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piamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · 17d

Fellow freaks, I am re-releasing one of my sickest stories into the wild, for free, for your reading pleasure.

ppiamo.itch.io/negative-resist

If you like non-con and omegaverse, this is for you. (BTW, the characters told me they consented to being non-con'd.)

Fuck your censorship #bskycensorship

Negative Resist by piamo

engineering filth

ppiamo.itch.io

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 13d

If I made a game jam for the silly/meme SRD Riviera: The Promised Land I'm working on, would y'all join? Want to know numbers before I move forward with any planning.
#TTRPG #TTRPGcommunity

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 14d

@farhorizonscoop.bsky.social Hi, I signed up for the game jam! itch.io/jam/the-rand... Can I have a prompt please?

The Random Prompts TTRPG Jam

A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-24 hosted by Far Horizons CoOp & Marx of High Water. Back in the early days of Far Horizons CoOp, we used to produce regular collections of short games. Sometimes...

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Sky Sengnaryvong @skysengnaryvong.com · 20d

A few firsts for me: Joining a game jam and voicing a character who is Mexican!

Grateful for the opportunity to voice Orion in “A Sunset Never Truly Fades”. Thank you to @norbezjones.bsky.social and the team for having me be a part of this heartfelt story.

Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 22d

We had issues submitting last night (it turns out you can't submit a game to a jam whose page you don't own...) but we're finally in! Thanks robobarbie! I'll write proper promo stuff later. #VeloxFabula3
norbez.itch.io/a-sunset-nev...

A Sunset Never Truly Fades by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)

Two tiny people come across a house.

norbez.itch.io

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sydvgm.bsky.social @sydvgm.bsky.social · 20d

My friend Trevor Lanford & I wrote music for this VN! Go check it out! #veloxfabula3

Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 22d

We had issues submitting last night (it turns out you can't submit a game to a jam whose page you don't own...) but we're finally in! Thanks robobarbie! I'll write proper promo stuff later. #VeloxFabula3
norbez.itch.io/a-sunset-nev...

A Sunset Never Truly Fades by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)

Two tiny people come across a house.

norbez.itch.io

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 21d

It's out now: norbez.itch.io/my-heart-is-...

my heart is a city. by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)

The roads go in a loop.

norbez.itch.io

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 21d

It's out now: norbez.itch.io/my-heart-is-...

my heart is a city. by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)

The roads go in a loop.

norbez.itch.io

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you for playing. I hope you appreciated it in some way.

Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 22d

We had issues submitting last night (it turns out you can't submit a game to a jam whose page you don't own...) but we're finally in! Thanks robobarbie! I'll write proper promo stuff later. #VeloxFabula3
norbez.itch.io/a-sunset-nev...

A Sunset Never Truly Fades by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)

Two tiny people come across a house.

norbez.itch.io

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Lemon @ DevTalk @vndev.bsky.social · 23d

Are you ready to RAISE YOUR VOICE?!

We're announcing today the Visual Novel Development Network (That's DevTalk!) is running our first ever RAISE JAM. Raise Jam, or Raise Your Voice Jam, is the first ever game jam focused on bringing voice acting to games first and foremost!
itch.io/jam/raise-2025

Raise Your Voice Jam 2025

A game jam from 2025-11-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by Stella @ MakeVisualNovels, MAHO! Studio, Ironnori & amarvelous. Like what we're doing? Consider a 1-time donation! The Raise Your Voice Jam is coming...

itch.io

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 24d

I've submitted it! Will wait to promote/share it though.

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 24d

I appreciate that Andrew, thank you. And that's very funny, because I've had an idea for a "playing with the English language" game since early this year that I've been keeping in my back pocket.
I'm making a small project discussing all of this that I'll share with you when it's released.

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 24d

This one's done. Writing the description will be the hardest part. But after that, I can submit it. #VeloxFabula3

A screenshot of my Velox Fabula 3 game "my heart is a city." On a black background is the blue outline of a heart with smokestacks sticking out of it. The white text reads, "My heart is a city, and in it, the roads are built in a loop."

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miseri @miseri.bsky.social · 24d

surprised myself and made a lil' game for #veloxfabula3! a short convo on a train that goes off the rails (and it's not the train... ik this a bad pun, let me live) enjoy! miseri-accordion.itch.io/stand-clear-...

stand clear, doors now closing by miseri

sometimes you just want a quiet commute

miseri-accordion.itch.io

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Sky @skyshard.itch.io · 24d

New visual novel for #VeloxFabula3: A Garden of Impossible Objects

Aunt Carmen had many projects. Now, with her gone, her garden is a graveyard. Mom is taking you on a road-trip to Carmen's place. Neither of you will leave the same.

skyshard.itch.io/a-garden-of-...

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 24d

Is this a new PRETTYBOY Inc game?

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HeartSync says play Heart.Marrow.Blood. @hsp-emtalks.bsky.social · 25d

Last time #VeloxFabula3 posting until the game is out, but by some miracle I finished it early?? I'm going to spend the next few days and see how much other extra stuff I can add to it that I want to do, but yeah!!

Excited to share Heart.Marrow.Blood in the next few days!

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 25d

Is itchio acting strange for everyone else? I've gotten multiple page loading errors, and just got a 504 gateway time-out.

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 25d

I have contacted & chosen someone for the role! I'll be saving this tweet to refer to again when I'm casting roles in the future. Thank you all for sharing your amazing talent with me!

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you. I'm going to be doing things different from now on though. I'm making a small project explaining all of this; I'd be happy to send you a link when it's done.

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Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 26d

I figured it out. It will be expressed in game form, like usual. #VeloxFabula3

Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 28d

Having the usual IFComp blues. It happens every year, and I hate that it happens every year, because I should have learned not to feel this way by now. I should have a thicker skin. I should be better. But I am not, and that makes me very upset with myself.

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HeartSync says play Heart.Marrow.Blood. @hsp-emtalks.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm not entirely sure what I'm making this time around for #VeloxFabula3 but at least I'm having fun!!

(every element in this screenshot is also still very much a WIP lol)

Screenshot of an in progress game. Shows a TV head with static spilling out its screen face, with wires attached to the back. It's set against a collaged background a cityscape. On the top right it reads "ON AIR." At the bottom is a textbox that has the name "Announcer" and reads "Where do people go when their city falls?"

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Naarel (play Passerine Hills: Just a Bite!) @ednaarel.itch.io · 29d

NIEZWYCIĘŻONA for #VeloxFabula3 devlog:
- didn't do a whole lot because I couldn't access my laptop for a big part of the day
- I think I'm approaching the end story-wise? like I don't see myself working on it for the full jam duration. also idc a lot, I wasn't meant to participate anyway lmao

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HeartSync says play Heart.Marrow.Blood. @hsp-emtalks.bsky.social · 27d

More #VeloxFabula3 posting but I have had way too much fun collaging the backgrounds in this game. I went straight maximalist and also made like 10 LMAO

The script is also 11k words??? Somehow?? Now I just have to put in the sprites and make a passable GUI

A surreal background of a city street. It has a camera overlay with glitch effects.

A surreal background of a subway. It has a glitch effect and overlay.

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ni.yow @ni-yow.bsky.social · 28d

[sketches] #VeloxFabula3

making a game about a living apartment and its residents,,, gawd i love character design!!

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