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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · 15d

Web Version of my #LudumDare entry is now also available!

0x0961h.itch.io/deck-of-doom...
www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

#gamedev #indiedev #ldjam #LudumDare58

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · 15d

+1 to that, air fryer is a lifesaver and it actually made me fall in love with cooking

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · 15d

Oh, I see people remembered about Mastodon, eh?

Mine's mastodon.gamedev.place/@0x0961h, I write way more stuff in there, so don't hesitate to give me a follow!

0x0961h (@[email protected])

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · 15d

Web Version of my #LudumDare entry is now also available!

0x0961h.itch.io/deck-of-doom...
www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

#gamedev #indiedev #ldjam #LudumDare58

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · 15d

“What a perfect day to start working on my Ludum Dare entry!”, said I to myself 12 hours before the deadline.

Ever thought what if Balatro would be a roguelite top down shooter? No? Well, too bad, because I made a game that is exactly that for LD58!

#LDJam #gamedev

ldjam.com/events/ludum...

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · Aug 29

When I see posts like this, as much as I'm happy for Silksong fans and devs to finally get their beloved game released soon, I can't help but feel furious about this bullshit tactic of "shadowdrops" like Hades 2 did last year, causing mayhem in the already troubled indie scene.

Tweet from X account of the game "Little Witch in the Woods" (@SunnySideUp_DEV):

"[Release Date Update]

Little Witch in the Woods has been rescheduled:
September 4 → September 15, 2025.

We sincerely apologize, and promise to make your wait worthwhile."

Attached to it are two images: one explains reason (one of them is a soon Hollow Knight: Silksong release) a handdrawn meme with small witch fallen to the floor, crying, with her broom broken, and shadow on the floor in a shape of a main hero of Silksong game.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · Jul 29

GAME, the German game industry trade association, released this *damn* good statement on the unjust NSFW game takedowns

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The artistic freedom of game developers is fundamental to games as a cultural medium. Any restrictions improsed by payment service providers or games platforms must not exceed the legal limits.
In Germany, thanks in part to the USK, clear, binding and established rules apply that must be adhered to. Furthermore, creative forms of expressions or certain themes in games, such as diversity, must not be targeted by individual interests or campaigns from particularly vocal groups, as is currently observed on Steam or itch.io. The terms and conditions of global payment service providers such as Visa, Mastercard, or Paypal must not conflict with European values such as freedom of expression or artistic freedom.
We therefore call on the companies involved to design their rules and offerings in a manner that ensures complicance with applicable laws and prevents overblocking.

Signed,
Felix Falk,
Managing Director of GAME

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'm sorry but falling over yourself to say "BUT WE DON'T CONDONE THE ICKY BAD SEX GAMES" every other paragraph of your statement is just signaling, over and over again, that there's developers the IGDA wants to appear supportive of and developers that it's okay to throw under the bus

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · Jul 29

Keep calling Visa. It’s working.

Trepe @trepeserafin
Follow back
VISA CARD REPRESENTATIVE YELLED AT ME
I called 650 432 3200 and simply asked about the content guideline.
I got:
"We've been getting thousands of calls!"
"You talked to someone? WHO DID YOU CALL!"
"OTHER PEOPLE ACCEPTED WHAT I SAID! SO WHY DON'T YOU!!!"
@Visa is cooked LMAO
VISA

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Jul 29

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · Jul 29

Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material

After delisting thousands of games with adult or NSFW sexual material, indie store Itch are looking to move away from Paypal and Stripe.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".

Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · Jul 29

A PayPal call center supervisor said they actually completely agree with me. They said that if enough people call PayPal they would be forced to take notice. I explained the Patreon/Itch/Steam situation and they said they're a creative themselves & that they hope the situation improves.

CALL THEM

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · Jul 30

what is also very stupid imo is that everyone now is a child on the internet until proven otherwise by doxxing yourself to Very Reliable And Secure Online Services

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eevee @eev.ee · Jul 29

blue prince, a "solo dev" game, has like 20 times more people in its credits than comprise the entire itch staff i'm pretty sure

they do not have a team of staff dedicated to posting. that is roughly like if you, personally, had a team of staff dedicated to posting

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eevee @eev.ee · Jul 29

saw someone refer to "itch's social-media team" and i guess people are still not grasping the size of organization here

i am 90% sure the itch twitter/bluesky are run by the CEO, who is also the guy who wrote the website and continues to write the website

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Cara Cadaver <3 @dirtlord77.bsky.social · Jul 28

A disappointing update about VILE: Exhumed...

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · Jul 28

I can't escape the conclusion that we've ceded the entire public discourse about art to outrage merchants and algorithms and this is the result. Massive audiences addicted to passively consuming frictionless media while eagerly waiting to be told which title it's en vogue to hate next.

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Jul 28

every game on steam is like Very Positive (86 Reviews) or Overwhelmingly Negative (34,581 Reviews)

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · Jul 28

"There are many many women who consume and enjoy adult content. There are many many women who produce adult content and deserve to be fairly compensated for their work. Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them." 👋👋👋

Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · Jul 28

really good write-up of this whole situation with payment processors enabling right-wing censorship of adult games www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs

"Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."

www.pcgamer.com

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Hamnah ✨ // Lilith 😈 @lilithttrpg.bsky.social · Jul 26

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

Several people in suits reach towards a man with glasses sitting at a table, holding a microphone. The latter speaks into the microphone, while the former attempt to stop him.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · Jul 27

Because some people still do not get it, I have produced this professional and detailed diagram explaining the options available to Itch.io upon being threatened by payment processors:

Option A: Comply, sacrificing some NSFW content.

Option B: Do not comply, sacrificing EVERYONE ELSE + Option A.

A labelled trolley problem diagram showing what will happen if Itch's owners choose to comply or not with payment processors like Mastercard and Visa.

Option A is to comply, sacrificing NSFW game devs.

Option B is to sacrifice themselves, the site, and everyone else reliant on the store for income AND all the people from Option A.

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lucy, ditto enthusiast @lucyamorris.bsky.social · Jul 27

this is what gets me from the "itch is just in it for the money and they folded to capitalist forces willingly to get rich"

you have always been able to pay them literally 0%

Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · Jul 27

Yeah, just spelling it out here: Valve is a multi-billion-dollar corporate run storefront that skims 30% off the entire PC games industry.

Itch is a handful of people running a scrappy indie games n' smut store on literal donations. They *recommend* giving 10% to support them, but don't demand it.

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Jul 27

I think there’s also a misunderstanding of itch as some big corporate platform like Steam or the App Store and not just like a website a few people have built and kept together for a decade so people can share their weird art.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · Jul 26

Currently on the phone with Visa

Instead of starting with a complaint, I approached this as a Confused American Consumer who doesn't understand why they can't buy things off a website they use

The call center rep immediately asked if it was about Steam/itch

(cont)

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · Jul 26

His name really rings the bells for me, but I just can't remember where I saw it...

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · Jul 26

Listen, I might not be a NSFW artist or gamedev making NSFW games. I might not be interested in anything of this either. Hell, I might never be able to make a single full game at all.

But I _will_ stand alongside them so just we'd have tomorrow as creatives.

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · Jul 25

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:

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