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Iron
@ironnorivn.bsky.social
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Visual novel dev, editor/proofreader, higher ed nerd, punster extraordinaire.
Admin of https://vndev.wiki/ & VN jam statistician
she/her 🏳️‍🌈 日本語OK
https://ironnorivn.wordpress.com/
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Iron @ironnorivn.bsky.social · Apr 8
Lots of new followers lately, so hello! I'm Iron (she/her). I'm a visual novel editor/developer with a passion for stories that touch on the fundamentals of what it means to be human. I'm an admin for vndev.wiki, where I curate & create resources for VN developers!

See my latest/current projects ⬇️
Key art for visual novel "Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon" from Crystal Game Works. A woman with long, red-blonde hair is standing in a green field of grass and flowers, arms crossed and eyes peacefully closed. She's wearing a red Victorian dress with white sleeves. Around her are three men, the love interests from the visual novel. They are each wearing formal Victorian clothes - one in blue, one in green, and one in purple. They all have brown hair in various shades & styles. Logo for the visual novel "Spring in Her Step". Green bubble letters are on a pick background with white polka dots. The dot on the letter i in the word "Spring" is a small pink flower. A green leaf sits outside the background on the left, as though it's resting up against the rest of the logo. A screenshot of a CG from "Spring in her Step". A brunette woman with medium skin tone is excitedly twirling in an olive green dress, while a man stands behind her, giving a thumbs up and a goofy grin. He is wearing a dark blue collared shirt, and has medium-short red hair and freckles. The textbox reads: "Ty: Every cute girl needs a cute prom dress! What d'you think!?" The VNDev Wiki logo. One of the DevTalk mascots, Cherry, smiles in front of a library background. Next to her is white text that reads "VN Dev Wiki". Cherry has dark red hair, blue eyes, light skin, a purple shirt, and jack-o-lantern earrings.
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ghostynewt.bsky.social
sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣
Screenshot of an email: Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request To: me Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;; I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15. According to our records, 1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable. 2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜 If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!) —- Regards, ___ (🏳️‍⚧️she/her, UTC -5) Partner Infra Platform Experiences team As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workday™ New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account! Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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crystalgameworks.com
Our latest otome game, Mari's Magical Deliveries, is still on launch discount! Grab it while it's on sale for our cute romance visual novel with 3 love interests to choose from 💖

Play it now: store.steampowered.com/app/3563380/...
Kairina "Ah, Mari!! Always a witch around the corner when you need help."
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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narrascope.org
The 2026 Narrascope website is live!
narrascope.org
NarraScope 2026 | A Hybrid Conference on Interactive Narrative
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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solarprotag.bsky.social
Happy Mari's Magical Deliveries release day!

Crystal Game Works reached out to put it and Forget Me Not into a bundle, so you can get both of our Magical Daily Life games for a discount over on Steam!
Halfbody illustration of Desirée from The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not. She's in her phatom thief attire, holding her hat in one hand and pulling a cloth on the other to reveal a tiny Mari from Mari's Magical Deliveries inside the hat, holding up a package with a big smile on her face.
December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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meiri.itch.io
I've opened a permanent artist interest form for Meiri Games. If you're an artist interested in illustrating for visual novels in the future, fill it out! 💝

Shares appreciated. I want to find talented folks to work with!

forms.gle/PaubzgH7U112...

#VNDev #indiedev #gamedev
[Artist Interest Form] - Meiri Games [SFW & NSFW]
Hello! This is a 'permanent' form for artists interested in illustrating for Meiri Games' projects. It will always be open as I often look for new talented artists to collaborate with. Meiri Games de...
forms.gle
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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makevisualnovels.itch.io
Sealed With a Kiss jam is returning in 2026! This year we have two themes you can pick from or combine to make your own magical kissing visual novel!

Aren't Plum and Lemon cute together?

itch.io/jam/swakjam-...
Sealed With A Kiss Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-01-01 to 2026-02-01 hosted by Stella @ MakeVisualNovels. Second Theme Available via Fundraising! For our second year, we're opening up to the possibility of a second theme for thi...
itch.io
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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battywanderer.bsky.social
godspeed, Kanata. You were the best
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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solarprotag.bsky.social
Starting today and going to the 12th I have my commissions on an end-of-year discount over on vgen! They'll be closing after this, so if you were looking to comm something from me then this is your last chance! vgen.co/solarProtag
solarProtag (@solarProtag)
Check out solarProtag's commissions and portfolio! | Hi I'm Sol/Solara! I'm an english speaking illustrator from Canada who especially loves drawing OCs and kemonos! Contact email: solarprotag@gmail....
vgen.co
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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passiontentacle.bsky.social
Instead of watanare we should have shorthanded it as muriyuri
a girl with pink hair is making a funny face
ALT: a girl with pink hair is making a funny face
media.tenor.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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annacwebs.bsky.social
FREELANCER TIP: THE 25% RULE!

The MOMENT payment hits your bank account, calculate 25% of the value of the invoice and then transfer that amount immediately to a savings account and DO NOT TOUCH IT. THAT'S FOR TAXES. Then pay yourself the remaining 75%. Account for this when determining rates!!!
nat-the-dev.bsky.social Natalie Spitzel @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 17d
Just calculated how much I will have to pay in self-employment taxes since I've never been a contract employee before and

Oh my god?????

This is awful?????

The US government finds a new way to devastate me every day 🫠
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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endpaper.garden
Hi everyone!!
This is an account to track the Endpaper site's updates for #UpwardsRain !

the website is updated🍀we have new homepage chibis & formatting to include the upcoming DLC information!

(also hey you should leave a message in the guestbook)

#endpaperupdate ← (tag to follow!)
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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robobarbie.dev
our next velox jam starts in a little under 3 weeks! I forgot to put the page up til today so. LOL

join here: itch.io/jam/velox-tu...
submit themes here: forms.gle/mbvgiqgE1cz7...

come make a visual novel in 4 days! we got a cool little community here! #VeloxTurbo3
Velox Turbo 3
A game jam from 2025-12-19 to 2026-01-06 hosted by robobarbie. - ABOUT - Velox Turbo is a challenge edition of Velox Fabula (or
itch.io
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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altilaaa.bsky.social
I participated in a #NoveJamID2025 in November. It's an internal game jam for Indonesian #vndev.

This year, all the entries are in English. You can check the entries out here:
itch.io/jam/novejam2...

Some entries are still unindexed, so plays/downloads are appreciated! Thank you!

#indiegamedev
Submissions to Novejam 2025
itch.io
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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makevisualnovels.itch.io
Frankly, we couldn't have done it without you Cody.

Together, we saw 65 voice actors (and a dog(yes, really)) as characters across over 20 visual novels. I think this may have been our community's biggest push for the advancement for creating opportunities for VNDevs and voice actors.
maho-studio.bsky.social Cody @ MAHO! Studio @maho-studio.bsky.social · 16d
It's been so awesome seeing submissions for Raise Your Voice Jam roll in! Devs are breathing new life into their previous jam games by adding VO. It's the first jam I've helped run, and it went surprisingly smooth

itch.io/jam/raise-20...

If you took part, tag me so I can re-updoot it here!
Submissions to Raise Your Voice Jam 2025
itch.io
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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maho-studio.bsky.social
It's been so awesome seeing submissions for Raise Your Voice Jam roll in! Devs are breathing new life into their previous jam games by adding VO. It's the first jam I've helped run, and it went surprisingly smooth

itch.io/jam/raise-20...

If you took part, tag me so I can re-updoot it here!
Submissions to Raise Your Voice Jam 2025
itch.io
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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mrpostsgood.bsky.social
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
gerritd.bsky.social Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · 21d
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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arimiadev.com
hold my hand. I as an ace person give you permission to be ace, to be sex repulsed, to think porn games are icky and yet still believe games with sexual content should exist. it's okay. you're not invalidating yourself by supporting porn games & the people who make them. it's all forms of expression
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Me aging as I read this post all the way to the end
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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solarprotag.bsky.social
WE DID IT, WE HIT POSITIVE!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Screenshot of the Steam Page sidebar for The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not, showing that it hit 10 reviews on Steam and earned an official Positive rating.
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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arimiadev.com
Steam has cleared my next game's release on December 8th!! 🙏

Mari's Magical Deliveries is a short otome with gameplay about a witch helping her father's delivery business and making new friends along the way. 3 LIs (2 male, 1 female), delivery minigame, room customization & more!

s.team/a/3563380/
Mari's Magical Deliveries a purple-haired chubby girl in a white and red dress rides a boom over a night cityscape
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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randallmakart.bsky.social
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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highimpactsex.bsky.social
new post: Wednesdays is a game for survivors of sexual abuse and those who want to listen to them.

mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

i tried to write as honestly as i could about the whole experience because it made me rethink how to listen to survivors. i hope more people play this game.
Mimidoshima
Wednesdays is a game for survivors of sexual abuse and those who want to listen to them.
mimidoshima.neocities.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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esselfortium.bsky.social
YOUR SOUND / DUD GOLD
two eupho-inspired songs from my upcoming yuri album Til Our Particles Scatter
double single available now

🎵Bandcamp: esselfortium.bandcamp.com/album/your-s...
📹 Your Sound MV: youtu.be/WmdmIdgGXUQ

vocals: @splendiferachie.xyz & @renko.studio
cover illust: @adirosa.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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theonion.com
"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM