my itch page is finally not quarantined.

i have said the word Gila many times when tryna explain where i want to be.

Briar | Experimental Writing and Micro-Games Small experimental writing projects, rituals, meditations, prose, poetry, and micro-games by Briar.

a new website.

thorns.press

i am very bad at social media.

every idea i have. i like to convince myself everything i do is an art project so it doesn’t have to make sense or be good.

i work as a software eng. we are expected to use AI for our work. it does an alright job, but it’s shifted my job to more of a testing and documentation role while it does all the fun parts.

i will finally get RUNE, i swear it. been wanting to play it for a long while.

way back in the day, i was working on a traditional roguelike. i spent more time on animated ascii weather system than i did on anything fun or meaningful to gameplay. when i found out game dev wasn’t for me lol.

i ponder, for i am the ponderer. destined by a lineage of pondering.

yes sir.

please. i need a reason to make this.

FLUSTER: a skirmish game about flirting. you get a heart if you flirt your way into a first kiss. first to three hearts win.

your cuties can take one action each turn: compliment, comfort, tease, teach, confess, kiss.

i am a bored man.

there should be a kissing quality stat and if yours is low it’s ok because higher stat kisses can teach you. 🥹

roll d6. 6 you lay the trap, 1-5 you die to the trap.

i don’t really like skirmish games, but making one has always sounded fun.

A Haunting by VSCRA You’re dead; a ghost reflecting on their life and watching their family grow, move on, and eventually die.

depends on what counts as self-care, probably. i made a game to help with loss.

vscra.itch.io/a-haunting