Notices by Taylor McCue (taylormccue@mastodon.social)

I'm sorry I was having mental health issues this week.

Due to that there aren't any updates this week.

See you all next week.

I'm sorry everyone, I have less to show this week this week than I'd like.

I'm currently working on prototyping out the basic gameplay functionality as the story comes together.

I know it's not much to look at but I'll be back next week with more.

@HauntedOwlbear @RoseThorndyke

So like someone who is like "oh no I'm not human anymore help!" (is still human society just doesn't see them that way and they're suffering for it)

rather than like "wow I have cool tentacles" : ) : ) : )

@RoseThorndyke I can't tell if they are picking it as some kind of meme joke option or if they're 100% deadly serious.

If they're serious then the question is, do they mean tentacle monster or like just someone who is eldritch or some spectrum of the two?

Today Wednesdays released.

It's a game about trauma which you can play here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/Wednesdays/

https://artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays

If you liked HFTGOOM or have any interest in games about trauma I encourage to give this game a try.

Thank you.

Once a week update.

Tried images from twine in a slightly different theme hoping that social networks don't eat them.

Lately I've been thinking does anyone even want to play a trans apocalypse game but at the same time I just want to finish a new game so anything is fine.

@HauntedOwlbear I feel like cisgender people just going crazy and evil is a kind of underrated type of zombie apocalypse.

Anyways I hope that I didn't upset you or make you feel super bad to see it. This is kinda meant to be a zombie-ish game as an excuse for combat.

@HauntedOwlbear Congratulations on getting hormones. That's super awesome.

I had a really bad problem with doom scrolling and I feel so hopeless being stuck in Florida so I kinda wanted to write on that in a hypothetical fiction world.

I think hyper vigilance is like hell idk.

My game is kinda like a trans spiritual sequel to "The ScrewFly Solution" which you can read about here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution

Last minute once a week post. ._.

I'm making progress on the next game and storyboarding. I've figured out some coding stuff that was giving me trouble but that's hard to show off in a post.

See you next week everyone!

Content warning: depicts a debate on killing all trans people

@HauntedOwlbear OMG HI OWL! It's really nice to hear from you before I wander back into the void.

I actually did a lot of writing but I don't want to spoil my game before it's kinda ready for that.

How are you?

Hey everyone, I'm really really depressed so I don't have much to show.

I just wanted to post anything today so that one week didn't turn into two weeks and then silence.

I'm trying to design a main character form for prototype draft.

Weekly update, I rewrote my games script a little, did some UI coding that isn't fully ready to show off, and did two small comic strips for a small zine I'm making.

I don't have much that's ready to be "shown off" but I still want to keep up weekly updates. See you next week.

@octade I made the jump on two websites to unfollowing people and it seemed to go well.

It took a lot of time to archive my followers list by hand but it turned out to be useful.

I think I'm going to do it here too.

@octade Thank you, it was the right choice in the end and I've gained back a lot of time.

Thank you OCTADE!

@octade Its the information overload that is getting to me.

As a game developer I'm trying to post progress once a week.

What happens is then I end up obsessively reading everyones stuff on my feeds and getting emotionally upset often.

@octade @renkotsuban Thank you, I am planning on waiting 24+ hours and then maybe doing that.

I use cold turkey to block social media during my work time but sometimes when I need to have it open like for releasing a new game/translation I've looked at the damage it's done to me and questioned why I keep these feeds up at all.

@renkotsuban I appreciate that. For weeks now I've been kinda dreaming about like unfollowing and having the feeds stop since they're just too much at once and I can't stop scrolling once I start.

But I'm afraid of just like mass losing all the friendships here since I genuinely like chatting with people sometimes on here.

I think I'm going to wait 24 hours and if there isn't a massive amount of pushback do it.

@HauntedOwlbear Yeah, my issue is that once I start scrolling I have a lot of trouble starting unless I block it with cold turkey.

Mastodon is actually the least bad place but like twitter just breaks my brain being there and sometimes the flow of posts just leave me like crying or angry and it's not really anyones fault.

Hey everyone, how offended would you all be upset if I just mass unfollowed everyone ever on all social media?

I'm just tired of having a constant distracting feed of random thoughts, upsetting things, porn, cool stuff to spend money on, and distracting articles.

Like I really like being mutuals and having online friendships but the feeds just kinda really mess with my mental health in a bad way.

There is some stuff I want to show as progress that doesn't transfer well to being shown as progress.

I am slowly creeping towards being more regular with updates and working more consistently.

I will see you all next week.