In the Absence of Pain

A meditative vignette about determination, embodiment, monstrosity, and the struggle to endure.

This game was made in June 2020 as one of several experimental precursors to another game, but never published or released until it appeared in my Ko-fi shop as a paid exclusive in 2025. Now it's available on itch.  Although this is a humble project, I've chosen to price it at $2.99 for consideration in the Game Industry Hardship Fund, a cause I am extremely passionate about. 

This industry rewards the diligence, talent, and sacrifice of its workers with callousness and cruelty at every turn.

Even a team whose work receives thousands of players, wide critical acclaim, and a long list of well-deserved accolades can still be unceremoniously dismembered and scattered to the winds at the whims of a parent company — often after forcing workers to relocate in order to be employed.

These rotting hulks will go on mutilating themselves and each other in pursuit of capital.  But the people, the human beings whose labor they exploit, will continue to care for one another to the best of our ability.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE.