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Haunted Trumpet: EARLY ACCESS 21ST! 👻🎺
@hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
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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
🎮 https://hauntedtrumpet.itch.io
👻🎺 https://www.hauntedtrumpet.com
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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
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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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“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
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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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#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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“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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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
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It’s #screenshotsaturday time! Here’s a sneaky preview of episode 2 of The Left Eye 👁️

Liberty’s torch was closed even back in 1926, so Alex and Emile are doing a bit of trespassing…

#art #illustration #gamedev #vndev #indiegame
A monochrome image from a visual novel game. The background image is the statue of Liberty’s torch against a darkening sky. The flame of the torch is the older glass panelled version, and is lit from within. Two characters, one taller than the other, are silhouetted as they stand on the torch’s balcony. There is a text box over the lower quarter of the screen, containing text that reads: “We emerge into the cold night air, bathed in amber light from the glass panels of Liberty’s torch”.
August 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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We dug up this old set of sketches we put together when we were planning Emile’s sprites! He has far too many outfits and ended up with 15+ expressions 🫠

P.S. you can see him all polished up in our demo which is coming out on Thursday! 🎉🎉🎉

#gamedev #indiedev #vndev #art #sprite #conceptart
Four rough drawings of a short, slightly chubby young man (the main character of The Left Eye: Emile de la Roche) showing him in a variety of outfits , including a fur coat, casual suit and tuxedo, in order to clarify his design for in-game sprites.
July 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Love the black and white marbling! We have a few ghosts too (but not as tasteful lol)
Three colourful model ghosts on a bookshelf
July 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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It’s #screenshotsaturday again! While we’re waiting to release our episode 1 demo of The Left Eye, we’re hard at work on episode 2, in which Emile is not having a very good morning…

#indiedev #vndev #gamedev #visualnovel #wip
A screenshot of a monochrome visual novel. A middle aged male police detective is standing in a fancy hotel room next to a guarded-looking young man in a robe. The detective is speaking and his dialogue box reads “Tell me about that.” The young man has two responses to this, shown in the centre of the screen and reading “Bend the truth” and “Deny entirely”.
July 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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In a bout of excitement about #developconf @conwaaaaaaay.bsky.social has printed out a last minute batch of sparkly new stickers to give out! Stick one on your laptop! Stick one on a lamp post! Stick one on your local mp! And see you in Brighton! #vndev #indiegame #stickers #vn #hauntedmerch
July 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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So grateful to @noel-p.bsky.social for their work on The Left Eye's #steamcapsule #art, it's looking amazing and we can't wait to get the coming soon page up ❤️

#vndev #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #queerart
Steam Capsule art for The Left Eye. A brick background, with five white-bordered panels containing characters surrounding The Left Eye logo. The whole image is monochrome. Steam Capsule art for The Left Eye. Four white-bordered panels containing characters surrounding The Left Eye logo, two on each side. The whole image is monochrome.
June 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#PitchYaGame Our demo of #TheLeftEye is coming soon! #vndev

👁️ A #visualnovel set in the #queer scene of 1920s NYC
👫 A cast of crooks, con artists, WW1 deserters, socialites, flappers & fairies
✍️ Script by award winning stage & TV writer @conwaaaaaaay.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGTBQ story by an LGBTQ team
June 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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We’d love to be added if there are still spots! We’re a tiny queer collective about to drop the demo for our first VN, The Left Eye - it’s about con artists, aristocrats, and mobsters on the 1920s New York Pansy Scene ✨
June 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Deirdre isn't going to be singing in speakeasies forever. Just until she lands a better gig, or a manager, or a patron... but for now she's enchanting everybody at The Cadenza's Pansy Night.

#vndev #art #indiegame #lefteye #conceptart #sprite #writing
A bio for a character from The Left Eye: Deirdre Lawrence. The text reads: Age: 20 Likes: Poetry, roses, cocktails Dislikes: Small venues, bartending, liars Occupation: Up-and-coming singer "I'm just here to make a name for myself."
May 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#WIPWednesday @noel-p.bsky.social (our fabulous sprite artist) is working on this pic of The Left Eye's most codependent duo, Jacqueline and Emile 🗡️👁️❤️

#art #wip #artwork #workinprogress #vndev #lefteye #visualnovel #lgbtq #digitalart
A digital sketch of a short young man with wavy hair. A tall, butch woman is standing behind him and to his left. She has an eyepatch over her left eye, and is holding her left hand over the man's left eye, forming a ring that he is looking through.
May 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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This week our in game character introductions have had a UI overhaul! Here’s a little clip for #screenshotsaturday, so meet the singer and the MC ✨✨✨

#vn #visualnovel #caberet #1920s #indiedev #art #queerart #characterbio #writing #interactivefiction #lgbtq #vndev
May 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Made our #lefteye logo into stickers coz we love it and we also love glitter 💖

#logo #sticker #art #glitter #indiedev #visualnovel
A photo of a square black sticker on a moon patterned desk mat, with the text “The Left Eye” in glitter
May 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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We have a logo for #LeftEye! Huge thank you to our designer (she's not on Bluesky yet but watch this space 🖤) Our project is starting to feel extremely real now!

#indiedev #logo #art #vndev #
A logo with text reading "The Left Eye". The text is white with a bloom effect, over a grey half-toned diamond shape. The word eye is stylised within an eye shape. The background is black.
May 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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A little bit of concept art of Jacqueline, our most visible lesbian character. Happy Lesbian Visibility Day! ❤️🧡🤍🩷❤️

#vndev #art #lgbt #butch #gamedev #queerart #lefteye #conceptart
Six tiled images of a butch woman with dark, messy hair and an eyepatch over her left eye, with various facial expressions. The tiles are tinted in the colours of the lesbian pride flag.
April 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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It’s #screenshotsaturday and we’ve been getting loads of sprites drawn and shaded! Only 50 or so more to go 🫠

#vndev #indiedev #visualnovel #wip #lefteye #art #gamedev
Two people standing next to one another in a bar: to the left, an older man in a 1920s suit and hat, and to the right, a butch woman with a patch over her left eye.
April 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Sure, he may still live with his aunt, and yes, he's more acquainted with New Jersey than he'd like you to know, but he's the best damn MC in New York ✨

#vndev #art #indiegame #lefteye #conceptart #sprite #writing
A bio for a character from The Left Eye: Courtney Krakowski. The text reads: Age: 47 Likes: Cats, parties, pithy remarks Dislikes: You Occupation: Master of Ceremonies “Let’s break a few hearts.” To the right is a column of three images in greyscale: one of an ink drawing of an older man in a formal suit, one of the same man with his arms spread wide in front of a theatre curtain, and one of a yet-uncoloured sprite of the same man looking disdainful and holding a cigarette in a long holder. In the top left corner there is a logo for Haunted Trumpet.
April 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM