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lavendeerstudios · 1 month
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Threads of You: Beyond the Bay demo available to play on Steam and Itch now!
1 broken down car, 2 weeks in a hidden seaside town, and 7 men waiting to sweep you off your feet.
Will you follow the threads of destiny in Brine Bay?
⸺ FEATURES ⸺
🏖️ Short & simple: Dive into an engaging narrative that spans an approximate 50-minute reading experience with 14,000+ words and replayability for different dialogue!
🏖️ Character Customisation: Shape the main character according to your own preferences, crafting a truly unique identity and experience through customisable sprite appearance, pronouns, physical traits, and a personalised backstory. Truly make them your own!
🏖️ Room Customisation: Transform your lodging in Brine Bay into a reflection of your taste and style!
🏖️ 7 potential love interests: Immerse yourself in romance and friendship as you cross paths with 7 potential love interests, seamlessly woven together into interconnected storylines that promise to keep you entangled in the intricate threads of love and destiny!
🏖️ Special illustrations: Indulge in 7 special and semi-animated CGs (and 1 mini CG!), specially drawn to enhance the experience with each of the love interests!
🏖️ Partial voice acting: Get fully immersed in Brine Bay where characters come to life with distinct and captivating vocal performances by our truly talented voice actors!
🏖️ Your choices matter: Navigate through a narrative where your decisions leave an important mark on both characters and story. Each choice you make may potentially alter their life paths and relationships with others!
🏖️ Special musical tracks: Enjoy our specially crafted soundtrack, with uniquely tailored tracks to portray each 7 characters and their different personalities!
Will you follow the threads of destiny in Brine Bay?
🌴 PLAY THE DEMO NOW! 🌊
➡️ Itch.io ➡️ Steam
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Something's Wrong with Sunny Day Jack - 2.0 Demo ( V.0.1 )
It's finally here...
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Or, part of it!
Work has started, but unfortunately-- we weren't able to get everything (or much at all) finished. This comes between compiling and making new sprites-- redoing old and out-dated CGs-- and implementing new, fresh story elements that pepper the story just so!
This is the first time since the original demo came out that we've actually gone back and re-examined the lore and made improvements based on additional experience, creative discussions, additional research, and more!
We'll be updating the Patreon and Kickstarter with more and more builds until the demo is officially "rebuilt". As of now, it's a one-person effort to rebuild it while the final game build is going through GUI design and building-- to be elaborated on in these next upcoming days!
For now, we hope you enjoy this sliver of what's to come! We'll be back in a day or two to give you a bit more information about what's cooking!
💛💙❤️ Download link available on our Patreon for all paying supporters! ❤️💙💛
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studioclump · 4 months
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"𝕊𝕖𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕥 𝕒 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕖…"
This new remastered version of Stillwater has a new point-and-click system, character animations, new endings, and more!
👻 available to play for free on itch.io and steam!
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pallisia · 5 months
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taking psychic damage (positive) (???) comparing current build of my vn to screenshots from last august
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celestialcrownsvn · 7 months
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Celestial Crowns Kickstarter - 3 days left!
The Celestial Crowns Kickstarter is live! 
Take the throne and save your kingdom with ancient magic in this amare visual novel! 
👑Customizable MC (body type / pronoun)
💍3 love interests with branching routes
✅ 9 personality traits
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nadianova · 8 months
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i am nadia nova. i make FREE gay and trans VISUAL NOVEL games because i am gay and trans. click the link in description and smash that subscribebutton and ring that bell icon
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snaccpopstudios · 1 month
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WIP: A Date With Prince Blossom!
Oh, it's been a long time coming hasn't it~?
🎨: Kandi_Bat on Twitter
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Back in the day we asked all of you some of the things that you'd like to see. Digital wallpapers have been checked out, Project DramaBoy has had an amazing amount of support and our Guest Artists of the Month (Look for the future ones!) Have been amazing as well! But what about mini games for you to enjoy? Well, we are here to deliver!
We've assembled a small team, separate from our main studio so as to not halt or slow down production on any of our other projects at all, and we are more than ready too start showing results! You can find the list of our team right at the very bottom of this post
We collaborated with Kandi_Bat, an amazing artist from the Sunny Day Jack community, to be our main artist for this game! And we have more to show than just this main menu and test screen to show! The script is fully ready and edited, every CG has been done! And now we are ironing out some of the smaller details to create a short and sweet experience for you to enjoy this upcoming march!
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The game will be available for all of our $12+ tier patrons as all of our other game content! If you are not part of the tier, the game will be on sale through our itch.io and steam pages, further confirmation of the price will be given later.
We wanted to create a short and sweet experience to experiment with, and this game will be the perfect way to do just that! If enough support is given you might see more of these, with even more original characters even~?
Thanks to all of you, and standby for more sneak peeks at the content for this little project of ours!
Producer, Editor: Biscuwuit Programmer: something_unholy Main Artist: Kandi_Bat (https://twitter.com/Kandi_Bat) Writer: Sam Rose ( You can find some of their work here: https://residentrabbit.itch.io/repurpose ) Background Artist: Kyotemeru GUI Artist: Ghost Sharky
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blacktabbygames · 8 months
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"Visual Novel" is a medium, not a genre. Most bad takes from both players and devs are from getting that backwards. But there's a reason for that: VNs are one of the few subsets of games where broad/common mechanics do ~not~ denote genre.
To use an example from a category that is a genre, when you say something is a FPS, you're immediately saying something about the core unit of interaction. Let's get even more specific and say something is a boomer shooter.
