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Antler Dust
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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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let him in? #noimnotahuman #cygnus13
September 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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my bad 😳
The Antler Dust mascot, a chimera of a raven, hare, and deer, siting on a stool in the "HAS NOT BEEN KEEPING UP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA" corner with a dunce cap on.
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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THE CYGNUS-13 KICKSTARTER ENDS IN ONE DAY!! 36 HOURS LEFT! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
June 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT TO SUPPORT OUR KICKSTARTER!! PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
June 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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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
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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
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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
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PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR ALIEN DATING SIM KICKSTARTER www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...
May 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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!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
A starry, galaxy background with the title CYGNUS-13 in yellow font and the cast of the game as chibis lining the bottom.
May 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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📌 Meet Commander Beida! Our FINAL cast introduction from Cygnus-13 (working title)!

💔 He’s just part of the main cast, not a dateable option… for now 👀

🦾 He’s the Alliance’s golden boy! The man with the plan! The COMMANDER!
#indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel #queervisualnovel
Commander Beida on a purple background. The text states he is the commander of the ship. He is an anthropomorphic whale man in an authoritative uniform with a yellow cape. He is a cadet blue with small white horns and tiny white eyes, plus white, blunt claws for hands. Commander Beida is the leader of the crew and head of this mission. He's Cetalesti, a cetacean alien race that, along with the Olm race, were among the first to communicate and collaborate across lightyears of open space. He is the Intergalactic Alliance's pride and joy. Commander Beida is the face of the Alliance and is well recognized among nearly every alien race. He's perhaps a bit naïve but Kassidy, his second in command, tends to keep him grounded. Beida has inexplicable strokes of luck that get him out of dangerous situations, and he attributes much of his success to this strange quirk of his. The cape on his uniform was actually a personal request of his. It very quickly became popular and now has been adopted into the official Intergalactic Alliance uniform design. A chibi version of Beida next to a golden symbol of his race, which looks like his head with a large, open smile.
December 11, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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📌 Meet Kassidy! Our fifth cast introduction from Cygnus-13 (working title)!

💔 He’s just part of the main cast, not a dateable option… for now 👀

🦾 He has a bit of a dark past but he’ll never let you know that.
#indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel #queervisualnovel
Kassidy on a pinkish background. Kassidy is a purple anthropomorphic dragon/lizard with a teal jumpsuit. Most notably, he has one artificial arm, two artificial legs below his knees and an artificial half-tail. The text says “Kassidy, security officer.” Kassidy is the ship's security officer and Beida's right hand man. He's Asterellian, a little known race of reptilian bipeds born with super-regenerative abilities. Unfortunately, most of their people were conquered by a hostile alien species. Kassidy has escaped his home planet, but at the cost of his regenerative abilities. Kassidy is cold and calculating, distrustful of most and difficult to get to know. He is very attached to Commander Beida, whom he regards as his savior, and will do anything to protect him. He is skeptical of the higher ups of the Intergalactic Alliance, and has some pointed criticism about their outreach programs for the underprivileged. A chibi version of Kassidy next to a symbol of his race, which resembles a silver starburst.
December 9, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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Thank you so much for 1k here! I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a bit, I do have two more characters to introduce though! I was away all weekend but headed back today and will hopefully get to post one of them by tonight…
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December 9, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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📌 Meet M1NG! Our fourth cast introduction.

🖤 They are our last dateable option from Cygnus-13 (working title)… for now.

🤖 M1NG kinda just looks like a dude. They also live in your walls.
#indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel #queervisualnovel
A robot named M1NG, who is a medical robot. They’re a TV objecthead with yellow eyes and mouth on a black screen. They have cranes game cranes for arms, with an extra pair that protrude from their back. MING is a medical robot assigned to the ship to maintain the general health of the crew throughout the journey. They are an advanced artificial intelligence courtesy of the Intergalactic Alliance. M1NG is one of the first robots of their kind, designed to not only take care of the physical health of the crew, but possesses enough intelligence to keep their mental and emotional health in check as well. Despite being a robot, M1NG seems to feel a degree of loneliness all holed up in the med-bay. Luckily, Keekyne has taken an interest in them, and enjoys modifying their terrestrial body to varying degrees of success. M1NG tries to get along with everyone on board, but has a rocky relationship with Kassidy, who doesn't trust any "intelligent life" hailing from the higher ups at the Alliance, artificial or not. Most of the time, M1NG is a friendly face mounted to the wall, using several extendable arms and tools that emerge from the walls of the med-bay. They also can exit the ship through their terrestrial body, a standard bipedal model with a first-aid backpack. A chibi version of M1NG, both their mobile form and their stationary wall form. When attached to the wall, their screen head is the same, but attached to an arm that extends from the wall. Their actual arms are also much longer.
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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📌 Meet RGB! Our third cast introduction.

🖤 They are another dateable option from Cygnus-13 (working title)!

🎨 They are legion. They are one. And they are kinda gossipers, actually? Wig.
#indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel #queervisualnovel
Three anthropomorphic bug-like creatures. They have bug heads and antennae with three large eyes, four long arms and an outer shell with spindly legs. They’re orange, yellow and red and are each distinguishable by their red, green and blue facial markings. The text reads, “RGB, xenobiologists.” RGB are xenobiologists, aboard the ship in order to do research and collect samples. They are a hive mind collective of three Hexapi seekers. Hexapi all share a 'mind network' where they think and feel as a singular being. They seek to expand their knowledge of the known universe and work in tandem to accomplish this. For the convenience of the crew, these Hexapi have marked themselves with face paint that represents their corresponding 'names' (Red, Blue, and Green). It may seem that as a hivemind, they have no distinct personality or interesting quirks - but that couldn't be further from the truth. They are all, in fact, a hater. The Hexapi despise the bureaucracy of the Intergalactic Alliance, and bemoan their forced participation in it. They are wary of others but seem to enjoy Kassidy's similar distrust with the system. Their unique stomach acid allows them to digest just about anything, but they seem to have a penchant for sweets. Chibi versions of RGB next to a pale orange symbol of their race, which is a bug head with three eyes, pincer mandibles and antennae
November 26, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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📌 Meet Keekyne! Our second cast introduction.

🖤 She is another dateable option from Cygnus-13 (working title)!

🌳 She is super friendly, extra loud, and loves climbing trees.

#indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel #queervisualnovel
An image of an anthropomorphic maroon dogbird alien. She has purple head and tail feathers, green overalls and a yellow work shirt. Purple talons adorn her hands and feet. The text reads, “Keekyne, engineer/mechanic” Keekyne is the ship's engineer. She's Lorkeetau, a canid/avian alien race known for their excellent hearing. This allows her to detect problems in machinery just by listening, in spite of her poor eyesight. She's worked with the ship extensively and knows all its ins and outs, affectionately naming it "Cydney". She sees Cygnus as a home away from home, and finds herself happiest when she is aboard it. Keekyne is extroverted and eager to make friends, but a little air headed at times. She is closest to Niall on a personal level, but she and Beida also enjoy each other's company as drinking buddies. She's a fan of video games and will often jailbreak her hardware to play around with them. A chibi version of Keekyne and a silver logo of her race, which looks like a bird head.
November 26, 2024 at 1:15 AM