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Jess Rowan Marcotte @jessromarcotte.bsky.social · 8h

Our crowdfunding campaign for Strangers on the 'Net is now live! 🌈💖

gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Strangers on the 'Net by Soft Chaos - Gamefound

Get ready to gossip, roleplay, flirt, fight, fall in love, confess your secrets, explore your identity, and confront what it meant to be a teenager online in the 90s.

gamefound.com

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True Avatars - A Queer Video Game Podcast @trueavatars.bsky.social · 1d

This week I interview @schroyer.bsky.social, who’s not only had an exciting career at Telltale Games, but has crafted a beautiful visual novel featuring bear representation and “attainable fantasy”

You can check out the whole interview in the ✨video version✨ HERE:

youtu.be/4FtEFSWbi6A?...

Ep. 55 - INTV w/Chris Schroyer: From Telltale Games to Three Days to Chicago's Attainable Fantasy

YouTube video by True Avatars - A Queer Video Game Podcast

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Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · 2d

Keeping air clean is one of the highest impact easiest actions you can take if you have any control over a physical space

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · Aug 22

Immunity debt is bullshit. Immunity theft may very well be a significant issue.

canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

Plan for a world of post-COVID immune effects

These changes are small, but across tens of millions of people, they add up.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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Prince Rosalium, Parfum Nostalgique Dev🌹✨️ @princerosalium.bsky.social · 2d

Well! There we are! Me and Val! The handsomest men to ever grace the Indie game scene!

It's an absolute honor to say Parfum Nostalgique has been featured on @polygon.com . I'm gonna go scream now.

www.polygon.com/steam-adult-...

As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

www.polygon.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 4d

Been on vacation for a week. Got a new tattoo. Went to a cabin spa for my wife's birthday. Went on a canoe ride. Saw some waterfalls. Played a lot of Hades 2.

Photo of a snake tattoo with pink flowers on an arm

Blue haired person paddling at the front of a canoe on a river. Fall trees ahead.

Waterfalls falling into a little pool with a bunch of rocks.

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 5d

I don't often drive a car, but when I do I make all the other drivers angry by driving the speed limit 😎

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Geneva/Styx @ Skate & Date Out NOW!! @gensuta.itch.io · 10d

TOMORROW!!! Skate & Date Releases!!

I know it took a bit to reconfigure the release date because of Google Play having some issues and me being stubborn about releasing it separately but. It is what it is

Anyway! Tomorrow, Steam/Itch.io will get Skate & Date for Mac, Windows, and Android!!!

A drawing of the main character of Skate & Date (Maggie) smiling with her arm raised and flexed. There are purple silhouettes of her teammates in the foreground.

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Catarina @catarinaeusebio.art · 11d

It's still hot around here but I am hopeful, ok??

Template with mobile phones and a wallpaper of a ghost in a mug in them. The tea label says "Boolong Tea" and has a little skull. I'm so clever, I know. The mug itself has a pumpkin, flowers and leaves.

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 11d

This is so cute!!

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 12d

Yessssss, we gotta! And that will hopefully lead us to even more games!

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 12d

QRP with your skull art 💀

A black on beige forward facing skull card titled The Dead Man. Text on the card reads: Instead of dealing the Landscape from the Season Decks, deal 12 Mires.

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Renee! DEVIL'S LIMINAL early access out now! @studiointerlude.com · 12d

Made a post on Patreon about the September game update, QGCon, Hungry Ghost Festival, and Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival! It has been quite a month.

www.patreon.com/posts/140275...
(preview image is a little hint at what's new in game)

#indiegame #gamedev #yuri #visualnovel

Big September Update | Studio Interlude

www.patreon.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 12d

Trying extremely hard to not get as emotionally invested in the new outdoor neighbor cat because it went bad last time. Failing 😭😍

A young striped cat playing with a metal cylinder next to a fridge.

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Spectralqueen [Lowpoly Vtuber] 🏳️‍⚧️🤜 @gauntletqueen.bsky.social · 13d

And it's one if not the best visual novels thanks to its incredible animation and INCREDIBLY emotionally resonant storytelling!!

KO_OP @ko-op.com · 14d

Do you want gayer games with gayer graphics made by gay people paid more to work less? Goodbye Volcano High is half off during the Steam Autumn Sale 🏳️‍⚧️

store.steampowered.com/app/1310330/...

Save 50% on Goodbye Volcano High on Steam

Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is...

store.steampowered.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 13d

Another cool encounter from #qgcon was meeting Zoey and learning about her podcast @trueavatars.bsky.social !

She interviewed me about Love in the Time of Spellphage for the conference episode which is out now!

True Avatars - A Queer Video Game Podcast @trueavatars.bsky.social · 15d

I went to a conference in Montréal this weekend and it was ***entirely*** focused on ✨queer games✨

I played demos, got some interviews, and vibed with some very cool queer ppl!!

🤩 CHECK OUT THE VIDEO VERSION HERE (audio links in 🧵):

youtu.be/V2H2oAnrRpg

Ep. 53 - I went to the Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon) and it was INCROYABLE!

