This was an adorable, light-hearted game. I'm relatively quiet during the stream because there wasn't a ton in the game that was... revelatory? But I'm particularly fond of the art direction and implementation.

This was part of my game studio's Future Proof Plays series of streams. Check out our upcoming schedule and our entire set of archives (including my partner's streams) over on YouTube. Follow me over on Twitch to watch my streams live.

Button City: https://www.buttoncitygame.com/
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/averymd
Mastodon: https://irrsinn.life/@melissa

Music album "Petal" by Broke For Free
Available at https://brokeforfree.bandcamp.com/album/petal
Used with permission

CW: The game contains scenes including deaths and children experiencing murder. Alcohol abuse, sexual assault, prostitution, violence and offensive language.

This was a weird one. First: it has the best knees in video games, hands down. Second: it gets shocking towards the end of the stream when it switches formats of storytelling and gets kinda graphic in its descriptions of harm and death. The game is (according to the devs) about storytelling, and I begin to see some of what they're trying to do in that back half, but I wish the beginning had been a bit tighter in getting to the thesis.

This was part of my game studio's Future Proof Plays series of streams. Check out our upcoming schedule and our entire set of archives (including my partner's streams) over on YouTube. Follow me over on Twitch to watch my streams live.

Welcome to Elk: https://www.welcometoelk.com/
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/averymd
Mastodon: https://irrsinn.life/@melissa

Music album "Petal" by Broke For Free
Available at https://brokeforfree.bandcamp.com/album/petal
Used with permission

CW: death, blood, needles, dead bodies; discussions of cancer, suicide, and transphobia.

This game was phenomenal. It has such a care for death and the people involved, and such a distaste for capitalism. On top of being educational, it's visually beautiful and narratively hopeful. If it strikes your fancy in the first few minutes, pause the stream and go play it! It's in several of the huge itch.io bundles.

This was part of my game studio's Future Proof Plays series of streams. Check out our upcoming schedule and our entire set of archives (including my partner's streams) over on YouTube. Follow me over on Twitch to watch my streams live.

A Mortician's Tale: http://laundrybear.com/a-morticians-tale
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/averymd
Mastodon: https://irrsinn.life/@melissa

Music album "Petal" by Broke For Free
Available at https://brokeforfree.bandcamp.com/album/petal
Used with permission