i will bite raw coffee beans
developing Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic, an atmospheric RPG about demons and sacrifice. game dev, wallumattagal-based. he/him🏳️🌈
biz: kurt@iwbrcb.games
- You will like my indie game if you played: - Shin Megami Tensei (1992) - Arx Fatalis (2002) - Off (2008) - Middens (2012) - The Lesser Key Of Solomon (18XX?)
- Play the Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic demo now: store.steampowered.com/app/3762960/...
- This is crazy, right after SXSW too, and in Vic which has the reputation of being more stable for games than other states. Ditto Jeremy, I really hope it can continue. I'll never forget speaking at Parallels 24.
- terrible news coming out of Freeplay. I really hope it & Parallels can continue. "Of the 81 arts organisations supported by Creative Enterprises in the 2026-2029 funding round, none are games/interactive arts organisations." (freeplay.net.au/survey2026) This is so supremely fucked
- Brand new, custom domain Bluesky handle, and new professional email address to match (kurt@iwbrcb.games). Plus other neat stuff coming soon hopefully!
- The new email address is a mirror of the old one (iwillbiterawcoffeebeans@proton.me), and the old one will continue to work indefinitely, so if you have my contact details stored somewhere already don't worry about it.
- No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
- It really sucks to see SXSW Sydney go. I attended 2023 as a student volunteer, and it was my first time meeting devs from beyond Sydney. I learned a lot from guerilla-showcasing Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic that year, it was my first brush with the good and bad in the professional world of games.
- In 2024 I showcased Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic as an exhibitor, my biggest in person showcase at the time. It came right off the back of speaking at Parallels, and my student game was showcasing at the same time, running off pure adrenaline in one of the most crowded times of my life.
- In 2025 I didn't exhibit, I dropped by after MIGW and immediately got sick, but I got to brush shoulders with luminaries of the local and global industry in the very short time I was there.
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View full thread@luellamoore.bsky.social, @peakr.bsky.social, you guys knocked it out of the park 3 years in a row. SXSW Sydney was huge for my career and practice as a game developer, and I made more friends than I can count. I still have all 3 lanyards and I'll keep them as long as I can.
- Slightly diminish a game Citizen Red @queebly.bsky.social @skullschemes.bsky.social
- In the time that I'm not spending on game development, I'm something of a birder. If you're interested in birds or avian ecology at all, you owe it to yourself to pick up @atawhaigames.bsky.social's Toroa Skycall. It's probably the best Bird Game I've ever played, in terms of Bird Gameplay.
- Steam link here: store.steampowered.com/app/2003490/...
- Writing this made me start wondering if I should just make a blog where I (infrequently) dump this kind of thing rather than yakking up a multi-post thread onto Bluesky every couple of months like a hairball. Any interest in something like that?
- People tend to ask me a lot about Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic's art style, and how I came up with it, which always surprised me. So here's a quick thread about it, riffing on these three points, because it pretty much comes down to this. 1/11
- "Quick" thread and other lies I tell myself before sitting down to write this for like an hour 💀
- 👁️An occult-themed first-person RPG... 👁️Tense, turn-based combat involving alchemy and sacrifice... 👁️Explore the strange and psychedelic world of demons... A demo of Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic has seeped into Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/2621030/... #PitchYaGame #GameDev #indierpg #indiegame
