Tanya X. Short
@tanyaxshort.bsky.social
Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
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Tanya X. Short
@tanyaxshort.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Streets of Fortuna on Steam
Use your wits to survive the generated chaos that is living in the Streets of Fortuna megasim. A free-roaming sandbox RPG about growing from street rat to a tradesman, a priest, a smuggler, an alchemi...
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I heard I can @pitchyagame.bsky.social still so here I am #pitchyagame !
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Streets of Fortuna is a megasim sandbox RPG. Survive if you can in a Constantinople-inspired city - start as a street rat, then live your life? From the publisher of Dwarf Fortress: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...
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Streets of Fortuna is a megasim sandbox RPG. Survive if you can in a Constantinople-inspired city - start as a street rat, then live your life? From the publisher of Dwarf Fortress: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...
realizing learning a musical instrument is a fairly attainable intensive flow state that is normally reserved for competitive sports, or... hm rhythm games. except they keep getting deeper. if you enjoy Lumines or Crypt of the Necrodancer, for example, may I recommend... piano or guitar
December 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
realizing learning a musical instrument is a fairly attainable intensive flow state that is normally reserved for competitive sports, or... hm rhythm games. except they keep getting deeper. if you enjoy Lumines or Crypt of the Necrodancer, for example, may I recommend... piano or guitar
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"Jollity" is after all a long-standing euphemism for being shitfaced
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Jollity" is after all a long-standing euphemism for being shitfaced
wanna play a short word game with simple graphics and cute puzzles like it's 2015? try the demo for Rita because it might be just what you need today, playing it perked me right up: store.steampowered.com/app/3837060/...
Rita Demo on Steam
Rita is a cozy adventure where a little chicklet solves word-based puzzles to transform the world around her. Follow her story across generations, meet her grandchicklet, and be a part of her legacy.
store.steampowered.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
wanna play a short word game with simple graphics and cute puzzles like it's 2015? try the demo for Rita because it might be just what you need today, playing it perked me right up: store.steampowered.com/app/3837060/...
no I didn't watch the thing. life's too short to opt into extra psychic damage. I'm already at my limit break.
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
no I didn't watch the thing. life's too short to opt into extra psychic damage. I'm already at my limit break.
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It seems people want to ponder orbs—I mean learn about Matcaps! They're great for gesturing at complex lighting and reflections within a stylized art style. And as a bonus, no UV unwrapping! ^.^
December 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It seems people want to ponder orbs—I mean learn about Matcaps! They're great for gesturing at complex lighting and reflections within a stylized art style. And as a bonus, no UV unwrapping! ^.^
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Looking for some last-minute gifts? 🎁 My two releases this year are small, fast, and are perfect stocking stuffers.
They’re both great for travel and playing with both gamers and non-gamers alike!
Check out High Tide and Phantasmic! 🪡 (1/4)
They’re both great for travel and playing with both gamers and non-gamers alike!
Check out High Tide and Phantasmic! 🪡 (1/4)
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Looking for some last-minute gifts? 🎁 My two releases this year are small, fast, and are perfect stocking stuffers.
They’re both great for travel and playing with both gamers and non-gamers alike!
Check out High Tide and Phantasmic! 🪡 (1/4)
They’re both great for travel and playing with both gamers and non-gamers alike!
Check out High Tide and Phantasmic! 🪡 (1/4)
this airport bar is literally only playing the exact songlist of Just Dance 2024. I have to imagine somewhere, maybe in the staff lounge, someone is getting a good workout and/or high score.
December 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
this airport bar is literally only playing the exact songlist of Just Dance 2024. I have to imagine somewhere, maybe in the staff lounge, someone is getting a good workout and/or high score.
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BTW, Spirit Crossing is coming to Steam. The goal is to create a major Cozy MMO with a huge population of folks making friends in a safe and welcoming space.
I deeply believe we can make the world a better place.
If this interests you, please wishlist!
store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...
I deeply believe we can make the world a better place.
If this interests you, please wishlist!
store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...
