Hey guys, so I just realised World Child Cancer has less followers than me. That is so not okay. While I appreciate every single one of you, I don’t need 7k followers. A cancer charity helping sick children does. They just reached 6k followers today so it would be amazing if we could get them to at least 10k by the end of September!! I know Cait would be so happy. You can follow them here.Thanks! 💖💖💖
You can also visit their website here to make a donation,
GLITCHED is an existential RPG where the hero encounters a strange glitch in his world and becomes aware of you, the player. Alongside you, Gus, sets out on a journey to tackle the questions of existence, life meaning, self-awareness, and what it means to be alive.
Throughout the game you and Gus will have back and forth conversations about these topics. You’ll get to understand his inner turmoil as he slowly begins to realize his reality.
Interacting with the world and people is the main mechanic of GLITCHED and this is all done through the ESSENCE SYSTEM. This system allows you to earn points into six different ESSENCE alignments, each with their own morals, personality traits, and ways of doing things.
You’ll meet characters with each of the six ESSENCES and you’ll slowly learn what kind of people fall under each- perhaps even finding your own. This system aims to look at reasoning and personality instead of strictly good and evil. The conflicts you’ll face with be grey areas where the ESSENCES clash. As you make choices and actions, the ESSENCE Gus aligns with will change and his dialogue, actions, and personality will change along with it causing the story to change and shift.
While GLITCHED does retain the core RPG elements, a lot has been stripped away and reworked. Leveling up & grinding have completely been removed. Instead of vertical progression where items and older skills become irrelevant, advancing in GLITCHED simply puts more tools in your tool box. Every battle has implications on the story and since your choices determine who and when you fight - no random encounters. Sometimes fighting can be avoided entirely. Your decisions will influence those moments where fighting is the only option.
There are many paths available and acting a certain way will change how NPCs and potential party members act towards you. Just by being who you are, you will attract and push away different people who drastically affect the story.
GLITCHED has had a very, very long development time. Almost seven years ago, I was sitting in a computer science course and created a small program where a tiny pixel character would talk and swear at you for pressing certain keys. This idea eventually morphed into the fourth-wall breaking character of Gus.
After learning to program, developing ideas for the game, bringing together some friends to work on the game, a failed Kickstarter, learning how to make cohesive and workable pixel art, overhauling things, hitting the drafts boards again, a name change, and now finally bringing these concepts to social media- the game has ended up here.
Last time around I posted something like this I said, “There is a bright future for GLITCHED.” Well today we are launching a Kickstarter and releasing a two hour demo. If you have been following us through early development, thank you so much. Now, the best way you can support GLITCHED is to check us out on Kickstarter, re-blog this, and vote for us on Steam Greenlight. It’s a big step for us, but if we want to create the kind of game we have always imagined then this is our best path forward.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting GLITCHED. I have no idea what will happen in the next 30 days, but I am glad to have gotten the support from those who have helped me up until this point.
yes that does indeed say happycow. so. there have been A TON of studies on cows and grooming. the general summary: cows really like to be clean; they’re MUCH happier that way. if you don’t provide them a brush or something like that, they’ll use walls or fences to scratch against, possibly hurting themselves in the process.
but more to the point grooming is a way they calm themselves down, too. similar studies have found that it’s the first thing they do after being freed when they’ve been restrained.
which leads to brushes like the one above, or ones like this (one of my favourite cow photos ever):
cows: anxious and fussy but much happier when able to do self-care. SOUNDS FAMILIAR TO ME
THE POOR BABY GOT BRUSHED AWAY BY IT AT THE BEGINNING I LOVE COWS
These dudes are fucking legit. They don’t just show up one day in court, either, they actually make friends with the kids and let them know they have a support system and that there are people in the world who care about them and will always have their back. And less important, but also cool, is that the few times a couple of them have come into my cafe, they’ve been super friendly and polite and when I told one of the guys that I noticed his Bikers Against Child Abuse patch and wanted him to know how awesome I thought he was because of it, he got kind of shy and blushed and said, “The kids are the awesome ones, we just let them know they’re allowed to be brave.”
The source is long, but so, so good. These men and women are available in 36 states, 24 hours a day to stand guard at home, in court, at school, even if the child has a nightmare. Many of them are survivors of childhood abuse as well, and know what it’s like to feel scared and alone.
In court that day, the judge asked the boy, “Are you afraid?” No, the boy said.
Pipes says the judge seemed surprised, and asked, “Why not?”
The boy glanced at Pipes and the other bikers sitting in the front row, two more standing on each side of the courtroom door, and told the judge, “Because my friends are scarier than he is.”
Actual tears.. hnngh
Show me more of people like this, world. I give up on humans too easily.
where do i sign up for this,i want to be in this gang
This is fucking amazing. It may be out of character for me to say this but rock on
Bikers Against Child Abuse was founded in 1995 by a Native American child psychologist whose ride name is Chief, when he came across a young boy who had been subjected to extreme abuse and was too afraid to leave his house. He called the boy to reach out to him, but the only thing that seemed to interest the child was Chief’s bike. Soon, some 20 bikers went to the boy’s neighborhood and were able to draw him out of his house for the first time in weeks.
Chief’s thesis was that a child who has been abused by an adult can benefit psychologically from the presence of even more intimidating adults that they know are on their side. “When we tell a child they don’t have to be afraid, they believe us,” Arizona biker Pipes told azcentral.com. “When we tell them we will be there for them, they believe us.” ( Article)
My parents are a part of this organization and they are metal af
They go on runs to protect the child if they feel even the slightest threatened no matter where. If the child needs them to go on vacation with them, they do. Bikers come from across the nation to watch over and take shifts for these kids. And the best part is once you’re adopted into this family as a BACA kid, you’re always one. Even when you’re 40 and the perp gets released from jail, they’ll come meet with you and find your best options for avoiding the person and maintaining the life you’ve built for yourself. Once a BACA child, always a BACA child. In Florida, there’s 100% rate for identifying the perp based on the child’s testimony. Why? Because BACA stands with the child and supports the child so they feel comfortable enough to point out their attacker.
What’s better than a badass biker gang being on your side???
NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST WHO IS A BIKER AND NAMED HIMSELF CHIEF HELL YES I’M HERE FOR THAT AND BIKERS BEING BAD ASS TO PROTECT KIDS. HELL YEAH.
