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i hate social media. i make text adventure games that are poorly rated in game jams. pronouns: they/them.

[kastelpls]

i hate social media

hello tumblr, i make interactive fiction titles and yuri visual novels and i used to write about japanese subculture media.

Completed Titles (from latest to oldest):

Ah Lim’s Chicken Rice, #01-08A - Everyone loves your chicken rice. Slice-of-life horror.

Chinese Family Dinner Moment - You haven't even had the chance to tell your parents you've gone vegan...

I MUST EAT CHILI OIL - I miss her mapo tofu.

June 1998, Sydney - Your family is moving in, whether you like it or not.

Their Time in This World - A fantasy/adventure game where you restore time to people in need

Hanna, We’re Going to School - ghosts | slice of life | trauma

Ongoing Works:

I Became Gay From Translating My Roommate’s Short Story - A mediocre translator burned out by capitalism.  A writer who has only been published once in her entire life. They meet as roommates and develop a relationship that is perhaps much more than love.

Other Works of Interest:

Mimidoshima - a blog covering a lot of random things inside Japanese media and elsewhere. people seem to like it.

Minidoshima - a substack newsletter successor doing something similar. has more articles on critical distance including their best articles roundups, so surely it must mean something.

Amelie Doree’s YouTube - i’ve collaborated with her on a bunch of videos on the history of japanese visual novels and more. you can especially blame me for the Barcode Fighter video.

Other Social Media:

cohost - tfw my tumblr for fancy people account also appears on critical distance for some reason...

mastodon - i just post esoteric game dev and interactive fiction thoughts there. follow at your own peril.

IFDB - i post reviews there once in a while.

[ameliedoree-deactivated20260406]

hello everyone, i made a video on VNs about a bunch of fucked up women trying to survive in 1920s japan, and the importance of acceptance in a cruel and worsening world so that we can collectively find hope. it accidentally ended up being very relevant to things right now so maybe it will help you in this time

[kastelpls]

i've written close to 30 "short" reviews on the science fiction and horror media i've experienced in october and early november 2024.

[kastelpls]

i wrote about iseri nina from girls band cry and how her utopian demands on japanese society is both inspiring and irritating to me.

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since it's my 31st birthday today, i indulged myself and wrote a post about how i approach my writing about media that isn't necessarily accessible or even interesting to everyone.

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wrote about the japanese reception to cordwainer smith and how he may have pioneered a lot of anime tropes like catgirls and is the reason evangelion has the term, human instrumentality project.

[kastelpls]

i wrote about the books i've been reading that explores autism as a political identity and neurodiversity as a critical theory, and why i want to incorporate their insights into my thoughts on japanese subculture media and more.

[kastelpls]

i wrote about the "treatment" of kirk allen, a science fiction fan who was pathologized by a therapist, and what it says about disability, neurodiversity, and subculture media as a media for alienated people

[kastelpls]

wrote about a body horror movie that came out. demi moore was pretty good in it.

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i wrote about my complicated feelings on cohost, the internet looking more like dead mall, and what it feels to blog in this post-apocalyptic landscape.

[kastelpls]

uwaaa mama cohost is dead uwaa mama

[kastelpls]

CRYMACHINA: An Antihumanist Plea for Liberation

this is not a parade, it's a protest march

crymachina is now one of my favorite games of all time because its take on queer politics really resonates with me. i want more people to play this game. it's an unbelievably politically radical game that no one has really engaged with.

[kastelpls]

i have finished writing something on every IFComp game this year

Kastel's IFComp 2023 Reviews

This is my first time judging for IFComp, so I’m excited to write up my thoughts on the games so far. Thank you volunteers for organizing th

[kastelpls]

made a silly text game

Your World According to a Single Word by Kastel

text | text | text

i don’t think it’s good, but it was interesting at least.

[twinegardening]

[nsfw, twine node map for the game DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS]

DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS by Hubert Janus

It's exactly what it sounds like. Content warning: flashing images, crude humour, testicular trauma, Hitler

[kastelpls]

for better or for worse, i wrote a highly acclaimed review on this game:

Kastel's IFComp 2023 Reviews

DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS by Hubert Janus DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS is about a guy named Dick McButts who gets kicked

i feel like i'm going to be known as the dick mcbutts understanderer.

[kastelpls]

Ah Lim's Chicken Rice, #01-08A by Kastel

cooking | hawker centers | family

wrote and coded a twine game in four hours.

[evilnadianova]

protip: rate itch.io games

me and some other gay itch devs friens have been annoyed by people making accounts for the sole purpose of spamming 1 star reviews on lgbt projects and like trying to report that when its blatantly obvious (like i had PAID projects that werent even purchased but still got 1 star reviews lol)

if you like my game and want to go the extra mile to support me for free rate my game on itch dot io

like i know i got patreon and donations too but im always honestly caring more about the ratings cause more ratings means algorithm is happy and more people will see my games.

its essentially the same as youtubers requesting you to like and subsribe and hit hte bell icon it really tells the algoritms that this game is good and will try to show it to more people so especially when youre playing gay games on itch io i think everyone should get in the habit of liberally rating the games they liked