![[All the Creeps of the Cosmos - Brisket-20240114121235119.png]] ## What's your Cohost Link? [Brisket](https://cohost.org/Brisket?page=0) ## What's the thing? It's a pixel-art visual novel that I'm making together with my GF Sadie, and our artist friend Alexandra! It's about a bunch of queer characters with superpowers fighting in a dystopian future. The star is Salamander, a hot-headed girl who can heat up objects with her hands, who wields a metal bat in combat. She's joined by Meteor, the leader of her group who can alter the weight of what she touches, and Starlight, a shy boy who can make shields out of light. Together they fight against Keys, the government's enforcers of tradition, and their sinister alien rulers. It's a "kinetic novel", meaning that there's no choices for the player to make, similar to Higurashi and Umineko. I'm the lead writer on this one, while Sadie is writing a prequel that takes place in the 1950s. Both the stories will stand on their own, but there will be some connections between them for readers to spot! I'm making it because I felt inspired after seeing all sorts of other queer people making art (like comics, games, and other visual novels), and it made me want to make art too! I want to make something that's stylish, exciting, and emotionally resonant with queer people, especially other trans people. ## Link the thing! https://air-gong.itch.io/all-the-creeps-of-the-cosmos-future