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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 19h

Man, my NextFest Discovery Queue sucks this time around. It thinks the only games I wanna play are clones of Hades and Vampire Survivors and the only visual novels that exist are either porn AI or porn Poser3D. Also, apparently Call of Duty is "story-rich." Low hopes for Laugh Track standing out.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 19h

Hey, #SteamNextFest! You're now permanently employed as a scriptwriter for a perfectly normal TV sitcom in which nothing weird happens. It's not a front for a world-consuming cosmic horror! Don't even worry about it!

The demo for Laugh Track is now available! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

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LolotovCocktail @lolotovcocktail.bsky.social · 20h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Remember that even by the standards of his time, Columbus was a mass-murdering fuckhead

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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · 21h

BUBBLE BOBBLE
TAITO 1986
ARCADE

Bub the green dinosaur enjoying a quick coctail

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 21h

VH1: Behind the Bobble documentary about Bub's slow descent into alcoholism.

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 22h

Disability means having some days where you dread just getting up to make lunch, brush your teeth, and take a shower. (That's today. My legs are killing me and I'm exhausted.)

At least this evening is going to be good. Once I'm done all that, I can just crash and rest and then stream my demo.

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 1d

I'm actually gonna be on stream Monday night at 8:30 PM Eastern to present the my game demo with these fine folks. Drop on by if you want hot inside or gossip, by which I mean "indie developer complains about various things"

LolotovCocktail @lolotovcocktail.bsky.social · 1d

Steam Next Fest is giving us some great stuff to work with! Tomorrow is the Laugh Track demo by @fictionfactorygames.com, then Wednesday is Pathologic 3 by @icepicklodge.bsky.social! I'm hyped as hell!
#SteamNextFest

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Facebook Spammer Let’s Do This or The Ballad of Leonard and Siegfried #barovia #ravenloft #DnD

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 1d

When your eyes and lips are hyper detailed and everything else is step one of a how to draw guide

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · May 12

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 1d

a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie .

Alt: Fizzy bear grinning at the crowd

media.tenor.com

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 1d

(yes that means they all have a heroine addiction)

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 1d

"Reincarnated Into a Gacha Game! My Credit Card Is Powerful"

Isekai about how a guy with a phone has enough middle class privilege to get all the five-star heroines in a fantasy world to want him

Every now and then he grinds one of them up into powder and makes the others snort her to get stronger

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 2d

No idea why. It's tagged the same way as my other game demos. I'll send a message to Steam support.

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 2d

Got a bit of energy back this evening thanks to family and friends. Just enough to have a little fun despite physical difficulties today.

Gonna try to do something with tomorrow. Whether it's writing or just playing a new game. Anything other than nothing.

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 2d

Glad you enjoyed the game, and clearly were picking up on the themes and hints I laid in!

Yes, there's a Patreon. Anyone who backs at $5 or above gets beta access to the FULL Laugh Track game. (All that's missing right now are commercials and a few voices.) patreon.com/fictionfacto...

creating visual novels and indie games

patreon.com

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 2d

I should be promoting my indie game more and working on my new game and doing things while I have prime opportunity

But I am tired

So damn tired

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 3d

No clue what to make of the game demo's metrics so gonna assume it's okay. May pick up steam as word of mouth spreads but "word of mouth" is like the most and least powerful thing an indie has. I can't spend 50,000 on a marketing budget.

Dead tired tonight. Crash out and look again tomorrow.

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 3d

You know, I was on the fence about buying this since I'm not very good at factory games. But seeing you taking a firm stand where other game devs would ignore it or softpedal, I'm ABSOLUTELY buying this immediately. Good jorb.

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 3d

The demo for Laugh Track is now available on Steam, just ahead of #SteamNextFest! Become the writer of a totally normal sitcom in which nothing weird happens!

The full game will release for FREE in January, but you take the pilot episode for a spin right now! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

Laugh Track on Steam

You're now the lead writer for Juno's World, a perfectly normal sitcom in which nothing strange or horrible happens, ever! Choose your scripts, decide what characters to build relationships with, and ...

store.steampowered.com

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 4d

I can fully admit this is self delusion, but with so much consolidation and acquisition and corporate malfeasance going on right now, I'm in a unique position to use the resources I have to create a truly independent vision. That has to be at least a candle in the face of EA's dark lantern, I hope.

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 4d

I know it's extraordinarily unlikely, but maybe I can get a hype train of some sort going. My games usually just fall completely into obscurity, but this is NextFest, right? Assuming that still has any value in the flood of indies trying to escape the collapsing wave of the industry.

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 4d

Hope I can sleep tonight. Excited about releasing the demo of my new game tomorrow. I'm not sure why I'm even bothering though, this is not a demo for some game you need to evaluate before purchasing, it's just gonna be free. This is essentially an early sneak peek. Does that even apply?

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Stefan Gagne @stefangagne.com · 5d

Dentist visit today. The act of getting in and out of the car and the dental chair and walking to and from the building's got me, like... wiped the eff out. Just unable to move or think or focus. I hate it. There's stuff I'd like to do and I just can't.

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Lance Icarus @lanceicarus.bsky.social · 5d

As someone who watched the RIAA come so hard down on Napster that they were fining children for downloading nursery rhymes, this is straight up parody to me. Like where you at Lars? They're gonna steal Metallica music again!

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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