2025 Awards Season Announcements #gamedev #IndieDev #advanceVN #GameAwardsSeason open.substack.com/pub/advancev...

RPG Maker Festival 2026 Registration has opened. Participants have until December 13, 2025 to register! #gamedev #RPGMaker #RPGMakerFestival #RPGMakerFestival2026 #IndieDev #advanceVN open.substack.com/pub/advancev...

Surprise! We did a thing! In 72 hours, no less! Tea for Two took part in ArcJam to create a sci-fi horror visual novel, Stars and Silence! We're very proud to have accomplished what we did in such a short time! 💚 tea-for-two-game-studios.itch.io/stars-and-si...

A cool new Polish edition of "The Games That Weren’t" has been announced! 📕 This expanded volume adds 40 pages and nearly 30 cancelled Polish games to an already extensive archive of unreleased titles. Very cool to see @gamesthatwerent.com! #Gaming #Booksky #VideoGames

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] My Leisure Time – Secret Menu Recipes, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #advanceVN #MobileGame #guide #MyLeisureTime #YueYooGames advancevn.substack.com/p/guide-my-l...

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] My Leisure Time – Level 4 Recipes, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #advanceVN #MobileGame #guide #MyLeisureTime #YueYooGames advancevn.substack.com/p/guide-my-l...

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] My Leisure Time – Level 3 Recipes, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #advanceVN #MobileGame #guide #MyLeisureTime #YueYooGames advancevn.substack.com/p/guide-my-l...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃🍭💜

Adult game dev Shame Games just abruptly lost its Patreon. No clear explanation why, and its staff cannot be paid. SG’s Aika literally has children to feed and is reliant on Patreon’s income to pay the bills shame.games/blogs/trap-q...

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] My Leisure Time – Level 2 Recipes, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #advanceVN #MobileGame #guide #MyLeisureTime #YueYooGames advancevn.substack.com/p/guide-my-l...

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] My Leisure Time – Level 1 Recipes, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #advanceVN #MobileGame #MyLeisureTime #YueYooGames #GameGuide #game #guide open.substack.com/pub/advancev...

If you're Canadian, please sign this! You'll have to confirm your signature via email but for good reason--this is a petition sponsored by an actual member of parliament. These petitions can lead to actual meaningful action here. Doesn't take very long, please add your support!!

I'm pretty hopeful about what @saikeystudios.com offers via Saikey Store. Promising storefront for all sorts of games that, for the past few months, have faced an existential threat from paypro censorship. I really like the UI and its curation, very polished, professional saikeystudios.com/shop/

Here's all the different PlayStation logo designs that SONY considered before deciding on the one we all know and love today.

I'm done being civil. I highly discourage others from working with Mixam (mixam.com) Despite misprinting ~100 zines between myself and @yanmori.bsky.social, they insist the fault is ours, refuse to reimburse one project, and will only refund the other if we destroy or return the copies we have.

HI EVERYONE!!! I'm so excited to announce that Without a Voice is now available in Korean - DLC included! Thank you Notberabbit for the Korean translation!

Announcing... Fall in Love Festival, a romance visual novel Steam festival hosted by us! 💖 Join us on Steam from September 24-October 1 with 100+ other visual novel developers to celebrate the wide world of romance-themed visual novels💕 Are you a streamer? Collab with us: forms.gle/Ebv2QWtnPavM...

Hey nerds, wanna look at a visual novel demo that the devs made me aware of by emailing me about it? Giving "Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery" a shot today. I like it when girls is in love, it's cool. And also this is apparently a murder mystery?Which is a neat spin on the genre.

Republishing this article on our substack for accessibility reasons. 🔞 Out of an abundance of caution: if you are too young to play Adult Games you should not read this article. 🔞 #visualnovel #gamedev #Project2025 #censorship #anime #privacy #security #NSFW open.substack.com/pub/advancev...

TheGamer continues to be one of the only video game outlets who actually care about the censorship of adult games. Again, utter abdication from the indie press and the bigger names tend to be ignoring the issue www.thegamer.com/paypal-accus...

I interviewed Chris Zukowski about marketing Visual Novels on Steam, and he had a couple of insights that even surprised ME Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLwZ...

I have a few bills coming up so reminder that I'm open for marketing consultations for visual novels and story-driven games! I've been a developer for 10~ years and have marketed several successful visual novel Kickstarters as well as led commercial game teams. ✨ arimiadev.com/consultations/

📢🌈Announcement: Yuri visual novel, Double Date, is releasing on August 7! 🐶After a chance meeting, Alice starts to fall for Sophie. With their dogs being the best wingdogs, can Alice and Sophie get together?! Wishlist now to be notified on release! #yurisky store.steampowered.com/app/2538520/...

USE. INVOICES. For the love of god. Not only is it more convenient (the buyer doesn't need a PayPal account to pay it; any debit/credit card will work), you control exactly what shows up on the invoice so you don't risk a horny dipshit getting you banned by saying "thanks for the porn" or whatever.

Solve crime, be gay—do things the magical girl way! Our next yuri visual novel Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery releases in September on Steam & itchio! Play as a married magical girl & go on one last adventure before your powers fade away. ✨Play the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/...

If you've hung around denpa or yuri VN circles around long enough, you've probably heard of Soundless. This is your sign to check it out for free, right now. There's even an artbook you can go through after you're done! ✝️ Available on Itch: milkplus.itch.io/soundless

We hope you have a safe and happy Disability Pride Month!

We hope you have a safe and happy pride month! 🌈💖

"Video games cause violence" Meanwhile, me reloading my save because I accidentally made one of the characters sad

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] Nicole: Darren's Route, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #visualnovel #otome open.substack.com/pub/advancev...

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] Nicole: Jeff's Route, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #visualnovel #otome open.substack.com/pub/advancev...

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] Nicole: Kurt's Route, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #visualnovel #otome open.substack.com/pub/advancev...

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: [Guide] Nicole: Ted's Route, Featuring text guide and bonus visual guide / cheat sheet. #visualnovel #otome open.substack.com/pub/advancev...

New Post in ADVaNCE Guides: Visual Guide: How to Enable "Visual Novel Mode" for Nicole (Winter Wolves) on Steam #visualnovel #otome open.substack.com/pub/advancev...