Anna Anne Anthropy
@cyborgurl.bsky.social
👩🏻🦼🏳️⚧️💨 Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work! Banner by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social, avatar by Sarah Heng Hartse sarahdrawsacrowd.com https://cyborgurl.neocities.org/
imo not enough people are making games about how fucking miserable and toxic the current pervasiveness of gambling mechanics in the form is but i guess you don't sell as much as balatro if you outright tell the audience they're hurting themself by playing
The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...
Rebecca Heineman's source code disks for Apple II, Apple IIGS, and C64 versions of "Tass Times in Tonetown" were recently imaged at KansasFest 2026 and are now archived. Burger Becky was an incredible and beloved engineer and raconteur who we sadly lost last year. archive.org/details/tass...
This past Friday we took a look at Isaac's debut ZZT game Zombie Land! Check out the VOD at: https://youtu.be/utAMfO7lJzg #vod #zzt
And none of you stand so tall: You will dwell in Gastgedal!
a nice gift you can give yourself is to delete your flippant skweet about hank green before going to bed so you don't have to wake up to a million random dudes' thoughts about how unfairly mean you're being to hank green
perhaps the simplest and most essential role-playing game is when you make a cartoon sound effect with your mouth to accompany a physical action you're making
From the creator of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages comes Thousand Hells: The Underworld Hiests will Release September 8th. ✅️ Dynamic Narrative. ✅️ Multiple Timelines. ✅️ Steal things from Demon Lords. ✅️ Will run on a potato. store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/... ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
pebble spends her afternoons snoring very loudly in the cat tree next to my office and it reminds me of my late, beloved encyclopedia frown, also a primo snorer
announced this in my newsletter but I'm going to be speaking here!
We're SO back on our 3rd year of Chicago Indie Game Showcase (CIGS)! Join us 9/13 at the Ravenswood Event Center! CIGS is a one-day con showcasing amazing indie games from Chicago & Midwest Area. We'll also have guest speakers, DJ sets, tattoo artists, and so much more! Tickets: bit.ly/450rk88
ICYMI wrote about what might be this year’s most fitting soundtrack and how it only came to be from years of getting to know rappers
Beatdown City Survivors has one of the most fitting licensed soundtracks this year. The game makes listening to NYC's underground rap scene while playing as them just work! My latest on why, as well how it came together based on my chat w/ @shawndoublea.bsky.social: exalclaw.com/beatdown-cit...
THE BAT'S A CUTE LITTLE ANIMAL: WIGGLES ITS EARS AND EATS WORMS (Evansville Press, Indiana, January 14, 1909)
it's so awesome how trans women warned about and predicted much of what would happen years in advance and the collective response by much of the "community" was and still is isolating them or scolding them for their tone. nobody ever learns anything they just jump to save their own backs
isabel fall was right, btw: “And the moment [queer activists’] work reached a usable stage—the moment society was ready to accept plastic gender, and scientists were ready to manipulate it—the military found a new resource…the military can make gender tactical.”
this month's newsletter is out, featuring profiles of the fuzzy creatures i live with now
BRIDE OF THE TERRORDROME: JULY 2026
July 2026: Cats and CIGS.
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c showed me the opening sequence for enterprise and i was Not prepared for it
left the house for fifteen minutes and came back to this
The Human Pincushion [10:39] Personal video essay about the different coping mechanisms during grief as expressed by men and women. It focuses on the outward depiction of pain in media, manifesting as being "harpooned". #stoic #stoicism #videoessay #humanpincushion
The Human Pincushion
YouTube video by Maya Ben David
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c has started watching the prisoner with me sickos yes
the interruption of my writing by a tiny panther tearing back and forth from one end of the apartment to the other
is there a decent alternative to acrobat for reading pdfs? I'm sick of pdfs loading slow as hell because of ai features i don't use