At first glance, Kaja and Tara have everything: fame, fortune, and each other. But when the cameras stop following all the glamour disappears, leaving behind one question.
Should they be here?
My entry for
#VeloxFabula2
, All of Us Flames, is out now!
this isn't really a game. it's more of a reaction to seeing something as real as suicide being used as a cheap gimmick.
I give you "I Won't Finish This Game", a project I wanted to do for a long time by now. I've been there. I'm glad I no longer am.
@ArimiaDev
Hello, it's me, a crowdfunding dev. I hate VNs with all of my heart and I think that the genre is inherently terrible. I despise the way VNs work and I believe that they're all hollow and immature. This is why you should give me money so I can make a game in genre I loathe!
If I get harassed for it, then so be it, but I can't stand the fact that everyone's whispering about it and nobody speaks up. Yes, "i won't finish this game" is a direct response to "Going Live". I find emotional exploitation that went along with suicide scene there disgusting.
@slimakowo
na mojej gimnazjalnej stołówce można było od czasu do czasu dostać zupę bez opłat – zupy zawsze trochę zostawało więc woleli resztę rozdać jak ktoś chciał zamiast idk wylewać
czasami chodziłem po tę zupę bo, uwaga, lepiej się myśli kiedy nie jest się głodnym xD szok, wiem
PSA to people playing game on Itchio: if you like the game, GIVE IT THAT 5* RATING. It helps, it makes a difference, and it certainly makes the creator's day, trust me
@ArimiaDev
when you're promised that all routes are equal and there's no "best route" but you can still see that one character is written far better than the others
I remember someone telling me a story that someone reached out to them to tell them that their VN has no story just to finally admit that they just skipped everything until choices appeared
players can and will be stupid sometimes
from time to time I get reminded that most people don't really understand how much work actually goes into VN making and how much can an indie team (or a solo dev) do in the time constraints of a game jam
Today, I hit two milestones. First: 1000 total downloads of all of my stuff! Second: 100+ downloads of "i won't finish this game". I'm so grateful and stunned by all the kindness and love I received because of this game, but also throughout the years of my deving. Thank you.
I think that sometimes stories are meant to be uncomfortable, and I don't just mean for the reader, but for the writer as well
sometimes you need to get into a mindset of a truly terrible person and it will feel wrong, for one reason or another
@ArimiaDev
*looks at a platformer* the gameplay just doesn't click. Not everyone's idea of fun is pressing a button to jump just to have to repeat it all over again
Meredith already knows how this story will end: the woman she loves will die. As the flowers keep turning white, she desperately tries to ignore the foreshadowed truth.
My
#VeloxFormido
entry is here! Enjoy or don't
Cassidy can't outrun the end of the world, but she's given a chance: if she betrays herself and says the right words, she will be spared.
My
#O2A2VNJam
entry, Shibboleth, is out now! I made this one completely alone 💖
#amaregame
#visualnovel
#indiedev
Armed with the sword of Dream King, you come to the Realm of Dreams to slay a beast sending nightmares onto your town.
Kill the beast. You promised.
My entry for
#VeloxTurbo
, Ill-gotten Light, is out now!
#visualnovel
#vndev
(1/9) "i won't finish this game" is my most successful game so far, even though I didn't expect that at all. I'm still stunned about it. I'm really thankful. However, the game's popularity led my thoughts to a place that horrified me, and I think it's important to talk about it.
After centuries of silence, the Hext family is forced to confront its demons. Blythe decides to merge their body with its dream form and the confrontation that follows will change everything
My entry for
#TransRepJam
is there!
#vndev
#amaregame
#vn
honestly one of the best things about having your own characters and your own universes is that you can go "this is undeniably queer" and nobody can come to you to say "well, ackshually" because you are the God™ of this world, and what you queered is queered forever
@Panna_N
mi pozwolono w liceum napisać pracę semestralną na temat motywów antycznych w Mój Mały Kucyk: Przyjaźń to Magia, ba, nawet potem robiłem o tym prezentację – warto pamiętać że za dziełami dla dzieci dalej stoją dorośli, którzy potrafią często robić "zaskakująco" "dorosłe" rzeczy
The scene itself was already abhorrent with the lack of care put into it but the addition of an absolutely wild and unethical goal of 5k reviews, coupled with ENCOURAGEMENT of using multiple accounts to achieve it and emotionally manipulative tweets made me see red.
At this moment, you don't want me. Did you ever want me? Or is it all just about my body?
My Neo-Twiny Jam entry, let the lights bleed, is out now! Warning: this is a NSFW story.
Those who defy the Light are to be treated as if they're dead while they're alive.
And yet, May still can't give up on trying to save her sister... which might lead to her being damned herself.
My
#O2A2
entry, Awakening, is here!
Coming back home can bring things you never expected. Even the most boring of places keep their deep secrets – and Eva is about to learn some of her hometown's.
I'm happy to show you my
#AmareGamesFestival
entry, Let's Get Bitter Together!
#vndev
#vn
I don't deserve you. I don't deserve this.
My last Neo-Twiny Jam entry and last part of Lights trilogy, turn the lights off, is out now! Warning: this is a NSFW story
You can't tell me it was one mistake. You can't tell me that you're unaware of what you're doing. You revel in reading frenzied comments of your fans. What you did is not okay, not only towards people who took or almost took their life, but also towards fellow devs.
Ren'py devs, do you also forget the very basics of how programming works after taking a break? One day I know how to make text file appear in game files and a month later I try to remember how the hell defining characters works like
After years of slumber, certain things wake up in the boring, little town of Ivehorn. As people fall asleep all around her, Eva wakes up to things she'd never thought are possible.
Let's Get Bitter Together part 2 is out now (on PC)
#amaregame
#vndev
Is it wrong to feel so empty without you? If you really hurt me, why do I miss you? Aren't people supposed to hate their abusers?
My 2nd Neo-Twiny Jam entry and 2nd part of Lights trilogy, leave the lights on, is out now! Warning: this is a NSFW story
I happen to be both, so maybe that's why it's me speaking up. A large platform requires care. And there seems to be none, and it's such a sad sight. If you see nothing wrong with it all, sit down and think of what went wrong with your life. Find some compassion, for starters.
Ah, and there are screenshots for everything. So.
If I get harassed or harmed in any other way, it's because I spoke up, even though I was scared. And in the end, this was the goal of "i won't finish this game": to say things I couldn't say out loud.
when you're a religious person and you hear that someone's got religious trauma and lost their faith along the way, trying to get them to join your church instead is a real dick move
life-shattering trauma doesn't make your OC automatically interesting, deep or complex
if the ONLY thing you can say about your OC is to list the terrible things that happened to them, you don't have an OC, you have a list of terrible events and a design
it's the beginning of the Pride month. I'm a bit more drunk than I should be. I finished writing the script for "let the lights bleed". and gods. I'm so glad to be queer. I'm so glad that I get to experience joy after all the pain. I'm glad I can speak and be heard.
So, again, in a more official way: thank you for helping me reach the 100 followers milestone! I didn't think I'd get there at all when I first made account. This platform crashes and spontaneously combusts every 5 seconds, and yet, you're here with me, and I appreciate it 💖
rate my game however you want
but if you rate it anything lower than 5*, please tell me what I can improve and how
all that a lone 1* or a "I didn't like it" does is making you feel "heard"
it's not productive, not for me, not for you in the long run
I love being a writer, I love making people feel things, I love trying to name things that can't be named, I love being the voice for those who can't begin to speak their thoughts out loud, I love my little human need to make people feel understood
urghhh it doesn't look like I wanted it to look but okay ig, I just wanted to do a bigger thing compared to the usual doodles but I lost all strength. anyway say hi to Tara Talwar (new oc lol) who did nothing wrong in her entire life
[translation in alt text]
Hi henlo! I'm currently recruiting volunteers for my horror-ish Aro Jam project, With a Shadow of a Doubt! Searching for artists, proofreaders/editors and UI programmers (more details on the attached graphic) if interested, feel free to DM me here or on Discord!
so it's
#TransDayOfVisibility
and uh... I'm too tired to make a proper post but I'm Naarel (or Ed), a trans guy who makes visual novels! if you wanna check "Convergence", my latest Trans Representation Jam entry (made by 100% trans team), click here:
IT'S OUT🎃
#SpooktoberVNJam
Join a timid cleric and his oddball crew on an irreverent commentated(??) quest that may or may not be what it seems in Our <<Fantastic>> Wonderland!
#visualnovel
Shenanigans!
Animations!
Monsters!
And even some romance 🤭💕
kinda tired of the "if you don't have an extremely detailed outline of everything that happens in the story you'll crash and die" attitude that some people display ngl
I'll just say: you won't be always praised. Some people are haters, but others are raising legitimate concerns. If you can't listen to the second ones and would rather shut them out, your choice. But you won't improve.
✨ build your own unhinged wattpad love story ✨
{love interest - first meeting - trope - plot twist}
based on:
{birth month - battery percent - favorite color - favorite season}
qrt with your answers :)
I remember how about a year ago, I mentioned to my mother that I need a new laptop
she asked me what for, and I tried my best to explain my little VN endeavors to her
she just looked at me, clearly tired, and asked: "what do you have from it?"
so, it's my 24th birthday, which means I spent almost quarter of a century in this body
it doesn't thrill me but it doesn't terrify me, and I think this is better than dread I usually experience
thank you to everyone who was with me through the past year. here's to next one 💖
most interesting Naarel lore:
>featured in a Netflix documentary
>recited a sapphic poem in front of the ambassador of Ireland
>got poems published (in the local newspaper but still)
>learned Latin in high school
>learned how to read at 2,5 years
>had to learn how to walk twice
F-lore-isam
- I really like musicals and I used to do musical theatre in my early teen years!
- I earned first and second place in two local short story writing competitions
- I went to film school! (I think most people knew this already lol)
say "hi" to the Little Guy, my official (kinda?) mascot for all of my current and future dev adventures! (this time in end of the world flavor)
(I know you'll miss the cat, everyone got used to the cat...)
no more "sexy Persephone and Hades". give me a retelling where Demeter is desperately trying to get her daughter back from the hands of a kidnapper who's protected by authorities because he's related to the guy who runs the town to the point where she has to hold the city hostage
I woke up and saw so much support. The reviews, the comments, people opening up and being vulnerable about their feelings. Someone even supported financially, which is just wild for me (tfw you enable pwyw and get surprised that people pwtw). Might be crying a little
what am I proud of in 2023? well, I managed to make 4 games exactly lol
>Let's Get Bitter Together (pt. 1 for Amare Fest)
>Shibboleth (for O2A2)
>Convergence (for Trans Rep Jam)
>Ill-gotten Light (for Velox Turbo)
that, and other projects I worked or still work on with others 💖
Show 2023 work you're proud of
- Released Fling with a Tiefling, an inclusive romance fantasy VN that includes ace-friendly options
- Released the Candied Hearts demo! My most fun and imaginative project yet!
- Released A Late Night Convo. A project I put the most of myself into
During today's
#AmareTeaBreak
I'll be going over various bits of trivia, funfacts and references to my other games in my Amare Games Festival entry, Let's Get Bitter Together!
(anyone else remembers those "x is illuminati meme videos from the past? I certainly do)
my team member (on the picture) doesn't allow me to get back to work and is emotionally manipulating me to spend time with him. should I kick him out of the project?
Apple Bag, my dear friend Dreamty's
#YuriJam23
VN which I helped with, is out now! Play as a store worker, get close to cute customers and ignore all the weird stuff going on...
#vndev
tbh I always feel weird when people come to me to tell me "omg you write so much, you're so productive!" could it be imposter syndrome kicking in. because I see everyone else working on their Big Project and it feels like compared to everyone else, I'm doing nothing
so, I'm sick. like, sick fr, with cough and pain and all, so I can't make that "thank you" note more aesthetic or professional or whatever for now. but I have to thank everyone for helping me reach entire FOUR dev milestones in less than a day! so, let me talk about it
Cassidy can't outrun the end of the world, but she's given a chance: if she betrays herself and says the right words, she will be spared.
Officially announcing my
#O2A2
project, Shibboleth! When will it come? Soon. I promise.
I'll write a proper post about it once I'm out of the Velox Formido trenches but I just saw that "i won't finish this game" hit 500 downloads and I just want to thank everyone who gave this story a chance. Thank you for showing me that I don't have to hide what I've been through.
Show me you at the start of your game dev career vs now
I don't have any decent pictures from 2022 and this is the only one I found from approximately my beginning timeline
also I dressed up in my little guy clothes specifically to take a "now" pic lmao
(I need to wash my hair)
Velox Turbo update: WE'RE SO BACK I'm back on my mania phase after I started assembling everything. you'll get it tomorrow. it's happening. we're doing it, right now, okay.
I'm gonna get personal on main
8th of March is the Women's Day for many, and it's a Women's Day for me too, but I also celebrate another thing on this day, somewhat paradoxically. it's the day on which I fully realized that I am not a woman and finally wrote that thought down
before pandemic -> now
highly masking and very lonely undiagnosed neurodivergent kid -> nonbinary AuDHD that knows who they are and has plenty of people around them
I feel like younger me would love who I am right now, but for me it's still a long way to go