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Yuri Kissaten ❄ WISHLIST WINTER HEAT! @yurikissaten.com · 10h

Next Fest is right around the corner and we'll be updating the Winter Heat demo for it! (。・∀・)ノ

Wishlist our romance visual novel here if you haven't: store.steampowered.com/app/3429850/

#SteamNextFest #Yuri #GL #GirlsLove #GameDev #IndieDev #百合 #VNDev #YuriVN #Yurisky

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Sayorii || Visual Novel dev 🩸 @sayoriink.bsky.social · 13h

Death Dream has over 100 browser plays!! Thank you so much to everyone who played, and if you haven’t I encourage you to dive in this paranoia of a story! If you have any comments or feedback I’ll be more than happy to ready them
#DeathDream #spooktober #indiedev #VisualNovel

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azureXtwilight @azurextwilight.itch.io · 1d

#Giveaway!

Our #SpooktoberVNJam Onigashima reached 1000+ DLs + 3500+ Plays!

@akuakourin.bsky.social, character artist of ‘Onigashima’ will draw a bustup for the winner in the same style in-game!

Follow me + like the post to enter!

Comment your fave Onigashima scene to get xtra chance to win!

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🌾Beau Van Dalen | Author, 30+ Novels 💕 @beauvandalen.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to share this early look at Kaiser's sprite for my upcoming romance game, where you'll be able to romance both him and Elwood - only on my Secret Reading Club! 💕
www.patreon.com/posts/140705...

Amazing art by @vitadivata.bsky.social
#indiedev

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Voyia @voyia.bsky.social · 1d

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#indiegames #itchio #visualnovel @sayoriink.bsky.social

Standing Up To Your Nightmares | Death Dream

YouTube video by Voyia

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Sayorii || Visual Novel dev 🩸 @sayoriink.bsky.social · 2d

Just fixed some issue I had with voice acted lines! I forgot to add the line to actually execute them ;—; If there are any other issues let me know, but I think that covers it for now! Let me know what you think!

#VisualNovel #horror #DeathDream #spooktober #indiedev

sayorii430.itch.io/death-dream

Death Dream by Sayorii

Can you die in a dream?

sayorii430.itch.io

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BibiXP @bibixp.bsky.social · 5d

Since I love the music of "We Could Just Be Annoying", I've decided to post sneak peeks of each song, since I'm in a music mood! :3

This was one of the first songs I made, so it's similar to my "typical" music, just with more "noise" influence!

www.tumblr.com/bibixpgames/...

#music #vgm #ost

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · BibiXP - Demo Tape #1 Since I really like the music of "We Could Just Be Annoying" AND the music is actually quite important to the plot, I've decided to post little sneak peeks o…

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Taylor Fernandez @taylorsconfused.bsky.social · 2d

More The Wishing Book concept art courtesy of @haikuhello.bsky.social!

Haiku's design for Tristan helped define his character loads, and we actually locked him in very fast. Love this guy!

You can play (and rate, mayhaps!) the game here! itch.io/jam/spooktob...

#vndev #indiedev #visualnovel

The first sketch of Tristan. He is a small kid with zig-zagging hair in a short ponytail. He wears overalls.

A full-body sketch of Tristan. He has been made older, and his ponytail is longer. In addition, his hair is smoother.

A sketch of Tristan. He learns to the side and holds The Wishing Book in his arms, looking to the camera.

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🏳️‍🌈Border Breakers | Commissions OPEN @borderbreakers.art · 2d

NEW RELEASE! Our #SpooktoberVNjam #visualnovel is free to download and play! buff.ly/ie65I9p#indi... #gamejam #videogame #cryptid #indiegame #appalachia

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Studio Ephua @studioephua.bsky.social · 2d

📣Call for Content Creators & Streamers 📣

The Choose Wisely Festival drops this winter with a stellar lineup of 300+ of narrative games from your favourite studios and indie darlings.

Love games where choices matter? Sign up to collaborate with the event!

👉 https://forms.gle/Uu9sBDsYC6Yjoiz49

🔄✅

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Altila @altilaaa.bsky.social · 2d

It's #spooktobervnjam except my entry is not scary, not horror, and not spooky.

Anyway, this is probably my last post for [Moonlit Wizardry] because I need to be off from SNS for a while.

Play and rate! Please and thank you!

Link:
altila.itch.io/moonlit-wiza...

#vndev #visualnovel #indiedev

Moonlit Wizardry by Altila

[BL] Wiz A Wizardry!

altila.itch.io

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Lemon @ DevTalk @vndev.bsky.social · 2d

This week's discussion question: What’s your approach to creating background art for VNs?

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Crystal Game Works @crystalgameworks.com · 3d

Both of our boys love visual novels are on sale, but only for the next 20 hours!

💙 Slice-of-life story about TV actors going through their 20s: store.steampowered.com/app/2396400/...
💜 Melancholic story about cults, killing, and killing cults: store.steampowered.com/app/3139260/...

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bigmamafatcat.itch.io @bigmamafatcat.itch.io · 3d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival / Chuseok! 🌕🐇🎑🥮

(Yasha from our game Bound By Fate, which borrows a little from Chinese Mythology ✨️)

bigmamafatcat.itch.io/bound-by-fat...

#boundbyfate #boundbyfatevn
#MidAutumnFestival

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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 3d

A nonbinary college student finds themself on the verge of failing when a pair of women agree to help them, pulling them into their own relationship troubles & life struggles...

Twofold, our LGBT+ romance visual novel, is 40% off—the lowest it's ever been!

store.steampowered.com/app/1749770/...

