so games that don't suppress it read as more honest than those that do.

i was fighting so hard not to give him cat ears
#cryptmaster #art

Oh yeah there's also this official role announcement thing. I think it's my first official one with an image and everything! Anyway, Nova's Ship is free AND excellent AND I'm in it so go and check it out for a lovely nautical story where nothing bad happens!

And now, for part 2!

As before, "Nova's Ship" remains free-to-play and decidedly silly via azufx.itch.io/novas-ship

This thing is Union! It's ABSURD! And it's UNION!

(Anyway, there's actual context for the vast majority of bloops in both parts, which is both hilarious and a little horrifying.)

"Nova's Ship" is an extremely serious game where nothing absurd happens. Ever. (...I'm joking.)

azufx.itch.io/novas-ship

The bloopers are too powerful for Bluesky's video limit, so here's a 2-part version in two posts—or you can watch the entire thing in one go via www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sU...!

More #voiceover #casting is going on over @hipflask.games ! We're adding several roles to our game, which is over 30k Wishlists on Steam and growing strong! This is an #opencastingcall so feel free to share it around! Deadline is October 10.

drive.google.com/file/d/1nkK4...

patrick star from spongebob squarepants is standing on a beach with his arms crossed and smiling . Alt: Patrick from "SpongeBob" rubbing his hands together and smiling deviously.

Greek mythology shenanigaaans... 🥳

...it also has a really juvenile "architecture" joke that I think of whenever faced by "Can we [as a writing/editing team] get away with this?" because the answer is almost always "Yes, as long as it's tonally cohesive."

I heard that line in my brain 4x last month. "Nova's Ship" is a SILLY game. 🤣

"This is your '24 GOTY? Isn't that egotistical?"

I've said this before, but kid-me would've lost their MIND if someone had explained that this game would one day exist. It hits an absurdly specific cross-section of Things I Love.

My being in the voice cast is a non-factor in my enjoyment of it.

Heard that @thecryptmaster.bsky.social is in the Humble Monthly Bundle at the moment, so…

The Underland is deeply charming, the titular necromancer's my favorite "snarky old man stuck in a rock" in all of gaming, the music's brilliant, and singing duets with Maz (whilst not required) is great fun.

Hey PSA to my YT people out there but Auto-Dubbing using AI is getting automatically enabled on your channel and opting out of it is buried deep in the depths of your channel.

Turn it off here:
Settings > Upload Defaults > Advanced Settings

[looks at invoice backlog, which isn't *too* bad right now—but my brain's still too soupy to surmount it]

Hmmhmhmmm. Yep! ...YEP!

Gabe's such a sweet dude, dude 😭 So glad we both got to hop aboard on this one!!

(Also, the "they're/there/their" poetry reading makes me laugh every single time, because it's so earnest— 😆)

✨Role Announcement✨

🐳Aye aye Captain! It is an honour to announce that I voice Gabe in the #SpooktoberVNJam 'Nova's Ship!' 🐳

💙Thank you so much
@azufx.bsky.social
for having me! And don't forget to check it out💙

#voiceacting #vn

Also… "Kamran keeps his face off the Internet and still has a robust career" has legitimately gotten a couple of pals out of "I'd rather keep my face to myself, but..." dread-spirals before, because you're proof practical that it's both possible + not actually "weird" to want that layer of privacy.

For what it's worth, my mental image of you is genuinely just your profile picture. Even if I were to see your face/you changed the image, I'm pretty sure the stone nutcracker(?) would stick around.

…like how @taylorson.bsky.social perpetually exists in my brain as his dog wearing Rathalos gear! 😆

I think "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" exemplifies American culture more than any other art piece.

Most cultures' folklore involves cautionary tales warning people not to tempt the devil.

The American version has the challenger win because he is way cooler than the devil.

Yea, that sums it up.

The other thing is that making your IRL-you into a product...makes it cease to be your real-life self. It's just yet another vector of "marketing," and I really don't like that.

Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Making yourself the product is…living inauthentically in reality.

✨Role Announcements✨

The English dub of season 2 and 3 of Gintama dropped on Hulu. You can hear me ALL over as various characters and voices, but mainly you can hear me as the best hunter in the mountains Morinosuke, and the assassin and former Odd Jobs member Kanemaru!

Also, gently tapping the sign to go "Putting LGBT+ and specifically cisn't people in your videogames isn't scary…or even that difficult. We more or less did it *by accident* in 'Undergrowth,' and that cast's a bunch of competent, genuinely kind, delightfully goofy people."

bsky.app/profile/jett...

It's the classic (exaggerating for comedic effect, but not by as much as I'd like) "We've got [1 AMAB trans actor and 1 AFAB trans actor], so that's all we need!" that drives me up a wall, because it's just…blisteringly uncreative. 😭

I *love* adding folks I've not worked with before onto projects!

"But I don't see 🏳️‍🌈 + 🏳️‍⚧️ actors playing these characters!"

It's because we're generally underemployed/seen as a "hazard" to cast, esp. if we don't sound cis in our natural print.

If you see folks who *are* being cast in big games: note how many are openly 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️/don't visually conform to their AGAB.

Slightly tangential, but…this makes me think back on when a game released, folks were calling [character] a "cringey femboy," only to FRANTICALLY backtrack once they played more of it/learned he's 🏳️‍⚧️/"Wait, I didn't mean it in a transphobic way—"

You can't be cruel and apologetic in the same breath.