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We're heeeeeeeere... makers of THE SPIRIT LIFT and Code Romantic
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Play 👻🏨THE SPIRIT LIFT demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/THE_SPIRIT_LIFT/
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Our favorite Halloween treat has been announcing the release date for 👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT!

The Vexington Hotel Grand Opening is slated for January 27th, 2026. 🗓️ Scrawl the date in your calendars, keep your eyes peeled, and breath bated for the full game 👀
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Do you know that our dev team loves horror? That’s why we’re thrilled to be part of this year’s @steampowered.com Scream IV! 👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT is celebrating lots of news this month, thanks to everyone who is wishlisting, playing the demo, giving feedback, and spreading the word about our game!
The background features a spooky black and white castle laboratory with text in the front that says, “STEAM SCREAM IV OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 3 AT 10AM PT.” On the right side features prettysmart games vertical key art for THE SPIRIT LIFT. The key art has Dorian Graywolf with glowing yellow eyes with a fan of cards under his snout with THE SPIRIT LIFT logo in golden text with the first I in SPIRIT mimicking the pointer of an elevator dial and a ghostly blue silhouette above of the dial. Below it says, “PLAY THE DEMO Full Game Release: January 27th 2026”
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Get ready for some more treats this spooky season! Ghouls4Games is back from the incredible @dames4games.org 👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT is featured in this year’s showcase and the Vexington Hotel has some more secrets for you.
A spooky orange crackly background is split into thirds. The top third says, “WE’LL BE HAUNTING THIS SHOWCASE!” with bats next to it. In the middle is prettysmart games THE SPIRIT LIFT key art featuring three diverse characters from the game and a large werewolf (Dorian Graywolf) in a suit with cards fanned out underneath him, with the game title “THE SPIRIT LIFT” in bold yellow letters with the first I being an elevator dial. The lower third has a purple skinned, blue hair zombie with a purple skinned, green mech animal. The text is on a wooden board in purple, bubbly, slimy letters saying, “Ghouls 4 Games” with purple regal font saying, “October 24th 12 PM PST/ 3 PM EST 8 PM GMT”
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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We have big news!! Thank you to the @dreadxp.bsky.social and @themix.bsky.social for showcasing 👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT in this year’s Indie Horror Showcase + announcing THE RELEASE DATE for the game!!
A dark brown background has a picture frame with prettysmart games THE SPIRIT LIFT key art showcasing the title of the game with a golden font with a blue glow around the letter with the first I being an elevator dial with a ghostly blue frame mimicking the arc of the floor numbers and to the left is Dorian Graywolf with glowing golden eyes with a fan of cards under his snout with a mysterious yellow eye design printed on the back. Under the frame the text reads, “ OCTOBER 23RD - 10 AM PACIFIC INDIEHORRORSHOWCASE.COM” with The Indie Horror Showcase 2025 logo with bats at the top and electric pulse symbols on the sides. DREADXP and THE MIX Indie Game Exchange logos are at the bottom corner respectively. An eerie blue glow is cast onto a wall with mysterious papers taped up with the center paper in pink scrawl “ JANUARY 27TH 2026” and a smaller square paper to the bottom left that says, “WISHLIST ON STEAM”
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Wishlist and play 👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT demo for @steampowered.com Next Fest! Now featuring new cards, creatures, and battles + updated UX. Catch an exclusive dev log on Steam to see the devs, Dale and @drmikachu.bsky.social, play the game and learn more about the secrets lurking in Vexington Hotel!
A rectangle has a diagonal line through the middle with the right half featuring key art from THE SPIRIT LIFT from prettysmart games with Dorian Graywolf with glowing yellow eyes with a fan of cards under his snout with THE SPIRIT LIFT logo in golden text with the first I in SPIRIT mimicking the pointer of an elevator dial and a ghostly blue silhouette above of the dial. On the left, it says, “NEXT FEST” for Steam’s Next Fest with text saying, “CHECK OUT OUR GAME DEMO DURING STEAM NEXT FEST OCT 13 - 20 AT 10 AM PT”
October 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Even better, death is only the beginning in this demo. Each run, you’ll earn Spirit points to customize your next attempt to reach the penthouse!

