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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · Oct 19

*activate intro protocol*
Hai folks, I'm Kaiju (they/them), nice to eat ya 🦖

I'm a non-binary gamedev & journalist with a love of all things giant monster

I make games about queerness & systemic injustice, talk about BattleTech way too much, and love to chat to queer game devs who love to talk

me, wearing a shirt with cartoon monsters, standing in front of a Godzilla poster

Cover art for game Kaiju Noir, with monochrome giant monsters in a stone-walled office

A collection of Battletech miniatures, books, boxes and maps

The words "Digital Diversity - Shining a positive light on LGBTQIA+ Game Developers" with rainbow ribbons threading through the words

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 2m

It's a damn good starter book in all the best ways
Accessible, a good primer for a general what is going on, very ground level & emotional, and a great example of BT being about the people not the 'Mechs

We've seen a real rise in folks getting into BT over the last few years because of Fox Tales

Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 4m

It was my first BT book too, all those years back
Think at the time I was utterly obsessed with MW4:Mercs and then saw Ghost War in a local bookshop and went "shit, they make books about this??"

The rest is history

Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1h

BRNO Transit, The Legend of Khiimori, Relooted, Shadows of Afterland, & Laugh Track are all up there as ones I'd absolutely recommend

There's so damn much in there though, even after you ignore all the ones with gen"ai" in them. So many to try!

Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1h

Think that's why I stopped using my one
There's no "I know how to do this" setting, so you can't just move from exercise to exercise without pretty much doing full body resets

Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1h

The eternal hand-holding adventure of "this is how you move your butt"

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1h

Every day makes me wish I could cast the Transcendence draft on myself

Life as a swan seems so much more chill compared to human existence, even if you're spending eternity in the void between worlds 🦢

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15h

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you @pocketgamerbiz.bsky.social for this article! ✨

I truly do believe that there's far more people on the side of inclusion than against it, and that gives me hope.

www.pocketgamer.biz/not-fully-th...

“Not fully there” but the games industry is steadily improving for women

Inspiring women are everywhere, and the game sector is no exception. In celebration of those paving new business paths for girls, women and non-binary people

www.pocketgamer.biz

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 3h

I'll go get some bananas so the Librarian can find all my notes & references I left in L-space

If I can coax him out of the foot-the-ball goals

Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 6h

It feels so damn weird that the further this goes the closer things get to becoming like Snow Crash, a fecking dystopia from 1992

Broken up union of city states, built around who has the most money and what techbros scooped up
Shit is weird and uncertain

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Mars 👹⚢ @marsatax.bsky.social · 21h

Howdy #portfolioday 👋🏻🤠

Illustration of the Godzilla Destroy All Monsters kaiju roster

Illustration of Disney’s Maleficent in both fairy and dragon form

Illustration of Admire Vega from Uma Musume

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Rob Caporetto @robcap.bsky.social · 1d

Something new from me!

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac is interesting in as a full-on remake, but when it's up against some rad recent platformers (y'know what I'm talking about), it's a bit of a tough sell.

Player2.net.au @player2au.bsky.social · 1d

Our resident classic gamer, @robcap.bsky.social has jumped into Pac-Man's latest re-release, Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac

I mean, who better to take everyone's favourite pill-popper through his paces?

www.player2.net.au/2025/10/pac-...

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac Review – Remaking Another Dot-Eating Adventure | Player2.net.au

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac Review - Remaking Another Dot-Eating Adventure Despite being tagged as Player 2's "Master of Nostalgia", I can't help but feel I'm developing a complex relationship with the tr...

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 13h

This is true, Ghost War should be everyone's first BattleTech book 😏

Fox Tales should also be everyone's first BattleTech book

Read them both at the same time

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1d

Of all the kaiju out there to ask for help Mothra is easily in the top 5

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 1d

It's another #SteamNextFest, so you know what time it is! I'm going to play as many demos as I physically can and give you a short impression on whether I wishlisted 👍 or deleted 👎 them, with time spent in brackets

Steam Next Fest
A Celebration of Upcoming Games
Oct 13 - Oct 20
at 10 AM Pacific

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

If you are looking for something to play in the Steam Next Fest, I know it's a lot of demos, hard to find some neat stuff, PLAY TORMENTED SOULS 2, the game is out next week and the demo was awesome, go play it right now! It's extremely oldschool Resident Evil vibes, fixed camera angles and all!

Tormented Souls 2 on Steam

Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, an...

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1d

The number of big games just getting away with not disclosing shit is disheartening

Steam once again indicating that they will happily ignore any of their own rules if a game makes them enough money

Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1d

If they are going to include those games at all that disclosure needs to be at the top of the page
And it needs to be something you can filter out/ignore just like any tag

Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1d

Want concept art? It's concept art, it doesn't need to be refined. MS paint, reference photos, pen & paper, start small

Dialogue or story? Get someone who knows how to write it

Programmers? They are everywhere just looking for roles

There's no excuse for using generative slop machines

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1d

The two things I will immediately blacklist any game, or dev studio for are 1) predatory monetisation practices, and 2) using gen"ai" for anything at all

Both are abuse of the player base and those who actually make games
Amazing how often the two go together these days, huh?

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1d

Once again wishing Steam had a no-gen"ai" filter

I refuse to support any game that has been made in any part using generative slop & it would make my time digging through the nearly 3,000 demos on show right now if I didn't have to check every single one to make sure it wasn't using that crap

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

Indie devs! Time for another #ShowCasey DEMO EDITION!

Do you have a demo in the Steam Next Fest? Do you need some eyeballs? Reply below with a link to your steam page and a brief description of your game, and let's see if I can't GRANT YOU EYES!

(As usual, no GenAI)

do you hear our prayers ? grant us eyes !!

Alt: do you hear our prayers ? grant us eyes !!

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 2d

Punishing job applicants for something fully outside their control, like the decision of a company to hire them or not out of thousands of qualified applicants, is exactly the same as punishing someone for eg: how many people walked past their house today. It makes you a fucking inhumane monster.

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6d

Labor's employment minister rep admits that payment suspensions "cause harm", but they're "an important part" of the (unlawful) mutual obligations system, because

"At the end of the day we want ppl to get off payments and find a job"

gross 'best form of welfare is a job' stuff from the ALP here

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1d

Final demo for today and it's Laugh Track by the ever incredible @fictionfactorygames.com

An extremely on brand story about eldritch entities writing sitcoms. It's very self-aware, cathartically weird, queer as fuck, and if you've played Penny Larceny you have to play this one too

Laugh Track on Steam

You're now the lead writer for Juno's World, a perfectly normal sitcom in which nothing strange or horrible happens, ever! Choose your scripts, decide what characters to build relationships with, and ...

store.steampowered.com

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 1d

Another game I've been absolutely hyped to try has been Relooted, a heist/parkour game all about recovering stolen cultural artifacts to return them from where they came from

The demo is a great slice of gameplay, fantastic energy, a big F U to colonisers & museums built on stolen culture

Relooted Demo on Steam

Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you...

store.steampowered.com

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