Anca
@ancastasia.bsky.social
I make, play & promote art games about personal stories & psychology 👁 Co-Founder, Producer & Post-capitalist Biz Dev @SymmetryBreak.bsky.social 🎮 Cursed spidercat streamer https://twitch.tv/ancastasia 🕷 @pantaloon.io ambassador (she/her)
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"Oh sure, let me instantly generate every storefront image at once" is something no game developer ever said... until I added this feature to Kenney Game Assets All-in-1! 🎉
(Coming later this month!)
(Coming later this month!)
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Oh sure, let me instantly generate every storefront image at once" is something no game developer ever said... until I added this feature to Kenney Game Assets All-in-1! 🎉
(Coming later this month!)
(Coming later this month!)
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okay since there's been a lot of discourse around HORSES but not so much about the actual content of the game itself and it came out today i wrote up a review/some impressions of it on backloggd. some spoilers, tho not full spoilers backloggd.com/u/ellaguro/r...
ellaguro's review of Horses | Backloggd
there's been a lot of coverage around this game as a target of direct censorship in being banned from Steam and now Epic as well - but not very much discussion about the game itself. i played it throu...
backloggd.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
okay since there's been a lot of discourse around HORSES but not so much about the actual content of the game itself and it came out today i wrote up a review/some impressions of it on backloggd. some spoilers, tho not full spoilers backloggd.com/u/ellaguro/r...
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SOUP ROOMS is a collaborative minimalist art-game featuring over 100 ROOMS created by cool and talented indie devs from around the world.
Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others!
We hope you enjoy your stay.
LINKS BELOW!
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Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others!
We hope you enjoy your stay.
LINKS BELOW!
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
SOUP ROOMS is a collaborative minimalist art-game featuring over 100 ROOMS created by cool and talented indie devs from around the world.
Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others!
We hope you enjoy your stay.
LINKS BELOW!
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others!
We hope you enjoy your stay.
LINKS BELOW!
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
Terrifying as a dev to read that Steam may ban your game with no real explanation or course of appeal regardless of your willingness to adjust your content. I highly dislike this pretty tyrannical specter that Steam and its algorithms bear down over game developers these days.
Here's a fun Friday afternoon article from me! About the chilling effect of censorship in games, the ethical obligations of being a poweful entity in the medium, and how we respond when video games' freedom of expression - from so many directions - is under siege.
www.eurogamer.net/however-you-...
www.eurogamer.net/however-you-...
However you frame it, Valve's ham-fisted ban of an indie darling is another blow for free expression in video games, and this will always be a tragedy
Free expression in video games is in the spotlight, and Valve's banning of Horses might be only one instance of many that put that expression at risk.
www.eurogamer.net
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Terrifying as a dev to read that Steam may ban your game with no real explanation or course of appeal regardless of your willingness to adjust your content. I highly dislike this pretty tyrannical specter that Steam and its algorithms bear down over game developers these days.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
GTFO MR. TALONS
Hey hey #PitchYaGame, I'm developing a multiplayer drawing party game where you work together drawing and guessing strange prompts with your friends.
Earn enough birdbucks or Mr. Talons will DISAPPROVE.
Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/2267230/...
#gamedev #indiegames
Earn enough birdbucks or Mr. Talons will DISAPPROVE.
Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/2267230/...
#gamedev #indiegames
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
GTFO MR. TALONS
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ALL HANDS is a couch coop sailing game that combines elements of games like Journey and Death Stranding.
Work together to master everchanging winds in a post-revolutionary solarpunk world.
We are looking for publishing! Hit us up!
#PitchYaGame #Solarpunk #CouchCoop #WorkerOwned
Work together to master everchanging winds in a post-revolutionary solarpunk world.
We are looking for publishing! Hit us up!
#PitchYaGame #Solarpunk #CouchCoop #WorkerOwned
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
ALL HANDS is a couch coop sailing game that combines elements of games like Journey and Death Stranding.
Work together to master everchanging winds in a post-revolutionary solarpunk world.
We are looking for publishing! Hit us up!
#PitchYaGame #Solarpunk #CouchCoop #WorkerOwned
Work together to master everchanging winds in a post-revolutionary solarpunk world.
We are looking for publishing! Hit us up!
#PitchYaGame #Solarpunk #CouchCoop #WorkerOwned
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It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
Last push for @dames4games.org fundraising! And playing The Cat Lady, trigger warning this shit is really dark: www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
Ancastasia - Twitch
The Cat Lady part 4 (trigger warning) | !d4f !cheers !kofi
www.twitch.tv
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Last push for @dames4games.org fundraising! And playing The Cat Lady, trigger warning this shit is really dark: www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
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For Halloween and for research, we're playing #Mouthwashing live now! Come hang out and get absolutely traumatized with us at twitch.tv/ancastasia 🥲
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
For Halloween and for research, we're playing #Mouthwashing live now! Come hang out and get absolutely traumatized with us at twitch.tv/ancastasia 🥲
Finally I can blast this
Deep Fog Signals’ Steam page is live 📡
Stuck in an outpost in a sea of toxic fog, you're cut off from the outside world and oxygen is running out. Use scarce bandwidth to coordinate unstable crewmates, do research that could change the world and interpret strange signals from the deep 👁️
#indiehorror
Stuck in an outpost in a sea of toxic fog, you're cut off from the outside world and oxygen is running out. Use scarce bandwidth to coordinate unstable crewmates, do research that could change the world and interpret strange signals from the deep 👁️
#indiehorror
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Finally I can blast this
Time to continue The Cat Lady playthrough for the grim month and also do some fundraising for @dames4games.org ⭐
Come hang at www.twitch.tv/ancastasia!
Come hang at www.twitch.tv/ancastasia!
October 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Time to continue The Cat Lady playthrough for the grim month and also do some fundraising for @dames4games.org ⭐
Come hang at www.twitch.tv/ancastasia!
Come hang at www.twitch.tv/ancastasia!
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🎃 The Ghouls are back... with a vengeance, I mean, with more tricks, treats, and games 🎮!! Tune in, or you'll make us get out of your screen and get you 👻
youtu.be/F8dUGnxzP-c?...
🗓️ October 24, 2025
🕜 12PM PT • 3PM ET • 8PM GMT
#Dames4Games & #Ghouls4Games2025 & #WomenInGaming & #IndieGameDeva
youtu.be/F8dUGnxzP-c?...
🗓️ October 24, 2025
🕜 12PM PT • 3PM ET • 8PM GMT
#Dames4Games & #Ghouls4Games2025 & #WomenInGaming & #IndieGameDeva
Ghouls 4 Games 2025 Hype Trailer
YouTube video by Dames4Games
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🎃 The Ghouls are back... with a vengeance, I mean, with more tricks, treats, and games 🎮!! Tune in, or you'll make us get out of your screen and get you 👻
youtu.be/F8dUGnxzP-c?...
🗓️ October 24, 2025
🕜 12PM PT • 3PM ET • 8PM GMT
#Dames4Games & #Ghouls4Games2025 & #WomenInGaming & #IndieGameDeva
youtu.be/F8dUGnxzP-c?...
🗓️ October 24, 2025
🕜 12PM PT • 3PM ET • 8PM GMT
#Dames4Games & #Ghouls4Games2025 & #WomenInGaming & #IndieGameDeva
Playing a couple dark adventure demos for #NextFest!
Let's check out Rottenroots by my buds @lara-klabautermann.bsky.social & co. plus Nighthawks by @richardcobbett.bsky.social & published by @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social cause compound names (and terrific stories) 😩
⭐ www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
Let's check out Rottenroots by my buds @lara-klabautermann.bsky.social & co. plus Nighthawks by @richardcobbett.bsky.social & published by @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social cause compound names (and terrific stories) 😩
⭐ www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
October 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Playing a couple dark adventure demos for #NextFest!