👀 Do you dare take a ride? Those who die, try again can also earn a bonus in the full game! Don’t forget to check out the Library while you are at it.
A screenshot of card upgrades newly available in the final demo for THE SPIRIT LIFT from prettysmart games A screenshot of THE SPIRIT SHOP that unlocks upgrades in the ghost-punk rogue-like deck builder haunted hotel crawler, THE SPIRIT LIFT from prettysmart games A screenshot of newly added The Library feature that tracks the lore in the ghost-punk rogue-like deck builder haunted hotel crawler, THE SPIRIT LIFT from prettysmart games A screenshot of gameplay from prettysmart games’ THE SPIRIT LIFT ghostpunk rogue-like deckbuilder haunted hotel crawler. The screenshot features the Shop in the game with the shopkeeper, Dorian Graywolf, who is a violin-playing werewolf holding a violin bow with glowing yellow eyes in a dapper 3-piece pin-striped suit. To the left of Dorian, there are cards (Pack of Gum, Smokescreen, First Aid Kit) for purchase as well as items (Funeral Veil, Sunglasses, Rollerblades). To his right is a button to “DESTROY CARDS” for 300 gold. On the far left, shows your 3 character group of Sako, Tobias, and Quintin as well as their focuses and health as a group. Below the team is a button shaped like a door with a golden wolf head knocker to “LEAVE ROOM.”
October 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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THE SPIRIT LIFT FINAL DEMO IS HERE! 👻 🏨 Welcome to your free stay at the Vexington Hotel. Play the new demo and earn a bonus in the final game when it launches!

Discover more battles, cards, creature, gear, and gold because we’ve upgraded you to a luxury suite! ✨
A screenshot of the Spotacula boss battle gameplay for prettysmart games THE SPIRIT LIFT A screenshot of gameplay from prettysmart games’ THE SPIRIT LIFT ghostpunk rogue-like deckbuilder haunted hotel crawler. The screenshot shows the game’s character dashboard with only Sako, Tobias, Briar, Quintin, and Maria available to choose from in the demo. The character featured to the right of the dashboard shows Briar, a young brown-skinned girl with braids in a half updo with two buns wearing purple fishnets on their arms and legs with a purple and black collared dress with an apron with pockets full of art-related options and black boots. Briar is a Spiritual character class dubbed “The Artist” with item cards of the palette knife, oil paints, sketchbook, and an item equipped is a brush belt. A screenshot of gameplay of an event in THE SPIRIT LIFT from prettysmart games
October 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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We are looking forward to experiencing @drmikachu.bsky.social’s talk for this year’s 10th annual @gdocexpo.com aptly named, “Running a Remote Game Studio When Everything’s on Fire.” 🎟️ Grab a ticket for #GDoCExpo2025 for access to the full event and catch her talk on Wednesday, September 17th! 💖
A photo of Miko Charbonneau is featured in the center of the design with her black and pink hair blowing in the wind with her black and pink rimmed glasses. Framing around the photo, a wave of colors ranging from light green, orange, red, pink, and purple with lettering at the top saying “2025 Game Devs of Color Expo” and “Speaker” at the bottom with a smaller white font that says “#GDoCExpo2025”
August 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT will be online AND on-site at @officialpax.bsky.social West for the @themix.bsky.social Fall Game Showcase on August 29th! We can’t wait for you to take your ride on THE SPIRIT LIFT! 🛗

More event info: mediaindieexchange.com/showcases/th...
On the left of the image, there are characters that have video game consoles and controllers as heads in fighting stance coming out of multi-colored abstract shapes behind them. Underneath the characters, there is an ombre colored font from pink to purple from left to right with a white outline of a joystick and font saying, “MIX FALL SHOWCASE 2025” with a jagged lightening white divider. On the right side of the white jagged line, prettysmart games’ THE SPIRIT LIFT indie video game cover art is featured with the name shining in gold with the first I in SPIRIT pointing up shaped as an elevator dial, Dorian Graywolf is featured on the right of the image with glowing golden eyes, and cards stream across the image.
August 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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You can catch our studio’s creative director, @drmikachu.bsky.social, speaking at the #GDoCExpo2025 on Wednesday, September 17th on “Running a Remote Studio When Everything’s on Fire.”
Miko Charbonneau is featured in the center of the design with her black and pink hair blowing in the wind with her black and pink rimmed glasses. Framing around the photo, a wave of colors ranging from light green, orange, red, pink, and purple with lettering at the top saying “2025 Game Devs of Color Expo” and “Speaker” at the bottom with a smaller white font that says “#GDoCExpo2025”
August 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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✨ Catch our Art Lead Audrey Twigg & our Founder Dr. Miko Charbonneau @drmikachu.bsky.social on the Black Indie Dev Speaker Series with @simmerthingz.bsky.social as they talk about 👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT, ghost punk horror, and more!

