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...
Great! Doing it now!
I looked up this video again just hear the music.
I'm reading this ASAP.
Neon pixel art of an amazon in a sleeveless leather top and miniskirt with a Y2K-style visible midriff. She has a huge blond pony updo and a big sword.
Pixel character portrait of a woman with a mess of brown hair, big, upturned blue eyes, and pursed, pouty-looking lips.
ASCII art of a a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman stretched out while a bloody dagger hovers over her midriff. She looks displeased about this.
Pixel screenshot of a woman in tattered brown rags being held between two Centurian-style soldiers while a king on a throne condemns her.
my new zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, is now out!! ~6000 words (and lots of images) on the 90s games that shaped my gender identity, including windows 3.1 amazons, sapphic crpg romances, and my own teenage fetish games.
link in reply with excerpts and free community copies for trans readers
Volume 3 of Syl's Indie Game Recs, my zine where I recommend a bunch of small games I loved, is up!
(If you're having trouble seeing it, you can use your mouse's scroll wheel to zoom in.)
zinesforever.com/z/syls-indie...
due to the general unreliability of bluesky lately i am going to once again plug my newsletter which goes out once a month towards the end of the month and which contains links and quotes from things i'm working on, thoughts on what i'm playing, etc
FISHING VACATION, I mean. You know me, I gotta put a typo in there somewhere.
Here's a link to the game: teebowah-games.itch.io/fishing-vaca...
Screenshot from a Game Boy-looking game. It shows a dock and lake. A text box with a frog says, "You caught a... WART! 3 inches"
ChoiceBeat #9 also features...
FISHING VACTION... a horror-themed #GameBoy fishing game.
It's crazy to say this, but now horror fishing games are a dime-a-dozen.
IT WASN'T ALWAYS LIKE THIS! Was Fishing Vacation the first? I'm not sure, but it's an early one. #indiegames
Screenshot from a visual novel. An anime girl is holding a dog collar and saying, "So I'll like, totally keep you as a pet! Here, put this on! And like, keep it on! Ahahaha!"
Back in issue #9 ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine, we had a review of Gnosia.
In a bold editorial move, ChoiceBot (our robotic overlord) put the Gnosia review next to a review of Raging Loop, a MUCH WORSE game with the SAME premise.
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/c...
In one of the strangest games I've ever been asked to cover, the protagonist's wife seems to be turning into a tree. Come discover a weird world brought to life by the art of Naoyuki Kato. This is "Digan no Maseki" on the PC-88!
#8bit #jrpg #retrogaming
youtu.be/1qzVIlD_Q8w
Image of a ghoul with a big hair hanging from a trapdoor in a ceiling.
Also in ChoiceBeat #1...
A weird one! A haunted house #FMV arcade cabinet called The Spectre Files: Deathstalker.
Designed in the 1980s by the guy who made Rampage but unreleased until 2017! Full-motion video (FMV) games always have dodgy gameplay, and so does this one! But it still rules!
Screenshot from a visual novel showing a girl driving a car. The passengers are another girl, a raptor, and a sasquatch.
Back in ChoiceBeat #1, we had a review/interview about Raptor Boyfriend.
The plot: Teen girl in the '80s dates cryptids. choicebeat.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/c...
Wacky romance games and '80s nostalgia are passe now, but Raptor Boyfriend is thoughtful and sincere. Real emotions here. #visualnovel
Cover of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine, issue #1. It's a pixel art image of two people on a pink landscape.
Reading an article about game fanzines (www.forgottenworlds.net/video-game-f...), and I realized...
At 5 years and 16 issues, ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine has outlived 95% of gaming publications.
WE GOTTA CELEBRATE. This week, I'm posting some of my ChoiceBeat favs.
I'm always delighted to see a movie from a country I've never seen one from before! I recently added Nigeria to my list with this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerzura...
A solid achievement!
i made three of the 20 games on this list 🤣 🤣 i'm crying 😭😭😭
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vouy...
Pink organic object is climbing on a pipe. A string of organic-looking material hangs in the foreground.
And one more from this series. Why not?
Two undersea-like creatures drift in front of columns of pink smoke.
Years ago, I made several pieces in a similar style. Here is another.
Red, blob-like aliens with beaks cross a night-time landscape. They are in a big line. In the foreground is a glowing green orb on a stick.
I haven't been drawing very much in the past few years, so I decided to do a big piece to shake the dust off. I'm not sure what's going on here. Just trying make something mysterious and alien.
Yeah! Weird concept this mist have been the passion.project of a huge Ghost Dog fan.
The same company also released some anime licensed TTRPGs. I liked the Sailor Moon one.
Back in 2000, a company licensed Ghost Dog and made an unusual TTRPG out of it. It's meant for one player and one GM. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_D...
Back when I had a Saturn, I had this game and LOVED IT. It's pinball, but while you play, voices chant these strange mantras, and it sounds like a someone is trying to hypnotize you at a cult initiation.
Long time friendo and game designer @geoffreygolden.bsky.social has moved the classic Adventure Snack series, which are short text adventures you can enjoy while having a snack, off of Substack to a new home!
There are a lot of them you might enjoy.
adventuresnack.com
Acting as your 'friend who has cool taste in games' for over half a decade, it's Indiepocalypse #75!
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by @junomenager.bsky.social
-Cover by @hoodstain.newgrounds.com
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-75
Drawing of a man with long hair. He is wearing a cloak and all his clothes are covered in pockets. He is holding a stuffed opossum toy.
This is my character from a Shadowrun TTRPG I'm in. His call sign is Rascal, and he's a shaman of the opossum spirit.
I watched this incredible animated sci-fi movie from the Soviet Union. The alien creatures were off the chain! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5A...
ChoiceBeat isn't the only #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction zine anymore! (Was it ever?)
Another monthly visual novel zine just started. Check it out!
Thank you for playing and saying hi! =)
We all love Sunny.
Itch is posting about Fun Zone Omega!!!
<Walks to podium, wiping a tear from my eye.> "I'd like to thank all the little people that made this possible..."
For real, though. Thanks @itch.io!!!
