Mica S.

Meet The Faceless. Armed with n’owt but his own wit and a mask carved from wolfsbone, he scours the land in a bid to extinguish the darkest of terrors. Where others would hide from the darkness, this vagabond marches willingly into its inky black heart.

took me hours to make this but i'm really quite proud of it. Pixel art!

Sunny tangerines ☀️🍊🐈 #art #traditionalart #cuteart #caturday

Do monsters lurk in the darkness, or do they lurk within us? Find out in our next title — The Tūn-Gāst of Oakshaw — a top-down pixelated folk horror game. Armed with only your wits, can you uncover the secrets buried deep within Oakshaw?

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It seems we reached 3.5% of the American population protesting yesterday. What if we could get those 11 million people… ➡️ Involved in building community resilience and the infrastructure to strike - mutual aid networks, community meals and gardens, tenant unions, childcare networks, resource hubs?

I love that there is peer reviewed research calling ChatGPT bullshit so much 😭

I've never understood raging about slow traffic. You're being carried in your environmentally sealed, air conditioned, lazyboy recliner that's playing your favorite music while most often drinking a milkshake gently spiked with uppers. Calm the fuck down, ya bawling pavement princesses.

To quiet her mind before trying to go to sleep, my 10-year-old has been drawing a pile of cats--adding one new cat every night. ❤️🐈‍⬛️🐈

The air feels heavier now, you know? It's difficult to function in a world where Empathy is called a sin. Where the bad guys are winning a lot of battles. Where you find out entertainers, celebrities, coworkers, friends, and even family support making life worse for others...

The abuser’s classic playbook is to isolate you from your friends, create a sense of helplessness, make it difficult to connect with others and force you to simply think about your survival from one day to the next. We are seeing that playbook applied to the nation as a whole.

How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants. US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant. Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first. 1/16

Something I’ve heard a few times lately is some variation of “Why don’t you charge for more of your games? Why do you devalue them like that?” And like, my dudes, I’m not the one here devaluing them based on their price. Free games hold a lot of value, especially now.

The two new cats at my local animal rescue are named Catalope and Clawliflower 🥰 whoever named them deserves an award

We're running a Patreon campaign to help fund Dreamsettler, the sequel to Hypnospace Outlaw. Patrons can play a WIP build of one of Dreamsettler's minigames now, and in two weeks we're releasing Dreamsettler's Page Genie. I look forward to making silly pages together. 🌎patreon.com/Tendershoot

WRITER friends: Gaming + literature, call for submissions (March 31 deadline), with modest payment for accepted fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics, multimedia. differenceengine.sg/ftpopencall/?

We recently asked why people love to support their indie bookshop and overwhelmingly folks mentioned how these spaces build community. Thank you to all the indies that champion and help build connections within our local communities ❤️ This work is noticed and deeply appreciated!

Proud of all of you worldwide! The boycott is working—Tesla shares are now in their seventh straight week of declines, marking the company’s longest losing streak since going public in 2010. Look at the stock today—beautiful work!

if we're gonna be interrogating power fantasies in games on here I regret to inform yall that you will also need to interrogate the Productivity Fantasy that underlies nearly all sim and casual games

Finallyyyyy I knew I got Max back for a reason www.polygon.com/anime/530939...

discord users, make your voice heard and send your complaints to support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req... ! they'll need to address this or face the backlash.

Anyone who thinks ideation is a bottleneck in game design, in game development, is not qualified to be involved in or have influence over the process.

This Guardian article about RPG Maker is so wholesome www.theguardian.com/games/2025/f...

SEATTLE JUST VOTED TO ENACT A TAX ON MILLIONAIRE BUSINESSES TO BUILD SOCIAL HOUSING. Late results tend to favor left wing results, so the chance of this flipping in the coming days is near zero.

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Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month

This is a such a brilliant idea cant wait to play this www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/while...

My entry for the Sealed With A Kiss #visualnovel #gamejam - like #scifi, #romance and time travel with some WEIRD ass mechanics? Help Delilah fix the timelines and send her lover home! merrygold.itch.io/bloom-eternal #indiegame #gamedev

Closing my amazon account was such an exhilarating feeling, like oh shit but also I'm freeee

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Before playtesting: "level design should follow narrative" After playtesting:

okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES! I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books. (details below)

"You, or someone you love, have convinced yourself that your inability to use something is a sign that you’re deficient, that you’ve failed to “keep up with the times,” as if the things we use every day should be in a constant state of flux." www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Some people are mentioning self-care, and I am not knocking self-care! But I actually wrote this because I think it is incredibly important to do other-care in this moment. Connect to other people. Make their world better.

We’ve stood strong before—this time is no different. Together, we’ve got this.

Fantastic article www.polygon.com/videos/50691...

Excellent piece by @joeyschutz.bsky.social about how having a core gameplay loop is outdated...really puts into words a lot of the feelings I've been having about this trend blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-aga...

Gofundme to help the Palisades rebuild gofund.me/8a16a25e

Really appreciate so many people checking in and offering help on a day when I'm too exhausted/anxious to think straight or know what to do. Silver lining in a disaster like this #LAFires