Let's check out Rottenroots by my buds @lara-klabautermann.bsky.social & co. plus Nighthawks by @richardcobbett.bsky.social & published by @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social cause compound names (and terrific stories) 😩
⭐ www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
Let's check out Rottenroots by my buds @lara-klabautermann.bsky.social & co. plus Nighthawks by @richardcobbett.bsky.social & published by @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social cause compound names (and terrific stories) 😩
⭐ www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
It's a great time when @alexbpart.bsky.social provides the cats and the synths 🥹
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It's a great time when @alexbpart.bsky.social provides the cats and the synths 🥹
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your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office
October 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office
I never buy merch. This may be the time to buy merch.
* yearning sighs *
* yearning sighs *
This is why we decided to embark on an ambitious logistical undertaking to organize a globally co-ordinated reveal of our first RPG, codenamed Project Red Rooster, not through press release or social media post, but through the analogue medium of a physical book and vinyl record.
September 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I never buy merch. This may be the time to buy merch.
* yearning sighs *
* yearning sighs *
My burned out ass needs to hear stuff like this - it applies to not just art, but to any human endeavors. Improvement happens when you push through the voices telling you you can't do it, when you stick to a practice that's just one level of discomfort above your current skill. Now.. to go live it.
I have said for decades that frustration is a good thing.
it's not even really something I see as something to 'tolerate' though I recognize that's a matter of perspective, but rather frustration is the symptom of you having standards and recognizing you want to close that gap between you and it
it's not even really something I see as something to 'tolerate' though I recognize that's a matter of perspective, but rather frustration is the symptom of you having standards and recognizing you want to close that gap between you and it
September 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
My burned out ass needs to hear stuff like this - it applies to not just art, but to any human endeavors. Improvement happens when you push through the voices telling you you can't do it, when you stick to a practice that's just one level of discomfort above your current skill. Now.. to go live it.
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Every week something like this comes out without the corollary “and this is what we are going to do about it” report
September 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Every week something like this comes out without the corollary “and this is what we are going to do about it” report
Here's the edited down version of the VOD with Fair Play Collective in case you missed it live 😄
👉 youtu.be/cSApmwvXO4I
👉 youtu.be/cSApmwvXO4I
September 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Here's the edited down version of the VOD with Fair Play Collective in case you missed it live 😄
👉 youtu.be/cSApmwvXO4I
👉 youtu.be/cSApmwvXO4I
Really hyped for this interview, should interest all indies so hope you can join in and listen now! 🫡
Game Dev Chat | A new & sustainable backing concept for indie studios with Dylan from @fairplaycollective.org 🥰
🔗 www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
Game Dev Chat | A new & sustainable backing concept for indie studios with Dylan from @fairplaycollective.org 🥰
🔗 www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
September 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Really hyped for this interview, should interest all indies so hope you can join in and listen now! 🫡
Game Dev Chat | A new & sustainable backing concept for indie studios with Dylan from @fairplaycollective.org 🥰
🔗 www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
Game Dev Chat | A new & sustainable backing concept for indie studios with Dylan from @fairplaycollective.org 🥰
🔗 www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
Dev Chat - my irregular live series of chatting with other game devs - starts in 50 min 🥕
Guesting @thenoble1.bsky.social to speak about working on game design and writing for the steampunk fantasy TTRPG High Winds by @scaleboundgames.com and answer questions!
Proceed 👉 www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
Guesting @thenoble1.bsky.social to speak about working on game design and writing for the steampunk fantasy TTRPG High Winds by @scaleboundgames.com and answer questions!
Proceed 👉 www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
September 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Dev Chat - my irregular live series of chatting with other game devs - starts in 50 min 🥕
Guesting @thenoble1.bsky.social to speak about working on game design and writing for the steampunk fantasy TTRPG High Winds by @scaleboundgames.com and answer questions!
Proceed 👉 www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
Guesting @thenoble1.bsky.social to speak about working on game design and writing for the steampunk fantasy TTRPG High Winds by @scaleboundgames.com and answer questions!
Proceed 👉 www.twitch.tv/ancastasia
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Game NEEDS to be finished, it's got vibes up the wazoo and somehow an even more incredible lore
Watching old captures from Sonalethe development and feeling wistful about the vibes and not wistful about the game design (this is a vibes only video)
September 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Game NEEDS to be finished, it's got vibes up the wazoo and somehow an even more incredible lore