im atjscreams! mostly making interactive fiction/visual novels but enjoy lots of types of games. i have work in Baffling Magazine, Freezeray Poetry, In A Flash, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2 and was a former staff writer for Autostraddle. #SpecFic #Horror #Poetry #InteractiveFiction #IntFic #VisualNovel #GameWriting #IndieGameDev
black, autistic, traumatized void. (they/them)
games: https://wenotfreeyet.itch.io/
newsletter: https://buttondown.com/black-final-boi
"This destruction reveals not only the brutality of war, but also a long-standing neglect of the importance of digital archiving and the use of technical advances to preserve documents and archives. This neglect threatens to lose a history that could have been documented for the present and built upon for the future."
#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #TalkAboutSudan #EyesOnSudan #Archive #Archiving
may's newsletter is up: https://buttondown.com/black-final-boi/archive/things-i-care-about-right-now-2/
Running all year long! The *third* Forever Open Source game jam. Come contribute not just games (though we love games!) but SRDs, art, music, settings, anything that helps people create or play TTRPGs! Explore a world of open gaming:
https://itch.io/jam/forever-open-source-2025
Good news everybody! Life happens so the #glitchGFXjam has been extended by two weeks!
Hosted by @atjscreams and me, it is a beginner-friendly #anythingJam using the graphics from the defunct and open-sourced game Glitch!
Jam is on #itchio and originally started 3 April and now runs to 18 May!
Come make maybe a wee micro-creation with us! :D
-- :gay_cactus:
Okay, it's out.
Lena is a handmade framework for making tiny games with palette graphics.
It's software-rendered, cross-platform and comes with constraints that challenge your creativity without limiting your game's size and scope. It comes with batteries-included palette graphics, some novel palette-blending and drawing effects, a simple audio interface, text rendering, and loaders and decoders for assets. It also compiles and runs on:
🪟 Windows (Native)
🍏 macOS (Native)
🐧 Linux (via SDL3)
😖 WebAssembly (Native)
The core functionality of Lena is implemented from scratch in almost exactly 2,000 lines of Odin, and while I designed it as a fun little game jam framework for myself, I hope it can also serve as an interesting learning tool for people looking to delve deeper into low-level system and engine programming for video games.
🕹️ https://github.com/lichendust/lena
I'm releasing this as a version v0.0.0 on GitHub right now, with the hope of getting some feedback before declaring a truly API-stable 1.0.0 release.
Two weeks left of the #glitchGFXjam, the #anythingJam hosted by @atjscreams and me!
https://itch.io/jam/glitch-gfx-jam
Still plenty of time to make a smol game or ezine or whatever you can think of!
-- :gay_cactus:
buttondown was mad at me for a couple of weeks but you can look at my april newsletter now!
https://buttondown.com/black-final-boi/archive/march-and-april-i-forgot-to-send-you-march-my-bad/
Today I was looking for info about how to use prefabs in @gbstudiocentral
After figuring it out I just made a tiny tutorial about how to use them in case someone needs it:
The #glitchGFXjam has been running for a whole week!
https://itch.io/jam/glitch-gfx-jam :da_dance:
Have you got your idea(s) going yet? :3
This is month-long #anythingJam focuses on using graphics from the (defunct and open sourced) game Glitch, and is hosted by @atjscreams and me!
Beginner friendly and there's resources listed for easy ways to make your #game or #zine or #ttrpg or whatever!)
#visualNovel #hybridWriting #videoGame #indieDev #publicDomain #opensource #gameJam #glitchGFXjam #itchio
I LOVE SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT SO MUCH each moment im not playing is me remembering that its a moment closer to me being able to play
this is really about to be my personality for the next two weeks at least
Aaaaaaa, did a scary thing and made my game public on Itch! Go check it out! It's Free! It's Pre-Alpha! I think it's pretty cool! I'm using too many exclamation points!
https://xandor.itch.io/raccoons-to-riches
#gamedev #indiegamedev #solodev #indiegames #gaming #indiegames #indiegame
streaming South of Midnight and i am EXCITED
(i've even set up my lil phone so i remember to look at chat 🥹)
(boosts appreciated)
#Streaming #Stream #Nonbinary #Queer #Black #SouthOfMidnight #Gaming #Gamer #BlackGamers
Intelligame (one of my absolute favorites) is doing a discussion around #SouthOfMidnight (a game i am SO excited about) but how it was developed under the parent company of Microsoft (whom BDS says we should boycott and should) and if you, like me, are someone struggling with this especially as you want to support black game developers (who have been receiving terrible harassment even before this) you should pop in!
Time for free #UnrealEngine assets with the April 8th - 22nd Fab #gamedev asset giveaway. Although as you can see from the video exporting to #GodotEngine is also quite easy, so hoard away!
https://gamefromscratch.com/fab-april-2025-free-asset-giveaway-apr-8-april-22/
I started the #glitchGFXjam today, a day early, because I was extremely sure it started today haha
https://itch.io/jam/glitch-gfx-jam
It is a month-long #anythingJam focusing on using graphics from the (defunct and open sourced) game Glitch, hosted by @atjscreams and me!
Beginner friendly and there's resources listed for easy ways to make your #game or #zine or #ttrpg or whatever!
#visualNovel #hybridWriting #videoGame #indieDev #publicDomain #opensource #gameJam #glitchGFXjam #itchio
thanks to a donation i tried to get a ticket to this event but it didn't go through and one thing about me? a purchase don't go through? im not supposed to have it
Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
#MutualAid
#MututalAidRequest
(update)
Goal $500
Now: $115
My Venmo is https://www.venmo.com/Ayila-Bailey
Kofi is https://ko-fi.com/ayilathebailey
Thanks for the support!
please help a #disabled, #queer woman with #groceries, her phone bill, her water bill, & tax assistance. she's really been struggling to manage all her bills. anything helps!
$55/170 needed ASAP
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ourinsatiabesouls
#disability #mutualAid #MutualAidRequest #BlackMutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #autism #actuallyAutistic #neuroDivergent #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #poverty #DisabilityMutualAid #HelpRequest #HelpFolksLive2025 #payPal #canada #queerMutualAid #queerCrowdfund #bills
