So, does anyone want to run a queer games bundle of some kind this year? I'm sadly not a leader or marketing kind of a person, so I'm not fit to organize it myself, but I'd be happy to help. Workhorse stuff like vetting submissions, promotional art and materials, drafting pages and messages or such. Yes, I'm serious.
I got around making a video about my experience with some spooky queer games. There's a strong personal tangent to it since I'm a wimp who can faint at the sight of blood, but I hope you don't mind.
"Fainty wimp's dip into yuri horror."
Three queer horror games portrayed at the background: Three Lilies and Their Ghost Stories, Meat Girl and The Final Prize is Soup.
Screen shot from Yurivania 3 showing a the witch Never meeting the zombie Mirna outside a cave mouth deep in the woods. Mirna says: "I have an excellent opportunity". The pixelated scene is rendered in greens.
to elaborate: i went without heating for the last 2 years of kitsune tails production. we have enough to run the heating now, but if you want to play gay fox girl SMB3 and help ensure the heating stays on, you can get it on sale now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260/
I'm a fan so far. Both the gameplay and the story are fun and the pacing is great. It's not an easy combo to pull off, but Kitsune Tails feels very solid. Excited to play more.
Tier Gamma Yuri Ship, our Yuri Jam game from last year, made it to the shortlist of the Queer Games Festival. That's a huge positive surprise! We worked super hard on it, so it's nice to see it get recognition.
Shout-out to
@mxashlynn for joining Mastodon. She's the developer of the Yurivania game series and used to post a lot of interesting gamedev content on Cohost before it shuttered. She's cool, so it would be nice if you could give her a follow or boost her a bit!
Additional features include the ability to swap characters after finishing the game and in-game timers for speedrunners which can be enabled in the options menu.
to celebrate hitting overwhelmingly positive in under a week and all the nice things people have said like kitsune tails being the PC's answer to SMB3, we've made a new trailer! it also showcases some of the cool things our community has been doing. please enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9uaIPrJghE
Speaking of #RetroGaming, Kitsune Tails by
@eniko is out and it's a really good retro-style game that you should play if you like cute gay things and also like platforming games.
It's basically like if there was a parallel universe where Nintendo kept doubling down on the mechanics of Super Mario Bros. 3 for a while, got less weird about both girls and gays, and eventually made a super polished followup to it.
Anyways I beat Kitsune Tails' main plotline tonight and it was very good. It took me a total of about 7 hours according to steam, with two competing caveats:
I'm an ex-speedrunner and kind of ex-kaizo Mario player, but
That means I played it on the hardest difficulty and spent a lot of time doing ridiculous things to try (and mostly fail) to avoid doing things the way you're supposed to.
So I dunno how that compares to other people. But it was fun all the way through and the story was great and also even surprising! For the most part, when it was frustrating it was frustrating in a fun way.
I also really rarely finish games these days, so this is something special.
10/10. I think it deserves to be taken as seriously as Celeste, honestly. Go play it please. The first world is available as a demo if you're not sure!
Kitsune Tails is OUT NOW!! Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.
we're a small underfunded team with a majority queer developers, and while we're punching way above our weight class we need the support of our community if this game is going to be a success. please boost this post, and if you can afford it buy it on steam and leave a positive review on the first day (the text doesn't matter, only the thumbs up, so "i like gay fops" is totally valid as a review)
i also want to prove fedi is powerful enough to make an indie game succeed, so even if you're not personally that into the game, please boost this post? 🙏
my review for the new Mario-like called Kitsune Tails is posted to my channel! it's an adorable platformer that's hella worth your time and a great excuse to support a queer indie title. it releases tomorrow!
until kitsune tails dances onto steam and itch and into your heart. wishlist our queer furry mario game or find out more at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
until kitsune tails bounces onto steam and itch like a bird riding a giant boot but then leaving it during a jump like a sacrificial yoshi (... these are becoming a bit hard to write ok? 😭)
Dark Yuri Visual Novel A Tithe in Blood is out now
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The Kickstarter for Studio Élan's magical girl yuri visual novel Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery is live
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Yuri Vampire Visual Novel Cage of Roses is out on Steam and Itch
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Demo Release: The Songbird Guild, a yuri magical girl RPG/Visual Novel hybrid by YuriSoft
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The Melbourne Queer Games 2024 Festival is open for submissions until August 23, 2024 ( files.mastodon.social )
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