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Iron
@ironnorivn.bsky.social
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Visual novel dev, editor/proofreader, higher ed nerd, punster extraordinaire. Admin of https://vndev.wiki/ & VN jam statistician she/her 🏳️‍🌈 日本語OK https://ironnorivn.wordpress.com/
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Iron @ironnorivn.bsky.social · Apr 8
Lots of new followers lately, so hello! I'm Iron (she/her). I'm a visual novel editor/developer with a passion for stories that touch on the fundamentals of what it means to be human. I'm an admin for vndev.wiki, where I curate & create resources for VN developers!

See my latest/current projects ⬇️
Key art for visual novel "Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon" from Crystal Game Works. A woman with long, red-blonde hair is standing in a green field of grass and flowers, arms crossed and eyes peacefully closed. She's wearing a red Victorian dress with white sleeves. Around her are three men, the love interests from the visual novel. They are each wearing formal Victorian clothes - one in blue, one in green, and one in purple. They all have brown hair in various shades & styles. Logo for the visual novel "Spring in Her Step". Green bubble letters are on a pick background with white polka dots. The dot on the letter i in the word "Spring" is a small pink flower. A green leaf sits outside the background on the left, as though it's resting up against the rest of the logo. A screenshot of a CG from "Spring in her Step". A brunette woman with medium skin tone is excitedly twirling in an olive green dress, while a man stands behind her, giving a thumbs up and a goofy grin. He is wearing a dark blue collared shirt, and has medium-short red hair and freckles. The textbox reads: "Ty: Every cute girl needs a cute prom dress! What d'you think!?" The VNDev Wiki logo. One of the DevTalk mascots, Cherry, smiles in front of a library background. Next to her is white text that reads "VN Dev Wiki". Cherry has dark red hair, blue eyes, light skin, a purple shirt, and jack-o-lantern earrings.
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Iron @ironnorivn.bsky.social · 2d
i have scene your direction
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Meiri Games 🎮🇧🇷 Game Dev / Queer Games @meiri.itch.io · 10d
Are you trapped in convert/compress using shady AI-slop sites hell? Crying over updating dozens of file paths? Do Ren'py web builds make you want to scream?

Behold the latest in Anti-Suffering Technology: Free Yourself.

meiri.itch.io/convert-comp...

#VNDev
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 9d
#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
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Semantic MediaWiki @semanticmw.bsky.social · 9d
🎂 Celebrating 20 years of #SemanticMediaWiki! Born in 2005 by Denny Vrandecic and Markus Krötzsch, SMW has since then powered 1000s of knowledge bases around the world. Thank you to everyone who contributed code or otherwise! youtu.be/M5HoCqB6Fh0
#MediaWiki #SemanticMW #KnowledgeManagement
20 years of Semantic MediaWiki
YouTube video by Semantic MediaWiki
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incza 🌈 @inioli.bsky.social · 20d
OS Idol Win-chan 🖥️ ⋆.˚⟡ ࣪ ˖
Digital illustration of OS Idol Win-chan drawn in a colorful anime style. She is drawn inside of a windows XP screen. She's smiling wide with her mouth open, pointing a finger at a big cursor next to her. Behind her is the default windows XP wallpaper of green hills with a blue sky. On the top left, there are 2 icons - a PC and a file folder. On the bottom right is the trash can. There is a task bar at the bottom of the image. It shows an open program called 'incza.exe'.
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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 13d
On this day 2 years ago, Twofold was released on Steam & itchio!

Thank you everyone that has followed Olive on their journey through college and navigating the many relationships in their life 💚
3 anime style characters sit in a diner with a brunette green haired character looking out the window at autumn trees Twofold
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QTori 🍣 @qtori.art · 15d
Just relaying information thats been spreading around twitter regarding its new AI powered content algo.

If youve come over from twitter, Hi and welcome. Good to have you here!
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Lemon @ DevTalk @vndev.bsky.social · 17d
The Spooktober Awards Show is this weekend! Don't miss the culmination of DevTalk's biggest event of the year!

Join us as we reveal the winners of this year's competition - and award $3,000 USD in prizes!

Live with @chizukoyote.itch.io Sunday at 8pm Eastern: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIgk...
Spooktober Visual Novel Jam 2025 Awards Show
YouTube video by Chizu Koyote 🧭 V雑
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LilShpeeThatCould @lilshpee.bsky.social · 17d
TL Note: Chuunibyou means "Aura Farming"
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Iron @ironnorivn.bsky.social · 17d
…her husband and his husband? is lucie married to her brother now LMAO
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Iron @ironnorivn.bsky.social · 17d
Can’t wait!
vndev.bsky.social Lemon @ DevTalk @vndev.bsky.social · 17d
The Spooktober Awards Show is this weekend! Don't miss the culmination of DevTalk's biggest event of the year!

Join us as we reveal the winners of this year's competition - and award $3,000 USD in prizes!

Live with @chizukoyote.itch.io Sunday at 8pm Eastern: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIgk...
Spooktober Visual Novel Jam 2025 Awards Show
YouTube video by Chizu Koyote 🧭 V雑
www.youtube.com
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Meiri Games 🎮🇧🇷 Game Dev / Queer Games @meiri.itch.io · 19d
Doce Fim's demo is out!

Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this emotional visual novel. Will you open yourself to trust?

FEATURING:
⭐ A queer cast
⭐ Mental health themes
⭐ Voice acting
⭐ Cinematic camerawork
⭐ 4 hours of content

s.team/a/3808270

#VNDev #indiedev #gamedev
Doce Fim ~sweetend placebo~ on Steam
Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21d
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 20d
she truly is a queen
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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist 🏳️‍⚧️ @pavlovforgoths.com · 20d
here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update
Avatar whatacartouchebag Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image. 5d Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine. So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do: In the url bar, type in about:config It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue. One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top: browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy. The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.
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OffKai Expo | VTuber Convention @offkaiexpo.com · 22d
Surprise 🎉
#OffKaiGen5 will be July 24-26, 2026 at the San Jose Convention Center! ✨

Save the date and come celebrate with us! 🎡🎪
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23d
i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23d
i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.
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Crystal Game Works @crystalgameworks.com · 23d
🦇 new devlog 💕

Today we're taking a look at the progress on Day 5 in Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon! Lucie has a Very Normal lunch with Elm and Cecil...

Read it here: crystalgameworks.com/october-2025...
OCTOBER 2025 DEVLOG Day 5 Progress & Festivals
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Iron @ironnorivn.bsky.social · 22d
Discord screenshot. aine: “anime girls with volcanos on their heads playing uno?” Iron: “yes aine. and they’re giving me an existential crisis”
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arimia @arimiadev.com · 24d
my friend is running her own Steam festival and is searching for streamers & press to help cover the event! if you enjoyed Fall in Love Festival & Otome Games Celebration, you'll love hers as it's focused on choice-driven narrative games (esp visual novels)💖

sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Choose Wisely Press / Content Creator Form 2025
This is a form for streamers, content creators, and press interested in covering the 2025 edition of the Choose Wisely Festival. The Choose Wisely Festival is a choice-based narrative games celebrati...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23d
Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.

Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.

bsky.app/profile/eva....
eva.computer eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 23d
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Xan @comicsbyxan.bsky.social · 23d
Playing Legends ZA and Naveen just blindsided me with those he/him pronouns

It's cool though, it's about time we got some he/him lesbian representation
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Theo @ PLAY TWOFOLD PARALLEL @theo.twofold.page · 24d
HOWDY! 🎉
Come join us for a fun game dev stream where we celebrate Twofold's birthday by making a visual novel! 🖥📝

⬇ More details below!
Yeehaw! We're celebrating Twofold's second birthday! Join us October 27th, 6:30pm PDT for a stream we we make an O2A2-style Twofold game... with a wild west twist! Come say howdy! https://twitch.tv/minyate
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arimia @arimiadev.com · 25d
you should play the demo for my woke otome game about Victorian vampires
store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...
capsule image of Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon. underneath it says: NOT RECOMMENDED Woke content.
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polly 🦈🩸 @deathbyulan.bsky.social · 27d
if you want to make a positive impact towards our indigenous communities in the US today, please donate or share the Western Alaska Disaster Relief fund. every single dollar goes to helping the displaced families following the devastating impacts of typhoon halong.
adriftalchemist.bsky.social CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 28d
Donate to Western Alaska Disaster Relief here:
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