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A female-led start up game studio based in Australia. Working on our first title, Incarnal, a romance-focused game about intimacy, vulnerability, healing, and loving against all odds. With monsters.

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · May 15

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Were You Followed is a female-led indie start-up studio based in Melbourne (Naarm), Australia. We want to explore themes of intimacy and vulnerability in games. Currently, we're seeking funding support for our first title, 'Incarnal'. Excited for the future!

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Jennifer Reuter @gritrook.art · 5d

I'm Jen, a concept artist, illustrator and writer based in Australia looking for opportunities in cover illustration for dark genres, and novel or comic publishing agents for future projects.

🎨 Portfolio: www.gritrook.art
📧 Contact: www.gritrook.art/contact
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#PortfolioDay #booksky #darkart

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot say we do. Google says she is a streamer?

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent trivia.

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 9d

Scorn will kiss anyone! Well. As long as they are patient and help him learn what it means to want someone.

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 13d

Wow. There's... more of you! Where did you all come from? Welcome!

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 13d

Why thank you, we worked very hard for that exact response.

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 13d

Fortunately for you, he is very smashable in the game.

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 18d

Nice catch! Those are his naked, VFX-less eyes floating above his head. But he knows that people get confused looking into them so he directs them to his eye sockets instead.

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 19d

He would appreciate your candidness if he understood what 'thirsty' meant.

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 19d

Scorn caught you looking.

(He's naked of his VFX, be nice to him).

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 24d

Do we have a big lady who can step on you in our game?

We have two, in fact.

One would never.

One very much will.

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · 24d

Our dream is to normalise romance in games so much that we inspire Sandfall Interactive to work with the developer of Dark Queen of Mortholme to make an Elden Ring-scale version of that game.

Please make the big lady step on us and fall in love.

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 15

Incarnal has been accepted to a local Melbourne pitching event, where we talk to publishers for funding! And YOU can help us! 🤗

Share our socials!
Join our insta (it's getting there, we're very sorry)
Fill out our EOI form
Ask us questions!

Links below! 👇

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 15

EOI form: forms.gle/mVggxfDLpLNK...
Insta: www.instagram.com/wereyoufollo...
X: x.com/wereyoufollo...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you like the idea of monstrous romance, please go visit the Drăculești Kickstarter and have a great look at the amazing work they are doing over there!

It's important to support indies, and this is an excellent example of new ground we can forge.

Drăculești @ PAX Together 🦇 @fine-fiends.bsky.social · Sep 8

if you missed the Drăculești Kickstarter campaign, it's last call for late pledges! There are two days left to place an order for any of the physical rewards we offered - including the artbook, prints, charms, and more.

Ends 8pm Sept 9th PT / 4am Sept 10th BST / 1pm Sept 10th AEST

the Draculesti Kickstarter page, with the Late Pledge banner still active - closes soon!

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 7

It's absolutely at least one Gal reading these :) We use this data to help convince the Funding Peeps that people want the game. It also ensures that we maintain the core focus of the market audience, you!

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 7

At this stage we are exploring publishing and financing options, so we want to ensure not to make promises for deliverables (such as perspectives, trailers, visuals) that may have to change in the future.

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you so much for your kindness! At this stage, it is a first-person perspective interactive theatre game. A bit more than a visual novel, a bit less than the interactive graphic novels like Telltale Games.

We're keeping perspective and visuals under wraps for now, just in case.

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 7

Horrifying. (Un)fortunately no(?). We're not entirely sure which of these responses we want to have.

But (our) Scorn was created in 2021 when this game was made, and the game Scorn was announced in 2023. So it is a beautiful coincidence, honestly.

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 7

... Where are you all coming from? And how do I put more posts there?

Welcome to our monster kissing project! Please feel free to ask us any questions. I will scrounge up our creative lead from wherever she's buried in angst.

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hi there! Not entirely sure the tone or intent behind this reply, and we don't want to misinterpret your meaning. We're happy to explain our original comment if you wish for us to elaborate. Just let us know. We think games are an incredibly important and unique medium for this.

Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Sep 6

There are so many of you! We are so excited to see more interest in this game. With the most recent issues that are plaguing video games, we feel it is even more important to talk about intimacy and relationships in games than ever before.

We can't wait to show you what we're doing.

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☼Yrreug☼ 🇨🇭🐕 @yrreug.ch · Aug 27

Kinksters, furries, artists: now's your last chance to voice your concerns.

DEADLINE is August 28!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Aug 14

the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content.

bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

points that need addressing are: [cont]

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Were You Followed @wereyoufollowed.bsky.social · Aug 18

We have so many things chugging away in the background. We are so excited to show you more of Scorn and what we have planned with his visual design! We hope you look forward to romance with our walking (sort of) magical trauma engine.