People get hung up on "I don't know how to write a good review" but honestly you don't need paragraphs of analysis and observations. Don't compare yourself to a journalist. "I loved it!" or "I had fun" are equally valid reviews, AND matter just as much to the Steam algorithm to support game devs!

#alleleorigin #chibis

spoilers for patreon this month I've veered completely off course but I'll have a new vn out so thats fine i thnk

im so excited for this its my stupidest (highest praise i can give) work yet

script's basically done yay (~7.5k) I dont remember ever having the writing sorted up front

hopefully i can complete 8 gouache paintings inbetween comms this coming month

Merry christmas I'm working with @raspberrybell.bsky.social on our #OUATVNJam project its about a cat who falls in love with a ball of lettuce

#hndr_FA you and me at the whims of the tides

i wanna replay scarlet so i drew penny #pokemon

allele chapter 5 coming 12/23/25~

once upon a time jam calling my name i think im gonna have to make something for it this year

I've opened a permanent artist interest form for Meiri Games. If you're an artist interested in illustrating for visual novels in the future, fill it out! 💝 Shares appreciated. I want to find talented folks to work with! forms.gle/PaubzgH7U112... #VNDev #indiedev #gamedev

lor

lor #arcanedicewars

the year is almost over

Today I discovered that itch does have a "spam" filter, but it never alerts you when a comment gets flagged, yeets it away to a page that is so tucked away and convoluted to find most people will never see it, and only blocks regular comments instead of sus spam links from sus spamming accounts.

clip studio is legitimately the only software keeping me from moving fully to linux right now because everything i have ever drawn for my games is trapped in .csp files - like without clip studio all my sprites would just be bad photos of pencil sketches lol come on celsys do a guy a favour 🙏

who is downloading my VNs via wheelofnames.com. and how

omg they reversed the mass twitter suspensions

guess who got hit by the twitter account purge ‼️‼️‼️

goodbye twitter accoutnts

Are you trapped in convert/compress using shady AI-slop sites hell? Crying over updating dozens of file paths? Do Ren'py web builds make you want to scream? Behold the latest in Anti-Suffering Technology: Free Yourself. meiri.itch.io/convert-comp... #VNDev

Happy Halloween Chapters 1-3: Captive, Dinner, Interloper - Allele: Origin coffeedripstudios.itch.io/allele-origi...

"visual novels are easy all you do it click" okay bro then what the heck is this

Fabula Ultima is flyin' high on Kickstarter! 🍃🪶 Now it's time to ride the wind to the next stretch goal: €777,777 for a new Fabula Ultima OST, created with a world-class JRPGs composer!🎼🎶 PLEDGE NOW and don't miss thethe Early Pledge bonus! 💎 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndg...

MORE THAN 100K IN 10MINS! Fabula Ultima TTJRPG Celebration Edition + Bestiary Vol . I is now live on #Kickstarter! 💎 Back within the first 48 hours to get an exclusive bonus cloth patch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndg...

i dont know if he was actually being condescending or he just talks like that like some people don't know how to like or talk about nerd things without pretending they're too cool for it. however I simply love to play and draw

I had one bizzare exchange I think I can tell people now. So a semi regular comes in and sees I'm working on my laptop and he asks what I'm up to and I say VN scripting bc idk how to lie I guess and he's like awww that's cute. :) are you gonna put it up on itch io??? make it big?????

Wrote most of JKHA at the card shop bossman was just like "do they use their phones? kinda unrealistic kids these days are always on their phones :(" and I ws just like don't got time to factor that in I only have 2 months to complete yaoijam

Trying to condense down this month into the patreon post but it's gonna be a rambly one "hit my 50k writing goal! now let me talk about card shops for the other 90% of this post :)"

making vn is easy you just write a book and then you read back each line from that book and think what facial expression are they making and then you draw each expression and then line by line you add a tag for the face they are making. the best part is you only have to do this a few thousand times

#FabulaUltima Celebration Edition + Bestiary Vol. I is coming to Kickstarter Tuesday Sept. 30! Sign up now to make sure you dont' miss early pledge bonus!| www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndg...

@ekkoberry.bsky.social i fw ur games i guessssss

i also have been playing so much chao garden (SA2B)

August Patreon post up! www.patreon.com/posts/august... pics of misc stuff I got up to in the month too but the biggest thing is hitting 40k words for JKHA yaaay (aiming for 50k in September!!)

Hey! If you didn't see earlier, my Yaoijam game came out today! You can play my boy's love game about baked goods for free (or pay-what-you-want) over on itchio!

it's hard to think of anything less productive in your ""support"" for NSFW creators than harassing itch and being a hateful reply-guy to them. doing absolutely nothing would be more productive

for every 1 comment you make disparaging or harassing itch you have to make AT LEAST 10 calls to payment processors / banks / politicians / etc. this is a rule I'm enacting now

steals the sun

FRIDAY IS MISSING?

Drawing until I'm sick of it last month WORKED I'm already past my wordcount goal total for the month I'm ON IT

sakura miku

(working on JKHA) whenever anything weird happens its never the other two its always nala without fail

Update Version 2.0: Ranking 02 - Esper X Guide coffeedripstudios.itch.io/exg/devlog/1...

I spent part of july playing a lot of Demon Bluff I /really/ like it Playtest is insta-access if you wanna give it a go too: store.steampowered.com/app/3522600/...

I don't suppose anyone has a spare vgen code do they... I'm not in a rush to do commissions but I'm thinking about it in the future.....

making a visual novel is hard enough - but how would you make one by yourself?! I collected advice from over 30 solo visual novel developers and compiled them into 1 article! read it here: arimiadev.com/how-to-make-...