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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁

@boscirusstudios.bsky.social

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🌲PNW based Dev🌲 •| she/her |• An indie dev working on Tales of Amythria, a fantasy visual novel with dragons! ✨🐲

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · Mar 18

Welcome to Tales of Amythria! A fantasy adventure #visualnovel about taming wild dragons, making new friends, and discovering a few dark mysteries along the way....

With that out of the way, a bit of what I'm planning next! (2/3)

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 1d

Have a tarot card design for #ScreenshotSaturday, as a treat

#gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 5d

In my happy place! Game art, apple cider and spooky horror game streams 😄😄

Hope everyone having a great Tuesday!

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #visualnovel

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 5d

Bouncing between Traveler's Rest and Baldurs Gate 3, tho I'm really trying finish BG3 this time lol

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 6d

When I write for Tales of Amythria, I never realize how much it feels like processing some of my own stuff through characters

Unfortunately this leads to my crying at my own descriptions of grief and loss 😭

#gamedev #gamewriting #indiedev #visualnovels

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 6d

If there's still room I'd love to join!

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 6d

Super excited to try this out next month!!

#indiegames #visualnovels

ENDYSIS ♞❄️ The Last Winter Knight ❄️ @endysis.bsky.social · 6d

A noble lord brings two squires along on a hunt. One is a gentle boy who should not exist. The other is a girl who dreams of plunging a dagger into her master’s heart.

Trail of Stars, our short and bittersweet fairy tale visual novel, is coming to Steam! 🌟

store.steampowered.com/app/4006140/... 🌟

Cover art for Trail of Stars. Two squires, one with long white hair and one with short reddish hair sit back to back, looking up at the stars.

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 7d

Who wants to join my support group for all those victimized by anti-aliasing on transparent pngs

For no reason, definitely didn't spent a half hour troubleshooting a solution on this today...

#gamedev #indiedev

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 10d

Back from camping and ready to continue development!!

Lots of edits to the script, art assets and implementation to gear up towards the demo release. While making time for fun fall-time activities hehehe

I'm also planning longer dev log posts on Tumblr!

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #visualnovels

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 13d

I know that feeling, you're gonna come out so much better for it though in the end!

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you that's so sweet 😊 I hope you've been doing so good!!

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 13d

Going MIA for a spot of camping for the next few days 🌲😊🍁

Talk to y'all very soon!

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you! I am proud of how far I've come in programming even with goofs like this lol

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 14d

Oh that sounds like a nightmare! Also not unlike the solution I had worked out lol, we all are victims to minor increment changes

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 14d

I finally got my dialogue system to be a lot more flexible and allow for much easier implementation of branching choice paths!

Only took like 8ish hours to figure out I just needed to tweak one line of code, after trying a ton of more complicated solutions 😭

#gamedev #indiedev #programming

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 16d

I've seen your videos on reddit, I'm so happy I get to follow this project here now!!

Such a gorgeous and unique art style I'm so in love with it, the team is doing great work!

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 16d

Super big congrats to the team!! It's awesome to get included in big events like this 😄

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 16d

Future me is gonna LOVE that sleep deprived me is about to do a bunch of narrative editing and writing

I just know she is so stoked about this

#gamedev #indiedev #gamewriting

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Lauren Taylor @laurenmt1.bsky.social · 18d

The Life Blood Demo is up!!

I cannot wait to see what you all think!

If anyone is looking for some games to stream tonight or through the week, go check out Life Blood! We will share them round 🩸

store.steampowered.com/app/2629670/...

#indiedev #indiegame #twitch #gamers #streamers #soulslikes

Life Blood on Steam

You awaken on the Altar inside the Life Cathedral. Life Blood is a first-person, Kingsfield-like action adventure game with a focus on exploration. Travel the interconnected world with fast-paced, rea...

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 18d

She looks so over spooky crap happening and I love it 😂

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 18d

What's everyone picking up on this beautiful Steam Autumn Sale??

I grabbed a copy of Year Walk and Along the Edge! Some good spooky, supernatural games for spooky month 🎃👻

#Steam #AutumnSale #Indiegames

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 19d

Heck I spent a few months on a completely different version of my game that all around wasn't necessary, we deal with this in every form 😂

Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 19d

Today, I made a solid asset list and schedule of release for the demo (to be announced!) and spent a few hours experimenting with some art style shenanigans that proved unnecessary in the end lol

Bit of a mixed bag all together

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #visualnovel

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 21d

I braved through my cold-medicine induced brain fog to sketch some ideas for the intro of my game demo!

To reward this monsterous effort, I will now be comatose in bed 😂

#gamedev #indiedev

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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22d

Right when I get a consistent schedule again I get sick whyyy

So many ideas, so much time, too much cold medicine to make it work

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