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Antler Dust
@antlerdust.bsky.social
We are a brand new queer indie game dev studio of three! 🦌 🐇 🐦‍⬛

👾 Working on our first visual novel, an extraterrestrial dating sim. Yes, dating aliens!

🎮 We can’t wait to share more!

🖤 www.antlerdust.com

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📌 We are Antler Dust, a queer game dev company working on our first game!

We are made of:
🦌 @shilosinnith.bsky.social
🐇 Thunar
🐦‍⬛ Lich

🎮 We are currently focusing on visual novels but plan to expand to RPGs, farming sims and even other media like writing, animation and more!

🖤 Let’s be friends!
September 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
my bad 😳
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
THE CYGNUS-13 KICKSTARTER ENDS IN ONE DAY!! 36 HOURS LEFT! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
June 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT TO SUPPORT OUR KICKSTARTER!! PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
June 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Antler Dust
Pardon the poor art but @antlerdust.bsky.social has been working very hard on a STUNNING dating visual novel game called Cygnus-13!
19% only? C’mon man! Show the love!!!

DATE THOSE ALIENS!!!
#indie #kickstarter #Aliens #visualnovel #game #indieproject #Cygnus13

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
May 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I know you've always wanted to kiss a bug. well NOW YOU CAN! SUPPORT OUR ALIEN VISUAL NOVEL KICKSTARTER!!! IT ENDS IN 3 DAYS!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
May 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
do you like aliens? DO YOU WANT TO KISS THEM? Please support out kickstarter for a game where YOU CAN DO THAT! AND NO ONE CAN STOP YOU! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
May 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
5 DAYS LEFT TO CHECK OUT OUR VISUAL NOVEL WHERE YOU CAN DATE ALIENS!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
May 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR ALIEN DATING SIM KICKSTARTER www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
May 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
OUR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS HALFWAY DONE! Unfortunately we've only reached about 12% of our goal. Please consider sharing or supporting us if you wanna DATE CUTE ALIENS!
May 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Antler Dust
FOR THOSE AT ACEN!!! COME SEE MY FRIENDS' GAME AT BOOTH IGO6 IN THE ENTERTAINMENT HALL!! they have a demo to play and you can vote on which of their aliens is most "dateable"
May 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We’re at #Acen! Come say hi and play our demo or just chat about games for a bit! We would love to see you here!!
#indiegame #indiedev #acen2025 #visualnovel #datingsim
May 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We will be at Anime Central this weekend with a special shortened demo for the con floor! We hope to see you there!
#acen #animecentral #indiegame #indiedev #datingsim #visualnovel
May 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Would you date them??? Check out our Kickstarter to see how you can!

M1NG is the Intergalactic Alliance’s medical droid! They have a few different forms, but this one is just classic M1NG.

#indiegame #visualnovel #indiedev #scifivn #datingsimulator
May 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Would you date them??? Check out our Kickstarter to see how you can!

RGB are part of a Hivemind - if you date one, you date them all! At least you always know what they are all thinking!

#indiegame #visualnovel #indiedev #scifivn #datingsimulator
May 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Would you date her??? Check out our Kickstarter to see how you can!

Keekyne is a major gamer and an all around friendly gal! She’s the ship engineer and she prefers to ask for forgiveness than permission.

#indiegame #visualnovel #indiedev #scifivn #datingsimulator
May 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Now reposted with the right video! 🫩

Would you date him??? Check out our Kickstarter to see how you can!

Niall is an overactive workhorse but he sure does try to have fun sometimes with an underappreciated “not” joke here or there!

#indiegame #visualnovel #indiedev #scifivn #datingsimulator
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What alien will you date??? Play the free demo of Cygnus-13 now and get to know them all!
store.steampowered.com/app/3631330/...

Then maybe check out the Kickstarter to help us make the full game 😉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...

#indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #indiescifi #scifi
May 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
OUR KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...

It's been a dream come true to start developing games. As an indie team of 3, consider helping us bring you this pilot project of ours!

There is a FREE demo on Steam - check out the trailer for it below!

#indiedev #indiegame
May 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Hi! We're Antler Dust, a brand new indie game dev team of 3.

Our first game's Kickstarter launches May 5! Sign up for a notification when it goes live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...

Check out the trailer for the FREE demo - and a link for it below!

#indiegame #indiedev #visualnovel
May 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
!OUR DEMO IS LIVE!

As 3 new indie game devs, we're really nervous, but we finally have our demo out on Steam and Itch!

We're currently getting ready for ACen but we will be watching for questions, comments, bugs, and fixes!

vv Links below! vv

#indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel
May 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Our Steam page is up?! The demo will be released very soon…
April 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just learned S3 server hosting lol like you’d think I’d know this already but better late than never? Now we can conceivably release our background VN episodically…
April 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Thinking out loud (kind of, since it’s through typing):

How long should a VN demo be? I think we were shooting for ~45 mins but it ended up being a little more like 90. Maybe a bit less than that but over an hour. It may be wise to do some post-final draft edits 😭
March 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Someone played the demo tonight before we start playtesting it and said, “I am not the target demographic. And I got concerned at the start because it seemed like a lot to get through. But now I’m invested.”

Hell yeahhhhhh
March 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM