Fake Date or Genuine Connection? The choice is yours! 🫵‼️ There are SIX character routes in Starbright Agency. Who will you pick? 🤔✨

We built an entire faux social media app you can access in pretty much every part of our visual novel! Content updates throughout the story, you can gain or lose fans through your actions , and the timeline changes based on your choices. And yes, you can post to it 😏

Our new trailer is finally OUT and I'm so proud of it! 😭 I directed this thing from storyboard to finish - it was a really crazy to use all my AMV knowledge to make it. Major shoutout to @3dblast.bsky.social for the killer soundtrack, and BioticAMVs for the edit! Let's go Starbright Team! ✨🎉

I'm a huge fan of Foxglove Games & their new VN looks so delicious! Like cannot get enough of this art style 💯 ‼️ They only have about 24 hours left on their Kickstarter, please throw them some funds so this amazing project can come to life! ✨🙏

✨️🌙 Precure • City Pop 1999 🌙✨️ #precure #たんプリ #プリキュア

My girl came today and she's so ridiculously cute 😭😭😭

Everyone male, female, in-between, or none of the above posting #WhatAGameDevLooksLike is handsome or cute and deserves success. Those are the rules.

I've seen 3 other people at GDC with morningwitch jackets and I think we all need to meetup and take a picture

#WhatAGameDevLooksLike is one of my favourite things! Thank you @drjclau.bsky.social for creating it🙏 Hola! I’m Marina and I’m a Game Director for a game that will be announced super soon and I’m an Emotional Game Designer! 💛 My previous released games include The Berlin Apartment & Dordogne! ⭐️

Oh hey it's #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! I'm KT - Head Bread @thoughtbreadgames.bsky.social & Director of ✨Starbright Agency!✨ It's important to remember why this hashtag exists - Game devs come in all makes and models!! 🚗🔥

For those going to GDC, Thoughtful Bread is hosting a Visual Novel Meetup in Yerba Buena ✨📓 Come meet other devs and talk about what you are working on! 📝💕 luma.com/3vmesk6f

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🌴DEMO ANNOUNCEMENT🌴 Surprise! I am thrilled to announce that the demo for Ourlands, my cozy island builder, just went live! Take a break from, well, everything, and go craft your perfect slice of paradise. Enjoy! s.team/a/2074470

Wow, hi new followers! 😳 If you don't know me, I'm ✨KT✨ Game Dev, Artist & Storycrafter. Former-ish AMV editor and current Video Game Educator! Currently Writing & Directing @thoughtbreadgames.bsky.social Starbright Agency! I post art here, I talk games, and I love meeting new folks! 💖🎉

I truly believe that despite the seemingly bottomless evil in our fascist enemies, they are few compared to those who love their community and their neighbors. Most people want peace, want equality and fairness. Most people want to make the world better. And I think we will.

Rewatching Sailor Moon S with the spouse, and I gotta say -- the S stands for sapphic 🤌

The things you like doing: do more of them. The things you don't like doing: do less* This is how you develop your style. *If you don't like technicals (ie anatomy, how to code whatever the technical of your field is) you will have to do these at some points. Learn them, then adapt into your style

I'm between jobs and strapped for cash so I opened up a little shop on ko-fi, where you can find a huge Twine Grimoire TUTORIAL+DEV BUNDLE as well as a previously UNRELEASED GAME ‼️ 🪄 Grimoire resources are always free on itch, but donations help support my work. ko-fi.com/grimdev/shop

The Protomen were a revelation -- every concert of theirs I've been to really feels like a religious experience, an all encompassing roleplay where we are both active audience and passive participant to our own fading salvation. Anyway y'all should listen to Act 3 - it's some straight fire 🔥🔥🔥

Magfest Saturday let's goooooo ✨🔥

Okay it's that time of the night when I play MIVs demos....I'll keep a running thread of what I've tried and enjoyed 🤔🌙🎮

So far the highlight of MagFest was the Protomen, and more specifically the prophesized appearance of the Thomas Light Beard.

My resolutions for 2026: 1. Post art once a month, and make more illustrations! 2. Play more games, particularly smaller VNs and my backlog of gifted games made by my amazing friends 3. Practice flow arts and tru to keep to a consistent work out once a week! Let's see how long they last 💫💪

2025 was the most significant year of my life in a lot of ways I can't talk about yet. All good things I returned to my AMV roots, I grew a ton as a gamemaker and I worked hard so SBA can Kickstart next year It's hard to be positive when the world is crumbling, but I'm gonna do my best in 2026 ✨

Gamers. It’s time

you should all play more indie games made by 1 to 4 gay people in their bedrooms

aight games industry we see from Expedition 33 that players value and love good narratives can games writers and narrative designers stopped being laid off to be replaced by AI orrrr

the game awards never feature anything close to visual novels so I'm going to recommend 20 indie visual novels

I don't understand the Geoff x Miss Piggy ship and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

I want to make more sapphic washi tape 🤔

Olympia Soiree illustration I made for #otomecalendar25 #otome

I've been looking for this resource for some time, delighted to just stumble across it on my feed! ✨ Can't go wrong with the classic "Branch and Bottleneck!" I love the idea of "Loop and Grow" + "Quest" for iterations & unlocking new chunks of the story. SBA is largely B&B, with a bit of Loop! 🪐

Ecclectic tastes but also they explain so much 😅

I saw an artist post once on process: "If you like doing it, do more of it, and if you don't like doing it, do less of it or none at all -- and that's how you find your style" and I've never been the same since.

Super excited to announce the HeartLinks DEMO is now out on Steam!! 🎉 I've been working super hard on this everyday for the last 4 years, and so I'd love if you could check it out! I hope you have fun exploring this wacky school full of quirky characters!

The Greenhearth Necromancer demo is now available! ✨🌱💀 Start your magical journey and: 🌱 Grow & care for a balcony of plants! ✨ Try out some spells, potions, and rituals! 👋 Meet + greet some of your fellow neighbours! + sandbox play, achievements, & more!* ➡ store.steampowered.com/app/2127570/...

The fact that our dumb cowboy from SBA has the same birthday as babygirl Casper from ADWD is hilarious to me...not intended at all

Blerdy makes amazing otome content and supports so many VN devs with her coverage. She's also just ridiculously nice and passionate about games - please support her if you can! ✨🙏

"You two can be the family you were always meant to be, free from the sins of generations past, if you let me do what needs doing." Scarlet Hollow Episode 5 releases in February, on Friday the Thirteenth. A huge shout out to our friends at @smallbu.bsky.social for animating this trailer!

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I designed an activity for my Game Design class to teach them how to balance asymmetrical games, and it was apparently such a hit that multiple students from section 1 stopped by to play it again today! ✨🎉

you could be reading yuri right now

New Grand Designs episode aka the closest thing to any game production process I’ve ever seen on tv including any attempt at fiction

There are so many AMVs I could put here ...really Driftroot's Takeout is probably the most influential to my AMV work. But the years turn and this will always be an absolute banger to me (Hal Om Mig is a close second) youtu.be/MAKUVU3grhE

I'm so beyond excited to share what we've been up to on the team - this new demo is going to knock it out the park 💫 ‼️

I have two reviews of SBAs demo - one saying there was too much descriptive text, and the other saying there was too little. 🙃 That being said it DID get me thinking, what is y'all's preference, as devs or players? Do you like more novel-like prose in your VNs or is less is more?

Literally everyone who sees Starbright Agency wants to date Wishbright, and like...same really.

hop on visual novels NOW !! I've gathered 200+ romance-themed visual novels from 100+ developers across the globe and categorized them by romance type, genre, mechanics, amount of love interests, and more. NO EXCUSES TO NOT PLAY ROMANCE VNS ANYMORE!!! store.steampowered.com/sale/fallinl...