When you hear something is a boomer shooter you know:
1. You'll be spending a lot of time shooting. 2. That shooting will be fast-paced. 3. Aggressive movement
You can also generally assume the aesthetic theme will be something adjacent to sci-fi or horror.
When you hear that a game is a visual novel you know: 1. That you will read. 2. You might make narrative choices (but you also might not)
That's it. That's all you know. It's the equivalent of writing a book and then telling people "this is a book." Lots of things are books!
This is because the core unit of interaction in a visual novel is ~not~ a mechanic. It's the narrative. Which means that as a dev, you need to sell the fantasy of your VN, not its loose identity.
And as a player, "I don't like books a lot of books are smut" isn't substantial.
But because most categories of games do sell genre, it means a lot of devs market their work poorly and miss out on a large cut of potential players, and a lot of players miss out on some great narratives they might have loved.
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futures3lf · 8 months
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Me and my GF released a toxic-yuri horror visual novel: Absolutely Perfect Specimen!
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"Absolutely Perfect Specimen is a horror-yuri visual novel about the android maid Pan and her master Dr. Amy G Dala. Follow Pan over the course of a year as she struggles with insatiable hunger and bizarre dysphoria, all while discovering her past and grappling with her dark future."
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I put so damn much of myself into this story. Everything in my life surrounding love and sex and gender has culminated in writing this story with my beloved partner @ruinedpowers.
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We made it together over the course of 3 months for the 2023 VN Cup. It's about a lot of things I think the average queer person has dealt with, but also really personal shit pulled straight from my struggle with gender dysphoria and the way it can leave you confused, scared and depersonalized.
It's pay-what-you-want, about an hour long read silently, has a shit ton of art in it, and a haunting, perfect score by my girlfriend @ruinedpowers. I really hope you give a shot.
Content warnings on the itch page.
"You will cry."
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notoh-dev · 3 months
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A home invasion precedes the horrific house fire at the Noxton Guesthouse.
I wanted to share an early scene in Chapter Zero! Please check it out. Hoping to release the first chapter within the next couple of months.
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arimiadev · 9 months
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visual novel development guides
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I compiled a list of my better articles on visual novel development & marketing to make them easier to find on my blog. I also included a few links to other people's articles and talks that are great!
This list is mainly for my own stuff and an up to date list can be seen here.
making visual novels
How to Make Visual Novels
Game Development Checklist
VNDev Wiki’s various pages on development
strategies for working with teams
How to Find Game Jam Teams
making game development backup plans
Releasing 8+ games (ft. game jams) and when to take breaks
marketing visual novels
How to Market Visual Novels
Marketing Fundamentals for indie game developers
Marketing Visual Novels FAQ
Marketing your first indie game — What we learned from releasing the same game twice. (a Scarlet Hollow devlog)
The stairstep approach to indie game marketing
marketing visual novels - social media
Social Media Marketing Plan Template + Marketing Funnel
Social Media Marketing for Indie Games – 2021 Guide
Marketing Visual Novels on TikTok
marketing visual novels - press
Visual Novel Press-Kits
crowdfunding
Underutilized Aspects of Marketing Visual Novels
Marketing your Visual Novel for Kickstarter
publishing games
How to Make Your itch.io Page Stand Out
Tagging Visual Novels on itch.io
additional resources
5 Free Tools For Indie Game Marketing + Bonus
VNDev Wiki’s various pages on development (seriously check it out)
DevTalk+ (LGBT+ friendly Discord server)
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💖 Love can be found anywhere, even in a stinkhorn~ 💖
Your daughter can go on a variety of dates in Mushroom Musume: procrastinate the inevitable with a doomed socialite 🐈‍⬛, educate an alien in manners 🪐, or, shockingly, gallivant with another mushroom girl...! 🍄
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New CGs?
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There's a few new CGs available on the Patreon for all paid tiers now! Check 'em out now! ❤️💙💛
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herotome · 4 months
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Do you bleed? You will.
coughcoughahem-- another beautiful piece by my lovely REMNANTATION <-(website with glorious portfolio and commission info) @remnantation
Fun fact this was actually part of an art trade >:)
Warden can't wait to get a hot nosebleed in
Two Days
when the Super Demo comes out!!!
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pallisia · 5 months
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character profile progress
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konpeico · 6 months
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cause when i ride with you, i feel my love renewed
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Soul Restruct is a sci-fi action yuri visual novel. Grey, a retail worker with a journalistic eye for beauty in the mundane, gets brought into the exploits of the elementally-powered "New Six."
As the newly-appointed chronicler of this team, Grey follows along to discover the meaning of civilian disappearances caused by a horde mechanical beasts, and the ambitions of the Tyrants in control of them. (all screenshots not final)
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Soul Restruct will feature character and CG art by @jellyfishfortuna, background art by Ahruna and Nate D Hernandez, character designs brought on by the likes of khwany! On the soundtrack are @jamiepaige and @shadolith!
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@teffiniwynn is the lead writer, producer, and director on Soul Restruct! Els White has been a great help co-writing. Studio Coattails is handling voice casting and Syon Santeria the direction! We'll do character and cast reveals over the coming days.
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We're aiming to have a demo, and sometime afterward a crowdfunding campaign, in 2024! Stay tuned for further developments.
You can follow along the game's itch.io page as well!
We've also opened a Patreon if you want to support us in advance and receive extra development tidbits!
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Not only that, but @jamiepaige has also released a single featuring the main theme of Soul Restruct -- Love Renewed, with album art by @reverieque! Grab it here!
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