YouTube video by True Avatars - A Queer Video Game Podcast

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 13d

Instantly hooked on The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. Have read a few books with some great world building this year and this one definitely fall into that. Gonna be sad when I finish it and need to wait for the rest of the series T_T #booksky

Book cover of The Raven Scholar. White etched raven on a purple background.

Kylie @kymira.ca · 14d

I hope you had smooth travels and a nice last day in the city!

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 14d

Also played @gensuta.itch.io's Skate and Date demo. It’s so cool to see indie rhythm games! Especially with cute gays.

store.steampowered.com/app/1033380/...

Skate & Date on Steam

Skate & Date is a roller derby, rhythm ga(y)me where you play as Maggie, the lead jammer of the Rockin' Rollergirls! She has a bit of a crush on Patricia – one of the opponents on the rival team. ...

store.steampowered.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 14d

We also checked out @wick.works Lancer Tactics game so now we know what the Lancer TTRPG is! This game looks so good! Build a team of mechas and make them fight using the Lancer ruleset.

wick.itch.io/lancer-tactics

Lancer Tactics by Olive, Mark Carpenter, Josh Boykin

Mecha RPG adapted from Lancer tabletop

wick.itch.io

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 14d

On our other side we had @unquietgames.bsky.social and their game Banned Together. A puzzle exploration game taking place in a college library with a very unique focus mechanic I can see future games trying to mimic!

bsky.app/profile/unqu...

Unquiet Games @unquietgames.bsky.social · Jun 7

Our debut game Banned Together is now available to wishlist on Steam! 📚💕 If you like puzzles, libraries, or messy queers on a mission, this one’s for you. Demo coming soon ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/3551960/...

Banned Together on Steam

A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.

store.steampowered.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 14d

Next in our line of VNs was Priro Productions’s Prince Rosalium, Parfum Nostalgique. He's a therapist, he's a vampire, he's 265 years old, and he's having a midlife crisis.

Please check out their beautiful old-styled internet website while you’re at it: priro.pro

bsky.app/profile/prin...

Prince Rosalium, Parfum Nostalgique Dev🌹✨️ @princerosalium.bsky.social · Oct 17

I'm Rosario, Prince Dev of Parfum Nostalgique, a visual novel dram-com series about the fantastic, dramatic, romantic, traumatic life of a 265-year-old therapist-by-day dom-by-night vampire. ✨️❤️

Available for download or play in browser!
priro.pro/

An absolutely ridiculous blobby black cat with horrifyingly human eyes (very cute)

A beautiful person with warm and inviting green eyes in a wedding dress and veil covered in glitter and bathed in sunlight. There is a visual novel text box underneath that reads "Are you afraid of flying?"

A portrait of a vampire with long blonde hair, red lipstick, and long red nails wearing a BDSM harness holding a violet wand. He is covered in black lipstick kiss marks. There is a visual novel text box with the beginning of a line from Antony and Cleopatra (Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies...)

Three characters lined up in a row. Dash, who has green hair and is wearing a pink butterfly top, butterfly sunglasses, and tight pink pants with a whale tail thong, Saturday, whose hair is in an afro and is wearing a yukata ensemble featuring an adorable ocean fish pattern, and Val, who is a tall blond vampire in a sheer turquoise crop top with red heart pasties, leather pants, fingerless gloves, and a razor blade necklace. There is a visual novel text box that reads "Val: You see, I'm quite good at getting rich people into cages."

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 14d

Wanna hype up our cool table neighbours, @studiointerlude.com with the game DEVIL'S LIMINAL. A VN with such a dark and unique visual style that makes it instantly stand out.

bsky.app/profile/stud...

Renee! DEVIL'S LIMINAL early access out now! @studiointerlude.com · 20d

September update for DEVIL'S LIMINAL is up! Check it out and review!

🖤 New memories from the islands
🖤 New characters!
🖤 Flesh magnets, how do they work?
🖤 Clara's childhood home
🖤 Relationships take an interesting turn...

#yuri #yurisky #indiegame #gamedev

store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/...

DEVIL'S LIMINAL on Steam

A demon's pact, a final summer. Yuri horror visual novel inspired by Azores folklore.

store.steampowered.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 14d

Had a big weekend at @qgcon.bsky.social ! Spent all our time in the arcade showing our game and playing the games of cool indie devs!

So nice to have a masked event.

QGCon poster with a masked unicorn. Reads: QGCon2025 Please Wear Your Mask!

Photo of our booth, two laptops open. One to the screen of Fateweaver and the other to Love in the Time of Spellphage. There are headphones and controllers and wires all over.

Photo of the posters up in the arcade covering the rules of the zone.

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The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · Sep 12

A big thank you to our second sponsor, Montreal's own Pixelles! None of this would be possible without our sponsors' generous support. Please give them a follow at @pixellesmtl.bsky.social

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 19d

UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈

This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers."

We hope to see you there! #QGCon

Flyer that reads: "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers" with QGCon and UVW-CWA logos at the bottom.

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