common-or-garden Mads 🦆

people can make plenty of jokes about Maechen but if X-2 exists in a world where the only other woman YRP gets to routinely interact with is Leblanc, it doesn't matter whether there's a guy whose bit is that he talks too much, the girls are already doomed

like Remake has parity in the party but then the Turks, the Shinra execs, the SOLDIERs, the Wall Market crew, and the rest of AVALANCHE are all in the 17-30% zone. To say nothing of Rebirth where the party also slides to the 17-30% zone! If you start looking for it you will be haunted.

a lot of the responses to this are fixated on 'but [parity of main characters]', when I assume it's more the 17-30% effect, where people will typically perceive any group that's 17-30% women as being 50% women

so, if on average 70-83% of random questgivers and NPCs are men...

same process of teaching it not to fire beams at people but this time it's about deprogramming religious fanaticism i guess. dean from the junkyard is still the exact same character.

not to say something utterly predictable but I would pay good money to see 'Iron Giant but instead of an alien robot it's a saintly relic possessed by some kind of heavenly spirit'

it feels Creatively Fulfilling to have taken the risk, however it turns out

finished a drac scene that was originally meant to be short and straightforward but evolved into the absolute longest scene in the game so far. i am really proud of it!! but also it has a lot that i'll be nervous about until we do playtesting and i'm able to see whether it works for other people.

Loic gives Ysme a piggyback ride

it's a visual novel that isn't about romance yet these two have more chemistry than many actual romance game leads!! go meet them

soul of sovereignty good. everyone should give it a try. you can meet loic, who got entered into the 'most divorced man of all time' contest against his will and unfortunately for him stands a good chance of winning, and ysme, a hot evil clown woman with a two whole different types of god complex.

soul of sovereignty chapter 3 is out now! #soulsov gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

where is pizza!!!!!!

oh... i guess it's okay then

report: the flavour is authentically crimpy but they're like 20% smaller than normal shapes and it feels uncanny

if the character wants to do something and you the player say 'no, we're not doing that' - what impulse is that diegetically?

when you say no to them doing something bad, you're often meant to be their better nature intervening (see: disco elysium) but what about when you say no to something good?

one of the underrated advantages of having (1) a set player character (2) in a text-driven game (3) where you can make terrible choices is when you get to position the player as the character's worst impulses and do unique exploratory stuff with their decision making

Sharing the opening pages of Strange Bedfellows to convince you to buy it day one:

the thing about making a dracula game. is that dracula is there. and characters will be expressing a serious and sincere personal issue. and dracula will be like 'wow! that sucks. i am dracula'. because he is dracula and he is there. in the dracula game.

Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.

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The location for No Good Deed looks so similar to the Stone Wave Cliffs in Clair Obscur that I was ready for it to pan over to Gustave at any moment

You might think, 'obviously it'll be bad, there's no way that material could work on screen'. And you'd be right! But in ways you can't imagine!

Just saw Wicked Pt 2... choices were made. What a movie.

i like the idea of you watching decades worth of anime in secret for years and then dropping a novel-sized stack of notes on all your thoughts afterwards

the other flavors are different shapes! for instance, pizza shapes are trapeziums

Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save their 41,000-year-old language.

Another cool games story up today Mietta Adams and Charlie McLean in the Pilbara office.

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the council will determine my fate

Furthermore - and the thing that really helps it deliver its killer ending - the charm enriches the flavour of the horror! It's a game about sunk cost fallacies and trying to realise a sweet dream at the cost of the world around you. It rules. Play Crow Country.

this is a reminder that if you like horror games and missed Crow Country you should give it a shot, it's the perfect balance of a charming bright throwback setting and a genuinely unsettling story

A funny crow plushie in a pumpkin hat guarding Crow Country for the Switch

Crow Country!! yeehaw!!

at the point in Drac route where the branches are branching such that I can, back-to-back, end up writing the most overt horror sequence to date and then hard pivot to the cutest scene yet. the variety is good but phwoar.