I NEED to get Vivi and Garnet next time I am in Japan…

Aww he’s awesome 🥰 I had trouble getting him set up too, but then it all clicked!

Ahahaha wish I could share QR codes! I spent the most time on the Irn Bru!

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream creation. Shark shirt from VIDEOVERSE.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream creation. IRN BRU can.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream creation. Bakamitai record from the Yakuza series.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream creation. My shiba inu Goro.

Other things I have made so far…

Good soundtrack!

Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart promotional art, featuring the characters welcoming you into the meetup.

Screenshot from Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream. “Kyra and I have become friends! Asexuality really brings people together!”

Screenshot from Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream. “It seems Theo is opening up about burdens you frankly wouldn’t expect him to be carrying…”

Screenshot from Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream. “Best day ever! Pedro and I are now friends! And it’s all thanks to the power of BL!”

Creating the cast of Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart in Tomodatchi Life (because ofc I would). 💜💚 Pretty spot on TBH! 😂

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

Yes, I mentioned this to a friend, too! Because I am pretty quiet and realise not everyone wants to or even can talk.

Emmett and Zalor from VIDEOVERSE giving each other a nickname in Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream

Emmett and Markus from VIDEOVERSE talking about schnitzels in Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream

My island is already populated with VIDEOVERSE characters 🧡💛💚💜

I made Vivi anyway!

Enjoying Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream so far but it SUCKS that there is no disability representation whatsoever! Where are the canes, wheelchairs, lanyards etc?? Guess I gotta draw them…

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Oh, Bluesky is back!

Thank you so much for your support and confidence in me! I will try my best :)

Oh my god THANK YOU for a game like this. As someone who is very firmly both, this means a lot. I know Lucy will do an amazing job at this.

This is your reminder to play weird little indie games and support the devs

💯

homer simpson is sitting on a red couch with a lamp in the background ALT: homer simpson is sitting on a red couch with a lamp in the background

Hits different now

omfg

📢 Casting call 📢

Hi, we're looking for a female narrator for our new game!

No VA experience neeeded, and no accent preference. Must have access to ok mic, like a home podcasting setup.

Paid gig, of course.

Would love to hear reading samples in your natural voice:

hi@calligramstudio.com 🙏❤️

Aww this was nice to see as I opened Bluesky 🥰 Thank you! I still need to play Chicory!

Absolutely, though that comes from a place of privilege that not all devs have, particularly young devs. However, showing every part of the process is a whole other skill that not every dev is good at or should even be doing. Games can still succeed without playing the algorithms.

I can imagine some people reading this thinking I'm idealistic, doomed to fail, weak etc, but if you burn out, it's all over. I don't want that, I want to make games, so I put my health first.

If game dev something you want to sustain for many, many years to come, you have to make it work for you.

My hot take: Viral ≠ Good / Worthwhile

Slow burns, deep lore, complexity... All things we're seemingly losing.

But yes! I can't stand the fake sell outs anymore!

In the final months of developing VIDEOVERSE (and after launch) I was spending about half my time on Tiktoks and IG posts...and it never really went anywhere. Valuable energy that could have been spent elsewhere.

Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam Welcome to the Ace & Aro Meetup! Everyone is accepted here – whether you’re a-spec yourself or just curious to learn more. Meet the members, try a cocktail (or two) and unwind with some arcade gam...

That doesn't mean I've given up or won't talk about Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart! Heck, I'll still ask for wishlists (see below 👇 lol) but I refuse to burn out doing so this time. That's not sustainable nor the point of game dev. Things need to change!

store.steampowered.com/app/4554030/...

The system broke.

Moving forward, I need to protect my energy and put it into making my games better rather than into marketing and promo campaigns – Stuff that I'm not about.

I'm sick of the algorithm game, which even seeps into game design these days. I make games for human players, not robots.