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Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow are both horror games, but even people who don't typically like horror have a great time, so don't let that stop you!

Our games don't have jump scares, and have heart, romance and comedy woven into their nests of dread.

Both are on sale RIGHT NOW.
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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MERRY CHRISTMAS HEEE HEEEE HEEEE HEEEE HEEEE 🎃
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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solidarity with trans people and death to fascism
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Research is the MAGIC TIME on any project where I get to go have fun and explore. And 100% what you are looking for are the surprising and amazing details and textures that you could never make up
This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.

And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?

Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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“We don’t have to be kind, anymore” is a sentiment that seems to be manifesting explicitly and implicitly all over the place. An alarming number of people seem to be relishing the opportunity.
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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"Something that I have found difficult for non-artists to understand is that the ‘early messy stuff’ that non-arty folks insist can be ‘fixed by a human artist later’ is where the best work is done."

True of every creative field. You can't start building halfway up; the foundation has to be sound.
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.

Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.

thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Biggest technological revolution in our lifetime and it's not AI:
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."

Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.

I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.

Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.

thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
We can do even more.
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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So many of the pitched use cases for genAI sound like $0.99 phone apps.

"take a picture of someone and the bot will roast them!"
"make a video of a cartoon character being arrested!"
"read any text you like in a celebrity's voice!"

Kids used to download shit like this and get bored in 15 minutes
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
December 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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I use Vivaldi, which is an early chromium fork, if you're looking for a replacement that's good.

You can change almost everything, even right click menus. It can use Chrome add-ons but also has native adblockers which work very well. No ads, no AI, no bullshit 😌
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Your regularly scheduled reminder is that Slay The Princess was Black Tabby's short-form side-project. A showcase in how much reactivity they can cram into a single sitting.

Scarlet Hollow is their BIG visual novel and plays the long game on all of your decisions. They WILL matter.
December 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Glitch Productions responds to Disney licencing over 200 characters to Sora and ChatGPT and investing $1 BILLION in OpenAI in a new post:

“the fuck are they doing”
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this

there are other, better franchises - let this one go
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Just letting out a psyigh
December 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This is me showing my age as a webcomic granny, but I still believe that being a digital homeowner and owning your own webcomic site + supporting each other via web rings and collectives is the best way to go.

I've always been wary of comic hosting services, they will always lead to censorship
I'd love to go back to an earlier time where webcomic creators didn't feel like they would be punished by The Algorithm if they miss an update or take some time off because they're sick. I am tired of the Grind mindset, and appealing to impatient readers who don't want comics, they want shows.
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The Internet is good sometimes.
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM