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I think it's so cool that you make cover art for the games you're making, it's super creative! I've started to make my own game on twine recently, do you have any tips?

thank you!! the cover art is one of my favorite parts!

and in terms of tips, yes!

Adam Hammond’s Twine Guide was the first thing ever that got me started. And now I use the SugarCube2 format so I’m always on the Documentation Site for that.

for bigger projects (like Pyrates) I like to keep just like a sheet of paper near my computer with all my $variables somewhere where I can see them all at once.

I also really love the twine subreddit because I don’t know a lot of the minutiae of coding and can ask for advice there

I think that’s about it! honestly I figured a lot out by just having an idea and then just googling if anyone had ever done that/asked about how to do it before. You got this!

It's just a scarification, what could possibly go wrong?

A fan game for The Rusty Quill’s spectacular podcast, The Magnus Archives.

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Today is the one year anniversary of Pyrates! Thank you to everyone who has made fanart, posted comments, or just generally enjoyed my little game!

As of today it has over 5,000 plays and 98 downloads! Gay pirate rights!!

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#pirates #Pyrates #pyrates!#twine #twine games #itchio #itch io #gay #gay game #i love how much people like this game

Which of your games did you have the most fun writing??

(Hi sorry I just saw this!)

I think probably Alpine, because it was such a close look at a single character, and was spooky but also about trying to get a date. I had fun writing Pyrates, but a lot of that was because I think research is really fun and I got to do a lot of it for that game!

Although Gadrisel from angel name generator will always be my favorite character. I just love his dumb face so much...

You're stuck in a fire lookout tower 10,000 feet above sea level, but at least you can see the next lookout over.

A fan game for The Rusty Quill’s spectacular podcast, The Magnus Archives.

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#the magnus archives #the magnus institute #the magnus pod #rusty quill #the usher foundation #twine #twine games #itchio #itch io #horror #horror games #Text Game #fan game #music

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Brought to you, organic, GMO-free, farm-to-table, by an all LGBT/POC development team, it’s ValiDate! A visual novel about a dozen 20-somethings trying to find love, earn a living, and find themselves somewhere along the way.

Support our Kickstarter if you can, and check out our Twitter for updates as we strive for some very exciting stretch goals!

experimenting with music for the next usher game!

also i can’t figure out the tumblr audio upload so just take the whole video i made for twitter

#song #music

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Newest USHER game is out, but be forewarned: this one has some heavy trigger warnings for transphobia and conversion therapy

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Here’s a little postmortem, if you were curious

I never make art about being trans.

I’ve been out for seven years, but this is only the second piece of art I’ve ever made about my experience. So I’m begging a little forgiveness on the messiness of this game.

Conversion therapy scared me a lot when I first came out, and it’s still a horrifying concept. I never had any experiences with it personally, but I did have friends whose parents sent them to unscrupulous therapists (even though conversion therapy was illegal in my state by then).

Even when I was writing the game, every few minutes I would stop and be like “this sucks! writing this sucks!” So I would start from square one, thinking about skin, performance, faces, masks, identity, subtle differences that make someone not themselves, and I would find myself thinking about being trans again.

In order to actually write the game, I had to make it easier. Instead of writing from the main character’s perspective, I switched to a friend. I made the game much shorter than the others. The characters are basic. There’s only one ending.

This could be a much better story, but I’m not able to write that version right now. But I’ve also spent enough time being afraid of conversion therapy that it’s become part of what I remember about coming out. Writing about this thing I used to be so afraid of hasn’t made me feel better about it, because I haven’t been actively afraid of it for years. I don’t think there’s a big chance that this game will make people feel better about their experience. I don’t even expect many people to play it. But I still think being made into a stranger to yourself is terrifying, and that’s really why I wrote it this way. Because conversion therapy scares me.

Newest USHER game is out, but be forewarned: this one has some heavy trigger warnings for transphobia and conversion therapy

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Pyrates!

Life at sea is dangerous for a surgeon, pirates are always looking for someone who has medical knowledge. Unfortunately, your boat has just been cornered by a ship flying a black flag. You’re captured, and rumors fly about the captain’s romantic past as the ship draws closer and closer to buried treasure…

A short game I made in twine purely because I like pirates and am gay. Thus gay pirates. Not really a dating sim, but if you play your cards right you can steal a kiss at the end.

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