TOUCHSTARVED
@redspringstudio.bsky.social
Red Spring Studio is a small indie team creating dark, mature visual novels | working on TOUCHSTARVED, a gothic horror romance #touchstarvedgame #indiegames 🌙 redspring.studio
📢 MERCH STORE UPDATE 📢 From now until August 12th, our store will be closed while our shopkeeper is out of office! Fret not though, we’ll back up and running real soon 🫡🫶 #touchstarvedgame
Our July Update is here! ✨ This month we cover: 🧭 Development tracker progress 🎵 A character theme sample 🫣 🛠️ A silly UI & Localization update 🖼️ Art previews (including a spicy cropped sprite 🫦) ⬇️ Read the full update with the links below! #indiegame #touchstarvedgame #indiedev
Elusive and exorbitantly expensive, blue orchids are coveted by the wealthy few who can afford them. Buyers who purchase the flowers flaunt them as symbols of status. Little do they know that these are ordinary white orchids injected with cheap blue dye... 💸 #indiegame #indiedev #touchstarvedgame
no one ask me about what Ais and I got up to in the Chapter 1 Preview, that’s between me and God 🤫
Hot, dry Eridian summers would be unbearable without insulated ice-houses selling chilled treats: iced drinks, bastani, sorbet, shaved ice, dessert soups, and more. The wealthy go further by hiring mages to produce fanciful ice sculptures for parties, even as temperatures soar.
We take a lot of pride in our detailed BGs and this Senobium room is one of my faves! I wonder what stories are behind the statues at the staircase? 🤔 I’m most interested in the sickle-wielding baddie (mommy? 👀), would love to hear your theories!
After a long and grueling winter, Eridia greets the first dogwood blossoms with relief. These flowers are known to cling tenaciously to life even in the worst conditions, from barren wastelands to ruins perpetually shrouded in Fogfall... 🌙
don’t ask questions u can’t handle the answers to, Leander 👁️👄👁️
The elegant magnolia's therapeutic properties are vital in such a dangerous world. The Senobium cultivates a small magnolia grove, though few make it past the imposing gates to enjoy the rejuvenating blossoms... 🌼
Even if she’s not a Love Interest, Basilea stole a lot of your hearts in Vere’s route of the Chapter 1 Preview! ♥️ Here’s a little throwback to one of the very first concept sketches of her 🥹
That seatbelt is barely holding Mhin’s sanity together #touchstarvedgame #indiegames #tsmemes
Our June Update is here! ✨ This month we cover: 🎂 A boozy birthday 🧭 Development tracker progress ✍️ A deep dive on Lore Writing! 🎨 Art previews ⬇️ Read the full update with the links below!
Eerily beautiful, red spider lilies bear the sorrow of loss and farewells. Eridians believe these flowers shepherd lost spirits into the afterlife. The city has seen a sudden increase in these unearthly flowers, leaving many puzzled about their meaning... 🤔
UHHHH BASILEA, ONE OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER 😳
Happy Birthday, Leander! 🥳 Today you’ll find him in his happy place - as the centre of attention in The Wet Wick with a drink, deck of cards, and the Adderstone hyping him up 🍻 If you’re lucky, you may be able to catch his eye for some one-on-one fun 😉
Leander doesn't practice magic for show. He uses his talent to bring others into the Adderstone and prove that Lowtown can stand on its own. His skill rivals the Senobium's elite mages, and in Lowtown, power and hope can inspire fierce loyalty.
Nothing says "I love you" as clearly as white lilies—ironic, since they're some of the region's most poisonous flowers. Some mages believe that these lilies contain a mysterious magic, but attempts to harness this power have only resulted in lethal poisonings. ☠
Sketch vs Final. My fanart of Ais from Touchstarved, made in Clip, no GenAI [ #character | #fanart | #touchstarved ]
I head canon this as the event that made Mhin stab Vere 💀 LOL
if you’ve been having a tough week, our resident doctor is here with the perfect motivation for you to push through 😉
We finally got a look into the Senobium in the Chapter 1 Preview and it appears to be the perfect picture of elegance and grandeur! ✨ Although I suspect this beauty is surface level… What dark secrets do you think you’ll discover further down these halls? 🤔
Local legends conflict on the origins of the amaryllis. 🌹 Whether they sprang from the spilt blood of a scorned lover or were born of an ancient Senobian ritual gone awry, the truth behind these flowers is knowledge long forgotten... or held by a privileged few.
Our May Update is here! ✨ This month we cover: 🧭 Development tracker progress 🎶 An ethereal character theme 🎨 Props concept art 👀 Spicy LI sketches ⬇️ Read the full update with the links below!
Our Art Team takes “go big or go home” seriously with every part of TOUCHSTARVED, and this NPC is no exception 😩💪
don’t gotta ask me twice, I’m already staring disrespectfully 😮💨
being the group diva is harder than you’d think 😮💨
