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Nina_Birb
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Trans woman harpy who makes comics and video games.
https://ninabirb.itch.io/
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Nina_Birb @ninabirb.bsky.social · Sep 13
I'm back, and I make puzzle games now
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Thinking with ADHD is like a constant game of word association.
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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I really like video games :3
Nina's Steam Replay 2,416 Sessions 148 New Games 202 Games Played 1,100 Achievements
December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Something I learned from making puzzle games
Sometimes when I'm making a puzzle game, I find an interaction that's useless as a solution. When I was making Transition, there was an interaction where a non-green player could have their reset point blocked by a green object. While this was interesting, it ultimately would delete the player, leaving the level unbeatable. I still wanted this interaction in the game, so ultimately I realized the problem with the interaction is that deleting the player is useless. So I added a respawn clone, an inactive clone that becomes the player when the original player is deleted. This fixed the issue of the previous interaction, as now the player could respawn once, and let me create a simple puzzle with it. This one mechanic lead to several new puzzles that I hadn't planned for. Puzzles requiring the player to find ways to delete themself, puzzles requiring changing the players reset point, puzzles about trying to get to another room as a non-green player, the list goes on. Suddenly this game that I was planning on abandoning due to a lack of interesting puzzles now had loads of new puzzles because of a mechanic purely meant to fix one problem. I learned something important from that moment in making Transition. If there is a cool interaction that doesn't have any use as a solution, don't leave it out of the game. Adding a new mechanic to make the interaction useful allows for the interaction to stay, and allows for even more puzzles.
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Recently I've started doing a thing where if I have something I want to say, I'll do it as a comic. I'm not good at completely vocalizing my thoughts, but am good at it when I can attach those thoughts to a drawing. Turning jokes into comics and shortening rants into 4 panels.
December 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Time for a few more recommendations.

Games mentioned: Angeline Era, Wandersong, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Meg's Monster
Angeline Era is a 3D action adventure game with a cool twist on the formula. Rather than just selecting a level, every level on the overworld is invisible, and you must search suspiscious tiles in order to find them. This makes finding levels its own treat, rewarding players for paying attention to map design. The levels themselves also hold up nicely, fun combat, tons of level variety, and packed full of secrets. Once again, the two talented devs of Analgesic Productions knock it out of the park. Wandersong is a 2D puzzle platformer story game where you play as a pacifist bard trying to save the world. Singing will be the players main way of interacting with the world. The singing mechanic is used in puzzles, choosing dialogue, gameplay changes, even story. The story itself is charming and deeper than it looked. The characters are just as charming and deep, I loved watching them grow as the story went on. Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a Zelda-like puzzle adventure game where you can color the world. This game was surprisingly theraputic, I found myself stopping from time to time just to draw something on a screen for a few minutes. The story is also incredibly deep and well written, tackling mental health issues and tying it back into gameplay. The game is extremely charming, full of fun little side quests, good level design, amazing bosses, and well written characters. Meg's Monster is a medium story RPG where you play as a strong monster trying to bring a girl back home. Instead of needing to worry about your own health, you need to worry about the girl's emotional health. The more damage the player takes, the sadder the girl gets. The game is not perfect, I have many problems with the plot, but the characters are what kept me going, and made me break down crying near the end. A cautious recommendation only if characters can keep you from dropping a game with a flawed story.
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I don't like the game awards
Here at the game awards we care about developers when it's necessary, which is why out next guest will be another celebrity Hello, I'm a celebrity who will use buzzwords to say the same thing every other celebrity has said to make it seem like I'm passionate about video games And here are the winners for the categories we will skim through and hand the awards to off camera because our ad time means so much to us. You sure did it award. . The game that will lose to cause drama . The game that will win to cause drama . It doesn't matter who wins or loses . The end result is always drama . We love putting objective value to games And now here's 20 ads after giving out one award on camera
December 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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This is the worst thing to happen with a game that looks promising.
OOOH, this game looks so cool, I'm definitely adding it to my wishlist! (Game sign says "AI used") Why would you do that? Why must you hurt me?
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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I'm playing Angeline Era, and it's fascinating how a simple interaction can be made so rewarding by hiding the fact you can interact with it. Finding levels is so fun because they aren't visible on the map. You need to hold down a button in a spot where you think there's a level. They're all secrets
December 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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It's been a while since I recommended some games

Games Mentioned: 1000XRESIST, Creaks, Gentoo Rescue, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
1000XRESIST is a story heavy game taht is extremely well written. Without any spoilers, the game treads a fine tightrope of keeping the player in the dark of what's truly going on without it being overly opaque, giving breadcrumbs of understanding until by the end the player is completely filled in. The game also masterfully uses dialogue, constantly but subtly foreshadowing later plot points in non-obvious ways. Creaks is a medium length story puzzle game about avoiding different types of monsters and turning them into furniture under light. It's a fairly simple but interesting puzzle game with some tricky puzzles. It's not too long, it took me only 3 hours to beat, but it's still worth your time if you want a medium difficulty puzzle game. Gentoo Rescue is an ice sliding puzzle game where you slide different colored penguins to goals. While it sounds like any other ice sliding puzzle game, that couldn't be further from the truth. There are so many mechanics like items penguins can pick up, different enviromental mechanics, walruses that have their own win conditions, even meta puzzles. The complexity of this game is surprising, and it desereves a lot more attention. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a puzzle detective game where you play as a ghost that can possess and manipulate objects. You'll be using your powers to prevent deaths 4 minutes before they happen, and solve the big mystery of who you were before you died. The game has a lot of fun puzzles, charming characters, and a good mystery, which makes sense as it's by the same people behind Ace Attorney.
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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it's always really cool when something I like or a creator I follow gets popular. Cause like now this small creator or thing is getting the love and attention they deserve, and it's really cool to see. Also, a little guilty pride of liking something before it becomes popular.
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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2-panel comic about two guys lamenting about modern games whilst refusing to acknowledge indie games
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Why did no one tell me I could change the art for the games in my steam library?
Left to Right: Nina is You (Baba is You), Celeste, In Stars and Time, Noita
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The fun thing about making a puzzle game is as soon as the mechanics are made, the game sort of makes itself. I discover interactions, and then I make a level where the interaction is needed, but I never personally come up with the every interaction. They sort of just happen.
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I store all my smarts in my boobs. unfortunately, I'm flat.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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If I ever release a big game on steam, I want put in piracy checks, but not antipiracy. Like a little message saying "THANK YOU FOR PIRATING MY GAME" and give them like a little cosmetic or something they can get specifically for pirating the game. No shaming, just something extra. Pro-Piracy checks
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Is it normal to have 5,454 games on my wishlist? I'm sure I'll play all of them eventually, right? Once I finish all 1,704 games in my library I'm sure it'll happen.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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I hate it when I'm trying to dismiss a notification while writing a post, and I accidentally hit the
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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It's not gay to make out with other girls if you etch the name of The True Cosmic One into the walls, that completes the contract. I don't know The True Cosmic One's name, so I'm always gay when I kiss girls.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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If the Steam Machine is affordable, then I might just replace my old pc with it cause fuck Microsoft. I need it replaced anyways cause my old pc wouldn't even run Windows 11 and is eventually going to be obsolete without security updates, and all the things I use my pc for would run on Steam Machine
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I love being girl cause dresses and makeup and boobs
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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"Your reign of terror is over Dark Lord!" "Foolish Hero! No man can bring harm to me!" One hits Dark Lord "Why was he so easy to kill?" 10 Years Later "Oh, That's why..."
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The Picto Kickstarter is Now Live!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pic...

#IndieGameDev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegames #mobilegame #mobilegames #androidgame #iosgame #mixedreality #mixedmedia
A Camera Game - Picto
Escape into a world greater than your own!
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November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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it's so pathetic how companies try to make AI the default. For instance, Youtube has AI autodubs automatically on and needs to be turned off manually every video, and Google has a non-optional AI summary for every search. They spent too much money on AI and are trying so badly to make people use it.
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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I've uploaded my game Belts and Discoveries to the ThinkyCon Jam. It's pretty janky and experimental, but I enjoyed making it.
Belts and Discoveries by NinaBirb
Janky game about conveyor belts
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November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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It's Bunlith!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bun...
two characters, one wearing a witch hat and a goth get-up, and the other wearing a brown sweater and jeans, falling towards the camera as their bodies get dissolved into triangles in front of a vibrant digital blue and pink background with yellow circuitry. there is a red and orange logo saying 'ITS BUNLITH THE WITCH UPSTAIRS' on top with green text saying 'SUPPORT US ON KICKSTARTER' on the bottom
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM