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I like watching movies. WINTER HEAT 👭❄️百合 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3429850/Winter_Heat/ https://beatricebaker.com - Me @yurikissaten.com - My games ENG / 日本語 I live in Kyoto!

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · Apr 3

I'm Bea Baker, writer and game designer.

I lead @yurikissaten.com with @fruz.quest, developing many #yuri games. You can watch 5 trailers in the YURI KISSATEN ESPRESSO showcase☕:
youtube.com/watch?v=APRn...

Support on Patreon: patreon.com/yurikissaten 😇

And check out my site: beatricebaker.com 👭

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 1d

This looks so good!!!

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Michael Moopcock @jesusgeist.bsky.social · 1d

this guy has won the Boonta Eve Classic a dozen times

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 1d

The expected problem with the rise of jargon and lore and multimedia is that casual fans have gotten the impression that a "shallow" understanding of a story makes them worse fans, which isn't true at all?? The idea that they MUST become experts via lore homework makes fans just give up entirely

Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 1d

The unexpected benefit of excessively deep worldbuilding is that you can eventually find a billion connections between each tiny work, and read the lives of characters across decades... Or see the rise of fascism in haunting detail. SW allows insightful vids like this:
youtube.com/watch?v=zaKA...

Was the Empire Redeemed By Pellaeon?

YouTube video by Corey's Datapad

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 1d

I've been rereading all the Star Wars Legends continuity comics (+some books, games, TTRPGs, etc.) the last 6 months, and it's remarkable how 200+ authors over 35 years worked together to make such a massive yet coherent world. And it constantly parallels real-life history and politics

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Rocco Botte @roccobotte.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of people around me making stupid fuckin decisions lately. Not me though. Killing it

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 2d

Going back and reading the old Hyperspace blogs on Wayback recently and finding that many of the lesser-known official creators have big chunks of their work unarchived has been an eye-opening and heartbreaking experience.

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Quill Yuri 百合 @ Double Date (Toronto Yuri) @quill-yuri.bsky.social · 5d

hi, we're Quill Yuri and we make yuri games! Looking for stories with women loving women? Look no further!

All titles on Steam: store.steampowered.com/curator/4303...

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

It's a bit pricier than garlic most of the time, but tossing some ginger into an instant pot for soup stock cooking is generally an amazing idea that results in extremely yummy stock

Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

Yes because I love the Toree series and didn't even know something went wrong with Saturn :(

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Justin Herschel | Commissions are open! @daydreamer94.bsky.social · 3d

Oops completely forgot about portfolio day. Here are some of my favourites

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

The general idea of Showrunner--create your "own story" within licensed IP--would fulfill my wildest dreams from when I was 11. But the tech is not there. It's not even in the ballpark of there. And interviews like this make these spokesmen sound like VR headset designers in the 90s.

Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

And the idea that some IP holders could prevent users from sharing the AI creations online and "competing" with the real IP... Not only is "competing" exceedingly unlikely, but AI output is public domain in almost every major country, and they're stepping into a huge minefield with this topic

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

3) Showrunner promises media companies a consistent walled garden with models trained specifically for one IP--but AI chatbots are extremely easy to break; that's their main thing. Vader in Fortnite saying slurs was *4 months ago.*

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

Sure, the AI model could just make some random stuff up, but literally any AI chatbot can make up a random blurb out of nothing--that takes 5 seconds.

What Showrunner promises is a world that feels alive and consistent to the user, but all that outside training data will make that impossible.

chatgpt prompt: write a short passage describing a character living on the planet boz pity from star wars

response: On the mist-shrouded world of **Boz Pity**, where ancient battlefields are overgrown with violet moss and crumbling mausoleums echo with forgotten wars, lives **Jessa Varn**, a solitary scavenger with a cybernetic eye and a past wrapped in silence. Once a battlefield medic during the Clone Wars, Jessa stayed behind after the Republic's retreat, haunted by the soldiers she couldn’t save. Now, she roams the ruins, collecting relics from long-dead droids and shattered starfighters, selling scraps to the few brave enough to land here. Her lean frame is wrapped in a patched cloak, and her voice—seldom used—is low and rasped by years of breathing Boz Pity’s damp air. The locals, what few remain, speak of her as a ghost in the mist—watchful, weary, and always listening. Jessa knows the planet remembers everything. So does she.

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

2) The Showrunner guy talked about Star Wars, like you can visit a planet only mentioned offhandedly in the movies via this app. But how would that even work? Boz Pity has like two sentences about it. There's no info, and you'd have to hire writers to fill in all the details. That, x100 for every IP

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

1) Showrunner promises models trained on only one IP, which is currently not even possible. Lionsgate's whole film catalogue isn't enough training data, people recently realized. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/24/l...

No media franchise has enough content for this. So you need lots of outside data too.

Lionsgate still can’t turn its movies into an AI video model

One year ago, Hollywood studio Lionsgate was selling its entire catalogue to AI startup Runway to train a video model. Lionsgate vice-chairman Michael Burns looked forward to “cutting-edge, capital…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

...where the app is these whole giant interactive fiction experiences where you can explore every facet of a big franchise and create your own fanfics with simple prompts. AND it's animated fully with AI? It's like my teenage dreams of the perfect adventure game... But just dreams.

Three points...

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

This is a really good interview Matt Belloni did with the Showrunner guy, because it's enlightening to just how delusionally--or deceptively--the people at the top of these sorts of AI entertainment companies talk about their products. Showrunner's talked about as a limitless yet guarded software...

Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 3d

New pod: The “Showrunner” app promises democratization of TV and Film creation using AI to make new Simpsons episodes or Twilight fan fiction with licensed IP. Are Hollywood studios on board for this? With CEO Edward Saatchi. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/7aQU...

Is the “Netflix of AI” App a Friend or Foe to Hollywood?

open.spotify.com

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 3d

Let's greatly increase the world of butch yuri. All of humanity will benefit

Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 4d

I donxt trust people who keep autocorrect enabled on their phones.

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

Have you tried the Oomfie RPG in the Winter Heat demo? (ง •_•)ง Here's some more enemies that you will meet in the full version! 💥
Introducing:
Nessie 🐉
Lieutenant D. 🐧
Squibo 🦑

Come try the demo here! store.steampowered.com/app/3429850/

#RPG #RPGDev #Yuri #Yurisky #GameDev #IndieDev #VNDev

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KigyoDev 🎃 SpookY2K out now! @kigyodev.com · 5d

Finally jumping on in time for my first #PortfolioDay!

I'm Kigyo, a visual novel dev, artist & programmer. I love creating weird little guys and gals, and putting them in horrible and/or hilarious situations. 😇

Support me on Ko-fi or by simply playing my games!

🖥️ kigyodev.com
☕ ko-fi.com/kigyodev

Title screen for Artificial Selection (mystery / death game visual novel with escape room puzzles), showing four characters in pink & blue lighting

Screenshot from SpookY2K (comedy / horror mystery visual novel) featuring 3 girls in Y2K Halloween costumes. The middle one says "Now, now. Don't pout, you two."

Screenshot from Deep Sea Valentine (yuri dating sim / RPG) featuring two girls in bikinis. A pouty character starts saying "I mean, it's Valentine's Day... And you and I have been close for a long time..."

Sticker sheet merch for Artificial Selection

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Bea Baker | Winter Heat - Yuri Visual Novel @beatricebaker.com · 4d

Nobody believes me about this but I was a major night owl in university until I had really bad jetlag coming back to the U.S. from a year in Japan and started waking up at 5 AM regularly. In over 8 years since then, I've woken up past 10 AM probably less than twenty times. I became a morning person

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Eternal Skies @eternalskiestcg.bsky.social · 4d

People need to realize that being a morning or a night person isn't like, hard coded into your DNA.

I used to be a stay up until 1-3 AM if not later every night person. Then I started getting up early and now I get up at 5 AM every day.

You can like, change it if you want.

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