Id love to get more fellow BIPOC streamers who have / often raise funds for mutual aid &/or Charity to join us for this!! 💖

Speaker series schedule detailing talks. 10:00 AM - Welcome & Opening Remarks 10:10 AM - 5 Steps for the Perfect Screenshot - Vimi 11:20 AM - Choose to be Funny: Comedy Writing for Narrative Games - Conway Sutton 12:20 PM - How to Script 1 Million Words in Ren'py - Justinn 12:40 PM - Storytelling Through UI - Pepper 1:00 PM - Lunch Social Hour 2:00 PM - Adding FlaVOr: A Deep-Dive on Planning and Implementing Voice Acting - Jett Barker 3:10 PM - The Z-Axis is Your Friend: 3D Environments for Visual Novels - Terrier 4:10 PM - The Eccentricities of Naninovel & Unity - Campbell & Jordan Brown 4:30 PM - Using Sound as a Storytelling Mechanism - James Krasner 5:00 PM - Tactile Storytelling: Incorporating Physical Media Techniques into VNs - Featherboy 5:20 PM - Don't Build Groverhaus: Narrative Design & Teamwork in VN Development - Runa 5:40 PM - Making the Most of Your Music - Jeff Penny 6:50 PM - Staging and Movement in Visual Novels - Floramisu 7:50 PM - Closing Remarks

Speaker series schedule detailing talks. 10:00 AM - Welcome & Opening Remarks 10:10 AM - 5 Steps for the Perfect Screenshot - Vimi 11:20 AM - Choose to be Funny: Comedy Writing for Narrative Games - Conway Sutton 12:20 PM - How to Script 1 Million Words in Ren'py - Justinn 12:40 PM - Storytelling Through UI - Pepper 1:00 PM - Lunch Social Hour 2:00 PM - Adding FlaVOr: A Deep-Dive on Planning and Implementing Voice Acting - Jett Barker 3:10 PM - The Z-Axis is Your Friend: 3D Environments for Visual Novels - Terrier 4:10 PM - The Eccentricities of Naninovel & Unity - Campbell & Jordan Brown 4:30 PM - Using Sound as a Storytelling Mechanism - James Krasner 5:00 PM - Tactile Storytelling: Incorporating Physical Media Techniques into VNs - Featherboy 5:20 PM - Don't Build Groverhaus: Narrative Design & Teamwork in VN Development - Runa 5:40 PM - Making the Most of Your Music - Jeff Penny 6:50 PM - Staging and Movement in Visual Novels - Floramisu 7:50 PM - Closing Remarks

The full speaker series agenda is live! We've got a wide range of talks for different subjects, all related to visual novel development and the theme of Wowing your audience!

For more information: visualnovel.dev/speaker-series

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"Home's just over yonder, you guys. Let's pick up the pace and get back for dinner!"

An answering cry rippled through the battalion as they followed their beloved captain over the hill.

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HBD Reynah! #KeyframesVN
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The Knight Dance by Hummingbird Games, afuera A short tale of love and dancing

INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY, AYO 🗣️

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We should, as a society, have shame about how the disabled have been treated since COVID hit. That sometimes people turn that social shame into a personal shaming out of anger is something that anyone who's got any sympathy toward any kind of minority group should probably understand.

you know how right-wingers act like being corrected on someone's pronouns is a crime equivalent to book-burning and mass deportation?

that's because shame is a giant motivator and memory-creator, and sometimes people who've stopped caring about COVID are reminded of people who do and get ashamed

Oh wow, what a coïncidence: I just finished playing Folklore a few weeks ago! It didn't age super well, unfortunately, but it's still a very unique game (*of course* I'd like the setting 😆).

Dreams on a Pillow on Steam From an award winning game designer, Dreams on a Pillow is a folk tale based on the true events of the 1948 Nakba. Play as Khadra, a young woman fleeing a massacre in this stealth-puzzle adventure gam...

The Dreams on a Pillow store page is live! If you want an emotional piece of Palestinian history, then please check it out! The team have been working really hard and are crowdfunding soon to raise more money to develop the game. Please wishlist 🖤

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duck drawing practice

If you want to know what cookie's bustle is actually like to play now that it's free from jail, well! Here you are.

Did we like it? Yes. Is it "good?" That is up to individual interpretation.

Many Americans plan to cut food to afford ACA health insurance, new poll shows About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, according to a new survey from the health care research nonprofit ...

This is fundamentally wrong. We cannot continue to normalize this.

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Upwards, Rain! the post office of farewells Chinese Version Coming Soon

Upwards, Rain! The Post Office of Farewells will be receiving a Chinese translation this year! ✨

More info on the Steam page: store.steampowered.com/news/app/344...

A dragon perches at the top of a pyramid shaped building in this digital painting of a modern city at night. The colors are gray and gold. The dragon is black lit with warm light. People gather on a rooftop to watch it

"Modern Dragons" launches tomorrow 🐉

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Burn the Midnight Oil is a 17+ queer, supernatural mystery romance visual novel currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

Our campaign ends on April 22nd, which means there's less than 72 hours left to join our 1,100+ other backers and grab yourself some cool merchandise! 💖

Solve crimes and steal hearts in Burn the Midnight Oil, a supernatural mystery romance #visualnovel about monsters, love, and other horrors.

We're on Kickstarter for less than 48 more hours, ending April 22nd. We're 76% funded and so close to our goal! Don't miss the chance to back ⤵️

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

📣 NOOK FALL: West Town sortira sur Steam le 11/05.
🏘️ Découvrez la ville de West Town et son histoire, interagissez avec ses habitants.
🏪 Gérez une petite boutique.
🌟 Profitez du coucher du soleil, mettez un peu de musique, lisez l'actualité et détendez-vous.
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Je cherche des personnes qui ont travaillé au CNC et qui ont fait le tri des dossiers. Les premiers à les consulter, avant les Commissions. Je voudrais discuter avec vous, anonymat garanti. DM svp, et partage apprécié !

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Israeli soldiers are speaking out about “moral injury” from the Gaza war, describing guilt, shame, and identity breakdown after killing civilians, witnessing abuse, or staying silent. One soldier recalls firing on unarmed men and boys, later describing himself as a “monster.” Others describe executions, torture and humiliation of Palestinian detainees, looting, and cover-ups.

History Speaks @History__Speaks A female IDF soldier tells Haaretz that, pursuant to the orders of the battalion commander, five Palestinians were mowed down by an IDF tank simply because they entered a "kill zone." The one survivor of the five was held in a cage, in which one of the other "IDF soldiers" urinated on him. Of course, this Palestinian ended up being a civilian, not a Hamas fighter. (Not surprising, since the only "evidence" he was a combatant was that he was in a kill zone.)

Israeli soldiers are speaking out about “moral injury” from the Gaza war, describing guilt, shame, & identity breakdown after killing civilians, witnessing abuse, or staying silent. 1 soldier recalls firing on unarmed men & boys, later describing himself as a “monster.” Others describe executions...

The Yaoi Game Jam Co-Op Bundle is coming soon!

From May 1st - May 22nd, get 15 yaoi jam games for $15 and support your fellow BL lover. With games ranging from sweet and fluffy, to horror and spice, there's something in this bundle for every BL lover.

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i won't go quite as far as to claim it's equivalently unethical a model I'm not quite that insane yet but I do notice an uncomfortable parallel with how live-service games are also typically designed to consume huge amounts of time to point where it's kind of the only thing you're meant to play

i have not entirely positive feelings about the fact a lot of popular indie games lately are games with about 4-6 hours worth of actual content but spread across 40-60 hours of roguelike slot machine pulling.

i get why this happens I just wish "being the biggest time sink" was not so rewarding lol

User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

A dark illustration of a vampire wearing a tattered hood. He has shaggy black hair, red eyes, and long fingernails. He's holding a strange occult object with a dangling crow's foot at the end. In the background, various other unusual occult objects (a mask, a jar with a fetus, a skeletal hand with jewelry, etc.) are visible. The art has a red ornamental border with the word BLAISE on one side.

An illustration featuring a man with long blonde hair bathed in blue shadow. He's looking over his shoulder at a mirror which is reflecting itself over and over in its center. The art is bordered with a white glass-like border featuring angel wings. Text on the left side reads "Wanderer of Time" and "Angel of Man"

An illustration of a long haired man with elf ears looking somberly at the viewer. He has tear tracks down his cheeks. he is standing in front of a series of eroded statues, each of which also has tears in its eyes and is overgrown with foliage. The sky is red and ominous behind them.

An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background.

hello #PortfolioDay! i'm zack, an illustrator and comic artist who likes drawing dark fantasy, horror, and queer men.

i'm available for illustration and comic gigs!

#oc #illustration #comics

VGen | Portfolio | Links | vampbyte.art@gmail.com

Mannon - Vampire hunter

Our expressions are more on the realistic side, which means it’s quite subtle especially on small pictures. I initially wanted to put them all, but for MC who has like 50+ combination it was unrealistic so I ended up cherry picking my favorite and the most “visual” of them for each of chara! 😊