#wip of the cockpit cg for Slipstream Daydreams - I've not drawn this at all before so I can finally stop explaining it to people by going "ok so, you know the fanservicey seats in Code Geass?" #vndev #ocsky

this background illustration fought me all the way but its ready to go ingame now! this is the pitlane before the big race, the first scene you see in Slipstream Daydreams 🏁 #vndev #motorsport

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

its important to learn from your mistakes. like when you realise one character doesn't have a stupid enough name for your setting and you rename him to Ota Wireless

I've been submitting SSDD to fuckloads of steam festivals as well as local games events and getting no bites. I wasn't expecting solodev vn marketing to be easy but eek 💀 one can only hope having a demo out will make it a little easier to get accepted into something...!

today I added a hot new accessibility option for Slipstream Daydreams - the game's art is super bright and flashy, so for any players who struggle with eye strain or need strong blue light filters you will have access to a full set of colour adjustment tools! #vndev #accessibility 🐬

banger article, this helped me work out what I need to do for my more complex scenes with lots of walking around 🙏 conceptualising the stage as separate from the background art has really made things click for me

Carrot 🥕@justacarrot.bsky.social · last mo.

OK by a little something I meant a 35-page guide to some scene direction stuff complete with video examples. It covers some basics for working with sprites, framing and balancing scenes, shifting focus, and translating actions. I hope it's OK! #visualnovel #vndev www.patreon.com/just_a_carro...

today I added a hot new accessibility option for Slipstream Daydreams - the game's art is super bright and flashy, so for any players who struggle with eye strain or need strong blue light filters you will have access to a full set of colour adjustment tools! #vndev #accessibility 🐬

sometimes a scene just needs a little extra sauce - here's a before and after of lori kitsch's interview set! i redid the lineart on the foreground to make the lines more consistent with the characters as well as adding more detail to the background and adding a glass for lori, lol #vndev #ocsky

sometimes a scene just needs a little extra sauce - here's a before and after of lori kitsch's interview set! i redid the lineart on the foreground to make the lines more consistent with the characters as well as adding more detail to the background and adding a glass for lori, lol #vndev #ocsky

And just like that... my Big Queer Horror Game™ is OUT! ♠️Ace MC 👬Time-loop horror + gay romance 🖼️Over 300k words & 570 CGs 🎥Cinematic cutscenes! 🔚4 epilogues + new After Stories 🎭A bucketful of gay yearning, trauma, and tears (but also hope)! ALSO IT'S FREE. store.steampowered.com/app/4329100/...

Lori Kitsch is the quirky, off-beat interviewer you'll meet in the first flashback with Capital! her livestreamed talk show focuses on asking weird and fun questions about antigravity racing stars 🏁 #vndev #ocsky

Lori Kitsch is the quirky, off-beat interviewer you'll meet in the first flashback with Capital! her livestreamed talk show focuses on asking weird and fun questions about antigravity racing stars 🏁 #vndev #ocsky

Pick up my most popular paid tools for a discount until July 6th! If you've been eyeing my #renpy outline shader or layered image visualizer, now is the chance to pick them up! A bundle of 5 is also available for $10. Your support helps me make more tools for the community ✨ itch.io/s/192731/sum...

Summer Sale 2026 by Feniks

A bundle by Feniks, $10.00 for 5 games

itch.io

i finished the final draft for a scene with complete sprite direction and touched up the background 🌈🐬 it feels good to have a complete vertical slice but now I'm very conscious i have to bring everything else up to that standard...!

this heel is Braydon Sturm, the interviewer you'll meet in the first flashback scene with Maxime. sometimes your meetcute is teaming up to dunk on a Male Podcaster together #vndev #ocsky

had a break from bsky while my day job has been very busy, but ive been grooving on spritework behind the scenes 🕺

Word of mouth is huge for indie devs, plus you get to force your niche obsession onto your friends!

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's funny, whenever I stream or talk about an indie game on social media, I can see a bunch of Steam friends wishlisting or buying it. Like, it's one way I know I do have an effect on games, and I don't know I'm a relative small fry, but it makes an impact. This works.

meet the cheeky protagonist of Slipstream Daydreams, Orion Cruz! 🐬 #vndev 🏁 check it out on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4243110/...

meet the cheeky protagonist of Slipstream Daydreams, Orion Cruz! 🐬 #vndev 🏁 check it out on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4243110/...

it's trans day of visibility! I'm a visible trans nonbinary and i love writing my fucked up weird gendered nonbinary characters having messy relationships 🏳️‍⚧️🤘 mainstream media is never going to give you the stories you want to see, so please join me in making stories about queers. DIY forever

Puzzle Spy International launches TOMORROW on Steam for Win, Mac, and Linux! Grab some friends and work your way through fun, challenging wordplay, deduction and rules discovery puzzles. Talk to contacts and flirt with them (or not as you see fit.) Save the day! #indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame

new devlog up discussing the long process of developing the process for the background art in Slipstream Daydreams! 🐬 Check it out on itch.io : itch.io/blog/1007989... #vndev

Developing a Background Art Style for my Visual Novel

Background art is considered by many artists as the final boss of illustration. I'm less afraid of it having spent plenty of time in my professional career working with concepting environments as well...

itch.io

if you want to support visual novel devs: - wishlist our games on Steam - leave reviews / ratings for them on store platforms - tell friends about our games - recommend them to streamers to play - share posts on social media - tell a developer you enjoy their work

i spent the last couple of days replacing my messy amateur lump of code i copy-and-pasted to each scene with a python function. you stick the chapter name into and it works out where to send the player based on their choices in that chapter! my life is so much easier (and it works better now) #vndev

locked in today and implemented a custom Quick Menu to match Slipstream Daydreams' clean ui. i was proud i worked out how to do the tooltips myself! 🐬 wishlist on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4243110/... #vndev

thrilled to reveal maxime's completed set of sprites! adding blinks and talking animations is a lot of work but it adds so much polish 🦈 their design is one of my favourites ive ever created >:) #vndev #ocsky

the github desktop before/after changes window is so satisfying - check out the sketch placeholders compared with final assets for Maxime's sprite parts! #vndev

a huge contributor to making my racing universe feel real is the brands that sponsor my characters - maxime was the last to have these designed so here's my sheet of iterations on a bunch of their logos

all of Maxime's sprites are sketched out ready to be inked and coloured!! 🦈 a lot of their expressions took me a second pass to get right, Orion and Capital's are both quite similar but Maxime is a very confident and principled character so they needed to be subtler #vndev #indiedev #ocsky