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polly 🦈🩸 @deathbyulan.bsky.social · 2d

if you want to make a positive impact towards our indigenous communities in the US today, please donate or share the Western Alaska Disaster Relief fund. every single dollar goes to helping the displaced families following the devastating impacts of typhoon halong.

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

Donate to Western Alaska Disaster Relief here:

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ENDYSIS ♞❄️ The Last Winter Knight ❄️ @endysis.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Allie Vera @allievera.bsky.social · 2d

SO EXCITED!!!!!! 🥳

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✨ Ravenstar Games | Lost in Limbo VN! ✨ @ravenstar-games.bsky.social · 2d

🔮STEAM (windows, linux, MAC): tinyurl.com/y3y3h8uw
🔮 ITCH (windows, linux, MAC, android): ravenstar-games.itch.io/lost-in-limbo

Lost in Limbo Demo on Steam

Face the nightmares of your childhood and unveil the truth behind your summoning to the realm of Limbo. Fight your way back home with the help of seven deities sworn to be your protectors. Will love b...

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✨ Ravenstar Games | Lost in Limbo VN! ✨ @ravenstar-games.bsky.social · 2d

✨OUR EXTENDED DEMO IS LIVE NOW!!

✨ With 36k words of new content! (78k total!)
✨ New personality system!
✨ One-on-one scenes with your fav LI!
✨ AND MORE!!!

Links below! ✨

#LostinLimboVN | #indiedev | #otome

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Meiri Games 🎮🇧🇷 Game Dev / Queer Games @meiri.itch.io · 5d

[Announcement]

The demo of Doce Fim, the game I've been building up to for 10 years, will be out for free on itchio and Steam...

⭐ On October 21st, 2025! ⭐

I've worked super hard for 9 months on this, so I hope everyone looks forward to it! ❤️

Wishlist: s.team/a/3808270

#VNDev

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Studio Ephua @studioephua.bsky.social · 9d

📣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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✨ Ravenstar Games | Lost in Limbo VN! ✨ @ravenstar-games.bsky.social · 9d

Have you heard!? The first update of our extended demo is right around the corner with...

✨36k new words of content!
✨New one-on-one scenes with your fav love interest 👀
✨A personality system!
✨And more!!

See you there? 😌

#otome | #LostinLimboVN | #visualnovel

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💔 Saf 💔 @saffeine.bsky.social · 13d

Dicentra recently reached 10k downloads and this is a mindblowing milestone to me. Thank you to everyone who has give this little gothic game of mine a chance, this could not have happened without you 🥺💜

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Allie Vera @allievera.bsky.social · 13d

Say more?? 👀

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Velvet Cupcake Games @velvetcupcakegames.bsky.social · 14d

A lil' post for new devs on Steam. When you go live, you WILL get contacted by a ton of Steam Curators looking for keys. You should *absolutely* use Curator Connect (it's under Marketing Tools & Data) if you want to send keys to curators. This keeps your game out of the hands of resellers.

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 14d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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robobarbie @robobarbie.dev · 16d

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR PARTICIPATING!!! Sorry again that it was late, but it was fun to have a little shorter submission round this time. We'll see you in a few months (ON TIME) for #VeloxTurbo3 -- and winners will be posted in a thread in the jam as well!

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TheGreatBooBooSnatch @thebooboosnatch.bsky.social · 17d

Introducing Bodhi! The main love interest in our upcoming chatsim!!
Voiced by @/vincevaofficial on twt! 🧟

Anywhere But Here comes out September 30 on Snatch Gaymes!!!
#SpooktoberVNJam #indiedev #chatsim #datingsim

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robobarbie @robobarbie.dev · 16d

#VeloxFabula3
OVERALL
✨WINNER: A Garden of Impossible Objects by @skyshard.itch.io

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chochi / al 🐸 @rainslices.bsky.social · 18d

LETTER RECEIVED: FILM PREMIERE

A postman struggles with self-doubt at a magical letter exchange, only to discover the beauty of imperfection.

Link: youtu.be/YE-iRbre5XY

[ #animation | #shortfilm | #thesisfilm | #2danimation ]

LETTER RECEIVED | Thesis Film 2025

YouTube video by rainslices

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robobarbie @robobarbie.dev · 18d

Voting time is almost up for #VeloxFabula3! Make sure you get ya votes in before the end!

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sydvgm.bsky.social @sydvgm.bsky.social · 27d

My friend Trevor Lanford & I wrote music for this VN! Go check it out! #veloxfabula3

Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social · 29d

We had issues submitting last night (it turns out you can't submit a game to a jam whose page you don't own...) but we're finally in! Thanks robobarbie! I'll write proper promo stuff later. #VeloxFabula3
norbez.itch.io/a-sunset-nev...

A Sunset Never Truly Fades by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)

Two tiny people come across a house.

norbez.itch.io

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pam ✨ Celestial Signs Demo Out Now ✨ @pamsdrabbles.itch.io · 24d

Played every #veloxfabula3 entry, and truly impressed by everyone's creativity! Highly recommend giving them a shot if you haven't yet <3

After playing all the other entries ofc, check out In Full Bloom, our farming-sim inspired take on the theme Sentient Setting
saiyohara.itch.io/in-full-bloom

In Full Bloom by saiyohara, LemonInk, pamsdrabbles, Jon Wake

Welcome to your new life!

saiyohara.itch.io

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princess online @nadianova.fi · 18d

*kabedons you* hey. you don't need to draw to make a visual novel. just join a game jam and get to it. you are stuck in the labyrinth of perceived genre conventions. go read slime feet and snowcorpse necromancy. just make a visual novel you need no skills for it only time. just do it. do it scared

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 18d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Otome Lovers ♡ @otomelovers.com · 18d

Happy Game Release! ✨

Alaris is out on Steam and itchio! by @crescence-studio.itch.io

-Currently in EA
-240k words
-4 routes w/ 30-40 hours of playtime
-2 more routes to come
-A customizable protagonist
-Shape your personality with 4 different traits

store.steampowered.com/app/2099090/...

Save 10% on Alaris on Steam

Discover secrets long forgotten, and nurture relationships waiting to bloom. In a game inspired by the lore of Dragon and Fae, make choices that can shape your story, relationships, and even personali...

store.steampowered.com

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rice | Spooktober VN Jam @ricelah373.bsky.social · 18d

Hear ye, hear ye! Do you like horror and Philippine history? Swim upstream to our dev team 🎣

We’re looking for 2-4 artists (must be familiar with 2D pixel art)

Fish a DM my way if interested!

🐟More details below🐟
docs.google.com/presentation...

#gamedev #horror #indiegame #artist #art #indiedev

Game concept primer

LE POISSON Presentation by Marius

docs.google.com

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Allie Vera @allievera.bsky.social · 19d

OH MY GOD

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robobarbie @robobarbie.dev · 21d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEST 09/24 🍦🎉🥳🎂🎈 CANT BELIEVE HE GOTTA WORK ON HIS BDAY

Quest working at a maid café. Text reads: "hello.... welcome to cafe kitten...."

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