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Haunted Trumpet: EARLY ACCESS! 👻🎺
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Approximately three queers in a trench coat making interactive fiction together 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Our visual novel, The Left Eye, is in early access now!

🖥️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3811440
🎮 https://hauntedtrumpet.itch.io
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Haunted Trumpet: EARLY ACCESS! 👻🎺 @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social · 5d
#TheLeftEye is in #earlyaccess right now and we can’t wait for you to play episodes 1 & 2! 🎉

We’ve got:

⭐️ ~20 CGs
⭐️ Achievements
⭐️ In-game codex
⭐️ Tastelessly petty theft
⭐️ Boys behaving badly on beloved landmarks
⭐️ 26000 words

#indiegame #steam #vn #gamedev #lgbtq
The Left Eye on Steam
A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…
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hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
We got our first review on Steam, brb crying 😭
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November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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DEVIL'S LIMINAL is part of the Choose Wisely Festival Dec 8-15, hosted by @studioephua.bsky.social

A yuri horror visual novel with 2 love interests, family secrets, and a Faustian bargain. Currently in Early Access with monthly updates.

store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/

#ChooseWiselyFestival
DEVIL'S LIMINAL in the Choose Wisely Festival, celebrating branching narrative games, hosted by Studio Ephua. December 8th to 15th.
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Just sharing some words from our beloved lead writer @conwaaaaaaay.bsky.social about their work on #TheLeftEye 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#indiegame #lgbtq #queerart #queerhistory #writing
Text over a monochrome image of two silhouettes standing on the balcony of the Statue of Liberty's torch. The text reads: "The Left Eye is set in the 1920s, but it's about the 2020s. It's about queer folks inventing themselves. It's about code switching and going stealth. It's an homage to Anna Delvey. It's about a moment in time of queer visibility and joy, right before a vicious backlash in the 1930s."
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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wharthur.bsky.social
Mud Ghost Estate Redux has now got 93 followers on Kickstarter! 👻
Can I get 7 more before the launch? 👉👈
Please share with your friends! ✨
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate Redux—A Spooky Tumbling Tower TTRPG A spooky tumbling block tower-based TTRPG inspired by Hong Kong folklore; now with revised text, new artwork and extra content! The cover image depicts two people walking up the stairs of a derelict building, with a mud ghost around the corner standing menacingly. Bottom right of the image shows that the project currently has 93 followers.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
#TheLeftEye is in #earlyaccess right now and we can’t wait for you to play episodes 1 & 2! 🎉

We’ve got:

⭐️ ~20 CGs
⭐️ Achievements
⭐️ In-game codex
⭐️ Tastelessly petty theft
⭐️ Boys behaving badly on beloved landmarks
⭐️ 26000 words

#indiegame #steam #vn #gamedev #lgbtq
The Left Eye on Steam
A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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nooskadraws.bsky.social
ye olde trans rights. now and forever. 🏳️‍⚧️✨

#TDOR #TransDayofRemembrance
A digital illustration of a medieval banner. It says in medieval inspired script "ye olde trans rights". It is decorated with plants and blue, pink, and white flowers.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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just-write-studios.itch.io
11 hours into Monday work and just now getting to tackle #gamedev🔥🔥💖🎮

my love to all my #indiedev homies also working full time,
balancing families and self care,
managing things like chronic illness or other hurdles,
and still squeezing in the time to make what they love 🔥🔥🔥🔥

#indiegamedev #vndev
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Our 1920s #visualnovel The Left Eye is going into #EarlyAccess on the 21st of November!! Episodes 1 & 2 are included, and 3 to 6 will be released as content updates as soon as they’re ready 🖤

Have a look and maybe wishlist us if you’d like! buff.ly/eXnWVQQ

#indiegame #lgbt #gamedev #steam
A monochrome image of scattered playing cards. The central card is the ace of diamonds, with profiles of two mens’ faces looking at one another inside the diamond shape. A card in the bottom left shows the logo for The Left Eye visual novel.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Time for #screenshotsaturday! Jackie's trying to fence something pretty big in episode 2 of #LeftEye 👀💎

#indiedev #vndev #vn #gamedev #lgbtq
A screenshot of a visual novel. The lower half of two women's faces are shown in the corners of the screen, over a black background. They are speaking to one another through 1920s candlestick telephones. The text box contains the dialogue: "I've got a lead on a pretty thing you might like."
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Happy Halloween from Haunted Trumpet! 👻🎺

@noel-p.bsky.social has created some seasonally-appropriate artwork of best girl Deirdre from #TheLeftEye and we absolutely love it 🧡🧡🧡

#art #illustration #halloween #indiedev #vndev #indiegame
A young Black woman with bobbed hair placing a lit candle into a jack o' lantern. She is wearing a short white dress with scalloped edges. The image is coloured with a limited palette of warm purple, black, gray, and bright orange highlights. A hand-written caption reads "Happy Halloween from Haunted Trumpet"
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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studiointerlude.com
The October update for DEVIL'S LIMINAL is up!
🖤 The gang considers breaking and entering.
🖤 Help from unlikely places.
🖤 More sprites!
🖤 Font and text color options!

store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/...

#yuri #yurisky #indiegame #gamedev
DEVIL'S LIMINAL on Steam
A demon's pact, a final summer. Yuri horror visual novel inspired by Azores folklore.
store.steampowered.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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saintcinematique.bsky.social
Hello, friends! I'd like to formally reveal the TNoC rewrite that I was working on. The cat mascot below is from 'The Noblest Of Creatures: Stray Cat', which will be one of the most shocking and sad visual novels ever. I expect it to come out in the beginning of 2026. #art #vn #indiedev #game
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
“I’ll be gone before they serve breakfast.”

Emile comes on a bit strong for not-at-all suspicious reasons 👀 #LeftEye concept art by @sanorganes.bsky.social!

#art #illustration #vndev #lgbtq #queerart #visualnovel #indiegame
A picture of Emile, a short young man with curly hair, tilting his head up towards Alex, a taller young man with slicked-back hair. They are both wearing suits. The background is a red theatre curtain. The image is contained in a border with two small diamond patterns in the upper corners.
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
#steamnextfest was amazing! We’re so grateful to everyone who checked out The Left Eye demo! We tripled our total wishlists and the team is having a lot of emotions about it 😭 💕

#visualnovel #vndev #indiegame #lgbtq
The Left Eye on Steam
A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…
buff.ly
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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sesurescue.bsky.social
🔴LIVE NOW: Steam Next Fest LAST DAY🔴

Today we'll be playing the following demos!

Hermit and Pig @heavylunchco.bsky.social
The Left Eye @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Scrabdackle @jakefriend.bsky.social

Thank you so much to the viewers and developers for stopping by this week for all the demos!
October 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Our lead writer @conwaaaaaaay.bsky.social does some longer/weirder posting on our Tumblr if you're into that sort of thing, and they've got some thoughts on the #visualnovel demos that we played during #steamnextfest ❤️
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · SOME INDIE DEV FEELS FROM NEXT FEST <3 · So we're getting to the end of The Left Eye Demo being part of Next Fest, and it's been such a joy taking part in the festival! Honestly,…
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October 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
#steamnextfest starts now and we’re so excited to be part of it! We really hope you enjoy our demo of episode 1! 🖤

#visualnovel #amare #indiegame #lgbtq #gamedev
The Left Eye on Steam
A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…
buff.ly
October 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
The Left Eye is part of #SteamNextFest next week! If you haven’t played our demo yet, why not give it a go? 👁️🗡️

#visualnovel #indiegame #lgbtq #demo #vndev #begaydocrime
Promotional banner for Steam’s Next Fest. To the right is a screen shot of in-game art featuring two men and a woman ballroom dancing together, and to the left is the Next Fest logo and informational text reading: “The Left Eye/Haunted Trumpet” and “check out our game demo during Steam Next Fest”
October 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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wharthur.bsky.social
It's my birthday today! 🎈
Please check out my birthday sale so that I can afford coffee and cake and pay my bills!
itch.io/s/160877/wh-...
Photo of a piece of carrot cake.
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
#screenshotsaturday 🎵 we’re starting to wrap up the codependent dyke & tyke antics of episode 2 which means The Left Eye will be in early access soon! #vndev #lefteye #indiegame #indiedev
A screenshot of a visual novel, all in monochrome. The background is a 1920s diner. A young, chubby man is positioned in a diner booth and a dark haired woman is in the booth behind him, facing away. The text box indicates that the speaker is the woman, Jacqueline, and her dialogue reads: “Because I take care of you.”
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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visual novels are not easy to make. thats the devil talking
September 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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studiointerlude.com
September update for DEVIL'S LIMINAL is up! Check it out and review!

🖤 New memories from the islands
🖤 New characters!
🖤 Flesh magnets, how do they work?
🖤 Clara's childhood home
🖤 Relationships take an interesting turn...

#yuri #yurisky #indiegame #gamedev

store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/...
DEVIL'S LIMINAL on Steam
A demon's pact, a final summer. Yuri horror visual novel inspired by Azores folklore.
store.steampowered.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
It's been a little while but we're finally making some improvements in time for #nextfest! Here's a little #devlog about what we've been fixing lately: bit.ly/4nbQ19f

#lefteye #vndev #indiedev #gamedev
The Left Eye - Demo Update: Codex & Options Tweaks - Steam News
UI updates, audio description mode, and other minor fixes
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September 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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wharthur.bsky.social
My posts about my upcoming Kickstarter is not gaining a lot of traction. Please share if you can! 🙏
wharthur.bsky.social W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social · Sep 9
The updated version of Mud Ghost Estate, my spooky tumbling tower TTRPG inspired by Hong Kong folklore and urban legends, is coming soon to Kickstarter! 👻
Please give it a follow! 🙏
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate Redux with a QR code to the Kickstarter page. The background image depicts character entering a derelict tower block.
September 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM