Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏
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UI programmer for AAA games who works on his own adult games whenever he can make time 💖 #WLCG #IndieGameDev
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I spent my Sunday making buttons for the different card piles and making an animation for your cards flying to the discard pile, in case you were wondering how things are going in the Gamedev Mines 😌
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Q: "What exactly is Steam policy on mature content?"
A: "Nobody really knows. It's important to note that HORSES' ban has nothing to do with the recent restriction on adult content pushed by payment processors; this decision was solely in the hands of Steam's curatorial team."
A: "Nobody really knows. It's important to note that HORSES' ban has nothing to do with the recent restriction on adult content pushed by payment processors; this decision was solely in the hands of Steam's curatorial team."
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Q: "What exactly is Steam policy on mature content?"
A: "Nobody really knows. It's important to note that HORSES' ban has nothing to do with the recent restriction on adult content pushed by payment processors; this decision was solely in the hands of Steam's curatorial team."
A: "Nobody really knows. It's important to note that HORSES' ban has nothing to do with the recent restriction on adult content pushed by payment processors; this decision was solely in the hands of Steam's curatorial team."
Thanksgiving is a Souls-like
When you’re a game producer and also hosting Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Thanksgiving is a Souls-like
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And that's why I feel using it as a foundation is wrong. You still need to understand anatomy, form, composition, perspective, etc. in order to make use of these models, and not just end up with samey flat artwork. Compare the 3d base I used for last year's summer image for example.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
And that's why I feel using it as a foundation is wrong. You still need to understand anatomy, form, composition, perspective, etc. in order to make use of these models, and not just end up with samey flat artwork. Compare the 3d base I used for last year's summer image for example.
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Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
My dream as the programmer, writer, designer, and director on SuccuDeck is for an artist to get so inspired by the gameplay they want to help by making 50 to 60 card art images
a man is swimming in a swimming pool at night
ALT: a man is swimming in a swimming pool at night
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My dream as the programmer, writer, designer, and director on SuccuDeck is for an artist to get so inspired by the gameplay they want to help by making 50 to 60 card art images
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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I helped a bit as a narrative consultant on HORSES working with a couple of the good folks at Santa Ragione. I hope you'll check it out, it's really like nothing else I've played before.
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I helped a bit as a narrative consultant on HORSES working with a couple of the good folks at Santa Ragione. I hope you'll check it out, it's really like nothing else I've played before.
This is your regular reminder that the most bang-for-your-buck marketing you can do for your indie game is to improve your store page. No social media comes even *close* to the traffic that a well-designed page brings in
I dunno if it also happens to other devs, but my social media presence outside of TikTok sucks so bad.
I don't really get many interactions here or on Tumblr. Makes me wonder if I should even bother posting here and just focus on Itch and TikTok or what.
I don't really get many interactions here or on Tumblr. Makes me wonder if I should even bother posting here and just focus on Itch and TikTok or what.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is your regular reminder that the most bang-for-your-buck marketing you can do for your indie game is to improve your store page. No social media comes even *close* to the traffic that a well-designed page brings in
The Witcher 1, and they should lose the collectible cards behind a couch or something 🫣
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Witcher 1, and they should lose the collectible cards behind a couch or something 🫣
"If you are earning $80,000 with $79,000 in fixed costs, you are not stable. You are super-cooled water. One shock—a transmission failure, a broken arm—and you freeze instantly."
We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles
We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"If you are earning $80,000 with $79,000 in fixed costs, you are not stable. You are super-cooled water. One shock—a transmission failure, a broken arm—and you freeze instantly."
We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles
We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles
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Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
Did you know that the Epic Games Store has *checks notes* blog posts now
The Rise of Cozy Games
From Stardew Valley to Animal Crossing and the COVID boom, we spoke with developers, players, and a video game-focused psychologist on the rise of chill games.
store.epicgames.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Did you know that the Epic Games Store has *checks notes* blog posts now
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The part about "Valve not giving keys to devs who do not pass an unspecified threshold of sales" combined with "Indies lose 30% of sales to Valve while big studios get individual, cheaper deals" should tell you everything you need to know about Valve's opinion of indie devs.
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The part about "Valve not giving keys to devs who do not pass an unspecified threshold of sales" combined with "Indies lose 30% of sales to Valve while big studios get individual, cheaper deals" should tell you everything you need to know about Valve's opinion of indie devs.
Valve is a libertarian company. They purposefully obfuscate their rules about adult games to prevent people from skirting them. But tracer bullets, like "Horses", still tell us a lot about the general shape of their rules. And that shape is "don't make us do effort"
valve and steam are probably the greatest success story in all of gaming but their incredibly opaque nature and breadth of control are a sword of damocles hanging over devs. Every developer bar nintendo wants their game on steam, and steam's rules are on a whiteboard at Valve's HQ and nowhere else.
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Valve is a libertarian company. They purposefully obfuscate their rules about adult games to prevent people from skirting them. But tracer bullets, like "Horses", still tell us a lot about the general shape of their rules. And that shape is "don't make us do effort"
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Steam intentionally killing an old, respected, and beloved decade old indie game studio through bullshit policy is fucking wild
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Steam intentionally killing an old, respected, and beloved decade old indie game studio through bullshit policy is fucking wild
Vile used images of real people in an adult game to make an artistic statement. Doesn't matter that these are images of the author, and that the context is "sexual violence is bad". Valve banned that game because their overarching principle is "do not make us do effort"
There's a growing number of games that have apparently fallen foul of Steam's 'No because we say so' rule that are still being happily sold on other major storefronts like GOG.
Also recently DreadXP-published game Vile was outright rejected by Steam too, despite containing *nothing* objectionable.
Also recently DreadXP-published game Vile was outright rejected by Steam too, despite containing *nothing* objectionable.
Vile Is Banned
Developer Statement: VILE: Exhumed is a game about searching through an old computer, uncovering dark secrets, and experiencing the horrors […]
dreadxp.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Vile used images of real people in an adult game to make an artistic statement. Doesn't matter that these are images of the author, and that the context is "sexual violence is bad". Valve banned that game because their overarching principle is "do not make us do effort"
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As an adult gamedev, none of "Horses" sounds problematic except that the men are naked. That puts the Scrutiny Meter up to eleven, and if you then have a scene with a naked woman and a clothed daughter, Valve will reach for the Ban Hammer
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
As an adult gamedev, none of "Horses" sounds problematic except that the men are naked. That puts the Scrutiny Meter up to eleven, and if you then have a scene with a naked woman and a clothed daughter, Valve will reach for the Ban Hammer
The best way to get more Cool Art is to advocate for lower rents
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The best way to get more Cool Art is to advocate for lower rents
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submitted a build of this vn to valve for review and just got it approved earlier today, so it should be out Soon...
maybe not before the end of the month but prolly some time in early december, fingers crossed 🤞
maybe not before the end of the month but prolly some time in early december, fingers crossed 🤞
reasons to wishlist my upcoming yuri visual novel out of the ocean:
🫧 there are two love interests w/ unique romance endings
🫧 you can kiss a mermaid
🫧 there's a tall muscular beauty
🫧 the art is super cute
🫧 there's a poly ending 🙏✨
WL here⤵️
store.steampowered.com/app/3616970
#yuri #yurivn
🫧 there are two love interests w/ unique romance endings
🫧 you can kiss a mermaid
🫧 there's a tall muscular beauty
🫧 the art is super cute
🫧 there's a poly ending 🙏✨
WL here⤵️
store.steampowered.com/app/3616970
#yuri #yurivn
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
submitted a build of this vn to valve for review and just got it approved earlier today, so it should be out Soon...
maybe not before the end of the month but prolly some time in early december, fingers crossed 🤞
maybe not before the end of the month but prolly some time in early december, fingers crossed 🤞
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If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
Already seeing folks say, "Well, HORSES isn't YUCKY PORN like other games are, so..." which is super frustrating.
Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.
Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.
Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Heartbroken because I checked the quotes on this & saw a 19-year-old saying "I agree with protesting against paypros but I don't want to support horse porn" but I didn't get a screencap & now they've deleted
seeing people being like "ehhh Idkkkkk horses DOES sound kinda icky, I get why it was banned" like barely 2 months after a bunch of people kicked up the wildest possible hostile campagn against _itch_ makes me feel like I'm losing my mind lol
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Heartbroken because I checked the quotes on this & saw a 19-year-old saying "I agree with protesting against paypros but I don't want to support horse porn" but I didn't get a screencap & now they've deleted
There is a binary ratings system for adult games: Banned and Not Yet
one of the things i keep thinking about with the steam situation is booktok/tube discourse about whether books have too much porn now (they call it spice which i just can't you sound like duncan idaho) and if there should be enforced labelling or a rating system
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
There is a binary ratings system for adult games: Banned and Not Yet
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"Jobs don't exist anymore" is a phrase I've repeated to myself a lot. No idea what the hell most of you do all day but if someone is paying you to do it, hold on for dear life, because if it goes away it feels like it's probably not coming back. Either that or I'm just particularly unemployable.
“Stella why do you put up with x or y” what would you like me to do man. I was unemployed for 18 of the last 36 months. Jobs don’t exist anymore. We take what we can get now, warts and all.
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"Jobs don't exist anymore" is a phrase I've repeated to myself a lot. No idea what the hell most of you do all day but if someone is paying you to do it, hold on for dear life, because if it goes away it feels like it's probably not coming back. Either that or I'm just particularly unemployable.
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I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.