Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

Founded LGBTQ+ gamedev studio Kitsune Games with Njord (npub1j0h…30lt). Kitsune Tails, Super Bernie World, MidBoss, Ultra Hat Dimension, Lore Finder. Also: Coding History on YouTube. She/her. Dutch, former US greencard holder, now living in Cyprus. Mask wearer. You can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko

I do bad things to code

(Hello search engines, this is the Mastodon account of Eniko Fox)

Games: https://kitsunegames.com/games
CoHost: https://cohost.org/eniko
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@EnikoFox
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sharkhugseniko

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2024-09-30 13:15:48

so uh, when *exactly* is cohost going read-only?
EDIT: answered here https://cohost.org/jkap/post/7887224-there-will-be-a-staf

2024-09-28 08:58:14

Feel like if we ever want to break the browser hegemony we need a reboot of web technology to start clean with a design that's actually feasible to implement from scratch without spending billions of dollars

2024-09-18 09:38:50

seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad
good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞

2024-09-12 09:53:35

I'm not gonna lie I'm kind of sad bluesky is taking off the way it is. I'll still be on there because I have a professional obligation (and also because I can't afford to put all my eggs in one basket again,) but when people say it's "just like old Twitter" they're right
It's just that it turns out old Twitter was horrible for my mental health

2024-08-30 09:25:01

How should you pronounce ARM?

2024-08-26 08:15:32

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I miss MS-DOS

2024-06-21 19:04:32

Second Wind, The Escapist's former video team turned independent, covered their favorite Steam Next Fest games and included Kitsune Tails! https://youtu.be/qHeDaxd2N9Q?t=590
#KitsuneTails

2024-06-21 07:51:25

So Mozilla, a privacy focused browser company, just bought an advertising company? Did I get that right? Did a company with a focus on privacy just buy another company where the business model can only really succeed if privacy is destroyed?
Cause that seems pretty fucking sus to me

2024-06-19 12:48:54

if you're disappointed by zelda not getting a sword in her new game might i suggest giving kitsune tails a look because we have a literal disaster sword lesbian in the main cast: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

2024-06-13 13:28:28

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oh shit that reminds me that i still need to tweak the presskit. thanks lol!

2024-06-13 08:02:16

so we all agree the "AI" folks all use the phrase "the open web" as a pseudonym for "if they didn't want us to scrape it they shouldn't have made it publicly available, so whats a copyright?"

2024-06-12 10:44:12

you learn something new every day in #GameDev
so in kitsune tails we put in a mode for beginners at platformers (or people who just don't have the time to feel frustrated at games anymore) where if you die you respawn immediately floating on a little cloud that despawns after a couple of seconds. you know, kinda like old coop arcade games
what nobody on our team expected was that a common problem for beginners would be not knowing that the cloud can be steered around to fly you to safety, leading to complaints that jumping off the cloud just killed you again and softlocks the game
just goes to show how much understanding game mechanics comes down to prior experience with games with similar mechanics
(anyway we're gonna put a short prompt on screen telling people they can fly around on the cloud)
#KitsuneTails #PixelArt #IndieGame #QueerGames
https://s3.wasabisys.com/pmg-media/media_attachments/files/112/603/233/404/667/099/original/e02f65a4d21c313f.mp4

2024-06-12 07:22:06

I do love symmetry 😌
https://s3.wasabisys.com/pmg-media/media_attachments/files/112/602/442/199/661/899/original/14e916d9bdb5df2b.jpg

2024-06-11 14:50:56

may have to mute the words "woke chin" before i accidentally find out what its about

2024-06-08 17:04:27

Kitsune Tails has a release date! As just announced on Wholesome Direct, our Mario-like featuring queer fox girls will be coming to Steam and itch.io (Windows, Linux) on August 1st, 2024!
Wishlist or try the demo now on Steam at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or find more info at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
#KitsuneTails #GameDev #PixelArt #IndieDev #QueerGames
https://s3.wasabisys.com/pmg-media/media_attachments/files/112/582/079/312/471/221/original/6412520b0d18b01c.jpeg

2024-06-07 12:06:44

it's only called copilot+ pc in the redmond, washington region of the USA, otherwise it's just sparkling spyware

2024-06-04 19:03:12

Big news: Kitsune Tail's Steam Next Fest demo is live now! Go get it at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 and experience the first part of this queer furry love triangle wrapped in an SMB3 jacket
You should definitely check the options. There's a CRT shader in Kitsune Tails made by @npub177t…amrm which isn't on by default (because people get upset by that kinda thing) but playing with it on is totally the recommended experience
And for those of you who have Steam Decks, we've verified it works on that, too! And there's a new reveal trailer, showing off some of the bosses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBcm5fagUU
#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt
https://s3.wasabisys.com/pmg-media/media_attachments/files/112/559/932/763/334/327/original/0ec7429c879e7200.jpeg

2024-06-03 05:21:04

a friend of mine told their classmate about kitsune tails with "what if lesbian shork mario" and the classmate was like "holy shit send me the link" and it really just sells itself doesn't it?
anyway here's the link: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
#PixelArt #GameDev #QueerGames
https://s3.wasabisys.com/pmg-media/media_attachments/files/112/550/999/140/487/143/original/54e97784c528007b.mp4

2024-05-28 09:38:03

It's so hard to respect humanity as a species when the only time it does anything evidence based as a collective is when the evidence just happens to align well with society's preexisting feelings on the matter

2024-05-25 19:12:22

have a screenshot of one of our bosses for #ScreenshotSaturday
kitsune tails is a classic platformer with a very queer story. more info and wishlist at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
#GameDev #PixelArt
https://s3.wasabisys.com/pmg-media/media_attachments/files/112/503/307/387/845/567/original/28293b132c3bc50f.png

2024-05-25 06:46:58

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i dont think i qualify for the protecting loved ones unless my partner counts because its impossible to make loved ones listen about the dangers of covid

2024-05-24 10:34:22

the political leadership of the netherlands has always had a massive hard-on for being like the USA but i could've done without seeing my home country reenact bullshit like pretending far right viewpoints are just as valid as center left ones while simultaneously calling anti-fascist positions criminal or terrorist
oh that and the utter covid denialism, of course, which amazingly is even worse somehow than the US

2024-05-22 09:57:21

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looks like it already did https://itch.io/takedowns/1499978

2024-05-22 09:51:41

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is this not gonna run into legal problem with official tetris, given they've trademarked the tetromino shapes

2024-05-19 11:57:54

just really cannot deal with the fact that people are like "wow this airborne vascular disease that's as contagious as measles, greatly increases your risk of potentially fatal cardiovascular events, gives you permanent brain damage, and harms your immune system sounds just like the common cold!"

2024-05-19 10:02:07

If you come into my mentions saying there are bigger problems than covid and treating it like a flu isn't the end of the world you will be aggressively told to educate yourself on the realities of covid (https://covidsafetyforschools.org) with a minimum of 8 slides from that course and if you then keep minimizing covid to me you will be blocked
The slides will show that an order of magnitude more children are hospitalized from covid than flu, that it kills way more than an order of magnitude people than flu does, that it's a vascular illness not a respiratory illness like the flu, which causes significant long term increases in potentially fatal cardiovascular events, that it causes likely irreversible neuron fusing which causes cognitive impairment, that it causes IQ drops cumulative with each infection, and that it greatly increases risk of developing alzheimer's and parkinson's disease
TL;DR if you're a covid minimizer and you like to follow me I highly suggest you keep it to your fucking self

2024-05-14 20:14:45

god i hate the words "asset flip"
10 years ago it very specifically meant using premade game engine assets, often whole example games, to slap something vaguely playable on steam to trick people into buying it and attract steam card hunters
now people call anything that reuses assets from a previous game an asset flip, or even use it for any art in a game they consider to look "generic"
its terrible i wish people would stop it

2024-05-12 11:23:56

For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well
https://s3.wasabisys.com/pmg-media/media_attachments/files/112/427/853/430/848/475/original/8925ad21d2c2aad2.mp4

2024-05-10 09:03:30

it should be illegal for companies which provide products or services to not have a public facing support email

2024-05-09 10:14:02

people: its like im sick all the time now. i would give anything to make it stop
me: you could wear a mask
people: no not like that

2024-05-04 10:42:21

as someone who has lived in both the US and EU i think the standard date formats are confusing as fuck and everyone should switch to ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd

2024-04-25 21:16:31

Really wish MS would open source qbasic already

2024-04-20 12:49:29

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I haven't found a 3rd party client that has all the features that are vital for my enjoyment of fedi

2024-04-20 10:06:32

still think combining boost/fav notifications in the mastodon web app is a much higher priority than quote boosts

2024-04-19 20:25:29

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lmao that's over an order of magnitude more

2024-04-19 20:22:57

Lmao Tesla has sold fewer cybertrucks than I've sold copies of MidBoss. Is this the power of the richest man in the world? Pathetic

2024-04-16 19:08:45

wow i wonder why so many people are getting sick and chronically ill now and why so many kids are missing so much school. couldn't possibly be the disabling plague that we've collectively decided is no biggie despite all scientific evidence to the contrary

2024-04-10 06:54:19

It's still possible in 2024 to just make a website using straight HTML and CSS. That option never went away

2024-04-05 10:36:58

me: *moves to mastodon and abandons twitter cause of all the fash*
my feed: hey do you wanna see this dumb post from IMC on twitter? i screencapped it for you
me: ....... seriously? 😒

2024-03-30 10:38:30

do the extreme pedants on mastodon know everyone mutes them, you think?

2024-02-09 22:16:02

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people always tell me "mathematical notation is just like jargon, its just more efficient." no, mathematical notation is not like jargon
1. jargon are words. anyone can put a word into a search engine and find a glossary of terms explaining what that jargon word means in some context. you can't do that with math notation unless you already know math notation
2. jargon is almost never overloaded like mathematical notation is. the same letter or piece of punctuation can mean wildly different things in any given context and can even vary based on the *font the symbol is displayed in* inside one context
imagine if someone in software engineering used the symbol ⍼ instead of "garbage collector", except it only maps to "garbage collector" if it's written in sans serif. if it's written with serif, it means "compute shader" instead. but if its in comic sans it means "SIMD divide"
and also 98% of the time they used the ⍼ symbol it was inserted as a picture, not a copy/pastable unicode glyph. *that's* math notation

2024-02-09 19:45:44

you've heard of security by obscurity. mathematical notation is elitism by obscurity

2023-08-07 17:40:58

Kitsune Tails is coming August 1st, 2024 to Steam and itch!
If you wanna be notified when Kitsune Tails (think gay furry weeb mario with fox girls) comes out, boost this post! I'll edit it when the game releases, and you should receive a notification!
More info/Steam wishlist and demo: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails