Everyone's talking about WKTD and HWBM, which they're right to do because those games are very good, but I wanted to thank you for a little Twine game called "Removed" back in the day. I was barely out to myself when I played it (you were one of my very early trans Twitter follows, in the mid 00s), but it's something I've thought back on plenty of times intra-community trans stuff play out (at large and small scales) over the years.
Anyway, lots of respect for the decision to step away from social media (this applies to anyone for any reason). I hope I follow the right people who are still keeping at this posting nonsense that someday someone will point me to your future stuff, whatever form that takes.
Wow, I didn't think anyone remembered that game! Thank you for appreciating what is arguably the first game I ever released. I'm glad what it was really about was easy to pick up on despite the heady metaphorical sci-fi world. People tend to either love it or hate it when I write like this so I've been trying to write in a more grounded, dialogue-driven, interpersonal mode with more explicit clarity about the world to give readers stronger grounding.
But secretly I really like spinning dreamy and surreal worlds a lot more, so whenever someone connects with that side of my writing I find it very affirming! It gives me the feeling that even my weaknesses as a writer can be my strengths. I've even been thinking of returning to a similar setting to Removed for a future project.
Because someone in the comments asked: here's a link to Removed, a short twine game and also a short essay about the gameboy SaGa games. I find my old writing pretty embarrassing but here it is anyway!
