STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]
STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]
I just submitted When Life Gives You Lemons to Hosted Games. Here are some FAQs:
1: When will the game come out?
A: I don't know yet. Hosted Games will have someone read through the entire game, and they'll send me feedback on anything they want changed or removed. That process takes some time, so please hang in there. I'll share updates as soon as I know more.
2: How much will the game cost?
A: I don't know. As the author, I don't decide the price. Hosted Games does, and we'll only find out once the game is released.
3: How many words is the game?
A: Notepad says it's around 901,582 words (including code), but it could be a bit less. I was hoping to hit a million, but it is what it is.
4: How many chapters are there in total?
A: 12 chapters.
5: Who are the ROs?
A: There are 6 ROs in total: the teacher, the neighbor, the ex/childhood friend, the cop, the barista, and the boss/co-worker. All are gender-selectable.
6: So what now?
A: I need to finalize The Wedding for release in June on Steam and Itch.io. After that, I'll focus on Patreon content, (I've been neglecting Patreon for a while. 😭) then on finishing A Taste of Heat (formerly Spices of the Heart).
Please consider buying the game when it comes out. As the author, I will mostly receive about 25% of the revenue, while Hosted Games takes 75%. It sucks, but that's how it works.
The public demo on COGDemos will be taken down on May 15.
This game started as side content for Patreon and officially went live in July 2022. It's crazy to think that four years later, it's become something people love, and hopefully it'll get released. Thank you again to everyone for the love and support. 💕
I can die now, and you'll have this to remember me.
Chapter 8 is out for Ko-fi supporters and Patreon supporters!
Following the National Doubles tournament, this update is more slice-of-life focused, and takes us to the week right before Finals. And yes, the big mom reveal is here.
Release dates
Early release (less polished): TODAY!
Early release (more polished): May 15
Public release: May 29 or earlier
Chapter 8 (58k words) features:
Returning to Cargill after the National Doubles tournament (including spending the night with G or having breakfast with Rayyan if you’ve unlocked those scenes)
Freshman hang-out session with Max and Blake
Spending time with G preparing for the photography exhibition
Meet your mother 👀—not once but twice?? (If you so choose)
Thanksgiving break 🦃
Have dinner with Sam and his/her family (sleep over and possibly reveal that you’re together), play a friendly game with Sam at the neighborhood courts 🎾 where you’d grown to love the game, finally unlock the Samwise Gamgee nickname while playing a lord-of-the-rings board game with Sam and their sister 🧙♂️)
Call Rayyan, G, Tobin, or your mother over Thanksgiving, bond with your father
Face the consequences of your choices over thanksgiving break 🔥 (will you manage to submit all your papers in time? Will you get benched for the last match of the season…?)
As always, starting a new play through will ensure variables are set properly.
The cast of BotB season four has touched down in a new state: Ohio! That's right—they're infiltrated G's backyard (and maybe someone else's?) Unfortunately, the rockstar isn't happy about this development considering the people who have decided to show their faces here. Meanwhile certain rumors are tainting the BOTB brand while the home lives of the ROs are starting to creep up on them. Will there even be a tour? Who knows?
As usual, MC remains in the center of it all. Their plans for their future comes into question when they're forced with new faces and possibilities. That is…if they even have a career by the end of this. For some MCs they should probably keep in mind to think with their head and not their…you know!
Hi! It's been a long time coming but I'm excited to share the Chapter 5 alpha demo! Thank you for your patience and enthusiasm :) Please read until the end. Without fail I get questions that are answered in this post almost immediately after publishing it aha
I'm calling it an alpha demo because, and not to get all sad and lame, after the death of my family member I did not feel like adding more to my plate (aka beta testers). Writing took up much of my time already and it just hasn't been the right time to include other people into the process. Of course, that must change, and I will be getting beta testers soon now that the alpha is out. As always, the chapters are subject to change and improve as time goes on.
So with that said if there are errors im all ears! I will try to be as timely as possible.
NOTE: if you're band tier sub from late march to april expired, please send me a message so I can send you my email and send the demo. In the email be sure to add your email, subscription tier and proof! *If not proof then I can use your email to search it up!* Band tiers will get it immediately + fan tiers will be put on a list to get it in May!
