Cow Children

audio and video adventures in a wider west

[cowchildren]

Trans Theft Horso! A song and trailer for a game out now for Mac and PC.

Compelled to travel the West, you can fight admirals, pet the animals and seek gender gladness (or, GGs) for all!

[targetedknowledge]

[alex-and-nova420]

made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied

[cowchildren]

Well if it isn't banoffee pie time.

[byjove]

when you think about it, unleashing a plague of frogs is fucking hilarious

[byjove]

God said “let’s do a silly one”

[eggnogtoast]

trying to bed a knight like: *unbuttons your jupon* *unbuckles your cuirass* *unbuckles your gorget* *takes off your hauberk* *stops to catch my breath* *unbuttons your gambeson* *takes off your shirt*

[pride-knightess]

With a team of two squires assisting, no less.

[cowchildren]

Some would say 'unbuckles your cuirass' describes the entire process.

[cowchildren]

Trans Theft Horso won the Most Amazing Game Award at A MAZE Games and Playful Media 2026!

It is now a colourful, award-winning, non-binary western adventure about pursuing gender gladness!

(Also horses, but mainly gender gladness)

[cowchildren]

The picture above is actually from the morning, when I did a presentation on why puppet shows and video games are fundamentally the same thing.

[cowchildren]

Me, baffled, with a holographic trophy for Trans Theft Horso!

It won an award, and here is my the announcement and my flustered acceptance speech, if you're curious. I had gone to Berlin to lose in style, and hadn't really planned for the Good Ending.

And yes, I made that silver top myself. Time will tell if the washing machine agrees with it.

[cowchildren]

Trans Theft Horso won the Most Amazing Game Award at A MAZE Games and Playful Media 2026!

It is now a colourful, award-winning, non-binary western adventure about pursuing gender gladness!

(Also horses, but mainly gender gladness)

[the-evil-skull]

I guess the reason I love the name of the doctor so much is kind of the bait and switch of it, where Moffat teases that the Doctor's real name is some secret mysterious birth name that's a surprise tool to save the day, but then the Doctor drops the title in the final line "but not in the name of the Doctor" and it just clicks that it's never been about the power of the name youre given at birth. The Name of the Doctor isn't alluding to the Doctor's "real name" but the promise inherent in the title "The Doctor", which is only powerful because the Doctor chose it for himself. Idk. Do you get it. This is because Dr Who is transgender.

[late-to-the-party-221]

Wait is it called doctor "who" because you never learn the guy's name?

[becausewerehere]

Wowee. It's been a while since I updated this devlog! I'm just writing to let you know that the Steam store page for Acts III and IV of WW1-themed otome VN Because We're Here is now live! Wishlists are appreciated. You can find it here!

I wrote a general state-of-the-union blog post on Steam a little while ago, which also covered how Acts III and IV are being combined into one release - here's the relevant section:

I also want to say that I've decided to combine Acts III and IV into one release - primarily because they felt like very much a two-parter, and I didn't want to risk another long pause between them! But also, Act II was always going to be the longest act, so if people had been expecting something that rivalled or exceeded Act II in length then they may have been disappointed when a solo Act III came out. So 'Act III and Act IV' is going to be a single game, of comparable length to Act II! The story's still four acts - just now told via three releases.

And some cool news is that it's going to be a 2026 release!

(It'll be for sale on Itch too, as per, but the gamepage for that one won't be live until the game's out.)

In other news, Because We're Here Acts I and II are each 40% off for the next few days, as part of the Steam Otome Games Celebration organised by Crystal Game Works.

I hope you're all doing well. I'll be back onto this devlog with much more regularity in the coming months. ^^

In the meantime, did you know BWH has a mailing list? I'm about to send out the very first newsletter, ha. That's a pretty good way to have all major developments appear spontaneously and conveniently in your inbox, if you're worried about missing stuff on social media~

[cowchildren]

I wrote a piece on impostor syndrome in the games industry, and why solo devs gain a lot from all kinds of community with other game-makers.

[cowchildren]

Related to this, Trans Theft Horso, which I imagined was flim flam while I made it, has been nominated for the grand prize at A MAZE Festival of Games and Playful Media, happening in Berlin next week

Nominees : A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - 15th International Games and Playful Media - May 13-16th 2026

Since 2012 A MAZE. awards The Most Amazing works. The winner is selected by an interdisciplinary, international and 100% independent jury.

I'll be there, and will be giving a talk on why video games and puppet shows are the same thing.

[cowchildren]

I wrote a piece on impostor syndrome in the games industry, and why solo devs gain a lot from all kinds of community with other game-makers.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

It's really funny how art can be so important and enriching and sometimes downright life-changing but every single piece of art about how important and life-changing art is is the lamest shit ever.

[simplyspider]

this vibe

[penny-anna]

meal bars from the food machine are all vegan by default bcos it's all just processed fungus w no actual animal products. it can make any flavour and there's no ethical issues. you want like foie gras flavour or endangered animal flavours? its fine. no real animals harmed. however the Doctor would probably nonetheless not tell his human companions if he was partaking of human meat bars.

eta actually i should probably say up here too that this is a hc about a specific fic im writing. you all have to see it tho. sorry.

[penny-anna]

on reflection i think the real questions here are:

which doctors would be weird enough to be like 'hello human companion would you like a rare and exciting opportunity to ethically find out what human meat tastes like :D'

which companions would accept.

[penny-anna]

Four would offer but he wouldn't make a big deal out of it, if someone asked what he was eating and the answer was Human Meat Bars he would just tell them. Sarah would try one and then Harry would too bcos he wouldn't want to be left out.

Five would offer for Science reasons. Nyssa would accept the offer of Trakenite flavour meal bars, also for science, and would sample it and be like 'fascinating. I didn't like it.' Adric would horf down a Human Meat Bar with such enthusiasm that for the rest of the time on the TARDIS Tegan would be looking at him like.

[cowchildren]

TARDIS food machine song!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Don’t let the world fool you: consistent kindness is the most quietly powerful thing.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

If you ever want to engage in villainy & undermine the social order: Be especially kind to the people society has rejected. Care about the ones the world would convince you don’t ‘deserve’ your kindness. 

I genuinely mean this when I say to you: the ultimate act of rebellion is insisting on compassion and grace in a compassionless world.

[ingridverse]

Disruptive compassion.

[drawlight]

Reblogging because I have a lot of feelings about this and because I believe very strongly in that the most punk rock and badass thing you can do is to live your life with aggressive empathy and kindness. 

[typewriterchan]

Fred Rogers was the essence of punk.

You can’t change my mind.

[anarchistmemedistro]

in a world based on hate, love is a radical act

[anarchistmemedistro]

[cowchildren]

Ok, so there are cowboys, shepherds and goatherds.

Are there pigboys? Gooseboys and dogherds and henboys? Foxherds? Ponyboys? Bullherds and catherds and houndboys and mouseherds and skunkherds abiding innthe fields?

Cowpokes and pigpokes and mooseboys and duckherds and slothpokes? Whither the possumboys?

[artsycloudysleepy]

trans theft horso walkthrough!!!

i made this video!!!! finally!!!! HIGHLY recommend this game to everyone!!!! it isn't really popular, so i've made a walkthrough of it to hopefully get it on more people's radars!!!! (for clarity this is entirely unsponsored, i just really liked the game lolllll <333)

would say if you like undertale or west of loathing, you'll def like this game!!! please support the dev!!! the gambe is available on steam 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[cowchildren]

Hooray! I made this game, and I'm very glad it has a walkthrough available now! (If you feel compelled to play it yourself it exists in the places where games exist)