Traumendes_Madchen
@traumendesmadchen.bsky.social
Indie developer of narrative games with unusual stories 🎮. Despite the name, we’re actually French. ✨ http://traumendes-madchen.com/ ✨
Visual Novel français 🔵⚪🔴 https://www.patreon.com/Helia
Visual Novel français 🔵⚪🔴 https://www.patreon.com/Helia
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The #FallinLoveFestival hosted by @vnstudioelan.com starts now & Chronotopia has joined the party! 💕
For a full week, you can enjoy a crazy schedule with multiple lovely people playing the game on their channel. I’ll be present...for emotional support 🤭.
store.steampowered.com/sale/fallinl...
For a full week, you can enjoy a crazy schedule with multiple lovely people playing the game on their channel. I’ll be present...for emotional support 🤭.
store.steampowered.com/sale/fallinl...
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IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff
reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie
reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff
reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie
reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie
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If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
Already seeing folks say, "Well, HORSES isn't YUCKY PORN like other games are, so..." which is super frustrating.
Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.
Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.
Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
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hold my hand. I as an ace person give you permission to be ace, to be sex repulsed, to think porn games are icky and yet still believe games with sexual content should exist. it's okay. you're not invalidating yourself by supporting porn games & the people who make them. it's all forms of expression
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
hold my hand. I as an ace person give you permission to be ace, to be sex repulsed, to think porn games are icky and yet still believe games with sexual content should exist. it's okay. you're not invalidating yourself by supporting porn games & the people who make them. it's all forms of expression
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November 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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valve and steam are probably the greatest success story in all of gaming but their incredibly opaque nature and breadth of control are a sword of damocles hanging over devs. Every developer bar nintendo wants their game on steam, and steam's rules are on a whiteboard at Valve's HQ and nowhere else.
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
valve and steam are probably the greatest success story in all of gaming but their incredibly opaque nature and breadth of control are a sword of damocles hanging over devs. Every developer bar nintendo wants their game on steam, and steam's rules are on a whiteboard at Valve's HQ and nowhere else.
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this is a real indie dev horror story
an unorthodox game getting pre banned by steam and the team patently and methodically attempting to get in touch with a human at valve to sort it out and just getting nowhere
an unorthodox game getting pre banned by steam and the team patently and methodically attempting to get in touch with a human at valve to sort it out and just getting nowhere
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
this is a real indie dev horror story
an unorthodox game getting pre banned by steam and the team patently and methodically attempting to get in touch with a human at valve to sort it out and just getting nowhere
an unorthodox game getting pre banned by steam and the team patently and methodically attempting to get in touch with a human at valve to sort it out and just getting nowhere
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steam can be p inconsistent when reviewing games lol...
once i tagged one of my vns as having sexual content b/c there's a scene where a chara masturbates (not visually depicted but the text was p graphic) & a steam rep told me to remove the tag b/c "we couldn't find any sex in your game" lol
once i tagged one of my vns as having sexual content b/c there's a scene where a chara masturbates (not visually depicted but the text was p graphic) & a steam rep told me to remove the tag b/c "we couldn't find any sex in your game" lol
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
steam can be p inconsistent when reviewing games lol...
once i tagged one of my vns as having sexual content b/c there's a scene where a chara masturbates (not visually depicted but the text was p graphic) & a steam rep told me to remove the tag b/c "we couldn't find any sex in your game" lol
once i tagged one of my vns as having sexual content b/c there's a scene where a chara masturbates (not visually depicted but the text was p graphic) & a steam rep told me to remove the tag b/c "we couldn't find any sex in your game" lol
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Hey ! Vous publiez à compte d'éditeur ? le nouveau guide de la Charte vient de sortir (avec plein de points de repères sur la rémunération et la négo des artistes-auteurs). C'est là ! www.la-charte.fr/wp-content/u...
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Hey ! Vous publiez à compte d'éditeur ? le nouveau guide de la Charte vient de sortir (avec plein de points de repères sur la rémunération et la négo des artistes-auteurs). C'est là ! www.la-charte.fr/wp-content/u...
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Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
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Hello indies! It's almost Thanksgaming 2025!
If you have an unknown indie project in dev or just released, please could you email me at [email protected] with the subject "THANKSGAMING 2025", and a store page and YouTube link? I'll put as many as I can on Kotaku.
Rules next. Reposts appreciated!
If you have an unknown indie project in dev or just released, please could you email me at [email protected] with the subject "THANKSGAMING 2025", and a store page and YouTube link? I'll put as many as I can on Kotaku.
Rules next. Reposts appreciated!
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hello indies! It's almost Thanksgaming 2025!
If you have an unknown indie project in dev or just released, please could you email me at [email protected] with the subject "THANKSGAMING 2025", and a store page and YouTube link? I'll put as many as I can on Kotaku.
Rules next. Reposts appreciated!
If you have an unknown indie project in dev or just released, please could you email me at [email protected] with the subject "THANKSGAMING 2025", and a store page and YouTube link? I'll put as many as I can on Kotaku.
Rules next. Reposts appreciated!
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Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving
The lines are getting clogged from calls and Mastercard is feeling very pressured, they're looking into how to act in response. They're collecting information on callers to have a better understanding of who is calling in re the censorship issue
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving
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The thing with books is that there's literally already a free way to read them where people get paid.
There is NO excuse to pirate unless you have no library, and libraries, thankfully, still largely exist somehow.
It legitimizes both the book AND the library system. It's a no-loss scenario.
There is NO excuse to pirate unless you have no library, and libraries, thankfully, still largely exist somehow.
