Kylie

A story about a trans magical girl, who's catch phrase during the magical girl transformation is the Rainbow Passage

It's been way over six years since I started working on what would eventually become Virtue's Heaven. The game went through many iterations, but throughout its cursed development there was one thing that stayed the same:

Movement should be expressive and exciting.

It was born out of a deep appreciation for maximalist mid-1990s action platformers and the frustrations I had with Metroidvania games and their insistence to lock cool movement abilities behind hours of needless progression.

I wanted a game, where you could explore a larger, connected space, without requiring players to collect several wardrobes full of movement upgrades in order to for the game to feel cool to play. And so, I created the most maximalist movement system I could think of.

The part everyone keeps screenshotting from the nanowrimo post about AI is bad, but I feel like the most bizarre quote comes right after:

Classism. Not all writers have the financial ability to hire humans to help at certain phases of their writing. For some writers, the decision to use AI is a practical, not an ideological, one. The financial ability to engage a human for feedback and review assumes a level of privilege that not all community members possess.

This is nanowrimo?? Look, I've never done nanowrimo myself, but the idea that everyone is hiring proofreaders for their nanowrimo projects just seems completely and utterly out of touch with what their actual community even is. I don't understand how this would ever even occur to anyone, even knowing how far they had to stretch to justify this.