Would you like to have a joyous, cozy, moving fantasy adventure filled with love and intrigue, for less money than usual? Heartspell (and other games in the wonderful LRHDB) is on sale for one more day! #indiegames #otome #romance #visualnovel store.steampowered.com/app/2113350/...

See you all later at 9PM PHT | 8AM EST! We're going to find love in Heartspell Horizon Academy , developed by @direkittengames.bsky.social This opportunity is made possible by @sunnydemeanorgames.bsky.social #LRHDB2026 #LoveRomanceHeartbreakDebutanteBall #indiegames

Fourth stream for #LRHDB2026 by @sunnydemeanorgames.bsky.social ~ This time, it's a HeartSpell: Horizon Academy demo, a Match-3 Visual Novel with a little spice and relationships, by @direkittengames.bsky.social Will stream on 19:25 UTC+7 / 20:25 SGT / 13:25 UTC~ Sea you soon! #FioStreamInfo

@summerorigins.bsky.social Watching you discover our date-able moth was an absolute delight <3

Sometimes feedback on the internet can be harrowing. I just wanted to call out that today we got some really kind and enthusiastic engagement on Discord AND Stem Forums AND Steam reviews. Feels real nice.

Hi everynyan! This week is dedicated to the motions of love as part of the Love, Romance, and Heartbreak Debutante Ball. Big thank you to @sunnydemeanorgames.bsky.social @ghostofalcantra.bsky.social @sweetsomestudio.bsky.social @direkittengames.bsky.social #LRHDB2026

🧭 Streaming this evening! Sunday is usually not my stream day, but I will playing Heartspell: Horizon Academy by @direkittengames.bsky.social as a part of #LRHDB2026 this evening! ⌛: Around 9 PM GMT+7 ▶️: twitch.tv/yamineco #YMNCStream #ENVtuber #VtuberID

In the past year, I have ADORED watching couples play Heartspell together. Those little moments of surprise when they learn something new about each other. If that sounds fun/cute to you, we're on sale right now. #romancegames store.steampowered.com/app/2113350/...

Play our game if you want a moth to be your valentine ❤ (20% off this week in honor of LOVE!) #indiegame #valentines

Super-thrilled to be in the Love, Romance, Heartbreak Debutante Ball! This is also our first post-launch sale, so if you've been curious about our 11 cute wizards and expansive romantasy story, now's a great time. #indiegames store.steampowered.com/curator/4576...

Spirit Swap is amazing! TTRPG's are the best! Very excited for a combo.

The lovely folks over on the Feedback Force podcast had me on. It is FULL of spoilers, but if you're at a spot where you don't care about that and you want a bunch of peeks at how and why Heartspell was made definitely check it out: soundcloud.com/feedback-for...

We've had 69 reviews for a while now and while I find that very thematically appropriate, I wouldn't mind moving on from this era if anyone wants to help.

We're very excited to announce our first post-launch sale, as we'll be taking part in the Love, Romance, and Heartbreak Debutante Ball starting on Feb 13th! #indiegame #LRHDB2026 #LoveRomanceHeartbreakDebutanteBall

It's hard to take pictures of rounded surfaces on your own body BUT I'm excited to share my launch tattoo for Heartspell. I'm very proud of what we did and happy to have that immortalized.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thanks everyone for making 2025 amazing for us. Our launch was such a wonderful and encouraging experience. We've got a few small updates coming in the next couple of months <3 #indiegames #visualnovel #otome #datingsim

Clair Obscur does such a good job of having a deeply sad world without the game itself being a bummer. I think the only other game I've played that pulled that off was Crying Suns.

Just pushed a new build live, including a QoL feature for folks who have beaten the game and are doing additional play-throughs. The 'time skip' feature that unlocks when you beat the finale will now also be on in any new games you start, making exploring specific branches easier to get to.

I've been looking forward to this a ton!

We're so very close to the 50-review threshold where Positive can turn into Very Positive. If anyone has played Heartspell and has a minute to post a review today, that would help us so much.

Our launch week (and the launch sale!) end in about an hour! If you'd like to be a part of it for 15% off, now's the time. store.steampowered.com/app/2113350/... #indiegames #otome

There are a lot of hopeful numbers from our launch weekend, but I think my favorite is that our median playtime is over 5 hours. It means a lot to us that folks who check out Heartspell want to stay in that world for so long.

100% this soon after launch is so unexpected! Thanks you for spending so much time in our magical little world.

DRESS UP MY GIRL DRESS UP MY GIRL EEEEEE oh and Constantine too I guess

We have had a GREAT launch weekend! We hit that big 10-review threshold so fast! @britt1st.bsky.social says she'll make alternate Squibbles-stars outfits for Constantine and Lila if we get to 50 by the end of next weekend. #indiegames #sillywizardsports

We've set up a playlist of the soundtrack on YouTube, for anyone who's interested: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thank you to everyone who's been playing and leaving reviews! It's been an amazing opening weekend. I'm thrilled that we got to ten reviews so quickly! Until you get 10 reviews you won't get shown in various lists and discovery queues and all that. Crossing that threshold quickly is a big relief.

Just pushed a small-but-important patch that does a couple things, but mostly re-adds Force Wave to the spell list of players who are using an older demo save. Hitting the Publish button on a live game is so scary. Thanks to @harlecryptid.bsky.social who showed me that this bug existed.

I'm so overwhelmed by our reception so far! It makes me so happy to look at reviews coming in and to see they're from people who've played for 5 or even 10 hours and the game has only been out for 19. Means the world to me.

We've had an absolutely wonderful launch day! Thank you to everyone who's played the game, spread the word, or left a review. Watching people react to what we've been working on for so long is a delight.

I got so hooked on Heartspell! The narrative pacing is perfect and there's so much thoughtful world building. Meaningful choices, and platonic friendships that are just as compelling as the romance. The minigame that gets (optionally) quite hard! I recommend it, especially for Exocolonist fans.

I'LL BE STREAMING TONIGHT! Heartspell: Horizon Academy from @direkittengames.bsky.social is out & I'm ready to play! I'll be picking up from where I left off in the demo, so we'll be getting back into things & trying to remember characters together! See you at 7:30pm PT!! www.twitch.tv/harlecryptid

Heartspell: Horizon Academy is launched! Sorry for the delay, but we're fully up and running now! SO EXCITED. We'd love to hear what you think, and if anyone starts streaming the full game please let us know here or on Discord so we can join you <3 #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/2113350/...

Still no word from Steam. Bummed, but hanging in there.

Alright everyone, thanks for sticking with us through a stressful and uncertain week. We'll all find out together whether Heartspell is on sale in eight hours. If it's not, I'm at least feeling reassured that it won't be too terribly long. <3

In celebration of our upcoming launch we added more content to our demo. In addition to polish improvements and bug fixes, we've also added second chapters for both Heron and Cassie (our poll winners). We hope to see you in class when the full game launches! store.steampowered.com/app/3142920/...

After being a real nuisance I've gotten a response from Valve. No idea if we'll be available tomorrow morning like we wanted, but we at least have some clarity that it's being worked on.

Who would you like to see another chapter of in our updated demo? 1️⃣ Lin 2️⃣ Cassie 3️⃣ Ember 📊 Show results

Who would you like to see another chapter of in our updated demo? 1️⃣ Amara 2️⃣ Heron 3️⃣ Charlie 📊 Show results

BlueSky unfortunately does not do polls (right?), but if you'd like to vote on which characters we're going to put a little more content from into our demo, you can do that over on our Threads account.

We're 15 hours out from our planned launch and I've been completely unable to get any sort of communication from Valve all week. We'll probably miss our launch and I'm aggravated about it. Tonight we'll update our demo at least, so everyone who wants to can see the last bits of polish we put in.

always a good day to leave reviews on the games you play

I've been wanting to post excitedly about our upcoming launch, but I haven't because we're stuck in the Steam cert process, which is being slow and opaque this time around. We're still hoping to launch in 42 hours, but there's nothing we can do to influence that at this point. Fingers crossed.

A really lovely intro to Heartspell: Horizon Academy by @direkittengames.bsky.social - you can hear my narration and some of the voice acting! Also featuring the dulcet tones of @meztermind.bsky.social introducing the game beautifully! youtube.com/shorts/EMoD8...

I just pushed our first build with 100% of our VO hooked up and it feels GREAT. Launch is in five days and I absolutely couldn't be more excited. I'm taking the week after that off and my hope is just to obsessively refresh various screens and watch some Twitch streams.

As I near the end of processing all this VO, I'm hitting sections that I love, but are also fairly out of the way. To find them you have to make some odd choices, or play characters in a certain order. They're delightful and I hope some folks find them.

I feel like marketing wants me to make all sorts of grandiose statements about being the best at this or that. All I really want to say is that Heartspell is a thing we really wanted to make and we think it's really special and fun and you might really love it too.

We had an AMAZING time at GeekGirlCon and watching people play that built all weekend gave me that last little bit of confidence to send out access to Steam curators. 10 days to go, fingers crossed. #indiegames #geekgirlcon #steamcurator

Our demo booth is all set up in the gaming hall at #GeekGirlCon!

We're trying to track down a bug I can't reproduce that causes the puzzle game to lock up. If you've hit this in the demo please get in touch so we can get this figured out.