[12] The art is by Los Angeles artist Robin Eisenberg, and the game includes an adventure written by Jonaya Kemper.

[14] Alex Roberts interviewed Kahn about designing Dead Friend as an episode of Backstory on One Shot Podcast Network.

"My response is: I like vampires and liches and trolls and goblins and think they're much more interesting than bland white muscular humans running through the fields with a cross on their chest hacking at the same things with a sword over and over again.

[16] It is about gay male warlords and was the first of 50 stretch goals unlocked for the Thirsty Sword Lesbians kickstarter, which raised a total of $298,568.

[33] Kahn was the singer, songwriter and electric guitar player for the Brooklyn queercore punk band Schmekel,[34] which explored his identity as a gay, Jewish, trans man through comedy.

Hugh Ryan for The New York Times compared Kahn's songwriting to gay punk band Pansy Division and Jewish singer/songwriter and satirist Tom Lehrer.

[35] According to the Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Kahn wrote the lyrics and punk chord progressions on the guitar for songs like "I'm Sorry, It's Yom Kippur," then electronic keyboard player Ricky Riot altered the chord progressions to make them sound cantorial.

[36] Eddy Portnoy wrote that Schmekel was an unsurprising development in Jewish culture because there was evidence of transgender people in the shtetls of early 20th century Europe, and connected the band to "Queer Yiddishkeit.

"[38] Kahn appears as the lead singer of Schmekel in the Tales of the City novel The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin, being flirted with by the character Amos.