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Alex Higgins

@alexandrah.bsky.social

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Game developer. Made Danger Zone Friends and Jailbird Nocturne. she/her https://alexandrah.neocities.org/ https://alchiggins.itch.io/

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Dec 5

Now that everyone has migrated to Bluesky, I am just now realizing that I should *probably* post about my RPG Maker epic again.
Animals! Devils! Escape a prison! Sassy banter! Destroy a prison! Confront the past! Fight a totally normal horse! Your apartment has four floors this time!

Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Aug 18

Jailbird Nocturne is out!!!
alchiggins.itch.io/jailbird-noc...
Full-length turn-based RPG sequel to Danger Zone Friends with fun characters in a surreal contemporary fantasy setting.
#gamedev #indiedev

Jailbird Nocturne by Alexandra Higgins

Return to Interzonal Space. Available for Windows

alchiggins.itch.io

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Lynn Almengor @plaidcorelynn.bsky.social · 25d

I made a GRAPHIC NOVEL with @madjesters1.bsky.social!

BONES OF THE VOYAGER follows Nina, an indie director dealing with problems on set and her depression—which is embodied by a sarcastic skeleton named Vincenzo

Get it on Amazon: bit.ly/4pkcVfV

#BookSky #IndieBooks #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity

Cover of the graphic novel, “Bones of the Voyager” by Lynn Almengor and Janet Figueroa. A young woman with white hair and glasses stands on a stage decorated with a red curtain and stars hanging from the ceiling by strings. She’s trying to use a video camera while a skeleton wearing a black-and-white checkered ska getup interrupts from behind her to take a selfie.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 17d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · 23d

I remember playing it to completion way back and thinking it was really cool! It definitely represents that late 2000's/early 2010's era of indie game dev in the best way

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 26d

sometimes you gotta draw a political cartoon #696969

"The Sad And Regrettable War"

man sits in fox news studio. he says "I hoped it wouldn’t come to this. But, they wanted a war. and they’ll get one." he is wearing a shirt that says "I <3 War" he's wearing a badge that says "please let me start a war it is my birthday" he's wearing a medallion that says "war is kool!" he's got "WAR" tatood on his neck he's got three medals that say "W" "A" "R" he's wearing an armband that says "war" he's holding a gun that says "special gun for civil war" he's wearing a hat that says "#1 WAR FAN" the news ticker is on the bottom of the screen, it says "Regrettably, it has come to this. We Didn’t want a war, but"

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Queer Games Bundle live now! @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 8

4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists.

itch.io/b/3062

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 80 over a background of genderfluid pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Sep 7

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thanks! I'm excited by the ideas; just hoping I can follow through

Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Aug 16

Jailbird Nocturne gave me a permanent taste for long-form storytelling (ew oh no), but I don't want to spend 4 years on a game ever again, so I'm hoping that embracing an RPG/novel hybrid format will enable me to tell a larger story faster than I otherwise could.

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Aug 16

Moreso than my previous RPG's, I'm experimenting with leaning more heavily on prose. While the world map and dungeon(s?) will be rendered, the idea is that everything else (e.g. cutscenes and towns) will be conveyed through text.

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Aug 16

Rival nobles set off to rescue a princess from a tower but everybody has a complicated relationship with the "prince and princess" thing. It's like Revolutionary Girl Utena meets We Know the Devil but everyone is riding a motor scooter because hell yeah.

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Aug 16

Life's finally stabilized enough and I have *just* enough assets made that I can share a screen of my current project!
Working title: Motor Oil and Sword.
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #rpgmaker #solodev

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · Aug 12

"[T]his article is in revolt against the puritanical notions of pornography as a monolithic evil, a space of degeneration and moral rot."

An anonymous contributor affirms the value of NSFW content in a world that's increasingly becoming more hostile to it: unwinnable.com/2025/08/11/t...

logos for online game distributors itch dot i o and Steam, with itch in pink on the left and steam in dark blue on the right

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Jul 30

Also, this should be (and seems to be) the case, but if someone else who purchased the bundle could confirm to me that buying the bundle provides access to Jailbird Nocturne's paid bonus content, I would deeply appreciate it!

Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Jul 30

Jailbird Nocturne is in the Queer Games Bundle! So, like, get it!
itch.io/b/3062/queer...

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Queer Games Bundle live now! @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Jul 30

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.

itch.io/b/3062/

illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."

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kastelpls (かすっち) @highimpactsex.bsky.social · Jul 24

wrote my final thoughts (for now) on itch.io removing and shadowbanning adult queer games and what i'd like to see more of in the near future: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

Mimidoshima

On itch.io removing adult games and what to learn from it

mimidoshima.neocities.org

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · Jul 22

“A source that cannot be verified or remain consistent is useless.”

Shout this sentence from on high.

Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · Jul 22

So Google AI is no longer telling us Mary Shelley and Jane Austen were sisters. That doesn't mean it's now 'right' or 'better'. It's just different, and there's no way to know why. New stolen material uploaded? Manual intervention? A source that cannot be verified or remain consistent is useless.

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Jul 14

Exactly!

Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Jul 13

I'm always shook when I go to a neocities site and the about me page says "I miss the old pre-social media internet, also, I was born in 2009."

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Jun 25

a new version of D&D where you open up the Dungeon Master's Guide and Wizards of the Coast has taped a dollar to the inside cover

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John @farawaytimes.bsky.social · Jun 21

Very cute lil relationship story by @alexandrah.bsky.social 💖 alchiggins.itch.io/bug-mystery-...

Bug Mystery? The Explosion Speaks! by Alexandra Higgins

Find your ex's bugs alongside sentient explosion

alchiggins.itch.io

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Jun 23

Aw, thank you so much for playing it John!

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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · Jun 18

I want to repeat the phrase "being forced to undergo the wrong puberty" until every remotely persuadable cis person in the world sees it: denying gender-affirming care to trans teens isn't neutral or default, it's forced body modification.

to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · Jun 18

A lot of us older trans people didn't even have the conceptual vocabulary to articulate to ourselves that we *were* trans when we were teens. That's a very different experience from living now, in a much more aware society, knowing exactly who you are, and being forced to undergo the wrong puberty.

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mcc @dryad.technology · Jun 18

Something the Skrmetti decision drives home: "Puberty blockers" should be abandoned as a goal; the goal should be HRT for any minor that wants it; puberty blockers should be a tool for minors who choose themselves they need more time to decide and *nothing else*.

Compromising achieved nothing, here

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Alex Higgins @alexandrah.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thank you! The D&D is nourishing. The other stuff, not as much yet