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Creating the dark fantasy and #horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith.

🩸Free early development demo: https://just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-blind-faith
🫶 High velocity memes in our Community Discord: https://discord.gg/24cmNWp
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WIP script excerpt with "shirt" for #WIPSnips today!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #indiegamedev #gamedev #vndev

From Catalyst: Blind Faith, my dark fantasy and #horror VN 🩸❤️
You emerge—exhausted, head splitting—out from the woods. The silhouette that you cast on the treeline is as thin as a twig. You're young. A teenager, dressed in stolen common clothes. Disguised, wanting anything other than to be seen as a member of the Church. The moment that you slow to a jog, you hide your symbol of Mercy beneath your faded linen shirt. The gold chain may yet give away your identity, but you have not abandoned the Gods. You're just tired.
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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NEW #DEVLOG, THE DARK SOULS OF NARRATIVE DESIGN

✍️🔥 Character #writing in a branching game!
🔀My methods + script excerpts!
🎨 Final #art style progress, memes & more!
🪵 Beeg updates on development!

❤️‍🔥Read it here: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli...

#indiegamedev #vndev #horror #gamedesign
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Happy Halloween!🧡🎃🧡

Couldn't resist drawing my game's MCs in costume for best holiday 🎃✨🎃❤️🎃🧟🎃🕸️🎃

#indiegamedev #gamedev #vndev #art #horror #IwouldhaveaheartattackIRLifIsawRayevenonce
A slender female elf with very long ears, many piercings, and tattoos on her little visible skin. She's dressed in a cheap knockoff costume for Gandalf the Gray, excluding a sword and gnarled wooden staff of her own. She seems extremely pleased with the cheap beard and ill-fitting costume, sparkles as she looks at the viewer, and holds a very tiny, steaming cup aloft. A short, curvy, curly-haired, freckled rogue dressed as Betty Boop. No attempt has been made to stuff her hair in a wig, but the top is spiked like the old cartoon and comic book icon. Beside her is a toothy, smiling jack-o-lantern that's been stabbed in the head with a very large knife. Bubbly text over her head reads "Boop-Oop-a-Doop!" A scarred, lanky, blood-splattered, filthy, and fluffy-haired priest who barely had to put on a costume for the spookiest day of the year. His gothic attire is (slightly) more scuffed than usual. Anyone's guess if his glowing eyes and body horror are played up for the zombie act, or if this is just a bad day he lucked into rocking for Halloween. He's hamming up a limp, has some sort of gore smeared across his face, and is drooling profusely. Monstrous, wavering text hovers behind the foodie and sugar addict. In the wake of a discarded wrapper, he's groaning: "CANDYYY..." Ray, the English mastiff, woke up and chose violence. For Halloween, he's traded his usual spiked collar for a gigantic spider costume, complete with a horrifying many-eyed hat. Ray looks quite pleased with himself. His usual, deep, and gruff bark is particularly appropriate today: the text behind him reads "BHOOF"
November 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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🖤🎃🖤Spooky month best month, been VERY BUSY

Working on this month's devlog today and so happy I am able to squeeze it in lololol✍️💀🔥🖤🖤🖤
Meme of Sabrina the Teenage Witch being served a comical amount of pancakes. She's struggling. A chibi skull has been edited on the top half of Sabrina's face. Different pancake plates are labeled, "Literally 5 different birthdays," "Halloween," "Goth fashion in season," "Anniversary," "Spooky Games," and "Music Reccs" by a goth game dev who has found a way to still write a narrative devlog this month!
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I was really expecting more uses of this word with how much action is in the game 😂🕯️

Love these two goofy characters together so much tho🎉💚

#WriteSky #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writing #indiedev #indiegamedev #vndev #horror
Script excerpt from a dark fantasy and horror visual novel, Catalyst: Blind Faith. The two speakers are abbreviated: the player-controlled narrator, a young antiheroic priest, Richard, with the letter 'r'; and Lord Yech the Disgusted, a skeletal demon and sorcerer, with the word 'yech'. yech "You want some help?" r "It's a terrible idea, but—" yech "This is all a terrible idea. Of course I'll help you." You breathe a sigh of relief, only for Yech to toss another candle at your head. He seems to take enormous pleasure in how easily you dodge them. There are only one or two candles left on the untouched cake, which has been moved from the table to the ground to make room for more cards and dice. yech "Good thing you're the only one who has to show any restraint, right?" r "I don't have to, Yech, I want to." yech "It was a joke, Richard. You can laugh. I promise it won't kill you."
October 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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#vndev #indiegamedev #art #writingcommunity #horror #darkfantasy

🔥Narrative #devlog on quality #writing + my methods!
✍️I went hard for my favorite #gamedev skill!!😂✍️
🖌️17 pics
✍️5.1k words

💖You can read it here: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli...
A working logo for the dark fantasy and horror visual novel "Catalyst: Blind Faith." The subtitle says "Devlog." Grayscale art on the top row shows three main characters. From left to right: A female elf with a sly expression, asymmetric hair, many piercings, and long ears side-eyeing the player; a disheveled and heavily scarred young man, clutching at his head while he stares directly at the viewer; and a bubbly woman in profile view with an unnaturally broad grin and very poofy hair. The bottom row has five sketches of different male body types, all at the same height. These are illustrative of the protagonist, whose appearance can radically change based on the player's choices. From left to right: An emaciated figure in a fighting stance, fists before his face; a slender and broad-shouldered figure in a front-facing and stiff pose; a muscular figure, looking relaxed and confident as he glances over his shoulder; a husky male figure, partially drawn, as some of the right arm is incomplete; and a very heavyset male figure, standing in a similar distant and neutral pose as the slim figure. Flowchart showing a hyper-simplified and colorful version of the narrative design in a branching visual novel. Major branches, endings, and the rough length of each major continuity are all distinguished. The content varies wildly, from one to 25 "honkin chapters" for different sections of the narrative. This all comes after a common route (approximately 14 chapters in length, based on the player's earlier choices), and this flowchart only applies if the player selected a "hard branch" for the God of Vengeance. Much more information on wtf this all specifically relates to is in the game director's most recent devlog!
October 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Got 100% completion on Long Live the Queen last night!!!💖👑

One of those games where it's going to live rent-free in my brain for months after playing. The worldbuilding, writing, art, & quality stat raising was such a joy!! MASSIVE inspiration for my own branching narrative design!🔥💖👑

#visualnovel
Steam achievements for Long Live the Queen. All 45 are unlocked. Some included in the screenshot are for finding all 11 deaths, a niche romance with a commoner, and facing a trial of your peers weeks before coronation. Screenshot from Long Live the Queen, a visual novel with stat raising as its core mechanic. Four clusters of skills are shown (Social, Physical, Intellectual, and Mystical) with many subcategories for each. The screenshot is taken in the last week of the game, week 40, with victory assured despite only one quadrant of skills fully maxed out. Screenshot from Long Live the Queen, in the player's room in the palace, as they pick classes for the upcoming week. The main character, Elodie, is shown in an alternate outfit for raising points in History skills. Her pink, spiral, twin-tail hair is tied back and decorated with a white flower and feathers. She's holding a quill, looking down from a pair of rectangular glasses. Her double-breasted, pencil-skirt outfit with puffy sleeves and sheer leggings also has a matching white floral belt. Screenshot from Long Live the Queen. The player is savescumming out of their mind in the pursuit of all achievements. The load screen shows comically named save slots, with notes like "price of blood - FALCONMAXXED" and "before invasion." Not shown is that the player got to page 43, with 302 save slots used before 100% completion. She feared neither injury nor death and could not be stopped until killed (in 11 unique ways).
October 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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🔥13.5k word doc
✂️fully edited
💯over 100 comments in total from all of us at JWS
👌hype af and doin more art today lfgggggg

#indiegamedev #vndev #writing #writingcommunity #writesky
Screenshot of a Google Doc, containing the script for a monstrously long chapter Chapter 26: A Shot in the Dark. Color formatting is used with lower contrast to help editors rapidly identify code and comments versus the text they are there to edit. The length of the doc is immediately made obvious: an entire page of formatting notes, images for context, code from the programmer, and directions for audio and visuals occupies the full page.
October 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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If you see this, post a goth (or punk) girl
Grayscale concept art of an anarchist elf, Celegwen, from the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. Her extremely long, pointed ears have many piercings, as do her thinly trimmed eyebrows. Her asymmetrical, choppy hair is cloudy-white at its roots, as its ombre dye is fading. She has a very lean, muscular build, with just a few strips of fabric for clothing. Not shown in this sketch are many tattoos the developer is laboriously researching to do justice to for her design as a punk queen icon.
October 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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2.5k followers!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

ty all for the support! 💖🎉 I'm posting here with #indiegamedev for a dark fantasy and #horror VN about compassion, Catalyst: Blind Faith!🩸