📅 Wednesday, July 23rd at buff.ly/HUnbvhn — don’t miss it!

#IndieDev
A promotional poster for the Indie Dev Speaker Series hosted by Simmerthingz, featuring the game THE SPIRIT LIFT. The top half shows three diverse characters from the game and a large werewolf (Dorian Graywolf) in a suit, with the game title “The Spirit Lift” in bold yellow letters. Below, bold text reads "Indie Dev Speaker Series Hosted by Simmerthingz." The featured guests are shown in circular portraits: on the left is Audrey Twigg, labeled as “Art Lead for THE SPIRIT LIFT,” and on the right is Dr. Miko Charbonneau, labeled “Creative Director & Lead Game Designer for THE SPIRIT LIFT.” The background has a spooky blue and purple gradient, adding to the supernatural theme.
July 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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June 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The game dev journey 😅 Did you see that 👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT is dropping this year though?

#prettysmart
May 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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👀 See what the survivors of the Vexington Hotel think of THE SPIRIT LIFT 👀

👻🏨 Start your ride of THE SPIRIT LIFT on Steam and @itch.io

#indiegamedev #freedemo #ghostpunk #hotelcrawler #deckbuilder #gamedev
March 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Us impressed by our own bugs as we fight them back #gamedev
March 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Anyone remember this? #prettysmart
February 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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“Aang mentioned us!” #prettysmart
A screenshot of Prince Zuko and Aang from “Avatar: The Last Airbender” elbowing Zuko laughing saying, “You’re pretty smart.”
January 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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❤️‍🔥 Rage N' Rhythm: A rage-pop music game about Asian-American women confronting their workplace frustrations (and possibly swearing)!

❤️‍🔥 Join our mailing list to get updates about our upcoming game Rage N’ Rhythm: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#rhythmgame #indiegamedev #POC #asianamerican
Prettysmart games’ key art for their game entitled “Rage N’ Rhythm.” An Asian-American women in a plaid blazer and an ombre of black to teal blue hair is split in half by a black line showing her laughing side and her angry side. The left side of the line has blue rays coming from behind her head with a city scape and blue open mouth emojis. The right side shows the women with angry face with rage white eyes, teeth clinched, a blue anger gradient from her forehead, and furrowed eyebrows. Behind her are spiky, red pursed lipped emojis in pink rays with fire in silhouette behind her. The text above the character reads, “Rage N’ Rhythm” in light blue and magenta fire come from behind the text with hidden hearts in the magenta flames.
November 27, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT is a ghostpunk deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel. You’ll be playing a group of teens surviving and thriving as they battle monsters and explore mysteries with the help of a mystic elevator!
Prettysmart games' key art for their game entitled “THE SPIRIT LIFT.” On the right of the artwork, the game’s shopkeeper, Dorian Graywolf, has yellow glowing eyes behind a trail of blue cards disappearing behind THE SPIRIT LIFT logo. The navy blue cards have golden accents with an eye in the center and arrows facing up and down coming from the middle of the eye. The logo for THE SPIRIT LIFT is to the middle of the artwork. It says, "THE SPIRIT LIFT" in the same yellow glow as Dorian’s eyes with the first I in SPIRIT mimicking an elevator dial with a blue atmospheric outline of the elevator dial with the actual dial behind it. On the far left, three high school characters are featured: Tobias - the hunk in a red letterman jacket, Briar - the artist in a purple and black gothic aesthetic with a painting apron, Sako - the jock in a red and white sports outfit holding a tennis ball.
November 27, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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🤖💞 Code Romantic is a post-apocalyptic love story that teaches coding in C#. It's a visual novel where you solve programming puzzles in between story segments!
Prettysmart games’ “Code Romantic” character, Mina, stands in a room surrounded by red screens showing the @ware symbol that is represented by a light-off-white @ symbol. She is wearing a blue uniform, has blond hair with bangs and glasses, and sporting a worried face with a laptop with a transparent screen hackslate glowing light blue in front of her. The blue font with a cream yellow outline shows the “Code Romantic” logo to the left of Mina with the “a” in “Code Romantic” is a red @ symbol. In a cream Impact font at the top reads, “FALL IN LOVE SAVE THE WORLD LEARN TO CODE.”
November 27, 2024 at 7:02 PM