Spirit Crossing on Steam
Befriend bears, aid lost spirits, ride fluffalo, and build a thriving village with other players in this multiplayer life-sim from the creators of "Cozy Grove." Find endless opportunities to...
store.steampowered.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
BTW, Spirit Crossing is coming to Steam. The goal is to create a major Cozy MMO with a huge population of folks making friends in a safe and welcoming space.
I deeply believe we can make the world a better place.
If this interests you, please wishlist!
store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...
I deeply believe we can make the world a better place.
If this interests you, please wishlist!
store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...
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THE RACETRACK IS OPEN‼️🐑🦝
Bike, build, trap, trick and race together in Ultimate Sheep Raccoon!
⬇️ Available now on PC, Xbox Game Pass, and Switch 1 and Switch 2. Links in reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uL...
Bike, build, trap, trick and race together in Ultimate Sheep Raccoon!
⬇️ Available now on PC, Xbox Game Pass, and Switch 1 and Switch 2. Links in reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uL...
Ultimate Sheep Raccoon Release Trailer
YouTube video by Clever Endeavour Games
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
THE RACETRACK IS OPEN‼️🐑🦝
Bike, build, trap, trick and race together in Ultimate Sheep Raccoon!
⬇️ Available now on PC, Xbox Game Pass, and Switch 1 and Switch 2. Links in reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uL...
Bike, build, trap, trick and race together in Ultimate Sheep Raccoon!
⬇️ Available now on PC, Xbox Game Pass, and Switch 1 and Switch 2. Links in reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uL...
since people asked, here's how I use tarot step by step:
- shuffle, think abt today
- cut in 3 piles, reform
- draw one card. what does it remind me of?
- reshuffle, ask "What should I know about ____?" (my mind will fill the blank w/ what I'm anxious abt)
- cut in 3, reform, draw 3, think
- repeat
- shuffle, think abt today
- cut in 3 piles, reform
- draw one card. what does it remind me of?
- reshuffle, ask "What should I know about ____?" (my mind will fill the blank w/ what I'm anxious abt)
- cut in 3, reform, draw 3, think
- repeat
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
since people asked, here's how I use tarot step by step:
- shuffle, think abt today
- cut in 3 piles, reform
- draw one card. what does it remind me of?
- reshuffle, ask "What should I know about ____?" (my mind will fill the blank w/ what I'm anxious abt)
- cut in 3, reform, draw 3, think
- repeat
- shuffle, think abt today
- cut in 3 piles, reform
- draw one card. what does it remind me of?
- reshuffle, ask "What should I know about ____?" (my mind will fill the blank w/ what I'm anxious abt)
- cut in 3, reform, draw 3, think
- repeat
"recap your 2025 media consumption" brand-engagement moments feel wholesome to me in the same way a veggie-flavored chip tastes more wholesome than bbq chips
which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?
which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"recap your 2025 media consumption" brand-engagement moments feel wholesome to me in the same way a veggie-flavored chip tastes more wholesome than bbq chips
which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?
which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?
if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
you know, utopian fiction doesn't have to write it on the tin. You can work it into your worldbuilding and storytelling without it taking the full focus, just as background hum. ex: Boyfriend Dungeon is in a hopeful twist on Southern California, where everyone has health care and support.
December 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
you know, utopian fiction doesn't have to write it on the tin. You can work it into your worldbuilding and storytelling without it taking the full focus, just as background hum. ex: Boyfriend Dungeon is in a hopeful twist on Southern California, where everyone has health care and support.
me in August, to hundreds of designers: hi hello if you have 10 minutes let's find out what we collective hold as our most influential games!!?
hundreds of designers: (silence, very busy working on games that are delayed or way too big)
150 designers: ok!
one designer: FUCK OFF
me: ok! thanks!
hundreds of designers: (silence, very busy working on games that are delayed or way too big)
150 designers: ok!
one designer: FUCK OFF
me: ok! thanks!
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
me in August, to hundreds of designers: hi hello if you have 10 minutes let's find out what we collective hold as our most influential games!!?
hundreds of designers: (silence, very busy working on games that are delayed or way too big)
150 designers: ok!
one designer: FUCK OFF
me: ok! thanks!
hundreds of designers: (silence, very busy working on games that are delayed or way too big)
150 designers: ok!
one designer: FUCK OFF
me: ok! thanks!
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Hi! Now six months into the Switch 2 generation, I'm looking to speak to developers – from indie to AAA – about whether or not they have dev kits for the console and what developing (or not) is like for it.
Can be anonymous, if wanted! RTs appreciated🙂
Can be anonymous, if wanted! RTs appreciated🙂
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hi! Now six months into the Switch 2 generation, I'm looking to speak to developers – from indie to AAA – about whether or not they have dev kits for the console and what developing (or not) is like for it.
Can be anonymous, if wanted! RTs appreciated🙂
Can be anonymous, if wanted! RTs appreciated🙂
btw if you're a game designer connected to me in any way I PROBABLY emailed you or A Certain Mailing List in August asking to submit to my survey, but I'm told it often went to spam :( I promise I didn't exclude you on purpose. also 1 person got really mad that I asked them for some reason.
December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
btw if you're a game designer connected to me in any way I PROBABLY emailed you or A Certain Mailing List in August asking to submit to my survey, but I'm told it often went to spam :( I promise I didn't exclude you on purpose. also 1 person got really mad that I asked them for some reason.
hmmm so let's pretend I surveyed 150+ game designers about their personally most influential games, and aggregated it, which created a list that's actually quite interesting/surprising... I'm already talking to Game Developer. who else would be interested in seeing this list do you think?
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
hmmm so let's pretend I surveyed 150+ game designers about their personally most influential games, and aggregated it, which created a list that's actually quite interesting/surprising... I'm already talking to Game Developer. who else would be interested in seeing this list do you think?
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Ok quick thread on Game Mechanic Museum-like resources
1. Geoffrey Engelstein & Isaac Shalev's Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, genuinely changed my brain chemistry www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
1. Geoffrey Engelstein & Isaac Shalev's Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, genuinely changed my brain chemistry www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedi…
Building Blocks of Tabletop Game An Encyclopedia of Me…
www.goodreads.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Ok quick thread on Game Mechanic Museum-like resources
1. Geoffrey Engelstein & Isaac Shalev's Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, genuinely changed my brain chemistry www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
1. Geoffrey Engelstein & Isaac Shalev's Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, genuinely changed my brain chemistry www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
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Steal, sneak and persuade your way through the simulated city of Fortuna.
🏛 Watch the new gameplay trailer and sign up for our Alpha playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...
🏛 Watch the new gameplay trailer and sign up for our Alpha playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Steal, sneak and persuade your way through the simulated city of Fortuna.
🏛 Watch the new gameplay trailer and sign up for our Alpha playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...
🏛 Watch the new gameplay trailer and sign up for our Alpha playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...
it's not SO hard to get off spotify... and however hard it is now, it'll be harder in another year or two. I mean, no consumption is ethical etc, but there are definitely viable alternatives. I find everything just fine on Tidal and they apparently pay musicians an average of ~4x more. just sayin.
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
it's not SO hard to get off spotify... and however hard it is now, it'll be harder in another year or two. I mean, no consumption is ethical etc, but there are definitely viable alternatives. I find everything just fine on Tidal and they apparently pay musicians an average of ~4x more. just sayin.
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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We have a big Streets of Fortuna announcement during this show. Watch for us!
Don't miss the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted on Thursday, December 4!!
⏰ 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
📺 Join us on X, Twitch, YouTube and Steam
🔢 Countdown the 25 Most Wanted games
✅ Exclusive interviews and announcements
🕹️ Don't miss our 30 min preshow with Midas
Set a reminder below 👇
⏰ 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
📺 Join us on X, Twitch, YouTube and Steam
🔢 Countdown the 25 Most Wanted games
✅ Exclusive interviews and announcements
🕹️ Don't miss our 30 min preshow with Midas
Set a reminder below 👇
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We have a big Streets of Fortuna announcement during this show. Watch for us!
yo techbros we already discovered immortality, it's called plastic, enjoy your eternity as a lich made of petroleum dumbass
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
yo techbros we already discovered immortality, it's called plastic, enjoy your eternity as a lich made of petroleum dumbass
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I really need to put more time into this positively wild game.
friend met this character Sheba Hagadias in caves of qud and I had to draw her 🥺
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I really need to put more time into this positively wild game.