We need to be loud and firm over and over again. There are a lot more of us and they need to be reminded of that. They do not actually care about children, that's been made extremely clear.
We need to be loud and firm over and over again. There are a lot more of us and they need to be reminded of that. They do not actually care about children, that's been made extremely clear.
demo! | groovy playlist | voulez-vous? is rated 16+
The FULL game is out now! (last update: February 20th, 2026)
Maybe it's just exhaustion, or the many caipirinhas flowing through my body, or maybe even the moon, bigger than usual, prettier than usual, behind Toni.
I don't know what it is. I just know that, at this moment, for the first time since we met, she seemed to me like one of the prettiest people I had ever seen.
Toni watches me carefully.
"Today sucked, huh?"
"Do you hate me that much?"
"I like your company," her voice's earnestness makes me lower my eyes. "But we didn't produce anything."
"I thought coke was supposed to make people more productive."
"All it did was make you even looser."
I laugh, because it's true. I didn't write anything, but I did laugh a lot. Told stories. Revealed secrets and gossip that I shouldn't have. That's normal, though, I think.
Toni's eyes, big and almost black, never leave mine. I'd like to avert my gaze, but I can't. Annie's eyes are so small, so cold, so bright. They scare me sometimes. It's as if they hide a thousand secrets.
But Toni's eyes are open. Honest.
"I had never noticed your eyes before," I say, knowing I should keep quiet.
She runs a hand over her mouth, her fingers covering her full lips, trying to hide an embarrassed smile.
I also like that she's shy, that she feels embarrassed. Annie likes being complimented just as much as me.
Suddenly, I feel the urge to get closer to Toni.
Features
A lesbian love triangle between three bandmates who should really know better
A messy protagonist with a beautiful voice, an even prettier face, and a penchant for hedonism
Three different romance routes
Lots of pettiness, drama, and infighting
English and Brazilian Portuguese versions
Disco music. Let's keep it groovy, baby!
Romance Options
Annie (or Aninha in Portuguese): the trio's other vocalist, alongside you. She's also your girlfriend... sort of. Annie used to be a model before being convinced by you to pursue her artistic dreams. She's hot-headed, insecure, a bit petty, and crazy about you.
Toni: the trio's main songwriter and instrument player. Serves as a backing vocal here and there as well. She's always been considered the "nice one" due to her calm, kind demeanor. Of course, that didn't stop her from sleeping with you and risking the trio's future...
The latest Merry Crisis chapter is LIVE for everyone! This is the one where things come to a head, and decisions have to be made... It also sets things up for the final chapter (before the extended epilogue).
Features:
Have one last day with Qiu, Shay, or Nat on Ubin, a little island a boat ride away from mainland Singapore.
Talk about what the future holds for the three of you, including remaining in New York or moving back to Singapore
Commit to them, or break up, or ... leave things open? (No spoilers~)
End on a cliffhanger (I'm sorry)
Author's Note:
You might notice less of the branching scenes in earlier chapters, as I'm trying to prioritize making sure I'm able to finish the game (in a satisfactory manner) and tie up all the loose ends! In the end, I still might be able to go back and do a second-pass once the story is complete :D
As always, I can't wait to hear what you guys think!
The latest Merry Crisis chapter is LIVE for everyone! This is the one where things come to a head, and decisions have to be made... It also sets things up for the final chapter (before the extended epilogue).
Features:
Have one last day with Qiu, Shay, or Nat on Ubin, a little island a boat ride away from mainland Singapore.
Talk about what the future holds for the three of you, including remaining in New York or moving back to Singapore
Commit to them, or break up, or ... leave things open? (No spoilers~)
End on a cliffhanger (I'm sorry)
Author's Note:
You might notice less of the branching scenes in earlier chapters, as I'm trying to prioritize making sure I'm able to finish the game (in a satisfactory manner) and tie up all the loose ends! In the end, I still might be able to go back and do a second-pass once the story is complete :D
As always, I can't wait to hear what you guys think!
Hello, my name is Nadin. I’m from Gaza. I’m a graphic design graduate, a wife—and now, a mother.
I finished my design studies just before the war began. I had dreams of starting a small studio, of creating art that told stories. I used to think about colors and fonts and the future.
Then, the war came. And the future became something we tried to hold onto, moment by moment.
On October 22, 2023, I learned I was pregnant when a missile destroyed my husband’s family home, killing 25 members—his mother, siblings, nieces and nephews—entire branches of our family in seconds.
We were displaced twice. Everything was gone—home, safety, routine, rest.
A few weeks later, I gave birth to our daughter. There was no crib, no celebration—not even stillness. But she arrived, quietly and beautifully. In her eyes I saw something I hadn’t felt in weeks: life that still wanted to grow.
Now, our days are shaped by decisions that could dismantle the future we are trying to build together.
Today, Israel’s government is discussing plans for a full military occupation of the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City and southern regions. The stated aim: to eliminate Hamas and later hand governing control to allied Arab forces—not Israel—but with no clear path to peace or normalcy.
The humanitarian fallout is devastating. More than 61,000 Palestinians have died in this war; hunger and malnutrition are rising sharply. Hospitals in north Gaza have shut down, and 193 people have now died of starvation, nearly half of them children.
Aid remains blocked, water is scarce, and many risk dying of hunger or disease long before future promises arrive.
We Don’t Know What Comes Next
There’s no clear path forward—only uncertainty for our daughter’s life and our ability to survive another day.
My name is Nadin, and I’m a mother from Gaza.
How You Can Help
I’m asking for support—not for comfort, but for survival:
Help us meet basic needs so we can breathe, heal, and preserve a world for our daughter.
Support us as I try to stand again on my own feet—even a glimmer of stability matters.
If you’ve read this far, thank you. If you can give—thank you. If you can’t—just sharing this post is a lifeline I will never forget.
Three loves. One week. DEMO OUT NOW. It's completely free!🎄
Summary
Get entangled with all 3 romantic options (your recent ex and current flatmate, the sexy musician-next-door, and your estranged first love); wade right into the deep end of the Christmas chaos.
With 45min of gameplay, branching paths, cozy introspective vibes, and beautiful art, it's the perfect demo for the season! Play it now on Steam!
Feed the algorithm gods:
Play the demo, leave a review
Wishlist the full game
Share it with friends <3
Team
@crxwes, Maria, Silvia, Naz and @fienyx , @princetongirl818, @kathaeris
Steam, Itch.io and the banning of explicit and LGBT+ Content. What can we do?
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With no warning, Itch.io, a site where many host their indie games, comics, books and more, has started purging and shadowbanning explicit and LGBT+ works. Creators got no warning. And if they were still owed payouts from these works, Itch.io is saying they won't give them their money as they 'broke the rules'. Rules that were only just set in place, with no warning, and therefore no way for creators to try and draw out their money or delete these 'offending' works before they got banned under the new rules.
So Itch.io has been the most recent to fall to the demands of a group that's been contacting Visa and Mastercard and convincing them to threaten sites/businesses with 'stop selling what we consider to be explicit content on your sites of we'll stop allowing your site to have transactions with Visa and Mastercard'. Steam folded, and now Itchio has too. And a reminder earlier this year Gumroad also stopped allowing explicit content, further back than that Patreon banned some kinks and fetishes even if it's depicted in fiction not real life, and I don't have to explain to you guys the great Tumblr explicit content ban of 2018.
And as always remember this doesn't stop with sexually explicit work as LGBT+ stories and people are often labelled as explicit and already we're seeing works being taken off Itch.io that are about LGBT+ and especially trans stories. Other non-sexually explicit works I've seen already getting shadowbanned, delisted or deleted are SFW games featuring furries/anthros, SFW dress up games (because when you take the clothes the model is nude), and the aforementioned SFW games that include LGBT+ characters and stories.
I'm compiling here information I've seen around various social medias, mostly Bluesky, because I haven't seen all these things shared over here.
I don't personally have explicit content on itch, but I had been considering one day selling things on there and I do currently have explicit content on my Patreon, my main source of income, and am terrified that Patreon is going to fold next (if anyone knows alterative for hosting audio content behind a paid subscription service please let me know so I can start maybe making a back-up in case the worst happens). Because for me personally if Patreon goes next, it's not like I can go out and easily get another job. Not only because in general finding and getting a job is difficult enough, but I'm autistic and have chronic pain and have been constantly getting sick or new pains over the last few years and don't feel safe being trans in the UK right now and all of that combined rules me out of a lot of jobs and makes me feel unsafe to apply to any. I'm so grateful I've been able to make a community around my work, but if Patreon caves next and I just leave my SFW posts on Patreon... 10% of my Patreons are signed up to the SFW tier, 90% are signed up to the explicit tier... I know if Patreon caves I will go from someone living comfortably who's searching to move out of my parents so I can live in a safer environment to someone who can no longer even afford the rent I pay to my parents. I'll try and get an alterative found and set up in case that happens and I can only hope you guys will follow me to whatever other site I have to set up... but it feels unlikely that people will get a whole new account on a whole new payment provider just to support me on a website they might never have heard of...
But what can we do right now?
A petition you can sign (international but you do have to give your name, email, and postal/zip code):
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
Get calling:
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
MasterCard (UK): 0800 964 767
Mastercard (International.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 / 1-800-VISA-911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
Visa (UK) : 0800 891 725 or use their international call collect +1 303 967 1096
Visa (International): (call collect - it costs them $): +1-303-967-1096
PayPal (US): 1-888-221-1161
PayPal (UK): 0800 358 7911 from landline, +44 203 901 7000 mobile
PayPal (International): 1-402-935-2050
(numbers gathered from these posts X X X )
Don't know what to say on the phone? Here's a script written by timidtanuki:
Creators have had their work removed off Itch.io with no warning and since it's been removed for 'breaking the rules' (rules that were suddenly in place with no warning) they aren't entitled to get their payouts. Just like other sites such as Youtube and Twitch and Etsy, Itch.io hold onto money from their users in a wallet and then give them payouts. So there is money creators have made, are owed, that Itch.io is not giving to them.
People are recommending that if you still have works on Itch.io to turn down the revenue sharing to 0% so that Itch.io no longer takes a cut or your money if you no longer want to support Itchi.io finically but don't want to remove your works from their platform. X
Other Bluesky posts and calls to action I've seen:
radiantg.bsky.social is asking for anyone on Itch.io who got their game deindexed, removed , or payouts turned off to reach out to them (espeically if you make explicit and/or LGBT+ games) for a piece of journalism about what is happening.
sleepyhart.bsky.social is making a thread of all the games that Itch.io has censored/removed from their site search function. Obviously be aware this will include 18+ only games, games with sexual content and other dark or heavy themes.
thetransfemininereview.com wants you to reach out to them if you're a trans creator on Itch.io who is being affected by this so they can make an accurate report. they say 'authors' in their post and I'm unsure if they also want game devs to reach out.
dropdownbear.bsky.com wants you to reach out if you have purchased things on Itch.io that you can now no longer access because of this ban. they can include them in a report being filed with the Australian Consumer Commission as this may be a violation of Australian Consumer rights. If you are Australian you can no longer access things you purchased of Itch.io you can report directly with this guide.
It's a scary time for adult creators and sex workers. It's a scary time to be trans. Support creators. And if anyone knows of any alternate payment providers that allow explicit work, and/or alternate websites to Itch (and in case things get worse, also give me Patreon alternates please) where people can host, sell and/or offer paid subscriptions to writing, images, videos, audios, games and more please leave them in the replies. And please help share this post, the posts I'm linking too, and any other resources you can find.
EDIT: here's a part two of more resources, wasn't much point in adding them to this post when editing a post only changes it on my blog and not on any reblogs. which also means most people won't see this edit either, but i figured i'd but it in here in case because it does change it on your 'liked' version of the post so if anyone was saving the post for later in your likes you might see this edit.
Please enjoy this cute sapphic comic about accidentally adopting a werewolf from the pound based on this post. (Except I made it gay.) Meet Sabine and Jazz as they fall in loooove.
If you enjoyed please consider donating to my Kofi! Comics are a labor of love and tips really really help me out while I'm in school!
Please enjoy this cute sapphic comic about accidentally adopting a werewolf from the pound based on this post. (Except I made it gay.) Meet Sabine and Jazz as they fall in loooove.
If you enjoyed please consider donating to my Kofi! Comics are a labor of love and tips really really help me out while I'm in school!
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