Terry Ross

This weekend has been crazy.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oPsqmF8-VI As some of you may know, the long-awaited video edited by my friend Nate has dropped! The results have been VERY surprising... Within 24 hours, this video had 50k views, which smashed the day one record of all my past videos

We have a winner! After 75 total votes cast, weighted with a rank choice vote, the winner is... It's going to be a fall picnic! Im definitely not surprised this game was one of the top choices, as lots of people were commenting positively about it across platforms. But It turned out to be a close ra

thanks to everyone who hung out with me on stream to come up with outfits and fun little easter eggs. The game is FINALLY done, after one final 16-hour programming sprint. https://cutegamesclub.itch.io/flemagotchi And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm officially CAUGHT UP. September is the 9t

Hey folks! earlier this month, I said I would be dedicating some time to Trash Idol. this is the trash collecting game I had planned for April of this year. There were several postponements that prevente​d it from going on as planned, which I'll be laying out in full detail here, but the key thing t

Voting is back! Now that spooky season is here, I've prepared a list of fall and halloween-themed girly games for you to pick from. We are continuing the trend from August and setting up a ranked-choice vote, which means you can choose your top three games! (and as always, a fun bonus question at th

Hey folks! As some of you know, I've started streaming Mon + Tuesday + Wednesday evenings while I work. the VODs are unlisted on Youtube, and only available to you, my supporters! I figured now that I'm doing this regularly, instead of individually uploading each stream in a new update, or perhaps e

Hey folks! Happy Monday~ I am writing up a quick post announcing my next game. before halloween hits and im basically forced to make cute spooky stuff all month, I'm seeing if I can squeeze in onnneeee more game. It has to be something I can make in a few days, unique enough to challenge me somewhat

Finally! Finally! Finally!!!! I know I say it every time, but wow...this game is probably the most complex one I've made so far. it took me like 3 weeks, but gosh darn it, its DONE! Go Play Bug Boy Summer Now! What's next? well, there's no time to waste, I gotta get straight to work on another game.

Hey folks! I've got a huge update on Bug Boy Summer, we're getting super close to finally finishing this game. The biggest hurdle has been cleared, which is making all the art for it, including 28 varieties of bugs! I'm SUPER proud of how these animate and move around the real world. But these bugs

Hey folks! The past two days have been a lot of fun. On a whim, I decided to set up OBS with a simple little layout and stream my development process (and also the process of literally building the stream layout, very meta) and to my shock, I regularly had 30-50 tuning in. Kinda wild! the best part

Hey folks, today I hopped into Gamemaker and started uploading the UI artwork! Feels great to be coding again after a three-week dry spell. This is the only cool visual I have so far, as right now I'm building out how the bugs spawn in and animate. I was hoping by working in a modular fashion, I'd h

Hey folks, today I've got kind of a special announcement. As many of you know, the game Dressmaker will release later this month, which I had the opportunity to find in a very early prototype phase. I made a youtube video about how I instantly fell in love with it, and now I'm really looking forward

Hey folks! hope you're having a happy labor day weekend. I can't believe Summer is almost over. even though Im a summer girly, fall is New England's best season; so I anticipate still getting to spend lots of time outdoors. but in the meantime, lots of progress is being made on Bug Boy Summer. Now t

Hey folks! just some quick updates today about backend stuff: overlay racers has been uploaded to itch.io! you may remember this as the game i made for the latest episode of couch quests. It is now available for anyone to download and use for their own fun. The software requirements are a bit specif

Hi everyone! I'm finally back on the East Coast. The last two weeks absolutely FLEW by -- I gotta say, I love doing amusement work, but after over 40 hours of building haunted houses in the summer sun (I DEFINITELY got sunburned on my shoulders lol) I'm so much happier to be back in the video game z

Surprise!!! two days ago I sat down at a little cafe a short walk from my house. I decided not to get up until at least one of a handful of short scripts I had kicking around in my drive was FINISHED. So I got to writing... ...and then at 8pm the cafe folks kicked me out because they were closing ha

my god, the last three days have been a total blur, but what a ride! My and the crew from couch quests were preparing a show with nearly 50 RSVPS!!!! I had to put the finishing touches on Overlay Racers, which ill be dropping on itch.io soon. This was the bonus game i was making for the episode. as

Hey guys! the polls for August's game officially closed last night, and HERE are the results... amazing! This month there were 107 votes, which is almost double the votes for July. Very likely this was because i was able to post more freely this month and actually tell folks the voting was happening

hey folks! wanted to give you a quick update about what's happening over the weekend while I wait for the poll results to come in...I'm working on my bonus game! this game will be debuted at the upcoming game show im hosting in boston, couch quests! it's a pretty special 4-player bumper-car style ga

https://forms.gle/fxgSc1XTDstKETfe9 go go go! the polls close on August 10th. it's time to vote for august's game! (YouTube)

https://cutegamesclub.itch.io/wan-wan-wash everyone start washing dogs now!!! yes, four days after the deadline, this thing is ready to go. A couple of nights ago, in a stroke of brilliance, i was able to add some fun last minute secrets for you all to discover. this is my first mobile-friendly game

hey folks! I'm just about done on wan-wan wash. All the bottom buttons work together (washing the dog is a simple three-step routine), and the final thing to do is add some ui touches (for example, every dog has a name) and some cute quotes that display while you are washing. sadly I don't think the

Hey folks! July is just about wrapped up, so I want to share with you everything that's planned for August. But first, here's how Wan-Wan Wash is coming along... I've created all the UI assets for Wan-Wan Wash and have been slowly adding them to the game. you would not believe how long I was messing

I FINALLY got the notification - the videos which were taken down by the harassers have been fully restored! God, I can't believe its been nearly THREE months of that nonsense... in a way, I was lucky to have the mermaid game to keep me busy. Obviously, I made my latest video public right away, and

Well, I've only left myself a few days in July to finish the dog washing game. It's gonna be tight, but I think I can do it! especially since this game will be much smaller that Lani the Merthropologist! I've decided to call the game Wan-Wan Wash, (wanko being the japanese word for puppy), you'll re

Hey folks! It is super, super late (or early?? I spent way too much time making thumbnails haha) but the video for mermaid games is up (but unlisted). It will still probably be another week before I can post it publicly on Youtube. tomorrow, I'm gonna start that dog-washing game :D I'm gonna go stra

Hey Folks! just a quick update on what I've been working on... I'm about halfway through editing the mermaid video, featuring 5 recently released and upcoming games + a formal introduction to Lani the Merthropologist. One of the fun things I just completed was some cute fanart for the video thumbnai

Surprise! Back in Spring, I took a few days off of working on my mermaid game to develop something for my friend Andrew of Indiepocalypse, for the 77th edition of his game anthology. That game was... Teenage Cupid! In addition to the game, I created a one-page ad for the Indiepocalypse zine that com

hello everyone! hope you're having a lovely week, here in Boston we've been getting some intermittent rain, so any time the sun is out I'm trying to spend some time outside (and then usually realize its a little too hot and humid for me to enjoy long hahaha) There are so many things to announce, sta

Hey folks, exciting stuff! So much to announce. While I'm still waiting for my youtube to be available again, I'm gonna be working on my next game and the NEW video about mermaid games, including mine (and probably some instagram reels -- it looks like the harassers haven't tried to take any of them

w(°ｏ°)w w(°ｏ°)w w(°ｏ°)w w(°ｏ°)w w(°ｏ°)w w(°ｏ°)w Yes! you heard that right! The game is out. You can play it RIGHT NOW in your browser: 🧜🏾‍♀️https://cutegamesclub.itch.io/merthropologist🧜🏾‍♀️ So far, it has only been tested by me -- by being the first folks to play the game, keep in mind that you

Hey folks! We are days away from the release of my mermaid game, and now that the title screen is done, I can share the official name of the game: Lani the Merthropologist - Palace of Corel! Kind of a mouthful, but I've never been very good at naming things, haha... That sketch you might remember fr

Spectacular! Today I finished adding EVERYTHING to the main level of my mermaid game. Every note, clue, lock, and starfish! Grand Hallway, done, Library, done, Gardens, done, Chambers, done, Tower, doneeeeeeeeeee!!!! I want a sandwich so bad, but its like 1AM and everything closes early in Massachus

Hello, hello, everyone! I'm still alive! And so excited to report the progress of the mermaid game. I've had my head down working on it so much that I've forgotten to post updates, sorry about that - but now that there are only a few things left for me to do before I publish, I wanted to let you kno

warning! The following post contains some images which may spoil some secrets of the palace in my mermaid game. view them at your own risk! ⊹₊˚‧︵‿₊୨ᰔ୧₊‿︵‧˚₊⊹ Hey folks, the mermaid game is chugging along. I'm trying not to panic too much about getting behind, since I know that this game is definitel

It really feels like Summer! Happy pride everyone. I hope you are able to get out and meet with your queer community this month. Celebration is resistance, so do your part and party your butt off! The mermaid game is coming together. I am adding in, piece by piece, the game components that populate

hey folks! Hope you had a nice 3-day weekend (if you're in the US). It rained like crazy here in Boston, so I skipped the traditional corn dog and opted on working on the game. The entire background of the game is DONE, and I must say it looks so cute and pink and perfect!!! but now I must start the

Hey folks! happy to report the backend of the mermay game is finally done! I've also planned out all the puzzles that will be in the game. So now I'm going pedal to the medal on art right now! Since most of my supporters have probably never seen what my art process is for big projects, I thought I w

Hello folks! I'm really sorry its been a few days since my last update. I have been working on the mermaid game in the meantime, there's been quite a bit of progress I want to share with you! The backend functionality of the game is getting close to finished. there are a couple of bugs and edge case

hey folks, it's been a crazy weekend, and you're about to read a super long, kind of intense post. I would like to start the following update by letting you know that in spite of what has happened over the past couple of days, I am going to continue to work on the mermaid game and all my other game

hey guys! it's been a lovely Friday. I hope you're all looking forward to the weekend (and for those who celebrate mothers day, happy mothers day!) first off, let's take a look at how the UI is coming along: we have the bottom bar, bag, and pause buttons implemented AND interactive. woo hoo! I am no

Hey folks! its a smallish update, but the news is pretty interesting! This morning I spent making a small short/reel/tiktok thingy Before getting to work, checking back later, I saw it's doing really well on instagram! I have been trying to figure out the instagram algorithm for about a year now, an

check it out! I've just finished animating Lani in aseprite. She's looking pretty good, if I do say so myself... After I had her sprites ready, I took them over to Gamemaker and got a test room going. yaaay, time to program, FINALLY! The very first step was to get Lani swimming around in a natural m

The winners of the mermaid design polls are in! As you know, over on youtube, folks were able to vote for their favorite hair style and tail design. I simply combined them to create our protagonist Lani's look. First I started by sketching out the intro menu. Definitely wanted to give Lani a cool dy

I've just added the second poll over on my Youtube channel so that everyone can pick their favorite mermaid tail for our archaeology protagonist! I'll have the final design ready on Monday. Now, as promised, I'll tell you guys about the planned game and how it works. At the moment, I am mapping out

I hope you guys are excited. One year ago, the very first video that ever went viral on youtube was about mermaid games, and now I'm finally gonna get to make one! Before we get to that though, I want to let y'all know where things stand with Trash Idol. Today I ended up programming the entry menu.

Today was a lot of fun! I sat down and started building the UI for the first menu - wherein the game host inputs the trash numbers: the two fields below each name represents the total trash collected, and the total number of players on that team. The game calculates the winners based on how much tra

Before I get into today's gamedev progress, I just released a poll on youtube about how I'll be running my channel/game development projects. Starting in June, I'll be making games based on what my patreon and ko-fi supporters suggest! I'm trying to figure out a way to involve the people who are kee

At long last, the video for mini-mini-mini golf is wrapped and PUBLISHED! You wouldn't believe the number of cuts and reformats and reshoots this thing went through -- frankly its a miracle the frankestein'd final work is even coherent hahaha. If you're feeling bored, watch and try spotting the nume

I can't believe it! in total we got 1,806 votes for Trash Idol. I won't make you guys hold your breath with a preamble, Here are the results! Blanche and Rondelle ended up as early leads and pretty much stayed at the top throughout the voting (looks like our moody introvert girlies are a big hit!) b