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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery

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Your scholarship is in danger, your friends aren't human, and something ancient awakens in the dreamlands. As reality becomes uncertain, questions of identity and transformation become matters of survival. Just another finals week at Miskatonic U.

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 28d

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the kickstarter, we’re gonna have so much extra art now! Well above the bare bones we need to produce a satisfactory result—this is gonna be great

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 17d

Fair. We do have some timed decision menus, which only work as a gameplay element at all if they block rollback, but of course we could get rid of those too I guess, but I like it as a jump scare

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 17d

I am told that people expect the ability to rewind visual novels, so we wouldn’t really need them at all in that scenario, but I also hate that and think choices should have consequences

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 17d

Ok question for the #gamedev crew. I think it would be neat to have an indicator by menu choices that shows dialogue tree flows like “this moves you forward” vs “opens a sub-menu of questions” or “exits a sub-menu”. These placeholder emoji are terrible of course. Thoughts? Good/bad idea?

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 18d

lockable choice menus

Visual novel screen. Weird gym background. Ethnically ambiguous character is thinking (Alright. That's enough sitting here and moping...)

Options are

(Getting the feeling that this day will never end if I freak out every time I see a monster. Let's play ball.) (Madness ≥ 50%;)

(I should go back to my room, lay down, and mope there instead.) [Madness < 50%)

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 18d

lockable choice menus

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Gundroog @gundroog.bsky.social · 19d

Sun Tzu in his Art of War once said "those who save consumables will be buried with them."

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 21d

who up finally making it to water polo practice

visual novel screen, a vertical text box to the left reads "Brody: Yo, Hunter! You made it!" In the background is a very strange and dilapidated gym. oh, and Brody, who's in the middle, is huge and green and has tentacles for hair and webbed hands

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 23d

Made a screen that’ll let us set really granular game states and jump around the story

Ugly checkbox screens showing lists of game state keys and inventory items like

C1_DONE_INTRO

cl_seen_beach

cl_seen_stealth

cl_seen_shrine

cl_seen_fortress_exterior

cl_seen_fortress_entrance

cl_seen_bas_relief_room

cl_seen_sculpture_room
cl_seen_control_room

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 27d

Seems like a nice chill spot to hunker down and finish the game, and not at all like a setting in the game

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 27d

This Chesapeake treasure is ours for $450K. The lighthouse at the mouth of the Potomac comes with 4BRs, hurricane-rated windows, and more than a little romance. Crab pots convey! #FridayNightZillow www.zillow.com/homedetails/...?

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 28d

Right back atcha!

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 28d

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the kickstarter, we’re gonna have so much extra art now! Well above the bare bones we need to produce a satisfactory result—this is gonna be great

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 29d

Last night to pledge! Every little bit makes the game that much better at launch 😇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/485...

Starspawn - Lovecraft Mythos Visual Novel/Dating Sim

Your scholarship is in danger, your friends aren't human, and something ancient awakens in the dreamlands. Welcome to Miskatonic U.

www.kickstarter.com

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · 29d

ewwww

Pixel art of a weird horned dinosaur skull fossil, but it’s got 8-9 eye holes of various sizes clustered together

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Sep 8

Yay he pledged 🫶

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Sep 7

Somebody just wrote on Kickstarter to make sure you can romance the boys. Yes! This game is gay as hell!

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · Sep 6

Definitely the sort of thing you say to your lord every time he comes up to you!

Jrpg dialogue

Citizen
I'm always splurging on women, so I never have any money for myself! Gahaha!

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Sep 4

No pressure obvs

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Sep 4

Seven days left 😱 we’re already funded but can we make it to a nice round number?? $20 gets you the game (when it’s done) and a Kickstarter exclusive story collection—and the exclusives only get better from there

Click through to read all about our gay little game!

Starspawn - Lovecraft Mythos Visual Novel/Dating Sim

Your scholarship is in danger, your friends aren't human, and something ancient awakens in the dreamlands. Welcome to Miskatonic U.

www.kickstarter.com

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Aug 28

Ice world!

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Aug 26

Very excited to see the character designs our top backers come up with for some of the big remaining NPCs. We got [spoilers], we got a helpful elder thing, we got a forest witch, we got a deathly ill magical librarian, we got a talkative ghoul,

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · Aug 25

If you’d like to help bring a mad AI character to life you should give us money for the character art and also get lots of exclusive goodies www.kickstarter.com/projects/485...

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Aug 23

I was worried this was going to take days ngl

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Aug 23

Got dynamic nighttime + lighting rendering working, that was quite an ordeal. Just gotta add variable dimensions which should be a cinch

A top down pixel map of a dorm common area showing a roaring fire and TV, at night, the room is dark but the darkness fades in a gradient from the light sources

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Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Aug 21

new tiles

Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery @starspawngame.com · Aug 20

Thanks so much!