Dehydrated Tree Frog

If you aren't really a gamer, more of a bookworm, but you enjoy choose your own adventure novels and having people to discuss your choices with, being a part of the story in a way you can't get from a pre-written book, and figuring things out before the characters do, Vekari is also for you!

If you are 20+ and miss the community of virtual world spaces, the puzzle events, the text-stories and adventures paired with mini games, and you also wish you could have a world like this to explore different fears and horrors in, then Vekari is definitely for you.

If you are looking for text adventure, weird horror, cyberpunk with the realities of control and disability, HTML puzzles, something free of ads and in game purchases, and something with the "this is temporary" feel of Unus Annus, Vekari is for you.

If you are looking for something so unprofitable you won't find a company making anything like it and it ends up having the most unhinged writing and choices possible, something that is nostalgic yet new, and is guaranteed to not have gen AI, Vekari is for you.

I am once again banging my pots and pans together to make you aware of the text adventure virtual world game I have poured my energy into for the past year of my life

Give it a chance!! Especially if you like discovering secrets, queer characters, and stories about trauma and disability

#indiegame

intro post time 🐸

i am frog. i am happily married and 24! pronouns are he/him.

i sometimes do visual art but mainly write.

i love ttrpgs

i have ppms and cptsd, i am mute.

i love video games and all horror media. i am also a sci-fi nerd too ☺️

welcome to the frog pond

#promosky #intropost

Neon blacklight painting of the glitched city of Faktoria viewed across a body of liquid. The buildings on the right appear twisted, leaning, and mangled compared to the buildings on the left. The lights dancing on the liquid mix to form every colour in the rainbow.

So many things have been happening at once

#Vekari update soon though. Catch up if you need/want to over the next few days, because this year's Halloween event is going to be a little bigger than a scavenger hunt 👀🎃

Enter the glitched city of Faktoria by accessing vekari.net and stay tuned 🎃🤡

Happy birthday to the best spouse I could ever dream of, I love you more than all the pebbles in the world. @inkus.ca

You should be able to transfer over your illnesses to anyone who says it can't be that bad MyBodyIsTryingTokilMe.com

i hate brain fog pic of skeleton holding head] fuck this thing [throws his head]

Hey so I can tell when your music is AI generated, especially your lyrics, and I am laughing at you for being uncreative and fucking boring. I am completely pointing and laughing. Pick up a guitar and pencil or gtfo.

apparently people are pissed that david howard thornton publicly mentioned he has autism???

first of all, what the fuck

second of all, are you blind? have you never seen that man? of course he’s autistic.

@chronicnotebook Living with chronic illness is like being given a house to live in that's got a thousand alarms going off, cracked walls, caving in roofs, broken windows and fires burning...bu still being expected to build your life upon that home and foundation as easily as everyone else. ©DearFibromyalgia/beth

i think it is brave and also very sexy of me to continue living

why did no one tell me avatars are blue

No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.

My disability is not so you can see how fortunate you are not to be me

@emeraldmaz.bsky.social

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

GUYS DEL TORO FRANKENSTEIN IS SO SOON AAAAAAH AAAH 💕💕💕💕💕

Chorogaiden and Below Dwelling Sewer Mutants printed game manuals + Fukuzatsu tarot deck and a sticker from NeonRot

Six major arcana tarot cards from the Fukuzatsu tarot deck. The art is often brightly coloured, dark and creepy, or a mix of both. Cards shown are the hierophant, the high priestess, the lovers, the magician, the moon, and the star

Incredibly cool things came in from @neonrot.bsky.social today 👀

Easily my favourite tarot deck, and very excited to drag my friends into playing BDSM 😌

#TTRPG #tarot

Just a reminder? If ya'll like AI or use that slop? Stay the fuck away from me. Pick up a pen, pencil, CANVA, anything instead of the slop machine that's killing the planet.

Another perk of the new chip: it is specially designed to block out Alden's interference as much as possible! Lie to him! Gaslight him! Flirt with him (but I may judge you a little)! No more hidden dialogue options and more unhinged ones for your enjoyment

vekari.net/world/16th-s...

#VekariRB

"Not here for your tech, I'm here for you. [threat]" "Not here for your tech, I'm here for you. [flirt]"

I firmly believe tone indicators are important in game dialogue

#VekariRB #indiegame

There are more little things coming with this, I am just one guy writing everything himself rn. But feel free to play around with the new feature, see if there's anything you missed! You can access your brain chip settings through the main site settings at any time.

Right now there are not a ton of examples to show off, but I will be adding a few more in as I update the dialogue to reflect your new hardware. You'll also see more around during October to celebrate 1 year of Vekari 😊

"But if they're easy to find, what's the challenge?"

1. This is a toggle, you can turn it off and continue playing as you were if you'd like!
2. You can expect to see more combinations of mechanics (e.g. secret glitched links!) rather than just some hidden text or a hidden link. Challenge goes up!

Reveal Secrets Enable and Disable revealing secret links and secret text. Revealing secrets will highlight these on the page for you. Highlight colour can be customized. Revealing secrets is Disabled by default. Toggle switch turned on and colour picker colour set to a bright blue matching the dark site theme

You take a seat in the lobby, feeling as though you are still being watched (highlighted in blue to indicate that this word is actually a clickable link) despite being out of line of sight of the assistant.

Vekari players finally got a brain chip, which means how you play the game is shifting 👀

Starting with the first little feature: revealing secrets! This setting will automatically highlight secret text and secret links in a colour of your choosing so they stand out on the page

#VekariRB

Ksawery at 5:33pm: 11.3 kib for what??? trauma?????

Vekari:RB Part 9 has started! 3 characters, 3 short story parts to vote on!

Instead of an excerpt, which you can just get by quickly skimming vekari.net/story.php, have my reaction to Acro's part being unusually long this time around

#VekariRB

Thanks for the space!

I make Vekari, a cyber-fantasy world over 74 lightyears away, thousands of years in the future, full of mutants and strange glitched creatures 🪐

You can explore Vekari as a text-based horror ARG/RPG/virtual world/interactive story... thing 😅 Or as a TTRPG!

vekari.net

Kori deserved this line as a little treat. Love the badass lesbian

vekari.net/story/enoch/...

#indiegame #textbasedgame #booksky #cyberpunk #horror