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Indie team developing Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow Wishlist our mystery visual novel on Steam and play the free demo: steampowered.com/app/2992580 Follow us everywhere: spicybread.carrd.co

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · Oct 20

👋 With so many joining Bluesky, we wanted to introduce ourselves. We're an indie team developing a mystery visual novel!

Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow grew from an original Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It's about:

🔎 Seeking truth
🙏 Embracing hope
↔️ Exploring multiple endings
🍞 Eating spicy bread

Title menu screen for game called Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. Buttons for "New Game," "Settings," "Quit"

Visual novel dialogue gameplay. Background is a bakery, foreground is three characters. Rondeau, a large man in a bright orange shirt, says "Blight, give 'em... The Special."

Visual novel dialogue gameplay. Background is a cozy apartment. There is a creature that looks like a turtle with flowers that the player can type in a name for

Illustrated map labeled "The Map of Ventreville." There's dozens of buildings, including one actively interacted with labeled "All Bread Patisseries (Main)

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · 8d

The food art in our game makes me hungry 🤤 (also the character who cooks is lactose intolerant lol)

Collage of colorful drawn food including Parmesan, scallions, lemons, butter, eggs, shrimp

Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · 12d

Here are a few letters you can find and investigate in our mystery game. Each writer has their own style and signature ✒️

#visualnovel #indiedev

Typed letter from the game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. There is a letterhead to Sion Gungand and it is signed by Babinski and Throckmorton Jones.

Letter from the game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow with handwriting font. Text says S, your request is being processed. Meet me at the rendezvous point at 10 Libra at dawn. M.

Typed letter from the game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. There is a letterhead to Sion Gungand and it is signed by Mother Amato Akechi

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · 14d

Some behind-the-scenes peeks at the brainstorming process for our visual novel art.

Are these kinds of posts interesting to folks?

Digital art of closeup stained glass windows on top of their setting on the church wall

Collage of brainstorming for Etisia art with various sketches and notes

Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · 15d

It's been awhile since we posted, but we're still hard at work on our mystery game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow!

Here's some new art in progress for our character Etisia 😍

What mood does it give you?

Digital art for the visual novel game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow featuring a cloaked woman gazing down at a book lit by candles, while in a church setting with stained glasa

Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · Jul 1

We're designing a tavern setting for our mystery visual novel. What would your tavern have?

Digital art of the colorful interior of a tavern with a music stage and plants in barrels. Two characters stand in the middle, a woman with a bright apron posing and a man opening a bottle.

Digital art of the colorful interior of a tavern with a wooden bar and tables and chairs.

Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · Jun 24

Play as six different characters in our upcoming game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. The vibe of each character's chapter shapes the style for the background art.

This is the moodboard for Etisia's background art 🎨

Moodboard 3 by 3 grid of impressionist landscape paintings. On top of the grid is a digital drawn character portrait of a blonde woman with a veil, white cloak and serious expression.

Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · Jun 20

Planning the introduction to our mystery visual novel Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. Play as 6 characters with their own stories to solve one central mystery. Does it look intriguing?

#indiegame #indiedev #interactivefiction

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy Monday! Hope you have the best day available to you ✊

Background art from indie mystery visual novel game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. Scene is outside a red brick factory during daytime. There is a potion bottle sign and solidarity fist poster on the wall.

Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · May 28

Thanks for the starter pack! Just followed everyone else and would like to be added please. We're working on a mystery adventure game and love the Bluesky indie dev community 💙

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · May 15

Team appreciation time! Elizabeth is the mastermind (and masterhands) behind all the character sprites for our indie mystery game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow.

Get to know her and her work👇

Collage titled "Spicy Bread character artist: Elizabeth" with self-portrait sketch in the center. Surrounded by four sections with images: Creative tool of choice is Photoshop. Artistic inspirations are Yamamori Mika, Jin Kim and Studio Ghibli. Some favorites are Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice, Lady and the Tramp, and Cowboy Bebop. "Hear me out" are Bob the Tomato and General Grievous.

Collage titled "Character sprites Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow" with two rows of 8 character portraits each from the game.

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · May 11

Happy mother's day to our game character Flaire Avidine! (And also to our irl moms 😉🫶)

Illustrated family portrait of characters from the game Ventreville: A Cute for Sorrow. Father, mother, young boy and girl. Text says: "happy mother's day. Flaire Avidine loves being a mom, a regular at the local tavern, skilled flautist, puts the effort in effortlessly beautiful"

Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · May 6

LudoNarraCon hosted an impressive slate of games. Let us know what you bought or if you tried any demos!

Photo of stuffed animal Blastoise next to a Steam Deck showing the LudoNarraCon page on the Steam store

Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · May 6

Fav LudoNarraCon demos 3/3

Psychotic Bathtub (@psychotic-bathtub.bsky.social)

The art direction + sound design is so evocative. I love how they play with text.

Check the content warnings and then jump in 🛁

store.steampowered.com/app/2517080/...

Psychotic Bathtub on Steam

Have a psychotic episode in your bathtub. Argue with a rubber duck, flood your bathroom and drown jesus. Find your very own ending – or all of them.

store.steampowered.com

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · May 6

Fav LudoNarraCon demos 2/3

The Séance of Blake Manor (@blakemanorgame.bsky.social)

The spooky vibe and gameplay pulled me in quickly. It's giving Blue Prince with hand-drawn art style, point & click manor exploration. There's different investigation systems.
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

The Séance of Blake Manor on Steam

The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...

store.steampowered.com

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · May 6

Three favorite demos from #LudoNarraCon, the celebration of narrative games by @fellowtraveller.games 🧵

Battle Suit Aces (@team.trinketstudios.com)

Great voice acting and fun music. Bright sci-fi world. Immersive tutorial. Runs smoothly on Steam Deck.

store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...