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stepnixitch collection for character sims AKA "Life Simulation RPGs"
admittedly a lot of these already have the Life Simulation tag, but this is still helpful for picking out the ones with stat-and-schedule gameplay from the ones that want to be Spore
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candlearc just to keep it corralled. Note that it's viewer discretion advised on account of cuss words, violence, and hexarchate-typical awfulness.stepnixMy recent rabbit hole is researching the raising sims and dating sims in the Flash era. Not just Flash games themselves (although I have found an excellent starting point there) but it's good shorthand for the period and enthusiast scene I'm investigating here.
English Otome Games has a wealth of information collected in one place
Longtime developers like Hanako Games and Winter Wolves have also helped me gain a better picture of the era
...and you can get solid results from restricting Google search results to "before September 2017"
I'm getting confident enough in my ability to identify and gather these that I might put together an Itch collection for them... but I'd need to come up with a good name for it, "character sims" is just my mental shorthand for them. "Character Sim RPGs?" "Life Sim RPGs?"
dismallyorientedscintilla10letzan posted about recent "high velocity f/f fandoms":I want to shine an occasional spotlight on fandoms that are in flux. There are two kinds of fandoms here:
- Fandoms that are growing rapidly, which are typically not in the top 20 now, and may never get there, but might be interesting for F/F readers to check out and encourage.
- Fandoms that are losing ground on the top 20, and seem to be "post-peak." They may well peak again in the future, but it's a good moment to look back at the impressive amount of F/F which has been written so far.
letzan is also soliciting femslash recs for all of the fandoms listed in the post!timeasmymeasure
