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Willy Elektrix
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Game designer, writer, and artist. I love building crazy worlds full of aliens and mutants!
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The new issue of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!

SO MUCH STUFF!
Long Live the Queen
Ladykiller in a Bind
ChoiceScript
Videotome
Hypercard
MORE!

Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...

#indiegame #narrativegame
Cover of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine. It features a humanoid lion made from a photo collage.
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pizzapranks.bsky.social
Want to write about games and developers in Indiepocalypse? (and get paid $200 for it?)

You're in luck, I'm currently accepting pitches!

Send it via form or email indiepocalypse@gmail.com

indiepocalypse.com/pitch
Indiepocalypse Feature Pitch Form
This is the quick pitch form for those interested in pitching written features about games and developers featured in Indiepocalypse. The goal is to better highlight the individual creators that have...
indiepocalypse.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
willyelektrix.bsky.social
An enemy from my #RPGMaker game.

Yeah, killer animatronic mascots are passé now, but the heart wants what it wants. #pixelart
pixel art of a damaged, animatronic aardvark with a crowbar
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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pizzapranks.bsky.social
An eternal (and monthly) championing of the underground game scene, it's Indiepocalypse #70!

-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@dorukb.bsky.social

-Cover by @fairywarriorcat.bsky.social

pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-70
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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surlaw.bsky.social
Hi friends and JRPG people and seal fans and dinosaur people, one of my games is on sale on Steam for 40% off, come celebrate with me!! It's a game with lots of slime and ghosts. The world is distressed. Time is weird. No one's very comfortable.

store.steampowered.com/app/1317270/...
Save 40% on Walthros: Renewal on Steam
Make some friends, eat some burgers, and unearth terrible secrets from the depths of space. A turn-based RPG with a kind-hearted doofus trying to make tough times a little easier.
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
willyelektrix.bsky.social
Long Live the Queen sequel is coming!
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
willyelektrix.bsky.social
ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine has covered LOTS #ChoiceScript games over the years...

...we put a LIST in our new issue: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...

@choiceofgames.bsky.social should pay us!

KIDDING. (They already gave exclusive discounts in EVERY ISSUE.)
"ChoiceSript Games - The List" Shows approximately 20 game names.
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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pizzapranks.bsky.social
With this drive I am opening up pitches for writing about the games and developers that have contributed to Indiepocalypse.

It's $200 for ~2 pages(~1k words ) with the only requirement be that it be about past contributors. (luckily there's ~700 of them)

Email me at indiepocalypse@gmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
willyelektrix.bsky.social
In the new ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine...

Hell Farm Calendar! An outré interactive presentation (?) from the 1990s made in glorious #hypercard.

We are DESPERATE to find its mysterious creator!

Read the article in ChoiceBeat: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
Retro computer graphics reading, "CONGRATULATIONS! You've eliminated TRUST from your consciousness. You're on your way to life of power and wealth! Good For You!"
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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ophazines.net
RPG Maker Zine, a non profit zine celebrating RPG Maker titles from classics to newer to niche titles, is now free to read!

DOWNLOAD IT ON ITCHIO
READ IT AT ONLINE
November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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felipepepe.bsky.social
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
willyelektrix.bsky.social
In the new ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine...

Long Live the Queen by @hanakogames.bsky.social

Pleased to finally feature this classic game in the zine!!!

Maybe this isn't the LLtQ review we wanted, but is it the review we deserve? choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
Screenshot of a game. There is an anime girl with pink hair in front of a status menu.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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quasiotter.bsky.social
i have a list of gay furry visual novels here !! well actually a spread sheet !!

you can read issue online or download pdf at:
wordpress choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
or itch.io willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...

or just the spreadsheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
screen shot of article about me corresponding with choicebot about gay furry visual novels and a link to a spreadsheet with fifty of them !!
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
willyelektrix.bsky.social
The new issue of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!

SO MUCH STUFF!
Long Live the Queen
Ladykiller in a Bind
ChoiceScript
Videotome
Hypercard
MORE!

Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...

