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Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Oct 18

Hello there Bluesky!
My name's Heiden and I love making narrative games! Sad games, funny games, queer games, het games where the women are just a liiiitle too aggressive and the men just a liiiitle too passive. That's my shit 💕💕💕💕✨🔥✨ heiden.itch.io Let's be friends! #gamedev #indiedev #vndev

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Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 3d

I won't comment on the adult vs YA subdivide because I feel like that well has been thoroughly poisoned by decades of capital D discourse ahahaha.

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 3d

I think its like "can we take out all the fantasy/sci-fi elements and still have a compelling narrative", and if yes I'd put it in the literary square in my mind.

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 3d

The Buried Giant is another fantasy novel that I would classify as literary because it feels way more introspective, less spectacle, more... literary I guess?? for a lack of another term. Station Eleven is another example I'd shelve with literary over sci-fi.

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 3d

Parable is less interested in the map aspects, because the story is about the people who inhabit this world, it's about how groups of people adapt to the end of the world. Although there are 'fight' scenes, its never about the spectacle, it's about what it means. Its very introspective in that way.

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 3d

Although both are about very similar things, the way the stories are structured makes me want to shelve Parable as 'literary' while Broken Earth as 'sci-fi'. Broken Earth has a lot more active moving parts, has a glossary, a very detailed map, it feels more of a spectacle (this is good!) while--

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 3d

Although things need to be shelved somewhere but sometimes I find myself disagreeing with where they've bene placed. (And a caveat that I like both lol) A couple of examples: I've been reading Parable of the Sower recently and have been interested in how it compares to The Broken Earth Trilogy.

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 3d

I think the answer is very personal depending on the answerer but for me, the difference between literary vs not is its relationship between the prose/narrative/its vibe and genre conventions. Is the book playing by expectations or does it break out into its own?

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 11d

Damn that's Kang's The Vegetarian spell check out here showing something about itself. 😬

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 11d

Thinking about Jane's The Vegetarian today and how if you have been placed as an Atlas in a social structure, you asking for one minor change can have reverberating destructive effects further up the structure.

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Sprouts 🌱🔜 BLFC DD @coolartcorner.bsky.social · 14d

currently the mood rn

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Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 13d

Just realized that I'm probably going to be at least a middle schooler proficiency in Japanese before I finish a farm sim ahahaha

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 15d

Ohhhh I wanna make games ....... I love making games.....

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lor gislason @lormaggot.ca · 20d

lets go ghouls

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Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 20d

Yeeeessss !!!!

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 22d

*activates your trap card* What is your favorite Yu-Gi-Oh monster u think ppl sleep on.

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Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 23d

I had a feeling something like this was happening. Not to "20 20 vision" post but this very clearly felt like merch first game second. (And a game of a size that isn't normally 'tacked on')

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Heiden @heiden.itch.io · 29d

Learning that save/load isn't as bad as it looks I swear. (Order of operations is way worse)

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Sep 19

Yeeess!!! I just got to summer 1! (And got my first cat ahaha) It's fascinating to see how much they improved on Grand Bazaar!!!! I have made so many notes lol. (Also apparently this game was made in Unity????? I thought I recognized the pathfinding LOL)

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Sep 19

I play a new farm sim and I just turn into-- (playing new story of seasons)

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Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Sep 18

I love how the two exits to your farm forces you to choose what you are going to do today. Will you go into town? Or will you go to the mountains? There's not enough time for both. 👏👏👏

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Sep 18

Bro I love how the set design in HM BTN forces you into contact with the TV so you're more likely to use it in the morning but allows you easy access to your bed at night. I'm normal. I'm normal I think about maps a normal amount.

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Sep 18

Bro I am so normal about farm sims.

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Sep 17

Thank you UU!!!!

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Sep 16

Do you have any techniques foajidjaj

Heiden @heiden.itch.io · Sep 12

*I meant special effects lol not sfx