While creating this big branching project, I also post+repost a lot of #accessibility, #art, #writing, #programming, & other nice stuff!
A gold and red working logo for the dark fantasy and horror visual novel "Catalyst: Blind Faith." Grayscale art on the top row shows three main characters. From left to right: A female elf with a sly expression, asymmetric hair, many piercings, and long ears side-eyeing the player; a disheveled and heavily scarred young man, clutching at his head while he stares directly at the viewer; and a bubbly woman in profile view with an unnaturally broad grin and very poofy hair. The bottom row has five sketches of different male body types, all at the same height. These are illustrative of the protagonist, whose appearance can radically change based on the player's choices. From left to right: An emaciated figure in a fighting stance, fists before his face; a slender and broad-shouldered figure in a front-facing and stiff pose; a muscular figure, looking relaxed and confident as he glances over his shoulder; a husky male figure, partially drawn, as some of the right arm is incomplete; and a very heavyset male figure, standing in a similar distant and neutral pose as the slim figure. Screenshot from the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. A disclaimer on the upper right reads: "WIP game: art is not final. All designs subject to change." The subtitle for the narrator reads, "Its inhabitants can call upon the Gods Themselves for light and love." Eight, vertical, monochrome panels depict the Gods and Goddesses in an original fantasy pantheon. The panels are laid out like a neon rainbow, with a monochrome hand reaching towards each abstraction of their God or Goddess with evocative poses. Hulking fists, hands clasped in prayer, painters, people manipulating fire and the earth, and more abstract concepts are also shown. Mood board for the protagonist of a dark fantasy and horror game. The central text reads: "Father Richard Anscham — The Demon of Faith." Images are clustered in vertical stripes, like a reversed rainbow. From left to right are images and quotes evocative of losing oneself to bloodlust; space and time; interpretation, dreams, and nightmares; farming, famine, and poison; compassion, light, gold, and love; an all-consuming search for power; action and strength; and light between great inner turmoil. A flowchart for the demo of a heavily branching visual novel, Catalyst: Blind Faith. Scenes, choices menus, and deaths or early endings are distinguished with different sized boxes. It shows a massive amount of divergence within each of the demo's chapters. Additionally, at certain points in the chronology of the flowchart, chapter numbers have numerous titles associated with each. This indicates where the player's choices causes a divergence significant enough to get an alternate version of each chapter. Links are at the bottom for the early development demo's itch.io page ( https://just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-blind-faith ) and a community Discord for regular updates ( https://discord.gg/24cmNWp )
September 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The server stream we had went so well!!!!

As a reward for myself, I've been writing up a storm with script for the full game of my dark fantasy and #horror VN.🩸

Even made some cute covers for my Trackbear to stay motivated with progress!!🤍❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

#writesky #writingcommunity #indiegamedev #vndev
Screenshots of nine small icons, stylized like colorful book covers, for a writing progress site called Trackbear. Each cover has the logo for an indie, dark fantasy and horror game on it, "Catalyst: Blind Faith." One cover for the common route simply has a branching motif, evocative of a densely branching tree or veins. The other eight are very colorful, showing neon-colored hands in all the colors of the rainbow. Each hand is reaching towards the logo, with expressive gestures ranging from hands gently clasped together, to fists punching upwards, to disembodied hands erupting from broken glass. Writing progress from the last two days on a progress tracker site, trackbear. The indie game developer and writer is keeping motivation high while currently writing for Catalyst: Blind Faith. The branching visual novel has multiple continuities with extremely diverse themes and events, so they have separated distinct continuities as if they are separate projects. The one screenshotted, for the God of Vengeance, is given the internal name "Incorruptible." It corresponds to events if the player never selects options that are anything less than heroic, and the writer has burst out of the writing gates like a bat out of hell with over 11 thousand words written in the last two days. Wish her luck editing! wink wonk
September 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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checking off everything from my to-do list tonight and I think

I'm probably obligated to inform my habitica party of the orbital nuke I'm about to drop on the boss we're fighting😂
Screenshot from Habitica, a gameified productivity app. two to-do items are closely zoomed into: "Stream prep," with 10/12 items completed; and "Anniversary Stream" with 1/28 items completed. More experience is rewarded and more damage is dealt to bosses in the app for completing more tasks. This means that the party's healer is about to do some dumb shit in the next 24 hours lol
September 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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don't get me wrong, I love the support of many resolutions, but

sharing some solidarity with fellow indie game devs on the steam capsule art requirements lol😂👌 we do it for the love of a good page

#indiegamedev #gamedev #meme #steam #graphicdesignismypassion
guidelines steam very very kindly provides to guide devs to success when publishing games. note this is in an easily edited file at the correct resolution with clean overlays, allowing devs to visualize how to position assets with as little friction as possible. parody of the guidelines steam very very kindly provides to guide devs to success when publishing games. the banner's ultra-wide accommodations are memed with the centermost panel (in green) reading: "who in their right mind designs an image this wide" the orange sections, which are optional but may be seen by some players, are labeled "is some sicko using a ruler for a monitor," "maybe a pencil for a monitor?" and "or two normal ones side by side?" the bottom section in red always has a transparent overlay, but must be designed nonetheless. the joke text in red reads: "Even steam recognizes we're getting dumb at this point but you'd better fill this space!!!!!"
September 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I've 100%'d Undertale 3 times now just out of love for the game. It's insane thinking how long it's been since it's first release and how many of its moments and characters have left a lasting impression on me.

Its focus on strong character moments and rewarding player's choices is masterclass!!❤️
Screenshot from Undertale. The player decided to take up Napstablook, a ghost, on laying on the floor and feeling like garbage. The player has idled for so long that the background has changed to an abstract visual of deep space, which persists until they decide to get up. Screenshot from Undertale. Undyne, a fish-like monster with an eyepatch, red ponytail, and wearing plate armor, stands on the peak of a mountain. Strange industrial buildings are in the background against a red horizon and many more jagged mountains. As she looks down at the player, she says to them, "I'll show you how determined monsters can be!"
September 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Happy 10 year #Undertale anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🌼❤️

🌼❤️It's one of my favorite games of all time, and Toby Fox is far and away one of my biggest creative role models and inspirations.

Time flies. Thread with a few thoughts!!
Parody of the cartoon Dexter's Laboratory. A young, nerdy, red-headed boy (Dexter) stands in front of his locker, a hand to the door, with one fist clutched dramatically. Tears are in his eyes as he sincerely says to numerous pictures pasted on the interior of the locker's door, "I must not fail you." Normally Dexter speaks to Einstein, but an indie game developer has put different black and white portraits instead. Clockwise, from upper left: Miro Haverinen (video game developer, known for the Fear & Hunger series), J. R. R. Tolkien (writer and philologist), Toby Fox (video game developer and composer), and David Lynch (filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor). On the back wall of the locker at eye-level is a chibi sticker of Temmie Chang (illustrator, animator, video game developer). Wallpaper for the video game Undertale. In a blue and black palette, many characters stand side by side, showing only their silhouettes as they look to the horizon. The usual background for this scene has been edited, so they all look out at a floating castle in the distance. The sky is filled with stars.
September 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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When the placeholder hits just right 😂👌

(redacted spoilers!)👍

#visualnovel #vndev #indiegamedev #gamedev #ui #art
Screenshot from a work-in-progress dark fantasy and visual novel, Catalyst: Blind Faith. The player has a personal, handmade journal with many sections to remind themselves of places they have been, characters they have met, demons they have faced, the deities in the pantheon (whose abilities the player can channel at a cost), and personal notes. A comically cartoonish and smug caricature of a balding man with mutton chops, Orgoth, is front and center. This silly placeholder accompanies highly serious narrative text, with a short description of the character: He's allegedly "The Greatest Warrior Who Ever Lived," has a prominent title, and the location the player first encountered Orgoth (and what the player observed) is also recorded in bullet points.
September 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Had such a nice birthday today, the fanart was too awesome not to share!!!

big big big big thanks to:
@rafaanimations.bsky.social (badass sketches amazing amazing Gwen art)🪄✨🌌
@sleepyboydev.bsky.social (YIPPEEEEE)🥳🎈🎉
and Coolghost (for making me feel half my age😂 with our best skeletal demon)🤍😉👉
Black and white sketch from RafaAnimations (@rafaanimations.bsky.social) of Celegwen, an elvish sorceress from the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. Today is the game director's birthday! Rafa wrote beside Gwen, "Happy B-Day Alaric! from: Rafa :)" Celegwen has many piercings on her long, pointed ears and slender face. Her asymmetrically cut hair is dyed at the ends, and she's covered up with a cloak and tunic. She's raising an eyebrow at the viewer and looking particularly smug. Yippee Meme / TBH Creature from yarrow (@sleepyboydev.bsky.social) of Orgoth, an orcish warchief from the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. Today is the game director's birthday! The meme has a red, striped party hat added in addition to Orgoth's design. All four limbs are comedically present, as well as plenty of battle scars, old blood smeared around in decorative streaks on Orgoth's alabaster skin, a massive battle-axe, and a pauldron shaped like a demon or fish's skull. Black and white sketch from Coolghost of Yech the Disgusted, a skeletal demon lord from the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. Today is the game director's birthday! Yech is wearing an outrageously oversized party-hat, which reaches far behind him. He's wearing a large neck ruff, a striped tunic with puffy sleeves, and is pointing a skeletal finger at the viewer while asserting their youth. The text, from a mature character from a horror game, directed at a 34 year old who finds this incredibly amusing, says "Happy 15th bday!" in jest.
September 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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it's a big one lol

🔥New narrative design #devlog!
🔀Deep-dive into #writing MANY branching continuities
✨Spoiler-free thanks to silly AU (not joking)
🖌️Packed with goofy art, lots of flowcharts, & more!

🪄Read it here: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli...

#horror #vndev #indiegamedev #gamedev
A working logo for the dark fantasy and horror visual novel "Catalyst: Blind Faith." The subtitle says "Devlog." Grayscale art on the top row shows three main characters. From left to right: A female elf with a sly expression, asymmetric hair, many piercings, and long ears side-eyeing the player; a disheveled and heavily scarred young man, clutching at his head while he stares directly at the viewer; and a bubbly woman in profile view with an unnaturally broad grin and very poofy hair. The bottom row has five sketches of different male body types, all at the same height. These are illustrative of the protagonist, whose appearance can radically change based on the player's choices. From left to right: An emaciated figure in a fighting stance, fists before his face; a slender and broad-shouldered figure in a front-facing and stiff pose; a muscular figure, looking relaxed and confident as he glances over his shoulder; a husky male figure, partially drawn, as some of the right arm is incomplete; and a very heavyset male figure, standing in a similar distant and neutral pose as the slim figure. Four panels show a scruffy, tired, young man looking over his shoulder at the viewer. Silly, retro sqiggly lines divide the panels, akin to vintage images for time travel. This is evocative of the main character in a dark fantasy and horror visual novel, though here instead of an epic dungeon dive he stands in front of a library. The breadth of characterization shown has him looking aggressively interested and excited about in pursuing love with a cat-like face; losing his soul and swearing while extremely distressed, eyes receding into his sockets in terror; genuinely smiling and relaxed; and very on edge, turning towards the viewer from being startled. Pixel art courtesy of Picrew from https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/188948.
September 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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committing warcrimes with the action editor tonight🙌🔥

#renpy can do some wonderful stuff and you bet your ass I'm going to make 100% use of it for this opening cinematic ahhahahahahahh🔥🎞️

#vndev #indiegamedev #gamedev #horror #cartography #animation #STILLSENDMECOOLVISUALNOVELTRANSITIONSPLSTY
Screenshot for development of the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. The developer is using the Action Editor, a tool for real-time visualization of animations, camera, and other visuals in the Ren'Py engine. A hand-drawn, 2D, full color map is being zoomed in for an opening cinematic. Because subtitles for the cinematic are on a higher layer in the game than the Action Editor's interface, the relevant text from the narrator's voice over appears as the visuals are being worked on. The text reads: "The land of Godric faces a war from within."
September 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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🥳🎉HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

We're celebrating a year of #indiegamedev for our dark fantasy and #horror VN with a server party & stream!

🖌️Art, animations & MOAR
🎮Gameplay + accessibility showcase w/ dev
🎤Dramatic reading (everyone welcome!)
🔥Vote for what choices we take!

🎉SUNDAY 9/21: discord.gg/24cmNWp
A working logo for the dark fantasy and horror visual novel "Catalyst: Blind Faith." The subtitle says "Livestream." Grayscale art on the top row shows three main characters. From left to right: A female elf with a sly expression, asymmetric hair, many piercings, and long ears side-eyeing the player; a disheveled and heavily scarred young man, clutching at his head while he stares directly at the viewer; and a bubbly woman in profile view with an unnaturally broad grin and very poofy hair. The bottom row has five sketches of different male body types, all at the same height. These are illustrative of the protagonist, whose appearance can radically change based on the player's choices. From left to right: An emaciated figure in a fighting stance, fists before his face; a slender and broad-shouldered figure in a front-facing and stiff pose; a muscular figure, looking relaxed and confident as he glances over his shoulder; a husky male figure, partially drawn, as some of the right arm is incomplete; and a very heavyset male figure, standing in a similar distant and neutral pose as the slim figure.
September 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Hand-drawn 2D art in my VN is a challenge WELL worth it! Making sure its transitions don't look like a powerpoint is a big task too lol, but it's very doable with love and care!

✨Recommend me your favorite #visualnovel with classy transitions to study!

#gamedev #indiedev #vndev #animation #2Dart
gif from Slay the Princess. The titular princess, wearing an elegant dress and crown with a large manacle on one wrist, kneels in front of a broken pane of glass. The reflection in each separate pane of glass shows different princesses, with wildly differing personalities and changes in appearance from the one in the center. The princess in the foreground is animated with a line boil. The background has a transform which creates the appearance of a beam of light reflecting across all the panes of glass. gif from VA-11 Hall-A, a cyberpunk visual novel with pixel art and a UI overlay with mechanics for bartending. Small animations are used throughout the UI, sprites, and background, such as a spinning fan in the bar the player works at, advertisements on a TV and banner above the drink mixing settings, and twitching cat ears on the character the player speaks to. When interacting with the UI, the overlay has a transition akin to an oldschool loading screen. Closing the UI rapidly fades out the display, like shutting off an old television screen.
September 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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tale as old as time

#indiegamedev #vndev #gamedev #horror #devlogsoonthoughIwillbegood
August 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Sharing an excerpt from my dark fantasy and #horror VN's script for this one! Equal parts standing and the team leaning on one another.💖

CW for descriptions of blood.🩸

#magicwithconsequences #writingcommunity #writesky #indiegamedev #gamedev #vndev
A screenshot of script for the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. Speakers are abbreviated. Hashtags are used for descriptions of mandatory visuals for context. r = Father Richard Anscham, the player controlled MC. gwe = Celegwen, an elvish sorceress who is really going through it. r "Slow down. I don't mean to—I don't mean to impose, but I cannot stress enough how dangerous it is for you to exacerbate the condition you are in. Father's orders." #Ofelia looks like she's going to burst into laughter. Celegwen shakes her head and wrests herself away from your grasp, but then to your surprise, dutifully takes deliberate steps ahead. gwe "You are absolutely right. We must pace ourselves." With her gaze to the farthest reaches of the woods—the mountains in the distance—Celegwen smiles with blood in her teeth. gwe "I think we're on the right track." #fade to black Ofelia sighs heavily as you all approach the exit to Yech's domain. Everyone is winded beyond measure, Celegwen is bleeding freely from her eyes and occasionally from her mouth, and you are so thirsty that you could drink mud. The four of you walk side by side, leaning as hard as you can on one another just to stay standing.
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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back in the saddle for #gamedev!!!!🎉🎉🎉

I can't share ANY of it on social media lmfao YIIPEEEE😂

🎉6.4k words for an unpostable prompt!
🎉40 seconds of a narrated, storyboarded cinematic for the start of the game in its roughest stages!
🎉[REDACTED DUE TO NDA]

#horror #butmarketinghorror #indiegamedev
Yippee Meme / TBH Creature painted over as fanart of a scruffy, exhausted, scarred, green-eyed young man in suspenders. He's been given a striped yellow and green party hat with a matching noise maker.
August 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Binged through a big chunk of my dark fantasy and #horror VN's script this week! #indiegamedev #writing

🎙️Reading + voices w/ our discord in VC was so much fun oml
🔥Finished 25(!!!) chapters
✍️HYPE to dive back in

💖big ty to the community for the hype and fire memes all week: discord.gg/24cmNWp
Group of three people sitting on a blanket. Their faces are covered with screenshots of Discord UI: "voice-text-chat," "Voice Chad," and "Alaric." Alaric has a profile picture of a chibi skeleton writing with a quill. All three figures are reading or interacting with parts of a game's script. The common route, scripts for prioritizing a relationship with the God of "Vengeance," and several text memes are front and center. Voice text chat has a gulping cat meme; a parody of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's title as "Richard's Horrors Beyond Human Comprehension"; and a post from a user (Wiwaxia). Wiwaxia is quoted as saying "Blind Faith has a high skill ceiling (literacy)." In the background of the image is a carousel, which has "general-chad" slapped on top of it.
August 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM