Wallace Truesdale - Mothership

17 indie developers who are making games about messy, sometimes toxic, queer romance

A series of profiles of participants in the Toxic Yuri Visual Novel Jam and other similar game jams

Kastel Apr 13, 2026

Advice

How do you learn to use camera controls in video games?

It does take some intentional learning time to get used to using one joystick to move and the other to look around

Zoë Hannah Apr 10, 2026

Indie

Consume Me got me to stop save-scumming and delete perfectionism

If I could, I would restart every day to do it better

Ana Hein Apr 9, 2026

Wallace Truesdale II is a critic and journalist with a love for games, a weakness against soft cookies, and a few bylines at outlets including AV Club Games, Unwinnable, Stop Caring, and more.

1 article

Four player-character options are shown, all of them exactly the same except for their skin color

Opinion

Video games need to do better than treating skin like skins

Painting skin color as an inconsequential aspect of identity erases the unique ways Black bodies navigate the world

Wallace Truesdale Feb 26, 2026