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The Demon’s Apple Demo is now out !

Pomme is the village herbalist and during one of her outings to pick up herbs used to create medecine she find a badly wounded man and take him home to try to save his life. She then discovers he is a demon, bloodthirsty creature as he bites her to feed himself before escaping. 

But they meet again... And this time they will have to cooperate to survive in a world hostile to both humans and demons.

The demo features:

 The two first chapter of the story (out of seven)

 A slightly intimidating but handsome demon love interest

 5 CGs 

 Mature content 

Play now : https://kakera-art.itch.io/demons-apple

The Full game will features:

​Seven chapter of story (2h30 to 3h of gameplay) 

A cast of diverse characters

Still a slightly intimidating demon love interest

At least 15CGs 

Mature content

Three endings

All reached preorder goals

Preorder goals:

​50 preorders = Extra Epilogue

200 preorders = New Story that features a new MC and a certain character of the game.

Preorder help me to fund the game, so if you liked the experience, please consider supporting me !

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Hi hi!

Quick heads up, I may not be able to submit Part 3 of Paper Butterfly in time for the Neo-Twiny Jam's deadline. In any case, it still should be released within the year, however, I'll have to take a break from it before then to focus back on the other projects for July and finally release the membership tiers if any one is still interested on joining that.

Rewards include: early access to ongoing projects, IF prototypes and the anthology, access to old wips from when I was starting with VN dev and exclusive SC-related digital goodies.

The membership tiers will run for a limited period during the year. The specific duration will be decided through the poll. This is so everyone can have a break in-between and make it less overwhelming for me as well, instead of the standard 12-month model I've seen around.

Thank you for playing P1!

Wishing you a joyous summer regardless of the horrors,

– S. H.

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Announcing our second commercial otome isekai visual novel - My Wife is a Spy?!

My Wife is a Spy is an 8-10-hour-long otome visual novel with only one love interest – as it deals with the topic of an arranged marriage – where you play as Sofia, isekai-ed into a novel, as she has to become a spy to get back to her own world or fall in love with her new husband, Zachary, the cold Duke of the North.

Life was never fair… not before the accident, and certainly not after. You expected magic, adventure, maybe a crown. Instead, you awaken in a foreign body, forced into an arranged marriage with Zachary, the cold and distant Duke of the North.

Born to the sunlit luxury of the South, you're sent to a frozen, war-torn land plagued by monsters, famine, and unrest. Your new husband is a man of duty, not affection, bound by loyalty to a crumbling crown and now, bound to you.

But even pawns can learn to move.

Will you earn Zachary’s trust and fight beside him to save his people? Or seize your own fate, rise as a villainess, and bring the North under your heel?

What will you become in a world where loyalty is dangerous, and love might just be the ultimate betrayal?

🗝️ Inspired by Korean webcomics like Saintess, this game features:

Two gameplay systems: 🔹 Affection System – grow your relationship with Zachary 🔸 Suspicion System – track how much the castle trusts you

Branching narrative with multiple endings

A rich cast of side characters and political intrigue

A more complex choice system than in Saintess

📅 Kickstarter for this game will launch after the full release of Saintess' base game—but it’s already been in development for a year, with a different art team, so it won’t interfere with Saintess! Like with Saintess we want to launch a Kickstarter when the game is not far from being completed (for Saintess this was at 70 percent of the game completed). We will continue to develop My Wife is a Spy?! during the next year.

📌 Wishlist now on Steam! 🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3738310/My_Wife_is_a_Spy/ 

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Just a quick update to let you all know I'm working on some bonus content for my yuri visual novel Fragile Feelings! This is a cute extra scenario which will unlock once you've read the main game, which will add several extra scenes showing the lives of the main characters two years in the future. If you're interested, you can check the VN out on Steam here! I will try to add the new content as a free update some time next month!

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These Step 2 "cut-ins" (images that appear in-game to showcase important objects) are so intriguing.

Those macarons! That candy apple! The... P!!! (WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR?!)

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

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Heya Otome and Josei Jam peeps! Make sure to check your emails and/or check in on Otome Dev server announcements if you're on there!

Some news we only give to jam participants via jam email or server announcements with the [Jam Participant] role 🍀

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Jorge and all the Ertal Games' team members wish you an awesome (Art by https://quetzalcoutl.itch.io)

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In the coming nights, you will get to learn a little more about Burn the Midnight Oil's romance options!

Who do you want to get to know better? Abraxas, Edgar, Nocturne, Raoul, Zeno or Iridis? ❤️‍🔥

Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel coming to Kickstarter Q3/Q4 2025. Sign up to our pre-launch page to get notified when the campaign launches!

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First Base (Visual Novel)

Created by: Frogcake, Minthe Draws, Cinnayanny, KnightAnNi, TurtleBox, OTOJANG Games, Alina, Kyitre, June, HusbandoGoddess

Genre: Psychological/Romance

This one I remember playing last year, but it had very little at the time, so I just decided to wait until there was more content and low and behold here we are. This has the same author as Bleeding Canvas, @try-froggery and I quite like that game, so I hope as the game continues, we will get a fun game like that.

The story starts out with the MC complaining about their college life, finding it boring and deciding to go out to more college events to put themselves out there. They end up waiting out in the shade at a baseball game before nearly getting hit in the face with a baseball. They are saved by Dakota, the star baseball player who starts to flirt with the MC afterwards which leads to a date with him. After accepting (either immediately or with a bit of coercing), the two of them decide to meet up for lunch the next day, realizing that they have a crush on him. They read a copy about The Taming of the Shrew as they judge the characters for being so easily manipulated with all the characters being bad people, not understanding the controversy that it talks about. The MC greets Dakota outside of their house with Dakota driving the two to a cafe nearby called the Brookbread Cafe. The two order their foods (with Dakota ordering the same as the MC). The two chat about things like how Dakota would eat pretty much any food before talking about how he got into baseball. We learn from Dakota that he got into baseball when his dad introduced him to a lot of sports when he was younger, until he discovered his natural talent for baseball, to the point where even his major is related to baseball. After getting the two's food, we learn that the MC is majoring in psychology, and starts to analyze Dakota's body language, seeing him as confident, however, that he either might be nervous/defensive but was trying to hide it before turning and stating that it could just be a comfortable position when seeing Dakota's face turn dark. You can either talk about your hobbies or ask about Dakota's. Asking about Dakota's, we find that he doesn't really have any hobbies outside of baseball, and the MC suggest the two go axe throwing, leading them to exchange numbers. Afterwards, Dakota drives the MC home and while there, Dakota asks for a second date which the MC happily obliges to. Dakota gives the MC flowers before leaving the MC happy about their date.

Like I said, I played this demo the first time that it came out, but it didn't have anything I could really talk about (it was pretty much just the scene where he catches the baseball before asking the MC on a date), so now it's nice that there's more to talk about. For Dakota, there's not a whole bunch on the yandere side, just lines of him wanting to to know more about the MC, but the sentiment is still there, I suppose. I think this will likely be more of a slow burn since we don't get to see that much of it as of current, though I'm not sure what the game will lead to in the future.

The MC is pretty standard as things go, tired of school, instantly falls for Dakota, that kind of thing. I will say that the part where they are actually in psychology is probably the most interesting part, seeing that they're able to analyze (and pretty accurately too) Dakota's behavior just from one single body action. I hope that this kind of thing comes into play later because I feel like that might be really good for if Dakota ends up doing anything to the MC (such as kidnap or drug them) since they might be able to notice it. I think currently that's the trait I'm most interested in, so seeing that be echoed throughout the rest of the game later on would be really cool. Since I did like the MC in the creator's previous game, Bleeding Canvas, I'm hoping that this one will be the same (though probably not a cannibal like in that game).

As for Dakota, we get to learn a bit more about him as well. It seems like his entire life is pretty much just focused on baseball, with very little else that occupies his time, and we get to learn how he got into it in the first place. I think it would be neat if perhaps this is played into his reason for being a yandere for the MC, like he's sick of baseball or he finally is able to get the same type of fulfillment that he has towards baseball that he does towards the MC. Something that could save him from the life he knows kind of thing. I might be looking a bit into it since he does seem to try to act confidentially towards the MC, but as they reveal, perhaps he might not be as confident as he tries to make it out to be. Could be an interesting point to explore in the future.

Overall, the intro for First Base does give a lot of information about Dakota and the MC. He seems pretty sweet with a bit of yandere mixed in, so I hope to see more yandere content in the game later on. The artwork is pretty nice in this one and I like the way the CGs are drawn.

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In the darkest of nights and coldest of winters there is love, and so too there is love in the brightest burning.

Dirae is a tiny game about the achievement of monstrosity. It is a story of what has come to be, what will be, and what is. 497 words. Created for Neo-Twiny Jam 2025.

Play the rest of the trilogy: Despoina | Dominus | Dirae

Play on itch!

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Cassandra

A Neo-Twiny Jam game (and for the Decker VN and pink decker jams)

Fire rages on. Warnings dismissed by thousands. If only they had listen… Would it truly change a thing?

Cassandra is a tiny Interactive Fiction game made in Decker, based on the mythological character.

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Danu, one of the background artists for Killer Trait, sent me this and I can't stop fucking laughing

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It's June 20th, which means... summer has officially arrived! ☀️

In Our Life, summer is where it all began – where we met Cove, Baxter, Derek, and the unforgettable community of Sunset Bird.

To celebrate, we're thrilled to debut the Our Life Cookbook! Over the last few months, community members have been cooking up a storm, crafting recipes inspired by Our Life: Beginnings & Always. We've gathered their creations into one heartfelt (and 100% free) digital cookbook, made with love, for you.

Thank you to the home cooks that created these recipes, and to you, the community, for continuing to show your love for Our Life.

(Click on the cover above for the link!)

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Paper Butterfly Part One is out!

I didn't know what cw to put down for this mini-series so do reach out and tell me what specific cw I should list for future updates. However, this miniseries should fall under speculative fiction for anyone wondering. The masterpost will be up once all three parts are available for play!

Hope you enjoy it!

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…and a beginning to this end. listen, herald, and speak -- i implore, speak:

Compendium III is the final chapter of a volume dedicated to stories of the decline. This gilt-golden age of magic and doctrine, empire and war is dying. These things were preordained in premonition long ago and recorded thusly.

Created for the Neo-Twiny Jam (2025), with the stipulation that the game be shorter than 500 words in length, Compendium III is precisely 500 words in length, excluding code.

No generative AI was used in this project or will ever be used in any of my projects. All art and writing was created by a human, by hand. Do not use code from or re-upload this work without permission. Do not distribute, repost, or use this work for the purpose of training generative AI or any other AI training.

Play Compendium III

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I'm happy to announce that we'll be releasing the new demo for Demeter: The Harvest Dies With You this Friday!

With better art, more CGs and more narrative paths, we've worked hard to make this demo the best we could!

I hope you'll give it a try! 🌾

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Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel starring dual protagonists: the flirtatious vampire Circe and the brash half-hellhound Dante. Both have their own story, as well as three different romanceable characters available to them. 🦇❤️‍🔥

Burn the Midnight Oil is coming to Kickstarter (alongside our very first demo!) in the second half of 2025.

Please consider signing up to our pre-launch page and helping spread the word to your friends so we can make this project happen together!