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Erin 🎃 Boscirus Studios 🍁
@boscirusstudios.bsky.social
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🌲PNW based Dev🌲

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An indie dev working on Tales of Amythria, a fantasy visual novel with dragons! ✨🐲
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Have a tarot card design for #ScreenshotSaturday, as a treat

#gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel
October 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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In my happy place! Game art, apple cider and spooky horror game streams 😄😄

Hope everyone having a great Tuesday!

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #visualnovel
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I present for your Caturday pleasure, my two dumbasses
September 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Another #ScreenshotSaturday!

Some coding work was done on QoL improvements to menu navigation, but the bulk of the work was on starting character sprites! I'm working on about 4 sprites per character, with 12 total characters to get to know in Tales of Amythria 🤗

#gamedev #solodev #visualnovel
August 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Happy birthday to me (yesterday but who's counting), and all the tasty foods I got to eat!

Partner made me a Skyrim sweet roll themed carrot cake, and we went to a haunted house bar where I got ghost beignets and a glowing apple crisp mocktail 😋
August 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Fun fact about me! I would rather eat hair then use the fill tools, don't know where the aversion comes from but my theory is my background in traditional ink art.

Real-time video of how long it usually takes me (when I'm being careful)

#gamedev #indiedev #digitalartist
August 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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#ScreenshotSaturday that I definitely didn't forget last week!

The final major feature has been implemented, the character archetypes and backgrounds you can select to customize your playthroughs in Tales of Amythria!

Now, it's polish, art and writing time! Let's get that demo!

#gamedev #indiedev
August 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Not winning any beauty pageants yet with this #ScreenshotSaturday progress, but what matters is all the background work for my relationship system is starting to finally look like something!

Motivation has been low this week, but an hour a day has kept me making steady progress 😊

#gamedev
August 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Who was gonna tell me BlueSky was doing #Smaugust2025??

Don't have time for a full prompt today, but enjoy some dragon sketches and studies for now!

#Smaugust
August 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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What's everyone's passions outside of #gamedev??

Mine is coffee! I don't see a world in where I'm not creating video games or making coffee 😊
August 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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This week for Tales of Amythria, I worked a lot on establishing a save system, but I also began the process of creating a title design for the game!

Enjoy the very unaligned and messy sketches 😁

#ScreenshotSaturday #Gamedev #Indiedev #Solodev #VisualNovel
The first pass of designing the Tales of Amythria title's look, trying out different font looks and layouts Second pass of Tales of Amythria's title design, I picked the design I liked best and started playing around with layout and sizing of the words.
July 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A bit late but made it to another #ScreenshotSaturday!

We got a functioning settings menu, we got fonts, we got sound effects (kinda...), we got a traveling mechanic, we've cleaned up some messy code and fixed some bugs, things are really taking shape!

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev
July 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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69 followers, nice!

Jokes aside, thank you all so much for following my page! With my game still so rough and new, I didn't expect any kind of attention for a long while, but I'm so happy and excited people have joined for the ride 😊

#gamedev #solodev
July 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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A new entry for #ThePagesofDavos, about the humans of Doms Dannan

(Featuring some sneak sketches of two characters in the game!)

#gamedev #indiedev #TalesOfAmythria #VisualNovel
#Lore
A field journal sketch page, with a woman in light armor standing proudly with long black hair, and a disinterested man with heavy face scars, in green with navy blue swirling tattoos labeled "Ivarra" and "Hati". To the right, a sketch illustration of The Creation, how humans came to be in the lands of the Doms Dannan, showing a woman emerging from a golden wheat field underneath a tree. Humans: "The Mother took from her chest, her beating heart, fashioned it into soil and sand - Raising Humans from the fertile soil" - Excerpt of The Creation, Lines 7-8 & 16 Across The Continent, humans of the various tribes remain the most varied and interesting. When agreeing to this "Great Expedition", I never thought I'd be most shocked by my own people when on the hunt for new lands and dragons to study. What a life there was beyond the mountains Hati and I hail, Ivarra especially was a surprise, harsher than we'd ever give credit to one so used to the cobbled streets of An Siopa. Arne has goals to recruit more to our cause, "From Cothrom to Lis Muire" he insists. I can only hope the differences band is together, instead of divide us. We head for Talamh on first light, to find a giant of a man next, Arne is already thinking of building "when" we find our mark! The man's optimism is astonishing, frankly. Davos
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Happy #ScreenshotSaturday devs!

Some good progress this week despite *gestures vaguely* things going on

Prototyped a dynamic dialogue log to read back on, and the town map/travel system!

Another Page of Davos to come soon too!

#gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel #gameprototype
July 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Who ever said game devs never touch grass?? How ELSE would I get the perfect inspo for cherry baskets?!

hope everyone is staying safe in the heat waves!
July 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I'm super excited to announce a new series for Tales of Amythria!

Welcome to The Pages of Davos, follow along for the findings of the famed dragon rider as he documents in his field journal.

Today, the hardy and reliable Morgoat!

#indiedev #visualnovel #ThePagesOfDavos
A page in a field journal, depicting a massive goat called a Morgoat. It shows an illustrated domestic Morgoat with bells hanging off his long horns, and a wild Morgoat traversing a rocky landscape. To the side in a separate box, is a showcase of different horn shapes, labeled Spike, Spiral, and Four-Point. "The Morgoat: Standing above 5ft, these massive animals provide the lifeline for the farmers of Doms Dannan. In my travels, I've seen these beasts lumber aimlessly in fields, or in their feral state, scale mountain-sides and escape from dragons effectively even with their bulky frames. Providing the main source of meat, dairy, and fur for the people of Doms Dannan, baby Morgoats (called Morgies affectionately) are given as wedding gifts to new couples in the Talamh region. While their horns never stop growing, in the wild they are regularly shaved down by scraping against stones, on farms however the horns are maintained to hold a series of engraved bells along the lengths. This is both in effort to locate in massive fields, and the bells are used in a protection ritual by Druids to safeguard the invaluable animals. On a side note, the milk-based alcohol, called Jolmolk, is stronger than I gave credit for. Must aquire a bottle to bring back to Hati.
June 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Little sneak peak at said UI icons!
June 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Belated #ScreenshotSaturday post because it was a wild day yesterday!

More UI prototyping, bug fixing and organizing my existing code to move to the next steps! Plus some work on UI icons that I'm slowly getting a real idea for.
June 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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And finally! #DaughterofCrone by @jinxedbird.bsky.social, a fantastic return to retro fantasy games of my childhood with amazing pixel art and roleplaying, that prologue gave me chills to boot!
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Back again with more cozy witch games, #WitchLight by @mythbytegames.bsky.social is beautiful and throws you into a peaceful forest valley, giving you reign to walk and explore, find herbs and make magical candles to help out. I only wish I could pet the cat!
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Probably one of my favorite of the batch, #UndustedLettersFromThePast by @togeproductions.bsky.social was emotional, relaxing, beautiful, and I can tell it is going to be one of those games for me I'm not quite the same emotionally after playing lol
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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This one was a leap of faith, but #TheMerryFairy by @themerryfairy.bsky.social surprised me! A creative approach to a guided journaling game, it's peaceful and enjoyable to sit and relax with, along with beautiful visuals!
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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First up! #DeathHowl from @11bitstudios.bsky.social, the perfect level of intense and mysterious with a fun and engaging deck builder mechanic that I enjoyed to the level of Inscription! Amazing art direction, great music too
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM