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Geneva/Styx @ Skate & Date Out NOW!! @gensuta.itch.io · 5d

TOMORROW!!! Skate & Date Releases!!

I know it took a bit to reconfigure the release date because of Google Play having some issues and me being stubborn about releasing it separately but. It is what it is

Anyway! Tomorrow, Steam/Itch.io will get Skate & Date for Mac, Windows, and Android!!!

A drawing of the main character of Skate & Date (Maggie) smiling with her arm raised and flexed. There are purple silhouettes of her teammates in the foreground.

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Catarina @catarinaeusebio.art · 5d

It's still hot around here but I am hopeful, ok??

Template with mobile phones and a wallpaper of a ghost in a mug in them. The tea label says "Boolong Tea" and has a little skull. I'm so clever, I know. The mug itself has a pumpkin, flowers and leaves.

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 5d

This is so cute!!

Kylie @kymira.ca · 6d

Yessssss, we gotta! And that will hopefully lead us to even more games!

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 6d

QRP with your skull art 💀

A black on beige forward facing skull card titled The Dead Man. Text on the card reads: Instead of dealing the Landscape from the Season Decks, deal 12 Mires.

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Renee! DEVIL'S LIMINAL early access out now! @studiointerlude.com · 6d

Made a post on Patreon about the September game update, QGCon, Hungry Ghost Festival, and Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival! It has been quite a month.

www.patreon.com/posts/140275...
(preview image is a little hint at what's new in game)

#indiegame #gamedev #yuri #visualnovel

Big September Update | Studio Interlude

www.patreon.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 6d

Trying extremely hard to not get as emotionally invested in the new outdoor neighbor cat because it went bad last time. Failing 😭😍

A young striped cat playing with a metal cylinder next to a fridge.

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Spectralqueen [Lowpoly Vtuber] 🏳️‍⚧️🤜 @gauntletqueen.bsky.social · 7d

And it's one if not the best visual novels thanks to its incredible animation and INCREDIBLY emotionally resonant storytelling!!

KO_OP @ko-op.com · 8d

Do you want gayer games with gayer graphics made by gay people paid more to work less? Goodbye Volcano High is half off during the Steam Autumn Sale 🏳️‍⚧️

store.steampowered.com/app/1310330/...

Save 50% on Goodbye Volcano High on Steam

Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is...

store.steampowered.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 7d

Another cool encounter from #qgcon was meeting Zoey and learning about her podcast @trueavatars.bsky.social !

She interviewed me about Love in the Time of Spellphage for the conference episode which is out now!

True Avatars - A Queer Video Game Podcast @trueavatars.bsky.social · 9d

I went to a conference in Montréal this weekend and it was ***entirely*** focused on ✨queer games✨

I played demos, got some interviews, and vibed with some very cool queer ppl!!

🤩 CHECK OUT THE VIDEO VERSION HERE (audio links in 🧵):

youtu.be/V2H2oAnrRpg

Ep. 53 - I went to the Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon) and it was INCROYABLE!

YouTube video by True Avatars - A Queer Video Game Podcast

youtu.be

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 7d

Instantly hooked on The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. Have read a few books with some great world building this year and this one definitely fall into that. Gonna be sad when I finish it and need to wait for the rest of the series T_T #booksky

Book cover of The Raven Scholar. White etched raven on a purple background.

Kylie @kymira.ca · 8d

I hope you had smooth travels and a nice last day in the city!

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 8d

Also played @gensuta.itch.io's Skate and Date demo. It’s so cool to see indie rhythm games! Especially with cute gays.

store.steampowered.com/app/1033380/...

Skate & Date on Steam

Skate & Date is a roller derby, rhythm ga(y)me where you play as Maggie, the lead jammer of the Rockin' Rollergirls! She has a bit of a crush on Patricia – one of the opponents on the rival team. ...

store.steampowered.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 8d

We also checked out @wick.works Lancer Tactics game so now we know what the Lancer TTRPG is! This game looks so good! Build a team of mechas and make them fight using the Lancer ruleset.

wick.itch.io/lancer-tactics

Lancer Tactics by Olive, Mark Carpenter, Josh Boykin

Mecha RPG adapted from Lancer tabletop

wick.itch.io

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 8d

On our other side we had @unquietgames.bsky.social and their game Banned Together. A puzzle exploration game taking place in a college library with a very unique focus mechanic I can see future games trying to mimic!

bsky.app/profile/unqu...

Unquiet Games @unquietgames.bsky.social · Jun 7

Our debut game Banned Together is now available to wishlist on Steam! 📚💕 If you like puzzles, libraries, or messy queers on a mission, this one’s for you. Demo coming soon ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/3551960/...

Banned Together on Steam

A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.

store.steampowered.com

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 8d

Next in our line of VNs was Priro Productions’s Prince Rosalium, Parfum Nostalgique. He's a therapist, he's a vampire, he's 265 years old, and he's having a midlife crisis.

Please check out their beautiful old-styled internet website while you’re at it: priro.pro

bsky.app/profile/prin...

Prince Rosalium, Parfum Nostalgique Dev🌹✨️ @princerosalium.bsky.social · Oct 17

I'm Rosario, Prince Dev of Parfum Nostalgique, a visual novel dram-com series about the fantastic, dramatic, romantic, traumatic life of a 265-year-old therapist-by-day dom-by-night vampire. ✨️❤️

Available for download or play in browser!
priro.pro/

An absolutely ridiculous blobby black cat with horrifyingly human eyes (very cute)

A beautiful person with warm and inviting green eyes in a wedding dress and veil covered in glitter and bathed in sunlight. There is a visual novel text box underneath that reads "Are you afraid of flying?"

A portrait of a vampire with long blonde hair, red lipstick, and long red nails wearing a BDSM harness holding a violet wand. He is covered in black lipstick kiss marks. There is a visual novel text box with the beginning of a line from Antony and Cleopatra (Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies...)

Three characters lined up in a row. Dash, who has green hair and is wearing a pink butterfly top, butterfly sunglasses, and tight pink pants with a whale tail thong, Saturday, whose hair is in an afro and is wearing a yukata ensemble featuring an adorable ocean fish pattern, and Val, who is a tall blond vampire in a sheer turquoise crop top with red heart pasties, leather pants, fingerless gloves, and a razor blade necklace. There is a visual novel text box that reads "Val: You see, I'm quite good at getting rich people into cages."

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 8d

Wanna hype up our cool table neighbours, @studiointerlude.com with the game DEVIL'S LIMINAL. A VN with such a dark and unique visual style that makes it instantly stand out.

bsky.app/profile/stud...

Renee! DEVIL'S LIMINAL early access out now! @studiointerlude.com · 14d

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

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 8d

Had a big weekend at @qgcon.bsky.social ! Spent all our time in the arcade showing our game and playing the games of cool indie devs!

So nice to have a masked event.

QGCon poster with a masked unicorn. Reads: QGCon2025 Please Wear Your Mask!

Photo of our booth, two laptops open. One to the screen of Fateweaver and the other to Love in the Time of Spellphage. There are headphones and controllers and wires all over.

Photo of the posters up in the arcade covering the rules of the zone.

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The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · 27d

A big thank you to our second sponsor, Montreal's own Pixelles! None of this would be possible without our sponsors' generous support. Please give them a follow at @pixellesmtl.bsky.social

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 13d

UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈

This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers."

We hope to see you there! #QGCon

Flyer that reads: "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers" with QGCon and UVW-CWA logos at the bottom.

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Ashley Gwinnell @ashleygwinnell.bsky.social · 13d

Indies! Are you prepared for #SteamNextFest? 🕹️

If you'd like a quick 10–step marketing sense-check, expand this post here: 👇 📌

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14d

Consume Me is finally out! This game blew me away when I looked at it for IGF. It deals with the real pressures of growing up as a teenage girl while telling that story through a whirlwind of delightful QWOP-like minigames. It’s charming and fun and smart and I hope everyone checks it out.

Consume Me on Steam

did you feel stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school? well i did...but at least i made a life-simulation RPG about it!

store.steampowered.com

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Rocket Adrift Games | WISHLIST Dead Finger Dice on Steam! @rocketadrift.bsky.social · 14d

Fall in Love Visual Novel Fest starts today! Be sure to check it out on Steam @ 10 am PT// 1 pm EST!
#otome #visualnovel #gamedev #raptorboyfriend

Text reads "Fall in Love With... Robert Raptorson. Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance SEP 24 - OCT 1 Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival". Features a colorful, hand drawn scene of the outdoors at sunset, with the titular character Robert the Raptor staring out at the viewer with a casual pose, wearing a Letterman jacket.

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 16d

Work Slack has an emoji to react with for 'no problem' but I need an emoji for 'yes problem'.

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 17d

I haven't been super active on Bluesky but in 4 days I'm gonna be even less active 👁️

Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social · 17d

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Kylie @kymira.ca · 17d

Our first event as a studio! 😱

studio wtchcrft @wtchcrft.com · 17d

NEXT WEEKEND!

We'll be at @qgcon.bsky.social demo-ing Love in the Time of Spellphage, our alternative magical Montreal pandemic story 🔮

Come by and chat, we'll have stickers 🌟

QGCon socials template with the Steam capsule for Love in the Time of Spellphage in the middle. Beneath it says studio wtchcrft @ QGCON 2025

A pile of circle stickers on a table with a goblin on them. Orange text reads "No Goblemo"