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Haunted Trumpet 👻🎺
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Approximately three queers in a trench coat making interactive fiction together 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Currently working on our visual novel: The Left Eye.

🖥️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3811440
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Haunted Trumpet 👻🎺 @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social · Oct 9
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
Promotional banner for Steam’s Next Fest. To the right is a screen shot of in-game art featuring two men and a woman ballroom dancing together, and to the left is the Next Fest logo and informational text reading: “The Left Eye/Haunted Trumpet” and “check out our game demo during Steam Next Fest”
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Our 1920s #visualnovel The Left Eye is going into #EarlyAccess on the 21st of November!! Episodes 1 & 2 are included, and 3 to 6 will be released as content updates as soon as they’re ready 🖤

Have a look and maybe wishlist us if you’d like! buff.ly/eXnWVQQ

#indiegame #lgbt #gamedev #steam
A monochrome image of scattered playing cards. The central card is the ace of diamonds, with profiles of two mens’ faces looking at one another inside the diamond shape. A card in the bottom left shows the logo for The Left Eye visual novel.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Time for #screenshotsaturday! Jackie's trying to fence something pretty big in episode 2 of #LeftEye 👀💎

#indiedev #vndev #vn #gamedev #lgbtq
A screenshot of a visual novel. The lower half of two women's faces are shown in the corners of the screen, over a black background. They are speaking to one another through 1920s candlestick telephones. The text box contains the dialogue: "I've got a lead on a pretty thing you might like."
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
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
A young Black woman with bobbed hair placing a lit candle into a jack o' lantern. She is wearing a short white dress with scalloped edges. The image is coloured with a limited palette of warm purple, black, gray, and bright orange highlights. A hand-written caption reads "Happy Halloween from Haunted Trumpet"
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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studiointerlude.com
The October update for DEVIL'S LIMINAL is up!
🖤 The gang considers breaking and entering.
🖤 Help from unlikely places.
🖤 More sprites!
🖤 Font and text color options!

store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/...

#yuri #yurisky #indiegame #gamedev
DEVIL'S LIMINAL on Steam
A demon's pact, a final summer. Yuri horror visual novel inspired by Azores folklore.
store.steampowered.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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saintcinematique.bsky.social
Hello, friends! I'd like to formally reveal the TNoC rewrite that I was working on. The cat mascot below is from 'The Noblest Of Creatures: Stray Cat', which will be one of the most shocking and sad visual novels ever. I expect it to come out in the beginning of 2026. #art #vn #indiedev #game
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
“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
A picture of Emile, a short young man with curly hair, tilting his head up towards Alex, a taller young man with slicked-back hair. They are both wearing suits. The background is a red theatre curtain. The image is contained in a border with two small diamond patterns in the upper corners.
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
#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…
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October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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sesurescue.bsky.social
🔴LIVE NOW: Steam Next Fest LAST DAY🔴

Today we'll be playing the following demos!

Hermit and Pig @heavylunchco.bsky.social
The Left Eye @hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Scrabdackle @jakefriend.bsky.social

Thank you so much to the viewers and developers for stopping by this week for all the demos!
October 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Our lead writer @conwaaaaaaay.bsky.social does some longer/weirder posting on our Tumblr if you're into that sort of thing, and they've got some thoughts on the #visualnovel demos that we played during #steamnextfest ❤️
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · SOME INDIE DEV FEELS FROM NEXT FEST <3 · So we're getting to the end of The Left Eye Demo being part of Next Fest, and it's been such a joy taking part in the festival! Honestly,…
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October 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
#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
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
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
Promotional banner for Steam’s Next Fest. To the right is a screen shot of in-game art featuring two men and a woman ballroom dancing together, and to the left is the Next Fest logo and informational text reading: “The Left Eye/Haunted Trumpet” and “check out our game demo during Steam Next Fest”
October 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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wharthur.bsky.social
It's my birthday today! 🎈
Please check out my birthday sale so that I can afford coffee and cake and pay my bills!
itch.io/s/160877/wh-...
Photo of a piece of carrot cake.
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
#screenshotsaturday 🎵 we’re starting to wrap up the codependent dyke & tyke antics of episode 2 which means The Left Eye will be in early access soon! #vndev #lefteye #indiegame #indiedev
A screenshot of a visual novel, all in monochrome. The background is a 1920s diner. A young, chubby man is positioned in a diner booth and a dark haired woman is in the booth behind him, facing away. The text box indicates that the speaker is the woman, Jacqueline, and her dialogue reads: “Because I take care of you.”
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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meiri.itch.io
visual novels are not easy to make. thats the devil talking
September 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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studiointerlude.com
September update for DEVIL'S LIMINAL is up! Check it out and review!

🖤 New memories from the islands
🖤 New characters!
🖤 Flesh magnets, how do they work?
🖤 Clara's childhood home
🖤 Relationships take an interesting turn...

#yuri #yurisky #indiegame #gamedev

store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/...
DEVIL'S LIMINAL on Steam
A demon's pact, a final summer. Yuri horror visual novel inspired by Azores folklore.
store.steampowered.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
It's been a little while but we're finally making some improvements in time for #nextfest! Here's a little #devlog about what we've been fixing lately: bit.ly/4nbQ19f

#lefteye #vndev #indiedev #gamedev
The Left Eye - Demo Update: Codex & Options Tweaks - Steam News
UI updates, audio description mode, and other minor fixes
bit.ly
September 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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wharthur.bsky.social
My posts about my upcoming Kickstarter is not gaining a lot of traction. Please share if you can! 🙏
wharthur.bsky.social W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social · Sep 9
The updated version of Mud Ghost Estate, my spooky tumbling tower TTRPG inspired by Hong Kong folklore and urban legends, is coming soon to Kickstarter! 👻
Please give it a follow! 🙏
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate Redux with a QR code to the Kickstarter page. The background image depicts character entering a derelict tower block.
September 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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heroes7islands.bsky.social
After two years of development, Heroes of the Seven Islands is OUT ON STEAM 🎉
#gamedev #indiegames
September 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
👁️ We’ve just added a WebGL build of our #LeftEye demo on itch.io in case you’d prefer to play in your browser!

hauntedtrumpet.itch.io/the-left-eye

#visualnovel #vndev #indiedev #lgbtq
hauntedtrumpet.itch
September 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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studiointerlude.com
What if, this week, you purchased the August update for DEVIL'S LIMINAL and 600+ other games? Tbh sounds like a good deal to me.
queergamesbundle.bsky.social Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 3
⌛ We've passed $71,000 for queer artists, with six days left. Get the bundle now:

itch.io/b/3062
pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 71 over a background of lesbian pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a snake shape, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.
September 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
“Don’t talk to me or my accomplice ever again.”

Jackie and Emile being messily codependent as per usual. #art by our CG/concept artist, @sanorganes 🖤

#digitalart #vndev #illustration #lefteye #indiegame
A woman with an eyepatch over her left eye and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth (Jackie) glares angrily. She is possessively holding a considerably shorter young man (Emile) who is looking back over his shoulder at the viewer with a smug facial expression. The whole image is monochrome, with a brick wall background and a border with art deco inspired motifs.
September 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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studiointerlude.com
At the absolute very last second, I've uploaded the August update!

Now playable up to in-game July 27. Approx half hour more gameplay.

Includes:
🖤Even more yuri
🖤Events after last ghost attack
🖤Concert date with old friends
🖤More board games
🖤Islands!! Backstory!!

#yuri #indiegames #visualnovel
DEVIL'S LIMINAL - Early Access v0.3 update - Steam News
Here's the August update for Early Access! This one adds in-game days July 24th to 27th. This month's update is a bit smaller, since I've been busy with some important exams. Happy to report I've pass...
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September 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Deirdre’s back in episode 2 for #screenshotsaturday and she’s got some questions for Emile…

#vndev #art #indiedev #gamedev
August 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
Our #demo’s been out for 3 weeks now and we’ve been working on new features for #TheLeftEye’s early access, focusing on accessibility:

🔈Audio description mode
🔔 Notification options for unlocks
⌨️ Keyboard/gamepad controls
⚠️ More detailed content warnings

#gamedev #vndev #indiegame #a11y
The logo for The Left Eye, with two panels either side of it showing the characters from the game. From left to right: An older woman with dark hair and an eyepatch, a young, chubby man in a tux, a lean man with slicked back hair and angular features, and a middle-aged man in a formal suit and hat.
August 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM