I'LL BE STREAMING TONIGHT! Heartspell: Horizon Academy from @direkittengames.bsky.social is out & I'm ready to play! I'll be picking up from where I left off in the demo, so we'll be getting back into things & trying to remember characters together! See you at 7:30pm PT!!

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Heartspell: Horizon Academy is launched! Sorry for the delay, but we're fully up and running now! SO EXCITED. We'd love to hear what you think, and if anyone starts streaming the full game please let us know here or on Discord so we can join you <3
#indiegames
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Still no word from Steam. Bummed, but hanging in there.

Alright everyone, thanks for sticking with us through a stressful and uncertain week. We'll all find out together whether Heartspell is on sale in eight hours. If it's not, I'm at least feeling reassured that it won't be too terribly long. <3

In celebration of our upcoming launch we added more content to our demo. In addition to polish improvements and bug fixes, we've also added second chapters for both Heron and Cassie (our poll winners). We hope to see you in class when the full game launches!
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After being a real nuisance I've gotten a response from Valve. No idea if we'll be available tomorrow morning like we wanted, but we at least have some clarity that it's being worked on.

Who would you like to see another chapter of in our updated demo?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/wommab/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Lin
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/wommab/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Cassie
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/wommab/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Ember

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Who would you like to see another chapter of in our updated demo?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/ow9i5p/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Amara
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/ow9i5p/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Heron
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/ow9i5p/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Charlie

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BlueSky unfortunately does not do polls (right?), but if you'd like to vote on which characters we're going to put a little more content from into our demo, you can do that over on our Threads account.

We're 15 hours out from our planned launch and I've been completely unable to get any sort of communication from Valve all week. We'll probably miss our launch and I'm aggravated about it. Tonight we'll update our demo at least, so everyone who wants to can see the last bits of polish we put in.

always a good day to leave reviews on the games you play

I've been wanting to post excitedly about our upcoming launch, but I haven't because we're stuck in the Steam cert process, which is being slow and opaque this time around. We're still hoping to launch in 42 hours, but there's nothing we can do to influence that at this point. Fingers crossed.

A really lovely intro to Heartspell: Horizon Academy by @direkittengames.bsky.social - you can hear my narration and some of the voice acting!

Also featuring the dulcet tones of @meztermind.bsky.social introducing the game beautifully!
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I just pushed our first build with 100% of our VO hooked up and it feels GREAT. Launch is in five days and I absolutely couldn't be more excited. I'm taking the week after that off and my hope is just to obsessively refresh various screens and watch some Twitch streams.

As I near the end of processing all this VO, I'm hitting sections that I love, but are also fairly out of the way. To find them you have to make some odd choices, or play characters in a certain order. They're delightful and I hope some folks find them.

I feel like marketing wants me to make all sorts of grandiose statements about being the best at this or that. All I really want to say is that Heartspell is a thing we really wanted to make and we think it's really special and fun and you might really love it too.

We had an AMAZING time at GeekGirlCon and watching people play that built all weekend gave me that last little bit of confidence to send out access to Steam curators. 10 days to go, fingers crossed.
#indiegames #geekgirlcon #steamcurator

Our demo booth is all set up in the gaming hall at #GeekGirlCon!

We're trying to track down a bug I can't reproduce that causes the puzzle game to lock up. If you've hit this in the demo please get in touch so we can get this figured out.

Come see us at GeekGirlCon in Seattle this weekend!

Thank you so very much for taking the time to check out Heartspell! <3

Release management is scary. Every time I push a new build I test all the new features very extensively, but worry constantly that like...I'll have adjusted the volume of one line and as a result no one will like the game anymore.

Our new demo update unlocks the practice arena. This lets you test your spellcasting puzzling skills infinitely AND gives you a little sneak peek of Dawn, our sports werewolf.
#indiegames #match3 #puzzles

Our new demo update has three more of Morgan's chapters. Whether you're new to Heartspell or returning for the update, let us know if you're streaming and we'll come hang out and see what you think.
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Phew, this always makes me nervous, but we've pushed a big new demo update. There are three new Morgan chapters, an infinite practice mode, and all sorts of smaller improvements. Check it out!
#indiegames #otome #visualnovels
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