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eniko

@eniko@peoplemaking.games

Founded LGBTQ+ gamedev studio Kitsune Games with @Njord. Kitsune Tails, Super Bernie World, MidBoss, Ultra Hat Dimension, Lore Finder. Also: Coding History on YouTube. She/her. Dutch, former US greencard holder, now living in Cyprus. You can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko

I do bad things to code

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eniko , to random
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the fans really wanted this, and who are we to say no to them? please enjoy: buttsliding

you can wishlist kitsune tails and find more info at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

yuzu kitsune tails slides down a hill, knocking over a pangolin and two beetles in the process. she skids across the flat plane and slightly up a hill, before sliding back down and stopping

eniko , to random
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trying to lure more gamedevs from twitter and bluesky to mastodon so if you have active accounts there, you may wanna share these:

twitter: https://twitter.com/Enichan/status/1806239679047504218

bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/eniko.bsky.social/post/3kvvewx6itp2h

eniko , to random
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So Mozilla, a privacy focused browser company, just bought an advertising company? Did I get that right? Did a company with a focus on privacy just buy another company where the business model can only really succeed if privacy is destroyed?

Cause that seems pretty fucking sus to me

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if you're disappointed by zelda not getting a sword in her new game might i suggest giving kitsune tails a look because we have a literal disaster sword lesbian in the main cast: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

eniko , to random
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so we all agree the "AI" folks all use the phrase "the open web" as a pseudonym for "if they didn't want us to scrape it they shouldn't have made it publicly available, so whats a copyright?"

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@eniko I guess I will never not recommend Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ):

Web-scraping is good, actually.
Scraping to train machine-learning models is good, actually.
Scraping to violate the public’s privacy is bad, actually.
Scraping to alienate creative workers’ labor is bad, actually.

Companies like Clearview will tell you that scraping is legal under copyright law. They’ll tell you that training a model with scraped data is also not a copyright infringement. They’re right.

If they [AI companies] were being truthful, they’d say, “There’s no way to use copyright to fix AI’s facial recognition problems, that’s something we need a privacy law to fix.”
If they were being truthful, they’d say, “There’s no way to use copyright to fix AI’s labor abuse problems, that’s something we need labor laws to fix.”

— https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/

eniko , to random
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you learn something new every day in #GameDev

so in kitsune tails we put in a mode for beginners at platformers (or people who just don't have the time to feel frustrated at games anymore) where if you die you respawn immediately floating on a little cloud that despawns after a couple of seconds. you know, kinda like old coop arcade games

what nobody on our team expected was that a common problem for beginners would be not knowing that the cloud can be steered around to fly you to safety, leading to complaints that jumping off the cloud just killed you again and softlocks the game

just goes to show how much understanding game mechanics comes down to prior experience with games with similar mechanics

(anyway we're gonna put a short prompt on screen telling people they can fly around on the cloud)

#KitsuneTails #PixelArt #IndieGame #QueerGames

yuzu kitsune tails walking into a pit, then flying back up on a cloud, and using it to reach a higher platform before it despawns out from under her

eniko , to random
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Kitsune Tails has a release date! As just announced on Wholesome Direct, our Mario-like featuring queer fox girls will be coming to Steam and itch.io (Windows, Linux) on August 1st, 2024!

Wishlist or try the demo now on Steam at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or find more info at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

eniko , to random
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it's only called copilot+ pc in the redmond, washington region of the USA, otherwise it's just sparkling spyware

eniko , to random
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Big news: Kitsune Tail's Steam Next Fest demo is live now! Go get it at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 and experience the first part of this queer furry love triangle wrapped in an SMB3 jacket

You should definitely check the options. There's a CRT shader in Kitsune Tails made by @JoshJers which isn't on by default (because people get upset by that kinda thing) but playing with it on is totally the recommended experience

And for those of you who have Steam Decks, we've verified it works on that, too! And there's a new reveal trailer, showing off some of the bosses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBcm5fagUU

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

eniko , to random
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power randomly blew out in half the house and i had to system restore my laptop but that's fine it's not like i had ANYTHING IMPORTANT TO DO TODAY

eniko OP ,
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Anyway I think it's okay now but that was VERY SCARY and I did not like it

eniko , to random
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a friend of mine told their classmate about kitsune tails with "what if lesbian shork mario" and the classmate was like "holy shit send me the link" and it really just sells itself doesn't it?

anyway here's the link: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

lesbian shork mario runs across the water surface in a tropical island setting at great velocity

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kitsune tails is officially feature complete

i am taking time off until monday

eniko , to random
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If you come into my mentions saying there are bigger problems than covid and treating it like a flu isn't the end of the world you will be aggressively told to educate yourself on the realities of covid (https://covidsafetyforschools.org) with a minimum of 8 slides from that course and if you then keep minimizing covid to me you will be blocked

The slides will show that an order of magnitude more children are hospitalized from covid than flu, that it kills way more than an order of magnitude people than flu does, that it's a vascular illness not a respiratory illness like the flu, which causes significant long term increases in potentially fatal cardiovascular events, that it causes likely irreversible neuron fusing which causes cognitive impairment, that it causes IQ drops cumulative with each infection, and that it greatly increases risk of developing alzheimer's and parkinson's disease

TL;DR if you're a covid minimizer and you like to follow me I highly suggest you keep it to your fucking self

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For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well

yuzu kitsune tails, a purple haired fox girl, picks up samurai armor in a tower that's rapidly filling with lava. she jumps away from the rising lava and sticks her spear in the wall, doing a dashing twirl to get on top of it. she walks off the spear and into a new scene, fighting a ghost fox with armor and spear. it stabs and she jumps over, but is caught by a follow up stab. the ghost fox over extends and its ghostly powers wane, giving yuzu a chance to bop on its head

eniko , to random
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The problem with outsourcing your chat or forum to third parties is that you don't own them. That is correct

The problem with self hosting those things yourself is that 1. nobody will use them because why aren't you just using this 3rd party app that everyone is already using and 2. have fun doing your own spam control

Seems like a bit of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation if you ask me

eniko OP ,
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Like yeah sure hosting all your own stuff is great in principle but let's take gamedev, something I am particularly familiar with

If I host my games on my own site browsers like Chrome will scream "this is a file that isn't regularly downloaded ARE YOU SURE??" at anyone who tries to download them, with a very scary interface. There's jack and also shit I can do about this. So most lay people just... won't download my games from my own site

I then also need to sign my binaries which is bullshit to start with but if I put my games on Steam or itch and people use their launchers it's always fine

I also also do not receive any of the passive traffic afforded to me by those platforms so slash the proportion of people who manage to download and run my games again by a factor of 1000 because of lack of discoverability

So in summary you should definitely self host video games if you wanna make sure literally nobody will ever play them

eniko OP ,
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Like yeah it would be cool if we could all just self host all our stuff and have full control over all of it but unfortunately we do, in fact, live in a society. And there are many interlocking systems arrayed against self hosting and just telling people to do it anyway will never succeed unless something is done about those systems

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