this page is very much a work in progress. This list is incomplete and functionally uncompleteable due to the medium of indie games being a ever-growing medium.
My intention for this whole list is to be one giant love letter to all the amazing and wonderfully talented trans/queer indie devs out there, and a celebration of all the wonderful work from trans people in the field of indie games. I aim to include as many devs as possible big and small.
This project takes heavy inspiration from Dot Maetrix's List Of Games By Trans People Before 2010, go check that out too her work is awesome!! ^_^
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Lily 'Freast' East
Trans Woman, (She/They)
Aliases/Nicknames:Freast, Frankeast, Unnamedazu, Vektiz
Bio:
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also the person in question on this template im making is an uber fag methink lmaooo
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Michael 'Kayin' O'Reily
Genderqueer, (He/She/They)
Aliases/Nicknames:Kayin, KayinNasaki, KayinWorks
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Michael Kayin O'reily is a developer who has been in the field for well over 2 decades now. Kayin intially began with making games for ZZT/Megazeux, before eventually moving to Multimedia Fusion 2 and later Construct. Much of Kayin's work takes heavy inspiration from the NES in terms of artstyle and design philosophy.
TOP: Screenshot of the Title Screen from 'I Wanna Be The Guy', which parodies that of Megaman 2
RIGHT: Cover-Art for IWBTG, featuring the games protagonist 'The Kid' front and center.
One of Kayin's most popular games he's released is the 2007 'masocore' parody game 'I Wanna be The Guy: The Movie: The Game’ (...or just 'I Wanna Be the Guy'/ 'IWBTG', for short). IWBTG is known for rage-inducing difficulty and cheap unpredictable traps to kill the player in one hit (like evil fucking cherries with MURDEROUS INTENT). The game is also recognized for it's unabashed use of copyrighted material throughout several parts of the game.
IWBTG had also recieved an fan-remaster, officially endorsed by Kayin, and considered the best way to play the game now over the original in most cases.
to this day, IWBTG still holds a dedicated community, such as on the fansite delicious-fruit.com, dedicated to creating/sharing 'Guy-like' games by fans using the source code (released by Kayin over a decade ago) from the original game
Currently, Kayin's main project for the last few years been Brave Earth: Prologue, a 2D Castlevania-like action platformer calling-back to the NES era, with emphasis on challenging levels and gorgeous NES-style pixel art. (It's also where Kayin's little icon comes from (^ consult top of page near name-plate), her name is Naomi vos Cruz ^_^)