Julia Mascetti

I released my first commercial game at age 30. This is a lame take.

what a TITLE 🖤

Thank you Daisy! My collaborator @cornmandog.bsky.social came up with it 🤩

"Then when studying I used the time to make more things and try to connect with like-minded people but they all seemed posh and lazy and too busy having ideas and not making things."
Omg same 🤣🤣

I'd rather eat glass.

Are you releasing a video game this week? I'm looking for games to feature in this week's Video Games Industry Memo and open to tips 🙏

idk if it counts because we have been out on Steam since November, but we just released on itch 🤘 www.gamespress.com/en-GB/Sugar-...

I Write Games Not Tragedies - a narrative-rhythm game about British emo/goth subcultures from the early 2000s, with original music - has launched on itchio today.

(Support it on itchio)

Thank you for shouting out our game Ryan! The world needs to know what it was like to drink WKD by the river Camden in 2009 😤❤️‍🩹🖤🤘🤘

📣 I Write Games Not Tragedies, précédemment sorti sur Steam, est maintenant disponible sur Itchio :
🔗 studiowife.itch.io/i-write-game...

Acknowledgement from one of the greats of Narrative Tooling!! 👑 Thank you for the shout out Pixel Crushers, everyone should look into the Dialogue System for all of their #narrativedesign needs 🪶

Ah! Itsuki san as usual is wonderfully supportive and helps me be better: the itch page mistakenly said “available for PC and Mac.” This is not yet true! As of now, there is NO Mac version on itch but we plan to change that very soon!!
What can I say, real indies make mistakes pls forgive 🙈🙈💜💜💜

翻訳を担当した『I Write Games Not Tragedies 叫べ青春』がitch.ioでもリリースされたそうです。人生のある時期とエモを丁寧に掘り下げた胸熱ビジュアルノベルです。Macユーザー/非Steamユーザーの方もこの機会にぜひ！！！

I Write Games Not Tragedies by Studio Wife, Yotsuba Interactive Sometimes I wish all of my pain was fake

Massive news! "I Write Games Not Tragedies" is now out on @itch.io!! We're real indies now guys 🤘🤘🖤 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev
studiowife.itch.io/i-write-game...

A Unity editor? Showing something... new?
I don't wanna say "we're so back" but 🤞
#indiedev

This is one of the best lines in the game.

Making my first Steam build since December. Kinda nostalgic in a traumatising way 🥹

Listened to a podcast that disparagingly reviewed TR49 as a short story which I thought was a bit odd because, short stories are in fact great, and it absolutely is one.

The poster promotes "The Bluntly Big Weekender" charity stream with games, giveaways, and forfeits on February 21-22. Features colorful graphics and characters.

Coming soon is The Bluntly Big Weekender 🎮
A two-day charity livestream in support of LOOK UK ❤️

📅 Sat 21st – Sun 22nd Feb
🎮 FC26 | WWE 2K25 | Gears of War and more

Donation milestones unlock forfeits including the ultimate punishment: Wobbles going bald.

link in next post

Setting The Scene In Your Narrative Game @ Elevate Lowestoft This workshop is part of the Elevate:Lowestoft programme at The Fort in Lowestoft this February.

I’ll be teaching a game writing workshop in Suffolk later this month! Thanks Game Anglia for this lovely opportunity 😊
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/setting-th...

The UK videogames sector seems to be facing a duality:

On one hand, it is trying to convince investors that it's a high-growth, low-risk sector so that it raises financing.

On the other hand, it is trying to convince government that it's suffering from market failure, so it receives funding. 1/9

I'm revisiting some really old IWGNT code (like from the version we did for uni) to implement a new feature and it's SO BAD 🙈 It would almost be inspiring how much better I've gotten at #programming, only now I have to wade through this spaghetti cesspit 😭 #gamedev

Environmental storytelling: Chingford on Friday night.
Truly a rich text.

Fine I’ll learn the damn game engine 😡

Grok AI deepfake victim says UK government should have acted faster - BBC News Presenter Jess Davies says the UK government has been "dragging its feet" when creating AI deepfake laws.

Making AI adult content of someone without their consent is assault. This includes celebrities. This includes bikini pics. We need better legislation yesterday, and we CANNOT normalise this. It is assault. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"

I Write Games Not Tragedies Review (PC) The words “I feel seen” have never been more on the nose. An Elder Emo—one who still takes the oath to visit any over thirties reunion whenever the blood moon strikes—has been presented with an invita...

"The game takes pride in its ability to capture the beating heart of a phase that defined an entire country."
Chuffed that Gaming.net saw the grandiosity of my ambition _and_ gave our #indiegame an 8/10 😎
www.gaming.net/reviews/i-wr...

Save 25% on I Write Games Not Tragedies on Steam An emo-inspired narrative rhythm game exploring growing pains, addiction, romance and music. Scream with Ash as he makes the transition from baby bat to elder emo, guide him through his crash outs and...

Wouldn’t be great if an old Twitter friend made a video game about this very theme 😉 store.steampowered.com/app/3396670/...

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community

go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

Next year, I won't write a tragedy... "I Write Games Not Tragedies," seasonal depression, game dev, and the (limited) power of a new year

Oops I made a substack and wrote 2000 very personal words about “I Write Games Not Tragedies,” seasonal depression, the carol “O Holy Night,” and just… my whole game dev journey. That’s me done for 2025 now. See you on the other side 💜
open.substack.com/pub/juliamas...