Willy Elektrix
@willyelektrix.bsky.social
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
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
The new Secret Boss podcast episode is about Metal Slader Glory! secretboss.neocities.org
This incredibly sophisticated Famicom #VisualNovel took four years to make! When it came out, the Famicom had been replaced by the Super Famicom and almost no one played it... but it sure looks amazing!
This incredibly sophisticated Famicom #VisualNovel took four years to make! When it came out, the Famicom had been replaced by the Super Famicom and almost no one played it... but it sure looks amazing!
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The new Secret Boss podcast episode is about Metal Slader Glory! secretboss.neocities.org
This incredibly sophisticated Famicom #VisualNovel took four years to make! When it came out, the Famicom had been replaced by the Super Famicom and almost no one played it... but it sure looks amazing!
This incredibly sophisticated Famicom #VisualNovel took four years to make! When it came out, the Famicom had been replaced by the Super Famicom and almost no one played it... but it sure looks amazing!
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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
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
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
You're in luck, I'm currently accepting pitches!
Send it via form or email indiepocalypse@gmail.com
indiepocalypse.com/pitch
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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
-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
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
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@dorukb.bsky.social
-Cover by @fairywarriorcat.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-70
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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/...
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
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/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1317270/...
Long Live the Queen sequel is coming!
🥂SAVE THE DATE! 🥂
Galaxy Princess Zorana is set to launch on Steam on November 21, 2025 - that's two weeks from now! #gamedev #LongLiveTheQueen
store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...
Galaxy Princess Zorana is set to launch on Steam on November 21, 2025 - that's two weeks from now! #gamedev #LongLiveTheQueen
store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...
Galaxy Princess Zorana on Steam
You are the Evil Emperor's only daughter, but can you claim the throne? Raise stats, make deals, appoint advisors, and scheme your way through the Imperial Election - unless an assassin gets you first...
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Long Live the Queen sequel is coming!
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.)
...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.)
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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.)
...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.)
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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
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
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
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
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...
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...
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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...
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...
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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
DOWNLOAD IT ON ITCHIO
READ IT AT ONLINE
November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
DOWNLOAD IT ON ITCHIO
READ IT AT ONLINE
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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 :)
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
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 :)
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 :)
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...
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...
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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...
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...
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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...
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...
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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...
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...
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
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
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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
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
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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
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!
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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
Live now: Back new physical editions of Dog Eat Dog, The Mountain Witch, and my Princess with a Cursed Sword!
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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...
"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
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...
"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...
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Hello! We're Contact Protocol - a job simulator set aboard a starship headed for Jupiter
Check out our reveal trailer here! 📼
Check out our reveal trailer here! 📼
September 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Hello! We're Contact Protocol - a job simulator set aboard a starship headed for Jupiter
Check out our reveal trailer here! 📼
Check out our reveal trailer here! 📼
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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
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
olszoj (olszoj.mmm.page)
-Cover by CharleyJadeIllustrations (charleyjadeartistry.com)
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-68
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
olszoj (olszoj.mmm.page)
-Cover by CharleyJadeIllustrations (charleyjadeartistry.com)
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-68
I subscribe to this... FULL of interesting games you won't find elsewhere.
To celebrate 200 volumes of the @wf-games.itch.io newsletter, I'm offering 50% off annual subscriptions. That's USD$15 for a whole year of weird games, delivered fortnightly to you: wfgames.substack.com/c6f498c8
Subscribe to Weird Fucking Games
Get a curated list of weird games from across the universe, delivered directly to your inbox. Click to read Weird Fucking Games, by WF Games, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
wfgames.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I subscribe to this... FULL of interesting games you won't find elsewhere.
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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/...
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
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/...
Win/Mac/Linux Demo out Oct 10 (for Steam NextFest), full game Jan 13! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...
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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
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!
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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?...
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
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?...
youtu.be/4l5YMIuQoRo?...
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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!
August 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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!