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HOTEL_CATHODIA, v0.1

hello, little birds. i've missed you

so here's something. dug this up after having started it a couple years ago and left it to collect dust. A twine project-- a hotel, located in the same world as a much earlier work of mine, Circadia. i spend a lot of time in this world, and have wanted to take you back to it for a long while. it's one of those 'liminal spaces' the kids are into, insofar as suc...

"Get Digging" - A Kitty Horrorshow Theatrical Showcase

hello little birds! apologies for the long silence, a proper update coming soon, but I wanted to post quickly to let you know about something exciting. one of our very own little birds, the excellent Rosa Marouane, is hosting a showcase of KH games to be shown at the Rio Theatre in Dalston, London THIS SUNDAY at 1:00 PM (GMT+1)! the whole thing is to act as a fundraiser, and all the necessary details can be found here:

2024-04-19 02:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post

September Update (the Unity debacle)

Hello, little birds.  I've missed you terribly and hope you've all been well.

No moody video or fancy image for this one, because I needed this to be timely and there's a whole lot to say.

The thrust of this update is that I've been forced to stop using Unity after ~8 years as an almost entirely Unity-based developer.  Some of you who pay attention to game development circles may know why that is, but for those of you who don't, 2023-09-15 01:11:10 +0000 UTC View Post

End of 2022 Update

here's to the next one

built on the corpse of the last

where with hope and luck, flowers will grow

hummingbirds will feed

roots will drink

and a few more wraith-wrapped cities will fall from my lips

thank you for all you do for me, little birds

thank you so, so much

♥

A Hundred Lonely Houses (plus October Update)

i was approached by a dreaming machine, who pressed herself against me and slipped her wrist into my hand, and together we began to compose

which is to say, ya girl got into the Dall-E 2 beta a couple months ago.  so here's a thing I put together!  an unguided photo-tour of the sweet, uncanny suburbs and residences of nightworld.  all the images included in the attachment were generated by Dall-E 2.  fine food for long minutes of nocturnal staring to the tune of sof...

PHANTOM_HOUSE, July 2022

"Living Room"

you probably deserve this

it's been too long, little birds.  thank you all for sticking with me for as long as you have.  this game is not the larger thing that I've been working on and previewing in my updates.  this is a new, short thing that I started making because I had to.  'expression' in the sense of something lanced and drained.

the honest truth is, I hate this game.  I hate how it feels, I hated worki...

FIRST GROTTO - Collab with Rolf Nowotny

hello, little birds ♥

here's something special and unique for you: recently I was contacted by installation artist Rolf Nowotny (a little bird, as it happens!), who asked me to collaborate on an installation that he would come to call FIRST GROTTO, an examination of homes and their sometimes pernicious parasitism.  I was and still am elated to have been part of this project, it is ABSOLUTELY my jam, and installation art is something I've always wished I could engage with more. 2022-07-11 19:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Pardon Our Dust

Just wanted to post this quick update to alert all of you to a couple things.  It's possible that some of you who use Discord and have it hooked in with your Patreon account may have just now noticed that you'd suddenly joined and then left a server.  That was my fault-- while working to integrate the Discord server I'm making with this Patreon, I was not aware that the bot would instantly add everyone of each tier to the server even as it was being worked on.  So apol...

Update - April

wounded, tired wings begin rising once again toward the sky

it feels so nice to be walking hallways again

guiding doors into place

whispering stories into the walls

and i have so much for us to do and see together

i trust all of you more than any other community i've ever encountered, but just the same, moderators will be needed to help keep things as kind and loving and safe as possible.  if you're interested in becoming a moderator for a discord server and...

Update - March

boards and angles move together

walls, dancing, circle and close

lights and wires find each other

it feels good to be this close again

to showing you something new

something with many doors

like it says in the video, please comment with suggestions

ways i can be more present to you all

and thank you, as always, for everything

i love you

♥

Update - December

i am still here

though the word has changed its meaning

and i am not done

you are greatly loved and missed

thank you so much for everything this year

the next will be better, won't it?

so many houses waiting to be walked

i love you, little birds

thank you

♥

BROKEN_CITIES, April 2021

Decommissioned City #65

you have a job to do

it's been a long time, little birds.  both for a BROKEN_CITIES and for... just.  anything really.  you've all been so patient at a very difficult time in my life and I'll never be able to thank you enough.

this project is something I've been trying to chip away at for several months, in the midst of serious issues with depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue (plus a certain global pandemic ...

Update - April

i hate these long silences

i'm trying to do better

i want to be worthy of your kindness

let's listen to the wind together

thank you for staying with me

i love you, little birds

♥

Update - December

things are beginning to move, even in the cold

thank you all so much for everything (as usual)

you're wonderful

and there's something in your eyes today

i love you, little birds

♥

Update

i love you, little birds

♥

September Update

hello, little birds.  i miss you and love you and hope you're all doing well.

anxiety's running pretty high today so I'm going to keep this brief, but i wanted to at least touch base and let you all know i'm still hanging on.  a lot of 'can't do it' days these past couple months, a lot of projects started and scrapped, but i'm working on something now that i've managed to stay interested in and hope to have out in the next week, in some state or other, for all you darling robi...

"Grandmother's Garden" ($1000 Milestone Game!!)

hello, little birds!

so, remember that time, a good while back, seriously like I think almost two years ago, when you all got me to my milestone goal of $1,000 a month?  and how it was such an incredible and momentous thing, and I promised to make a very particular and special game for all of you as a reward for it?

well.  that game was fuck-awful.  seriously, I spent months trying and ditching and trying again REALLY hard to make that game, but the idea was just so...

PHANTOM_HOUSE, April 2019

"Tenement"

we're all here for different reasons

hello, little birds.  I've missed you so much

i'm really not sure what to say here.  nothing seems adequate.  things have stayed rough-- depression, anxiety, hormone adjustments, being made to go off meds, going back ON meds, all sorts of stuff.  some days I'm so tired I can barely think straight.  but all that said, I do think I'm finally starting to get back to some kind of b...

Happy New Year, Little Birds <3

Hello, little birds!  I hope you've all been having wonderful winter seasons so far, wherever you are and whatever you like to do in these months. 

As I write this, there is just over an hour left of the year 2018 A.D.  It has been... a challenging one.  For me, and I imagine for many of you as well.  Things just seem to be getting tougher, don't they?  But as difficult as things have sometimes been, there's also a great deal to wonder at and be thankful fo...

Back to it!

hello little birds!!

well, after however many weeks it's been (about 94 if my math is right), I think I'm ready to bring my self-imposed vacation to an end and get back to work.  it turns out I'm actually pretty miserable at relaxing, but I'm definitely in a better place than I was, and I'm ready to shake off the cobwebs and get the gears turning again.  it'll probably take me a little bit to bring all my systems back online but I'm aiming to have everything back on schedule here in ...

I need your help

hello, little birds.  hope you've been keeping warm and well

so... this is a post I've been putting off for a while, and it's not one I'm happy to have to make.  those of you who follow me on twitter may have noticed that I logged on just a bit ago in order to ask for some help.  currently I'm facing down something of a financial crisis in my personal life.  it's certainly nothing life-threatening, more just one of those times where everything's piled up or come to a head a...

PHANTOM_HOUSE, October 2017

Garden, Eternity, Shape

An island of ghosts and memories

well little birds, it's been just under two weeks since I got back from New York for No Quarter, and things have only just started to feel normal again, like it was a real thing that actually happened and is now behind me.  thank you so, so much to everyone who came out to see me, it was an honor and a pleasure to get to talk to you and spend time with you staying as far away from my own game as possi...

October/November Update

hello little birds!!  happy almost-Halloween!  it's BAT SEASON and also SKELETON SEASON as well as GHOST SEASON, all at the same time!  And you know what that means... it's really fucking loud and frightening outdoors at all times!  skeletons and bats and ghosts everywhere, destroying everything!  hooraaaay!

just wanted to post a quick update to let you all in on a few bits of news.  the first, which you may have already heard, is that one week from today I'll be ...

February Update + "Window Wraith"

hello little birds!!  how have you all been?  well, I hope!  it's been some time since i gave you all something, so here's a little game i threw together.  i had originally intended it to be a submission for FLATGAME Annual 2016, a truly lovely little game jam hosted by Llaura Dreamfeel and 2017-02-19 02:42:21 +0000 UTC View Post

ACLU Bundle

Hello, little birds.

So, in light of terrifying recent events, I've put together this bundle of games: https://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io/aclu-bundle.

The deal is that it's available until 2/10/2017, PWYW with a $1 minimum, and all proceeds will be donated to the ACLU .

I know I ask you all for a lot, and you do more for me than I coul...

Quick Update

hello, little birds.  i hope you're doing well <3

just wanted to post a quick update to let you all know  where things are at right now.  without going in to details, things on the mental/emotional front are worse than they've been in quite a while, which is making things very difficult.  i'm trying to keep busy, since often that's the one thing that helps me, but it's not always as easy as I'd like it to be.  November's PHANTOM_HOUSE may be a few more days yet, but...

PHANTOM_HOUSE, September 2016

"Gloompuke"

three floating islands filled with magic and teeth and friendship

hello again little birds!  first of all, once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL NEW PATRONS!  the outpouring of support in the past couple of months has been tremendous and it means more to me than you can know.  as promised, here's this month's Phantom_House, specially available to all patrons regardless of tier.  next month's game will once again be available to...

September Update

hello little birds!

been a good while since I put out a general update, so I figured I'd post one to let you all know a bit about how things have been lately.  first things first, to all of my new Patrons: WELCOME, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH!  a fair few of you have joined in over the past couple of months, and I'm so glad to have you, it means so much!

unfortunately, although a good number of new patrons have joined in, a fair number of them have left as well, and at the mom...

New Twitter account!

hello little birds!  just in case any of you might have missed it, here's a quick update to let you all know that i've started a second twitter account-- it's the ongoing inner-monologue of a Silent Hill protagonist named Katherine!  just a bit of a fun side-project i had the idea for and realized how much fun it would be!

follow her here:  https://twitter.com/HarloweKat

take care little birds, mama...

To All Prospective New Patrons:

Hello, little birds!

First of all, thank you so much for your interest in my work!  It means a great deal to me that you should find yourself here-- to have even made it this far implies a level of support, or at least curiosity, for which I am very grateful.

The purpose of this post is to shed light on a change of policy that is new to Patreon, and which affects my personal Patreon page.  If you were to attempt to become a patron of mine from this day forwar...