It legitimizes both the book AND the library system. It's a no-loss scenario.
Video games don't work like that, movies don't work like that, TV doesn't work like that (at least not in the same way, residuals work differently there). But books/comics? If you pirate a book you are straight up taking money out of the author/artist's pocket, every time.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The thing with books is that there's literally already a free way to read them where people get paid.
There is NO excuse to pirate unless you have no library, and libraries, thankfully, still largely exist somehow.
It legitimizes both the book AND the library system. It's a no-loss scenario.
There is NO excuse to pirate unless you have no library, and libraries, thankfully, still largely exist somehow.
It legitimizes both the book AND the library system. It's a no-loss scenario.
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Did you know our environment artist @soniamassimino.bsky.social is also a character artist? ❤️🔥
Here’s a look at one of her creations… maybe you have noticed her somewhere before? 👀
#visualnovel #otomedev #indiedev
Here’s a look at one of her creations… maybe you have noticed her somewhere before? 👀
#visualnovel #otomedev #indiedev
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Did you know our environment artist @soniamassimino.bsky.social is also a character artist? ❤️🔥
Here’s a look at one of her creations… maybe you have noticed her somewhere before? 👀
#visualnovel #otomedev #indiedev
Here’s a look at one of her creations… maybe you have noticed her somewhere before? 👀
#visualnovel #otomedev #indiedev
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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This is an odd situation, and genuinely one worth reading about if you actually Do care about games as art
Because is there challenging, troubling imagery in the game? Sure, yes
Is any of it like- porn or whatever? No. Not even remotely. But this is why rulings against porn media hurt everyone.
Because is there challenging, troubling imagery in the game? Sure, yes
Is any of it like- porn or whatever? No. Not even remotely. But this is why rulings against porn media hurt everyone.
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is an odd situation, and genuinely one worth reading about if you actually Do care about games as art
Because is there challenging, troubling imagery in the game? Sure, yes
Is any of it like- porn or whatever? No. Not even remotely. But this is why rulings against porn media hurt everyone.
Because is there challenging, troubling imagery in the game? Sure, yes
Is any of it like- porn or whatever? No. Not even remotely. But this is why rulings against porn media hurt everyone.
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Santa Ragione, a venerable, innovative and award-winning studio, may close due to @valvesoftware.com's unaccountable, counter-factual ban. From an early build of HORSES I can easily say it's another award-contender.
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Santa Ragione, a venerable, innovative and award-winning studio, may close due to @valvesoftware.com's unaccountable, counter-factual ban. From an early build of HORSES I can easily say it's another award-contender.
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
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Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
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Hey its my birthday 🫣
Also I just added this close-up version of Beyond the Quiet to my INPRNT and it's ✨ on sale ✨
Thank youuuu that's all
Also I just added this close-up version of Beyond the Quiet to my INPRNT and it's ✨ on sale ✨
Thank youuuu that's all
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hey its my birthday 🫣
Also I just added this close-up version of Beyond the Quiet to my INPRNT and it's ✨ on sale ✨
Thank youuuu that's all
Also I just added this close-up version of Beyond the Quiet to my INPRNT and it's ✨ on sale ✨
Thank youuuu that's all
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GAME IDEA: CLOWN FUNERAL 🤡
This one is like “Banquet of Souls” but different theme: a Va-11 Hall-A type of game where you serve drink/food to characters while unraveling their stories.
This one is what if a world made of clowns with their own clown society.
This one is like “Banquet of Souls” but different theme: a Va-11 Hall-A type of game where you serve drink/food to characters while unraveling their stories.
This one is what if a world made of clowns with their own clown society.
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
GAME IDEA: CLOWN FUNERAL 🤡
This one is like “Banquet of Souls” but different theme: a Va-11 Hall-A type of game where you serve drink/food to characters while unraveling their stories.
This one is what if a world made of clowns with their own clown society.
This one is like “Banquet of Souls” but different theme: a Va-11 Hall-A type of game where you serve drink/food to characters while unraveling their stories.
This one is what if a world made of clowns with their own clown society.
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1/3 of all gamers quit playing games all together because of toxic communities
What would happen to a restaurant if 30% of their customer revenue walked out the door and never came back?
Grand Closing!!
We literally can’t afford to allow bad players to terrorize our communities.
What would happen to a restaurant if 30% of their customer revenue walked out the door and never came back?
Grand Closing!!
We literally can’t afford to allow bad players to terrorize our communities.
We openly blocked bigots, racists & homophobes on social channels for one project. The result? Huge social channel growth, record MAU, positive sentiment shift.
By avoiding challenging the tiny sliver of the toxic players, you're sacrificing the retention of your larger audience
By avoiding challenging the tiny sliver of the toxic players, you're sacrificing the retention of your larger audience
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
1/3 of all gamers quit playing games all together because of toxic communities
What would happen to a restaurant if 30% of their customer revenue walked out the door and never came back?
Grand Closing!!
We literally can’t afford to allow bad players to terrorize our communities.
What would happen to a restaurant if 30% of their customer revenue walked out the door and never came back?
Grand Closing!!
We literally can’t afford to allow bad players to terrorize our communities.
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Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
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Thanks! Thanks so much! Thanks for reaching out! Can't wait to connect! Can't wait to hear more! Looking forward to our conversation! Looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know! Let me know if this works for you! Let me know if this works for your schedule! Let me know when you're available!
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Thanks! Thanks so much! Thanks for reaching out! Can't wait to connect! Can't wait to hear more! Looking forward to our conversation! Looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know! Let me know if this works for you! Let me know if this works for your schedule! Let me know when you're available!