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🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪

@vivpretzle.itch.io

๑ smells like tent fabric and funfetti cake 🍰 ๑ they/she // viet // ace 🔞 ๑ indie media ringmaster 🎩 ๑ script editor/QA for indie games 🖊️

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Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪@vivpretzle.itch.io · 2d ago

While I finish catching up on some old project work, I'm planning out an article series on Big Top Indies that highlights demos/upcoming titles from indie game devs. Drop your current WIP project in the comments below. Early Access counts, too! 🚫 NO AI ALLOWED 🚫

🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪@vivpretzle.itch.io · 4d ago

it really fucking sucks that there are talented people I know who have caved in to the AI ways and now sound like a whole bunch of stupid. I can't imagine getting a good night's rest if I was okay with phrases like "worked with different prompts" coming out of my mouth. gross. disgusting. vile. 🤮

🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪@vivpretzle.itch.io · 6d ago

The best way I can describe the goal of Big Top Indies is "the digital equivalent of an old-timey pizza/ramen shop with one item only and it's just one old woman who makes every order by hand and delivers it to you directly from her flame-resistant palms"

🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪@vivpretzle.itch.io · last wk.

I guess while I'm on here I might as well do some word vomit, and if it reaches even one of you I'll be content. Bluntly speaking, I started Big Top Indies because I want to be a reason (if not THE reason) a creative doesn't give up on their work before they get the Big Spotlight.

🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪@vivpretzle.itch.io · last wk.

Hope everyone's been doing well 💖 I'm still staying mostly offline, investing in myself (personal projects and overall health), and taking things slow. I still think of the dear friends I have here. You know who you are. Thanks for being here. You make a positive difference in this world. 😊

🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪@vivpretzle.itch.io · 2w ago

idk about you all but I'd rather have an artist friend who spent 14 hours hunched over their canvas like a gremlin painting a fish because their uncle was a fisherman and he had a wild obsession with sardines then ever THINK about using or consuming media with genAI.

autumn rain@slitherpunk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the thing about "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding" is that these games exist and are out there and you have to make the conscious choice to seek them out instead of just expecting the big companies to deliver this

🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪@vivpretzle.itch.io · 4mo ago

NEW BIG TOP ARTICLE IS UP! 🎪 This column is dedicated to my fellow game devs who take their silly little ideas in their heads and serve it to us on the silver platter that is the visual novel genre. Love you all. 🥰💕

Big Top Indies@bigtopindies.com · 4mo ago

🔒 VISUAL NOVEL VAULT 1: UNLOCKED 🗝️ We have a tremendous love for VNs here at the Big Top Indies circus, so we've dedicated a column just for our favourites! Tantalizing artwork, tear-jerking storylines, fantastical characters (and foes!) - we love them all! Here's our first batch of games. Enjoy!

🤡 Viv, Clown Jewel 🎪@vivpretzle.itch.io · 4mo ago

Psychological Horror ✅️ Meiri Games Game ✅️ 🏳️‍🌈 ✅️ I am SOLD

Meiri Games 🎮🇧🇷 Game Dev / Queer Games@meiri.itch.io · 4mo ago

[ANNOUNCEMENT] My angsty BL game about dating your dead boyfriend's ghost, One Last Goodbye, is now out for FREE! ✨Psychological horror/romance(?) ✨Queer cast, NB demisexual protag 🏳️‍🌈 ✨Choices, multiple endings ✨Ghost Yaoi!!!!! meiri.itch.io/one-last-goo... #VNDev #yaoi #boyslove #queer