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Princess Astertiae @ Writing HARLOWE GAO @princess-astertiae.bsky.social · 7d

Just for fun! It's a fun project, I think, definitely much more lighthearted haha

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Princess Astertiae @ Writing HARLOWE GAO @princess-astertiae.bsky.social · 7d

thank you!

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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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moka 💖💙 @mokadevs.itch.io · 7d

you mightve thought that since its been like 2 months since i posted this id stop be annoying about promoting it. but im not. okay? learn about subverting genre expectations and being on the same playing field as a game's protagonist

moka 💖💙 @mokadevs.itch.io · Jul 28

Why Game Designers Should Lie to You

If it's for the sake of art it's probably fine, or something; a video about subverting genre expectations, for better or for worse #gamedev youtu.be/_kLyy65b7cM

A thumbnail for a youtube video. The words "its for your own good" are imposed over the iconic Stanley Parable doors, which are glowing. An anime girl is peeking out from the bottom of the screen.

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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 7d

Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery is out now on Steam & itchio, so let's see what the reviews are saying!

Pick up the game now to see for yourself: store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/...

WannabeWeeb
Recommended
3.2 hrs on record
Posted: October 1
A story about 2 aging women and their 'basically-adopted-daughter' kicking gelatinous evil butt, I knew going in this was going to be a good one but my word the story, the art, the music, everything is so well realized
10/10, Would #stannina and 100% the game

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Princess Astertiae @ Writing HARLOWE GAO @princess-astertiae.bsky.social · 7d

I LOVED THIS SERIES AS A KID

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Princess Astertiae @ Writing HARLOWE GAO @princess-astertiae.bsky.social · 8d

I've written more in [redacted] the past two days than in Harlowe SOBS sometimes it's just like that I guess

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 9d

From: Patlabor 2 (1993), dir. Mamoru Oshii, Production I.G

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KigyoDev 🎃 SpookY2K out now! @kigyodev.com · 9d

🎃 SpookY2K is out now! 🎃 #SpooktoberVNJam

You wake up on a cold bathroom floor, only to discover that you time travelled to a Halloween party in 1999!

As you get closer to the other guests, will your clueless involvement let the party take a deadly turn? 🔪🩸

🦇 PLAY HERE: kigyo.itch.io/spooky2k

A title screen showing a girl doing a peace sign on the floor, surrounded by a chalk outline meant for a corpse

Two girls pouting, with the third in the middle saying "Now, now. Don't pout, you two."

A man seductively leans into the screen, while three choices are displayed: "Go for it", "Do nothing", and "Kill him"

A relaxed skater dude stands in the kitchen, saying "Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is... thanks"

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perp 🔺B-FER: PRIME CUT DEMO OUT NOW @perpetuareality.com · Jul 14

hi yall. i made a vn for #toxicyurivnjam!
its about two office women who hate each other stuck in an elevator together.

its my first time finishing a vn by myself so hope you like it <3

🔞⚠️ BE WARNED: THIS VN HAS SEXUAL CONTENT. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED

perpetuareality.itch.io/pressure-coo...

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xiruo @xiruo.bsky.social · 9d

hello blue sky, are you ready for a game with no blue skies?

Download Dead Stock for [Free] and save up to 50% or MORE if you qualify as [Dead]!
Work through random mazes to gather supplies, earn money, and get those SWEET [Gains]!!
no-xiruo.itch.io/dead-stock

📦📦📦
#SpooktoberVNJam #indievn #vndev

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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 9d

Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery released just a few hours ago! Have you started your journey as a magical girl yet? ✨

💖 Play our next yuri game now: store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/...

anime style illustration of a pair of magical girls on a rooftop at night

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iby @burgeroise.bsky.social · 9d

hewwo i am getting married this month (yippee) and the legals are hundreds of dollars and my tablet i draw on is dying (not yippee) so now would be a great time to meet and pet bell and my other little weirdos for fifteen usd burgeroise.itch.io/coquette-dra...

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🌵🌺 mado 🌺 🌵 @madocactus.itch.io · 9d

do you like:
- gay magical girls
- gay married magical girls
- gay married magical girls solving grisly murder mysteries in chicago

if so. do WE have the visual novel for YOU

Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 9d

Fight crime, be gay—do things the magical girl way! 💖

Our latest yuri game, Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, is out NOW✨ Follow a pair of married magical girls on one last mission to solve a string of murders before their powers fade for good.

Play it: store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/...

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JILLIAN F. KILLS @killjill.itch.io · 9d

wrote up a postmortem for both FAITHLESS//FLAGELLANT, and the Toxic Yuri VN Jam! I somehow typed up 4.5k words for this.
killjill.itch.io/faithlessfla...

F//F + TYVNJ Postmortem

Well! It's finally done. With the judge's picks being finally made as naked as nude, Toxic Yuri VN Jam has officially come to a close. What a wonderful thing it was, but I can't say I'm not relieved!....

killjill.itch.io

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Princess Astertiae @ Writing HARLOWE GAO @princess-astertiae.bsky.social · 9d

unfortunately cooking up a new (hopefully very short) vn idea...

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bluzo @63choux.bsky.social · 11d

new comic!
maintenance, 19 pgs.
it's morning, a routine starts.
🌊 read here 🔧
< #art #oc #comic >

Comic cover. Titled "Maintenance". Abstracted illustration of two boys sitting on a pier, looking out over the water.

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isa🌻🔔🎃🎀🔩 @fawx.plus · 10d

fail woman yurislop isahime.itch.io/ofpiersandbays

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sisi jiang / 姜思琪 @six6jiang.bsky.social · 9d

before you say “well losing EA is no big loss”

1. shut the fuck up
2. people have families to feed
3. games such as hades only exist because the studio cofounders met while they were at EA. studios that make games you don’t like are still enormous institutions of gamedev experience and knowledge

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cicadaqueen @cicadaqueen.buzz · 15d

Things are extremely difficult for me right now, but I'm trying to push forward and find a way through it all. If you can help, any amount would be appreciated, or even just sharing it around...

gofund.me/e92711a98

Donate to Violet's Work and Mental Health Crisis, organized by Violet Rin

My name is Violet, I live in Vermont and I am dealing with a very difficult time. I … Violet Rin needs your support for Violet's Work and Mental Health Crisis

gofund.me

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malaika ᓚᘏᗢ? @ophanimkei.com · 13d

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ DOLLMAKER JAM ♡ to revive the art of making ocs in Dollmakers as god intended (scripts and tutorials included for beginners!!)

TAG »-♡→ #dollmakerjam
HOP IN »-♡→ itch.io/jam/dollmake...

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mischief thursday @rainy.house · 13d

TOMORROW (in 25 hours about)

mischief thursday @rainy.house · 17d

www.twitch.tv/killjillvt in ~5 days

join yuri toxicologist jillian f kills and lever technician thursday rain for the toxic yuri vn jam award presentation, saturday sept 27 5PM edt / 9PM gmt

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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 13d

Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery releases in 4 days!

Sherri uses her magical girl powers as a private detective, able to sleuth out what normal people can't. How will she use her powers one final time to solve a string of murders...?

💖 Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/...

a brunette woman in a suit smiles on a tarot card bio with Chicago behind her.
Sherri Cohen
STRENGTH
DOB: 7 January 1990
Hobby: Collecting stuffed animals
Favorite Food: Coffee Cake
A former Magical Girl turned private eye, Sherri "Sherlock" Cohen uses her powers of clairvoyance to solve crimes nobody else can.
Logical, tough, and self-reflective, Sherri has a soft and sensitive side that only her wife Kealey is allowed to see. However, the uncertain future of a life without powers will test her resolve more than anything has before.

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星空★lone @hoshizoralone.bsky.social · Sep 4

[mahoyo] a special treat

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Taylor Fernandez @taylorsconfused.bsky.social · 16d

DevTalk's annual Halloween visual novel jam is nigh, which means it's time to talk about the game I'm directing: The Wishing Book!

I'd like to introduce our two leads, starting with Beatrice! You'll be playing from her P.O.V., subject to all her thoughts...

#indiedev #visualnovel #vndev

Beatrice, a woman with massive, unkempt purple hair and tired eyes wearing a weaponsmith's getup sits at the right of the frame. A textbox to her left reads...

"Ever-diligent and disciplined, Beatrice is the very definition of a hard worker. As a matter of fact, she spends most of her time working... and when she isn't, she's either power napping or taking care of her younger brother."

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