the tension and debate over who counts as a "game dev" is about as useful over the debate of what counts as a "real" game. if you have made a thing for games, you are a gamemaker. own it

oh wow good catch, thank you. that's fixed in the web build now

thanks for reminding me i forgot to link the engine here, whoops

peace and love on planet earth

genuinely thrilled to hear that, godspeed

go make a bitsy game https://make.bitsy.org/

unfortunately i don't think that's a feature on itch. are you able to play it through steam?

shaking your hand nothing pisses me off more than that quote

make games!! kill the exceptionalist in your head!!!

working as intended

yeah there's absolutely nuance here that me being mad on a monday evening doesn't give credit to. the natural cycle of doing any art project where you fall in and out of love because you love the medium that much. but even with this there's still so many people i talk to conflating craft with industry production and then looking at me like i have two heads when i say i completed a game jam last week because i wanted to do that. everytime it reminds me to spend more time around freaks

my music does NOT suck. i am not owned

thank you pippi i love pippi in my brain pippi

YOU CAN'T JUMPSCARE ME LIKE THAT

god the visual presentation of this is so good

good grief

i don't know much about apng so i couldn't say right now. also, anything with multiple frames will take some workarounds (VID is using quite a few) because of super's use of canvases, so it would take some time to investigate if it's possible. your best workaround right now would be converting things to video, even if the file size is bigger. good luck with your story!

those are actually intentional. L's internet is shit so you'll have to imagine what they could have been

working as intended

there's one major way the story ends, but there's 4 variations on how the relationship triangle is resolved. they give you different final scenes, but i consider it a "one ending, 4 flavours" game rather than a multi-ending one strictly

ouuuug. really good

god this rules

i loev my very important email job

crunchy......

TWINE???????????????

holy fucking shit

where the fuck am i

good lird

ouuuuh this was lovely

georgia's route is giving me war flashbacks

this is intended to be a bit confusing and disorienting. there is a definite series of events, but me and CM want to work on this story more in the future. you can consider this a teaser for when we (hopefully) have the time to do more with it

would you fuck your orgone clone

No "software" per se, this was just done in raw HTML and some JS by hand. I don't recommend that at all because even at this scale it became massively unwieldly and bug-prone. If you're looking to make a wiki-like, you might have success with something like TiddlyWiki, but I don't have much experience using it myself. Twine might be an option as well, but in either case you'll probably need some custom frameworks to have things like comments and edit histories.

The book was written like any book is and typeset in Illustrator. I'd recommend using InDesign instead if you have access to it; Illustrator isn't really designed for book typsetting, but it's workable if you know how to use it.

I'm glad it resonated with you so well, thank you for the lovely comment.

You'll hear this from everyone and everywhere, but it bears repeating: it will get better. We're all young, you'll find your people you actually love and not just tolerate out of fear of being alone, and in five years you'll be, hopefully, like I am and telling the next batch of transmascs that embracing being a monster is one of the most liberating things you can do for yourself.

I hope you enjoy (or. however you'd describe it) the rest of the game just as much.

tips in rot13:

Gur jubyr tnzr vf onfrq nebhaq bar onfvp pbaprcg, juvpu vf gur vqrn bs npgvba/vanpgvba. Gur raqvatf lbh'ir orra trggvat unir orra nyy onfrq ba vanpgvba. Vs lbh fgneg npgvat jurarire lbh pna, lbh fubhyq frr gung cngu bcra hc.

there's another ending that branches from the wing's meeting, the two you mentioned are variations on the same ending

this is mad, nice one

sorby

me bitch

yep, i've pushed a fix for this. sometimes inkrunner can be finicky when you play the same sound multiple times in a row. thanks for reporting!