My First Post?
2025-01-24
like many other ppl who were lucky enough to feel the brief light of Cohost.org[1] shine upon them and/or are just Old and used to make websites on Angelfire[2], i have decided to make my grand return to blogging
if you're not familar with me, you can visit the about page to learn more about my Accomplishments and Affiliations. the tl;dr is that i'm a trans game designer/programmer who also happens to enjoy writing a whole lot. if you want to play some of the games i've made, here are a few i'd recommend:
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Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure Adventure - a Bitsy approximation of the experience of playing Unviersal Studios Theme Parks Adventure (a 2001 GameCube game which approximates the Unviersal Studios Theme Parks experience[3])
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a good videogame - created for Manifesto Jam 2022, i wrote this in like an hour at 3am and then decided i needed to spend the next two days making an interactive wrapper for it. someday i hope to follow it up with "a good sequel"
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Gexfeld - have i mentioned my weird obsession with forsaken 90s videogame lizard Gex? well, if you don't already know me as "that weird gex girl", you will now
i'm still not sure what my Posting Cadence will be like (i currently have a full-time in-office IT job and a 1 year old at home) but i do have every intention to maintain this place as the most complete archive of my work. i'm even actively working on porting old blogs i've written in other places over the years, so get excited to read some Real Proper Games Writing from Teen Izzy at some point[4]
i hope you'll like rate subscribe to my RSS feed and follow me on Bluesky[5] if you're down with the vibes here in the windfucker's[6] roost. and if you're truly a sicko you could even email me if you want to collab/offer me a job/just say "hi we should be friends".[7]
i think this is a slightly deeper cut than Geocities, which has a spiritual successor in Neocities, which seems to be the webhost of choice these days. i am hosting on Nekoweb for no other reason than i like to bet on the underdog ↩︎
i have not personally been to a Universal Studios Theme Park but i did spend dozens of hours playing this GameCube game after a friend left the loose disc at my house. it is not a good videogame ↩︎
in the late 2000s i was very active on Destructoid's now defunct Community Blogs. we will see how much of that i'm brave enough to preserve ↩︎
Bluesky is my social media poison of choice at the moment, tho i must admit i am getting A Lot More Value out of checking my RSS reader every day. i wish everyone a safe and productive Year Of The Blog ↩︎
special thanks to Cohost user @spookybiscuits for gifting me the perfect title for my new website ↩︎
you would not believe how many lovely connections i have made by simply sliding into someone's DMs and being like "hey love ur work :)". highly recommend ↩︎