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Conway McDermott
@conwaaaaaaay.bsky.social
https://conway.omg.lol
www.the-left-eye.com

✒️🌹💸Writer, Artist, Victim of the Cost of Living Crisis💸🌹✒️

They/Xe/He🏳️‍⚧️

- Box of Tricks Playwright At Large
- Screen/Play Award Winner
- EastEnders ❤️
- Now working on features, plays, and video games 💅
Evidence of my ongoing yakuza problem that I looked at this beautiful project and was instantly like: JUST LIKE HUNTING BEARS IN THE SNOW COVERED MOUNTAINS IN YAKUZA 5!!!

(I suspect bug game will be much cozier and involve less fighting for your life)
I'm proud to announce my first video game! With 100 hand-drawn critters, Bug Game will release in 2026, a love letter to Stardew Valley, Pokémon, Animal Crossing - the games that made my childhood.

This is a lifelong dream of mine, and I'm very excited to share it with the world.

#gamedev
January 14, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Here’s looking at u kid 👁️👄👁️
extremely small and tentative loading screen #animation for @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social’s #lefteye #visualnovel

#art

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January 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
New year update to the left eye!!! Really excited by the side story feature that our dev added, which should let us add more texture and tales to the left eye that don’t necessarily fit into our main episodic format!
January 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
What’s under there is more Jackie!!! How much more dramatic do you want? 🔥
The Left Eye spoiler: I regret to say that there is nothing particularly dramatic under Jackie's eyepatch. @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Obsessed with this vulnerable #hangover art of the left eye cast. From the artist behind all our brilliant #cg and #conceptart!

(Also obsessed with the fact that they’re finally posting on Bluesky u should go follow them now now now)
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM
in a rare case of me doing two bsky posts in one day... I just handed off the episode 3 script of #TheLeftEye to our dev at @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social !

Then I celebrated by posting text post memes on tumblr and I am not sorry.

www.tumblr.com/hauntedtrump...

#vn #visualnovel #gamewriting
January 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM
THE OG 🔥
January 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
My favourite in-house meme at @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social is to redraw the original #devilman manga panels with characters from The Left Eye.

(Although I stand by the fact that it looks better when @sanorganes.bsky.social does it)
January 7, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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First #screenshotsaturday of 2026! 🎉
Alex has a proposition for Emile in episode two of The Left Eye...

(CG by @sanorganes.bsky.social)

store.steampowered.com/app/3811440/...

#art #illustration #indiegame #vndev #gamedev #lgbtq
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by Conway McDermott
Our festive devlog is up on #steam 🎉

It’s been a really busy year with our #demo and #earlyaccess releases!! But getting to see everyone’s art, writing and game dev work here on Bluesky has kept me going ❤️

(and now i am going to have a rest lol)

#lefteye #gamedev #vndev #art #thankyou
The Left Eye - Happy Holidays & Progress Update - Steam News
Hello! We're just checking in with a small end-of-year update. It's been a really exciting 2025 for us! We released our demo in July, and went into Early Access in November. We're always enormously gr...
store.steampowered.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I don't really know how to do a social medium, but I was asked to break in my Bsky account by the rest of @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social!

Here's Emile to wish you a very Joyeux Noël, styled after a Christmas illustration from the time: www.bustletextiles.com/post/1920s-c.... Have a wonderful week!
December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Oh and The Left Eye is 30% off in the #ItchSale! ❄️ it’s like $3 🎵

#wintersale #vn #indiedev #lgbtq
The Left Eye | Winter Sale 2025 by Haunted Trumpet
A sale by Haunted Trumpet, 30% off The Left Eye
itch.io
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Who wouldn’t wish for a 1920s con artist caper across New York City’s pansy scene?

#visualnovel #interactivefiction #handdrawn #narrativegame #indiegame #queerfiction #1920s #periodfiction #genrefiction #crimefiction #lgbtq #lgbtqhistory
🎺👻 It’s #wishlistwednesday once again and you can wishlist The Left Eye on #steam!

(you can also play episodes 1 & 2 if you want to!!)

store.steampowered.com/app/3811440/...

#indiedev #vn #lgbtq #gamedev
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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So psyched by our progress on episode 3 of #TheLeftEye since launching into early access! The first draft script is finished, new character sprites are being drawn, and new CGs and cut- ins are well underway!

And yes, we’re doubling down on our scary knife-wife content x

#vn #indiegame #lgbt #art
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I realised this morning that I played Yakuza Zero in May of this year.

I’ve since completed Kiwami, yakuza 4, yakuza pirates in Hawaii, and I’m now playing ishin. kiwami 2 and yakuza 5 are waiting for me on steam.

It’s hard to believe this life altering cataclysm only started in May.

#yakuza
December 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Evil Twinks 🙅‍♀️
FAT Evil Twink 🫂❤️🧑‍🍼
Anyway buy our game.
Casually reposting @conwaaaaaaay.bsky.social’s insta story for #wishlistwednesday because they have a real way with words lol

If you like these things maybe you will also like #TheLeftEye???

store.steampowered.com/app/3811440/...

#gamedev #vn #indiegame #lgbtq
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I’m a big believer that you can talk about big, contemporary, grounded themes in even the twistiest and turniest genre fiction yarn… if these ones resonate with you, please take a punt on The Left Eye, now in early access for less than you’d spend on a pumpkin spiced latte x
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Reposted by Conway McDermott
#TheLeftEye is in #earlyaccess right now and we can’t wait for you to play episodes 1 & 2! 🎉

We’ve got:

⭐️ ~20 CGs
⭐️ Achievements
⭐️ In-game codex
⭐️ Tastelessly petty theft
⭐️ Boys behaving badly on beloved landmarks
⭐️ 26000 words

#indiegame #steam #vn #gamedev #lgbtq
The Left Eye on Steam
A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Time for #screenshotsaturday! Jackie's trying to fence something pretty big in episode 2 of #LeftEye 👀💎

#indiedev #vndev #vn #gamedev #lgbtq
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Reposted by Conway McDermott
Happy Halloween from Haunted Trumpet! 👻🎺

@noel-p.bsky.social has created some seasonally-appropriate artwork of best girl Deirdre from #TheLeftEye and we absolutely love it 🧡🧡🧡

#art #illustration #halloween #indiedev #vndev #indiegame
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
OBSESSED with this new art of our boys ❤️❤️❤️

#shipping #queercreatives #mlm
“I’ll be gone before they serve breakfast.”

Emile comes on a bit strong for not-at-all suspicious reasons 👀 #LeftEye concept art by @sanorganes.bsky.social!

#art #illustration #vndev #lgbtq #queerart #visualnovel #indiegame
October 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Conway McDermott
#steamnextfest was amazing! We’re so grateful to everyone who checked out The Left Eye demo! We tripled our total wishlists and the team is having a lot of emotions about it 😭 💕

#visualnovel #vndev #indiegame #lgbtq
The Left Eye on Steam
A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…
buff.ly
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I 100% use tumblr to take off my industry professional mask and just yell about our game like the dweeb I am, but in this post I also yell about OTHER people’s games, in some other VN demos that I’ve loved this Next Fest #vn #visualnovel #indiedev #steamgames #indiegames
October 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#steamnextfest starts now and we’re so excited to be part of it! We really hope you enjoy our demo of episode 1! 🖤

#visualnovel #amare #indiegame #lgbtq #gamedev
The Left Eye on Steam
A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…
buff.ly
October 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Conway McDermott
The Left Eye is part of #SteamNextFest next week! If you haven’t played our demo yet, why not give it a go? 👁️🗡️

#visualnovel #indiegame #lgbtq #demo #vndev #begaydocrime
October 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM