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Matt de Carvalho
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30-something | they/them | Digital artist, game maker, and novel writer.

Just released: Satan is an Astronaut | Buy on Steam & Itch.io!

Currently working:
The Celestial Waltz
#FamiliarFindings | Wishlist now on Steam!

Links: https://linktr.ee/demeru
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It's the end of #wishlistwednesday! I hope can take a look at Cliffa Studio's cozy upcoming desktop idle game, Familiar Findings. We're really thankful for the 2000 wishlists we've gotten so far and hope the rest of NextFest goes well.

✨ Check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/3914780/...
Image of a chibi girl cheering with a bunch of cute familiar's faces around her. It says "2000 wishlists!" on the top and "thank you!" on the bottom.
October 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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It's Next Fest and #FamiliarFindings is showcased! It is a desktop idle game where you summon and fuse familiars. Discover 100+ familiar variations each with their own unique interactions. A perfect game for the spooky season.

✨Wishlist and play the demo now: store.steampowered.com/app/3914780/...
October 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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I didn't post about this! Satan is an Astronaut is on sale with the #SteamAutumnSale.

Play as Cassie as she makes a coven with her crew to save their lives. With 13 endings and 20+ CGs there's lots to explore. Its a perfect horror VN for spooky season.

🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3062530/...
October 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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In #FamiliarFindings we have a display mode where the game goes from being on your task bar to being in it's own window. The window background can repeat so you can resize to how you'd like it to be. I'm still working on the art, that's a WIP.

#cozygames #creaturecollector #indiedev
Screen window of game with familiars on the bottom and a bright, colourful pixel art background or a forest and a witch's hut. The same game with the background on the right side of the screen with the ledt taken up by google docs.
September 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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For #FamiliarFindings we're going to be adding little animations to Avia your little corner witch as you interact with the game. I've got a happy wave hello for when you open the game up in the works.

#pixelart #indiedev
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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I always miss #ScreenshotSaturday so I'm sneaking something in for #FamiliarFindings. Did you know you can play this game while also playing Stardew? I'm excited about what we're bringing into the game!

#cozygame #creaturecollector #idlegame
September 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Tired of this terf shit 🙃 I’m an NB creator that does art, writes, and makes games which focus on queer stories.

Heres my links: linktr.ee/demeru

I’m working on a VN called Celestial Waltz; my novel: Aether: Echoes of the Flame; a desktop cozy game: Familiar Findings.

Thanks for giving space!
Background for The Celestial Waltz of a painting of a cozy library and sitting room at night with a fire place casting a warm glow over the room. (Art not done by me) One of the love interests for Celestial Waltz, it says Silva Archaios in orange at the bottom, and has a red haired person wearing a partially period coat and shirt of green and white, with gold trimming. The cover for my novel, Ather:Echoes of the Flame. It has a teen woman of colour wearing a blue jean jacket. From her hand is the glow of fire that’s bursting from it. Cover art of Familiar Findings with a white haired girl holding a spellbook. Coming out of it is an orange and white cat and behind the girl is a red baby dragon. The background is bright yellow and the words “familiar findings” is in the top centre.
September 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I’ve been slowly working on the next character, Kharis, a love interest for Celestial Waltz. Just when I need a break from pixel art aha.
A white elf with long navy hair wearing a dark blue and green 1800’s suit.
September 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Hi! I’m Mattie, I use they/them pronouns! I’m currently working on THREE games.

No Place to Go, a scifi VN Point and Click about love in space

#FamiliarFindings, an idle desktop creature collection game. Checkout @cliffagames.bsky.social for more.

The Celestial Waltz, an Otome/Amare VN.
Screen shot of Familiar Findings showing off the familiars wondering above the task bar and the Grimoire UI of the menu. Screenshot from No Place to Go showing off one of the areas and the first love interest, Persibot. Background from Celestial Waltz of a cozy fireplace lit library and sitting room. One of the main characters and love interestsfrom the Celestial Waltz, Silva with their mask on.
August 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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So cute ;; nearly done the key art for #FamilarFindings can’t wait to show it off and get the steam page live!

#indiedev
A smiling cat with green eyes and white and orange fur.
August 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Working on new art for #FamiliarFindings! Just our cutie witch summoning a new familiar friend.
Sketch of Avia holding her grimoire to the left with a baby dragon peeking over her left shoulder and a new cat-like familiar coming out of the book.
August 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Working hard to get the logo done for #FamiliarFindings. I like being able to have fun with a logo, nice break from the corporate branding I got so used to doing. Here's my process from sketch to colours. Which one's your favourite?
Sketches of six different logo ideas After choosing 2 I made 3 variations of each to chase the design further. Once we again chose the variations we liked I made loads of colour variations! They're all very pretty to me. Finally we landed on these two versions, bright purple and pink monster shapes with orange flames and stars, and an outline of a book with the name inside with sparkly yellow stars for the 'i's dots, but haven't decided which one we like best yet.
August 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Some more Backgrounds for my team's #liujam2025 entry, No Place To Go. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish all the BGs/items for the jam so we're only releasing the demo. I'm really proud of the work everyone's done though and of what I was able to do.

#pixelart #pointandclick
Infirmary Reactor Server
August 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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See em, post em!

The only tits picture I have ahaha did this back so long ago.
Shirt cut meme showing off a bunch of different ways boobs can be shown off with five different characters.
July 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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For transparency I’m talking about this post. I don’t want to be drawing attention to something that might not be 100% true in this case. I don’t want to be spreading misinformation or lying.
I don’t have any NSFW games on my itch. You know what I do have? Queer stories. Games that explore ace relationships. Games that explore gender diversity character’s lives. No mentions of anything to do with anything that wouldn’t be in a YA novel. All of my games have been delisted in Search.
July 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I needed to fall back on my comfort zone for a second. She’s just a random character but I thought she was cute.
A digitally painted bust of a woman with white skin and purple eyes wearing a dark button up shirt. She’s got messy bangs and her white hair is half tied up in a ponytail.
July 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Little commish I did for someone :)
July 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Starting to get some BGs for my team's #liujam2025 game! We got the ship you date being pulled together despite feeling so behind ahaha

#pixelart #indiedev #scifi
Pixel art of a mess hall in a ship it's predominantly white and grey with a set of stairs that lead to a second floor and a hallway that leads off to the right. Pixel art of the other side of a mess hall in a ship it's predominantly white and grey with some vending machines lined with snacks and a hallway leading to the left. The outside of the ship covered with battle damage and snow. Pixel are of space mostly blue and purple with multi coloured stars littering the scene.
July 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Been working on sprites for an idle collectathon game I'm helping with. The idea is to fuse these guys together and get new critters from them.

The spirits are my favourite, love their personality. Some of these have been updated like the old dragon is sleeping on a hoard.

#PixelArt #IndieDev
A line up of four dragons that get darker as they grow. It starts with a small light red baby and ends with a sleeping purple dragon. A line up of slimes that have little ears. The smallest are blue, and as they get bigger they go green then yellow. A line up of four green ghosts, it starts out with a little sheet ghost, the next is slightly bigger and holding a lantern, the next is more like a poltergeist with a skull mask also holding a lantern, and the last looks like a reaper holding a lantern like a scythe.
July 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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I am building my own world 🌙☀️✨

QRP with your world

These are from the world of the Celestial Waltz, but not all necessarily the game.

Credit to anonymous for the final pic (they don’t want to be named).
A dark picture of a road that leads to a manor, its windows glowing orange, with the night sky above. A face of a character. She has a shattered pattern of blue that explode from her eyes. A purple see translucent monster with tentacles coming from its back. Inside there is a shattered human skeleton. It has limbs similar to a chameleon. A warm dark sitting room/library with a fire going in the fireplace. In the center is some pink couches and above the fireplace is a blue panting of a somber landscape with stars. Next to the fireplace are bookcases stacked with books. There’s windows to the right that overlook a darkened landscape.
June 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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After a long couple weeks of lacking motivation I’m trying my best to catch up with the UI of my team’s #ilujam2025 submission. Here’s the basic stuff I’ve done, I’m also working on BGs and items for this one. Just struggling ahah.
A game wrap UI that is light blue and black with a background of snowy mountains against a blue sky. It’s done in pixel art.
June 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I miss my D&D character Avia, I played her for nearly 5 years and her journey was so fun 😔Here's some pics I actually finished out of the many WIPs lol I should finish some of those.
Frame One: Avia cleaning her gun with a sky backdrop. Text bubble says, "I'm so tired of all of this, being pushed and pulled by unseen hands." Frame Two: Avia looking down the aim of her gun seeing it shin in the yellow sunlight. Text bubble says "Dragged by long forgotten memories. Had I ever wanted any of this?" Frame Three: Her burned hand holding the gun, finger poised over the trigger as red and black swirls begin to trail off of it. Text Bubble: "I want to throw is all away. Walk, NO RUN, as far and fast as I can, but every time I try my hands tremble and my body locks up." Frame Four: Avia grabs her wrist trying to push her own hand down. More black and red spill out of the frame curling around the ones above it. You can see little bugs in it. Frame Five: Avia sighs looking annoyed as the red and black swirl around her shoulders. Text bubble: "It's frustrating. I want to live my own life, make my own choices. Fate however, seems to have another idea. I'm not going to be bound by another's will. I WILL find my own way. BE MY OWN PERSON." Final Frame: A golden locust and raven wing flying off in the forefront and Avia looking determined in the background as she stares at the camera. Avia if she went to the dark side. Her eyes glow white and her mouth is split up the cheeks. Smoke pours from the cracks. The painting style is real messy. Avia staring at the camera with a fierce look, her cold eyes glowing under the shadows of her hat. She's smoking and along the bottom of the image there's one red locust over a multitude of raven wings.
June 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Thanks for the artshare and thinking of me and congrats on reaching the 500 mark~

I'm Mattie, I do all kinds of art. I can't settle on one style lol
Pixel Art of a fantasy-like apartment building with a peaked roof and darkened garden with cherry blossoms. characters from Satan is an Astronaut standing like they're in a lineup. Moonshine Cybin from NADDPOD with long red hair with her possum, Paw Paw on her shoulder. My Character Avia smoking as she intensely stares at the camera. A bunch of raven wings and one red locust takes up the bottom of the screen.
June 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Hii! I’m Mattie, a masc-presenting NB. I make games, art, and writing, about queer experiences of all kinds. I’d love to be added to the list. Always trying to find more of my people.
A transmasc character from one of my games, Silva Archaíos, they’re a redhead wearing a mask with horns and little bells. The rest of his outfit is green and white and is vaguely a 1750’s style. He wears his cravat undone. The cover of my novel, Echos of the Flame, without words. The character is a black teen wearing a jean jacket. In her fist is a flame that’s escaping through her fingers. Characters from a game I’ve got on the back burner. From the left: a short elf with bright pink hair, a trans fish boy, a guy holding books, another guy with greying hair holding a wand, and a very tall devilish man. A postcard with the words “Bards and Illusionists Extraordinaire” and “The Rigger Brothers”. Two men’s faces are framed in the image, one with dark hair and skin and the other pale with bright red hair. They’re both smiling and their cheeks are pressed together.
June 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Entering my little guy era.

#PixelArt
Little baby red dragon with purple eyes and stubby tail and horns done in pixel art. Little slime with big round white eyes and little goo bunny ears.
June 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM