kalechips★

★visual novel dev and new sincerity cowboy ★  comms are open here: https://vgen.co/kalechips

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kalechips is a kaledev!

Hello, everyone. Thank you for following me. I’m happy that you’ve enjoyed my art so much. Reading the tags is really funny. I don’t post very often since I have my job to attend to. But I thought I would mention the games I make on the side. You should really check them out, I worked hard on them!

Midnight on the Milky Way

This was my first visual novel I made by my lonesome for Nanoreno 2021. It’s clumsy in a lot of areas, but I really put my heart into it and I’ve gotten lots of nice messages about it. It’s about a guy without memory or face waking up on a train in space... Gosh, whatever will happen next? If you know the story Night on the Galactic Railroad, you’ll understand right away. It’s that kind of story. The characters are really cute.

Melting of the Winter Gears

Not many people have played this one. I made it when I was very sick. I met some nice people who helped make pretty music for it, so that’s good. The character art I worked very hard at! The story is a meandering one about an emotionless Doll with a music box who meets a goofy bum in a war-torn town. It’s a decent romance if you like pathetic divorced guys getting insulted by cool beauties.

A Prayer for the Winter Gears

The game I’m currently (supposed to be) working on. It has a similar subject matter to the previous game, but with a considerably darker edge. There’s a cute little Doll girl who runs a pathetic excuse for a church in a town full of no-good sinners. The characters carry all sorts of terrible sins with them. But the most important detail is that the main girl is extremely cute!

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That seems to be it. You’ve really read it all? Incredible! I would give you an award, but unfortunately we are separated by computer screens. C’est la vie...

I’m working on another game as I type this, so I really should return to it. It’s a spooky game based off old showa era manga. I thought I would mention my visual novels at some point. I hope you read them. Anyhow, thank you for reading.

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more feathers and bones and rot and stars

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hold phone like grandpa

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latest work, get yours here 🌷

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if you would like an order, you can put one in for the month of april 😁

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dorothy, part.1 🌹

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Happy anniversary to Midnight on the Milky Way, the first game I published.

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it's spooky month, so why dontcha play my spooky game?

Reaper's Goodbye is an older game but it just got a little new life with a fantastic LATAM Spanish translation by Felipe Montt. For ease of access, it's also available to play in browser. Note that things won't run as smoothly, but it's still available to download for the Deluxe Experience ™

A short and sweet vintage manga inspired compilation of spooks. Stories of the past converge into an uncertain future with the cent of cigarette smoke and the sound of a train whistle... That is the image of Reaper's Goodbye.

Reaper's Goodbye by kalechips

Six strangers, five stories, and one final farewell.

Drop by, send me your thoughts and add a rating if you can. It's free and you won't be disappointed.

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just hangin'

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latest work, get yours here 🌷

[stjohnstarling]

I hate to go through this all over again. On July 23rd, Itch.io, one of the most popular platforms for hosting queer and adult independent media, went through a large-scale crackdown on adult content.

This was primarily aimed at games, but novels and comics were hit in the process. Most adult content has been de-listed from the site's search, and some creators were banned without warning. Any funds banned creators have not been paid are currently being withheld by Itch.io.

This crackdown was done, as it always is, because of payment processors like Mastercard and Visa threatening to pull their services.

The payment processors caved to an influence campaign by Australian extremist anti-pornography group Collective Shout, who have been inundating Visa and Mastercard with calls to force video game platforms to stop hosting adult content - which, of course, includes anything queer.

Collective Shout claim to have sent in 1000 emails to get this result, but there are a WAY more than a thousand of us. We need as many people as possible to make as much noise as we can!

Below the cut are numbers and scripts, all you need to do is follow the step by step guide.

Graphic, contact info, alt text, and script by voiddebris on Bluesky, also available collected in a handy document:

Anti-Censorship Campaign

⊘Anti-Censorship Campaign ⊘ ⟡ Complaint Letter Template Customer Complaint Dept, This message is to lodge an official complaint about

Paypal:

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161

Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050

Hours: 6am - 6pm PT

Online (for non-users or logged out - UK bc US site ONLY allows logged in users)

Mastercard:

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372

Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111

Online form

Visa:

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911

Non-US numbers

Online form

Script:

Customer Complaint Dept, This message is to lodge an official complaint about the ongoing rampant restrictions your company has placed on legal sales made by legitimate businesses. These restrictions are not only counter to the concept of freedom of speech and expression, but they harm consumers, businesses, and they harm your company’s bottom line. The following actions are absolutely necessary to protect the freedoms of your client base and the sustainability of legitimate business practices: 1. Remove from your Terms of Service any mention barring the use of your service for sale and purchase of legal products. 2. Contact Steam (Valve), Itch.io, and any other company you have previously put pressure on to retract your content restrictions. Put in place protections to prevent such restrictions from being put in place in the future without ample warning and time to contest them. If these changes aren't made then I, along with many others will be forced to seek other options for processing payments. Sincerely, A Concerned Customer

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OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO

Sign this petition from the ACLU:

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu

Americans - contact your representatives about payment processors acting as censors! You can find your reps’ contact information on 5calls.org.

Script, from here:

Hello Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], -or- Hello office of Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], My name is [YOUR FIRST NAME/SCREEN NAME] and I am one of your constituents. I am calling today to express my concerns with technological censorship. Legal and legitimate adult entertainment is being banned in this country. These bans are not by legislators, but by payment processors like Mastercard and Visa. Mastercard and Visa are improperly creating legislation online through their user and merchant policies. They are banning creator and user access to content that is legal and legitimate. They are inciting fear and panic to encourage censorship. Please take a stand against this impermissible censorship. This is a direct attack on an adult's right to legal content. No one but the legislative branch should be allowed to create legislation. Please support the Federal Trade Commission in their stand against technological censorship to protect the first amendment. Thank you for taking the time to listen today.

[stjohnstarling]

UPDATE: Apparently it is Stripe specifically putting the pressure on Itch.io:

“The open case we have with Stripe right now is probably most critical right now. They apparently are or will be making a determination on the eligibility of our entire platform soon. Do what you want with that information”

Contact info for Stripe can be found here and here:

[phone] (San Francisco HQ)

Stripe: [email protected]

Stripe Complaint Submission Form

354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, California, 94080

More info below the cut!

Americans, I also encourage you to file a complains against these companies with the Better Business Bureau!

How to File a Complaint with the Better Business Bureau (and Alternatives)

In this article what types of complaints the BBB accepts, how to file your complaint with the BBB, and alternatives to the BBB.

And here is a website to help Americans contact their representatives:

#StopCensoringGames - Save your right to adult creative works before it's too late.

RISE UP, GAMERS! Payment providers shouldn't tell you what games you can buy. Let's regulate VISA/MasterCard/PayPal.

Australians can register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity:

Collective shout's profile + ABN

Raise a concern with the ACNC

[arimiadev]

wrote about my thoughts on these censorship waves on Steam & itchio and what visual novel devs can do to approach it

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update soon.

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i'm once again opening for commissions on vgen.

hyper expressive mspaint type things, please stop by.

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drops these here like breadcrumbs that lead to my vgen where you can get really awesome mspaint art for relatively not much money depending on various circumstances who knows but here they are... waiting... i'm growing in power...

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recent work ✨

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i'm once again opening for commissions on vgen.

hyper expressive mspaint type things, please stop by.

[kalechipslives]

drops these here like breadcrumbs that lead to my vgen where you can get really awesome mspaint art for relatively not much money depending on various circumstances who knows but here they are... waiting... i'm growing in power...

[kalechipslives]

i'm once again opening for commissions on vgen.

hyper expressive mspaint type things, please stop by.