#indiegame #narrativegame
Cover of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine. It features a humanoid lion made from a photo collage.
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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cyborgurl.bsky.social
on monday the first issue of my new newsletter goes out, featuring updates on what i've been working on, little snippets of writing and design, cat photos and other miscellany! sign up at the link below to receive it!
Dispatches from the Terrordrome
Monthly updates from Anna Anthropy. All the finest Anna-related news, snippets from projects, and meanderings on games and play from your favorite [citation needed] fat gay cripple.
buttondown.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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cyborgurl.bsky.social
Live now: Back new physical editions of Dog Eat Dog, The Mountain Witch, and my Princess with a Cursed Sword!
Art & System: Games for Expanded Play
A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch
www.backerkit.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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warpdoor.com
Wound up (Felix Koller, David Heurix)

"this game is about a clown who has to assemble a windup toy-elephant, while being watched by another clown."

PWYC - Windows: warpdoor.com/2025/10/01/w...
October 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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coldzephyrgames.bsky.social
Hello! We're Contact Protocol - a job simulator set aboard a starship headed for Jupiter

Check out our reveal trailer here! 📼
September 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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pizzapranks.bsky.social
Dive again into the world of indie games with Indiepocalypse #68!

-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
olszoj​​ (olszoj.mmm.page)

-Cover by CharleyJadeIllustrations (charleyjadeartistry.com)

pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-68
cover for indiepocalypse #68 showing a winged deer surrounded by briars screen for syf showing a yellow clay being on clay town street indiepocalypse launcher carousel
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
willyelektrix.bsky.social
I subscribe to this... FULL of interesting games you won't find elsewhere.
September 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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benkevans.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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fictionfactorygames.com
Introducing... Laugh Track! A perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens. Write a wacky teen sitcom and keep those ratings high, or else! Or else what? Don't worry about it!

Win/Mac/Linux Demo out Oct 10 (for Steam NextFest), full game Jan 13! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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cyborgurl.bsky.social
All this week, I'll be posting lesson plans and materials from my History of RPGs class, where I ran micro versions of historically significant TTRPGs like AD&D and Apocalypse World! Every day I'll post a new game I ran in my class. Stay tuned!
History of RPGs by Anna Anthropy
A history of tabletop role-playing in four games
w.itch.io
September 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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grundislav.games
Narrascope talks are up! Here’s one I did with @jesshaskins.bsky.social about running a scenario in Rosewater as a TTRPG, and the Twine model she built to test the companion relationship mechanic:

youtu.be/4l5YMIuQoRo?...
NarraScope 2025 - Tabletops and Twine: Adventures in Adventure Game Proto- and Telotyping
YouTube video by Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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cyborgurl.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!
Crafting Interactive Fiction with Bitsy. With Anna Anthropy. September 28 to October 19. 4 weeks online workshop, 150 minutes per session. What if a work of fiction were more like a space – something readers could wander, struggle against, push at the boundaries of? Digital games let us weave interactivity, spatiality and friction into storytelling. In this class, we’ll use Adam Le Doux’s Bitsy – a free browser-based game tool – to create interactive narratives. If you love storytelling and want experiment with new tools to tell new kinds of stories, this class is for you. Beijing Time: September 28, October 5, October 12, October 19, Sundays, 9:00 - 11:30 AM New York Time: September 27, October 4, October 11, October 18, Saturdays, 9:00 - 11:30 PM Our 150-minute workshops will consist of guided tutorials, artistic discussions and creative exercises. Over the course of four meetings, participants will write, develop and revise a work of original interactive fiction. At the end of the class, outstanding projects will have the opportunity to be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York. Anna Anthropy is a game designer, educator and cyborg. Her work, both digital and tabletop, explores themes of queerness, kink and disability. Her most well-known digital games include dys4ia and Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars; some of her recent tabletop work includes Coldbloods, The Fool's Journey, and the award-winning Forgotten Palaces. Anna is the author of several books on games and game design, including A Game Design Vocabulary, Rise of the Video Game Zinesters, ZZT, and the Make Your Own Video Games! series from No Starch press. She has shown work in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. She lives in Chicago with a little black cat named Encyclopedia Frown.
August 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
willyelektrix.bsky.social
Immense news! My new game now has a Steam page. YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.

(In case you don't know, I mean you should wishlist it. Thank you!)

Explore a surreal tourist resort hellscape in this post-apocalyptic #RPG.

store.steampowered.com/app/3909230/...

#indiegame #indiedev #rpgmaker #jrpg
Fun Zone Omega on Steam
Explore, survive, and vibe in this post-apocalyptic RPG set in a vacation resort gone wrong. Choose your squad from 12 eccentric misfits, and scavenge the ruins of a hypercapitalist dystopia.
store.steampowered.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM