silent gamejam at a library. you may only communicate with your team through charades and gesturing at your screens to each other

DAWN CHORUS key art: two characters facing away from each other. the title is overlaid on top of them.

a central column with text in it. on each sides, placed diagonally from each other, lines of dialogue. there's a portrait of one of the characters on top of a background that shows a view of skyscrapers from street level.

a screen that has a lot of minimalistic browser-like interface windows open in a lot of different colours and writing styles.

a screen that looks like a screenplay with multiple dialogue choices. there's an image of the setting the scene is in, a river under two merging overpasses

DAWN CHORUS -- demo out now!

an interactive fiction story about two losers trying to make music and stay friends as the world is ending around them.

after years of secrecy/procrastination i am proud to reveal the demo for my esoteric pre-apocalypse story :)

PLAY → haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...

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Absolute legend though I was thinking of Kenta Cho. www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/

Laios from dungeon meshi. He says: "I've always wanted to be a [freeware] lover, too! But when I look at the true [freeware] lovers... My own lack of knowledge disgusts me...!!"

oh my god THIS is freeware

Sylvie Collection, 2004 to 2024

i love Sylvies site for this sylvie.website/SylvieCollec...

Penguin Colony has joined the Fellow Traveller family!

From @origamedigital.bsky.social, the creator of Umurangi Generation, this Lovecraftian adventure told from the perspective of a colony of penguins is coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch 2 later this year.

🐧 bit.ly/PenguinColon...

DAWN CHORUS [DEMO] by haraiva, isyourguy a demo of a pre-apocalypse interactive fiction game

images not loading on here making the "i just released the demo to the game i've been quietly working on" a little difficult... ah well i'm in no rush.

anyway DAWN CHORUS demo out now. long live the pre-apocalypse → haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...

We asked Developers this weekend at ALT GAMES "Who Killed the Games Industry". Full 1 hour video soon.

A gruff, bearded man looks tired. He insists he didn't pass out because he was hurt, and that it was something else. Background text shows various problems like 'chronic anemia', 'bad nutrition', 'drinking'

feeling seen by witch hat atelier

its genuinely so funny they implemented it all with js. like putting a sign that says TAKE ONLY ONE above the halloween chocolate bowl

thank u to michael. if ur in the uk where domino club's itch landing page is BANNED by starmer (à la ninja swords) then use a vpn or go to domino.gallery. this has been ur pubic service announcement.

Dialogue choices. They read: "Hyperreality." "What is 'Ranma 1/2'?" Go for the gun.

writing a twine

when i found out about this earlier in the year it felt like learning someone was bitten in a zombie film

this is why they have the industry of batshit caffeinated soft drinks with ridiculous mixers in utah. horrifying

your team making an alliance with a solo is polyamoury

not enough scenario design in pvp stuff engages with the erotics of it all!!!!! people coming together and rubbing against each other. playing an extraction shooter is like speed dating where people kill you if they dont like you instead of moving on

only permitting sex scenes if one of the characters is killed or a mystery is progressed. only allowed to do a sex scene if they fuck in such a way as to realise who the killer is

this means a key part of your muscle memory, jumping around and forcing approaches by using your bullet normals, is punishable by Immediate Death. this is torturous. bayo is also a very convenient fallspeed/weight for bayo combos but has a frame 1 sorta-dodge that changes your routing

bayo mirrors in sm4sh!
bayo can proc her Very Good counter on any melee attack, and on projectiles if you're close enough to someone.

bayo has extended versions of her buttons that shoot her guns as a little extra credit damage thing. these are technically normals and can be countered from anywhere

giwake game a week 2026 - Collection by giwake A collection by giwake

here's 6 games i made over the course of 6 weeks as part of the game-a-week jam. 5 of them run on uzdoom. go play them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

itch.io/c/7329527/gi...

A lot of factors to consider here, including that this isn’t a live service game, but I think the constant doomerism from media that doesn’t even ask developers their metric of success is not particularly useful.

killed god and replaced him with a new, pre-killed one

it was so good!!! every time the saxophone came out i did a little jump of glee.

truly speedrunning 'locked down web where people snailmail each other encryption keys to avoid them getting intercepted' future

so sad i am already booked for travel this month (to sydney, too!) and so couldnt make it to altgames.... next year...

Freeplay | The Shape of Games to Come talks and games and friends

Announcing: Freeplay is here to stay. Parallels 2026 is coming and we're advocating for games to be funded as art. Read more and get involved: freeplay.net.au/posts/freepl...

dropping a subtle hint that i'll be showing a demo of DAWN CHORUS interstate for the first time at ALT:GAMES in parramatta this weekend! made a sick looking start screen just for this. come look at it.