Happy one month birthday to I Write Games Not Tragedies! Today marks one month since we released the English version of our little emo game. It's our first game, so we really appreciate every person who has played it, especially everyone who has left a review, made fan art, posted a screenshot or commented on Steam or social media. It's kind of surreal to be honest, thank you so much. We have a released a small one month update, with some bug fixes (thank you to everyone who told us about bugs you found!) and polishing. We've also updated our demo as well!

As well as our one month birthday, we are also celebrating our inclusion in the showcase Women Led Games: The Games Award Edition! Until 19 December, I Write Games Not Tragedies will appear in this showcase alongside other amazing games created by women-led and majority women game dev studios.

Although some wonderful men and non-binary people also made amazing contributions to I Write Games Not Tragedies, this is very much a women-led project so we wanted to take a moment to introduce these gothic girlies.

First, the devs! Vicky Wong and Julia Mascetti. Vicky did the art and UI for I Write Games Not Tragedies (as well as these pictures!) and Julia wrote the game! We shared the programming, game design and general insanity.
Next, the publishers! Tomoko Miya and Samantha Low. Miya and Sam both have amazing careers in the game industry, but I Write Games Not Tragedies is the first title for their new publisher, Yotsuba Interactive. We will be forever grateful they took a chance on it!

We have some fun plans over the next few months. We will keep doing bug fixes and improvements, and we also want to try give more people the chance to play I Write Games Not Tragedies... Steam Deck optimization or Mac version, anyone?

Thanks so much for being part of this journey, and stay goth! Studio Wife and Cornmandog