Parfum Nostalgique: Full Bloom Edition
FEATURED ON POLYGON!
It’s like 1:00AM the day aftermy Polygon article was released and I’m just now making this devlog because I had to talk to SO many people about this today.
I was interviewed by Polygon about producingDIY physical copies of my games, and myzine about making DIY physical copies as well.
They contacted me about 2 months ago, I think, and I had no idea what was going on. I thought I was just gonna be asked a few questions for an article about the content censorship crackdowns, but by the end of it they were like, “do you have any good pictures of your physical copies and some of your art? we want to make this look as good as possible”and I was like… my art? My art? Oh, take this self-indulgent picture of me and val drinking little cups of tea together. Christ on a bike, it’s on the front page of Polygon.
Fucking Hell, dude, that’s me and my fucking vampire right next to an article about Marvel and GTA6. Add “Rosario and Val on the front page of Polygon, bigger than anything else,” to the list of things we’ve gotten before GTA6.Fuckin’ shit, dude. You see Troy Baker’s name up there? You ever wish you could talk to yourself at 15so badly? I wanna tell 15 year old Rose “They put Troy Baker’s name up there in little bitty text, and there’s you and a doll you’re gonna buy in 3 years cheesin’ in the big boy box.” What the fuuuuck, man.
I sent this shit to my mama, my dad, my Aunt Ruthie, my fuckin’ gay cousin Charles, everybody.
You wanna know how I found out about this, though?
I got tagged in the Discord server for the Queerness and Games Conference in Montreal I went to about 2 weeks ago. Thank you so much to the person who congratulated me, that felt extra special.
I bust my actual ass shilling my shit for this game. I know it’s not gonna reach mainstream success, my main character is a genderfluid sex worker and everyone is trans and this is 2025, Year of Bad for Trans People.But this is how i get out of the house and interface with the world around me. I spent 4 years on this thing, I’m never shutting up about it. I have a new game being announced soon and I’m STILL never gonna shut up about Parfum Nostalgique.And now, fuckin’ hell. I’m the Big Polygon Article. Looks like we made it, as sung by the great Barry Manilow. May he rest in peace (he’s not dead it’s just late at night and he’s probably asleep).
I’m delirious right now, I took a cyclobenzaprine for my TMJD and I’m gonna curl up for bed with a plushie of a giant tube-shaped dog in about 10 minutes after I write this. But I wanna talk about why this article is important in ways bigger than me.I can sit here with my big fucking head and talk about how I’m a big shot now with my big boy Polygon article oh my GOD you can hear my New York accent in this devlog but what’s REALLY impactful about this article is that Polygon took the time to actually interview an indie creator rather than just vaguely alluding to one. They looked at something I made and felt that it actually mattered to represent, and the reactions from other indie devs to this was absolutely lovely. Everyone was VERY surprised that I got featured like this, and I understand why. I searched all over Polygon to see what other small indie devs they featured and there was justnothing! Notnothing nothing, but really nothing I could see.
To know that what I do has brought other creators so much optimism and hope and renewed creativity, that my push toward physical games, getting out there at events, treating your game like your baby has helped so many people thatmainstream gaming news thinks it’s worthfront page big picture news is… such an accomplishment. What do I even say to that?
I’ll tell you something about me, right now:
Right now, I’ve been in my mom’s house alone for 4 days straight.My husband is at a wedding I can’t go to because I’m immunocompromised, and I also look too trans to go there and make a scene, so I didn’t go with him.My mother is in Florida while I’m at her house. I couldn’t go to Florida because I’m immunocompromised, and also because if I see my grandmother and she knows I’m trans, shewill harm me.I can’t drive lately because my jaw joint disorder makes it unsafe for me to operate a car without motion sickness, and my autism makes driving very overwhelming.I also couldn’t see many of my friends here, because they all went to Comic Con, and I’m immunocompromised.So, a few days ago, I took a ride into town on my electric scooter. It’s pretty cool, it has a basket and a seat.I put on my Little Prince sweatshirt, which always makes me look and feel like a child, but it was so warm and cozy.I looked about 14 years old as I cruised my little self up and down the sidewalk, and I watched people twice my size and around my age going in and out of bars, laughing and drinking and having a good time. Something I’m too immunocompromised to do, and don’t even know how to desire doing.But I felt like a little kid in my big sweatshirt on my not-street-legal scooter, and I felt like I came from another planet. Everyone looked at me like I had 10 heads, but that’s Long Island. It’s why I got the fuck out of that place.I felt like a little kid, and I wondered if I was living my life right, making video games, cooping myself up in the house on Discord, working on things that don’t make me that much money. Nobody could tell I was 27, so I felt like I was 14, but also like I was 80.It felt like having gender dysphoria, but about being autistic.I don’t know, seeing people going out and being people in ways I never understood, and having them look at me like I was weird was very strange! It felt bad after being left alone for so long.The love I was shown from this article really helped me to feel more like a person again. It’s gonna get me through this tough and lonely week. I’ll ride my scooter into town and pass people by and think… “they don’t know I’m featured on Polygon… hehe.”It sounds stupid, but it’s less about me flexing my cool Polygon article on the haters, and more like…
I dunno, when I was a kid, nobody gave a fuck about the shit I cared about, and that really got to me. But now, I can go in town looking like a weird little kid, and I always know that there’s people who care enough about the shit I work so hard on that I don’t have to care about impressing townie homophobes. Game development has taught me that no matter what, I don’t have to change myself to have a place in this world. My place is always gonna make itself, and there’s always gonna be people out there who believe in me. That fucking rocks.
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The full visual novel diaries of a therapist-by-day, dom-by-night vampire!
| Status | Released |
| Author | Priro.pro |
| Genre | Visual Novel |
| Tags | Amare,Gay,Gothic,LGBTQIA,Queer,Ren'Py,Romance,Story Rich,Vampire,Voice Acting |
| Languages | English |
| Accessibility | Subtitles,One button |
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