3 anime style characters walk along an autumn grove outside
Twofold

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 3d

Got 100% completion on Long Live the Queen last night!!!💖👑

One of those games where it's going to live rent-free in my brain for months after playing. The worldbuilding, writing, art, & quality stat raising was such a joy!! MASSIVE inspiration for my own branching narrative design!🔥💖👑

#visualnovel

Steam achievements for Long Live the Queen. All 45 are unlocked. Some included in the screenshot are for finding all 11 deaths, a niche romance with a commoner, and facing a trial of your peers weeks before coronation.

Screenshot from Long Live the Queen, a visual novel with stat raising as its core mechanic. Four clusters of skills are shown (Social, Physical, Intellectual, and Mystical) with many subcategories for each. The screenshot is taken in the last week of the game, week 40, with victory assured despite only one quadrant of skills fully maxed out.

Screenshot from Long Live the Queen, in the player's room in the palace, as they pick classes for the upcoming week. The main character, Elodie, is shown in an alternate outfit for raising points in History skills. Her pink, spiral, twin-tail hair is tied back and decorated with a white flower and feathers. She's holding a quill, looking down from a pair of rectangular glasses. Her double-breasted, pencil-skirt outfit with puffy sleeves and sheer leggings also has a matching white floral belt.

Screenshot from Long Live the Queen. The player is savescumming out of their mind in the pursuit of all achievements. The load screen shows comically named save slots, with notes like "price of blood - FALCONMAXXED" and "before invasion." Not shown is that the player got to page 43, with 302 save slots used before 100% completion. She feared neither injury nor death and could not be stopped until killed (in 11 unique ways).

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Valhallions Games @valhallions.bsky.social · 6d

Truly Sublime - a spooky thriller visual novel 👻🎃🖤

A group of soul singers arrive on an island only to find it deserted and what should have been a simple audition descends into a struggle for survival.

#SpooktoberVNJam #ThrowbackThursday
doublefree.itch.io/truly-sublime

Truly Sublime by DoubleFree

An audition on a private island paradise becomes a struggle for survival for girl band

doublefree.itch.io

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K1LLJ0Y 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @killjoyconstruct.bsky.social · 3d

I also just finished another visual novel for #Jamsepticeye ! Play as a wo/man being consumed by a mysterious ocean disease -- and the only known cure turns recipients into fish/human hybrids.

killjoyconstruct.itch.io/eventide

#indievisualnovel #indiegames #indiedev #ocean #ocs #ocart

EVENTIDE by KilljoyConstruct

The ocean is changing you. You can't reverse it. But how you want to change is up to you.

killjoyconstruct.itch.io

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Altila @altilaaa.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder for us from Wizard.

Play here (don't forget to rate):
altila.itch.io/moonlit-wiza...

#spooktobervnjam #vndev #visualnovel #kineticnovel

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Lemon @ DevTalk @vndev.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Jammers! DevTalk and the Visual Novel Development Network now has a merch shop! You can buy stuff to commemorate your surviving of the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam, stickers, and future events!
vndn-shop.fourthwall.com

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Taylor Fernandez @taylorsconfused.bsky.social · 4d

The Wishing Book concept art incoming! All drawn by the incredible @haikuhello.bsky.social!

Here’s some of the Beatrice concepts! She was designed first, so we were feeling out the game’s aesthetic as well as her design with these.

#indiedev #vndev #visualnovel

Beatrice holding up a sword. She has shoulder-length, unkempt hair and no visible mouth. In her right hand, she holds a miniature hammer.

A sheet displaying various facial expressions of Beatrice’s. They are as follows…

- Smiling, eyes closed
- Shocked
- Enraged
- Crying

To the left of the frame, Beatrice is drawn from the shoulders up. She has big, unkempt hair and bangs. A thought bubble with a burger containing only lettuce is drawn above her head. The right of the frame, a bare bones sketch of Beatrice is drawn to lay out her proportions.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 4d

🔥13.5k word doc
✂️fully edited
💯over 100 comments in total from all of us at JWS
👌hype af and doin more art today lfgggggg

#indiegamedev #vndev #writing #writingcommunity #writesky

Screenshot of a Google Doc, containing the script for a monstrously long chapter Chapter 26: A Shot in the Dark. Color formatting is used with lower contrast to help editors rapidly identify code and comments versus the text they are there to edit. The length of the doc is immediately made obvious: an entire page of formatting notes, images for context, code from the programmer, and directions for audio and visuals occupies the full page.

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OTOJANG Games @otojang.bsky.social · 4d

ONIGASHIMA has BREACHED 600 downloads and 2K plays 😭
YOU GUYS CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY W THIS

🥺 but the gang is thankful nonetheless!!!
Every download = 1 more bun…

Please check out and rate our game here: akua-kourin.itch.io/onigashima

Drawing of the ONIGASHIMA characters in awe at a pile of buns labeled as “600+ buns!” On the top.
There’s a screenshot above it showing 600+ game itch downloads and 2K browser plays

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SweetSome Studio @sweetsomestudio.bsky.social · 5d

why i'm still working... anyway, here's devlog for September, enjoy!😊
www.patreon.com/posts/140413...

#indiedev #visualnovel #devlog #indiegame #gamedev

September | Dev Log #5 | SweetSome Studio

www.patreon.com

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Yuri Kissaten ❄ WISHLIST WINTER HEAT! @yurikissaten.com · 5d

Happy October 3rd. It's Alex's birthday come play a game with them!! 👾

You can get Love is in the Airship with a 10% discount during the autumn sale! ˋ( ° ▽、° ) store.steampowered.com/app/3170800/

#Yuri #GL #GirlsLove #GameDev #IndieDev #百合 #VNDev #YuriVN #Yurisky #DatingSim

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