#amare dev

[qkayoostudio]

The Summit Library: FULL DEMO out!

Grab your pen and ink, because...

The full demo of The Summit Library is now out to play!

The Summit Library is a high-fantasy romance mystery set in a magical Library.

In this update you continue your adventure in the Library; find clues to the mystery you've been tasked to solve, uncover new secrets about your magic, and get to know more of the Library's guests--old and new.

The demo features well over 60k words, around 4 hours of playtime, a preview of each main love interest's route; and now includes achievements!

🌟 If you want to dive a little deeper into the world of Eawin's Empire there is now also a walkthrough available if you donate $3 or more. In it you'll find guides to achievements and affection points alike, as well as character bios.

❗ With the addition of new achievements please make sure to start a new game!

[ddwcaph-game]

The Narrativium Update Has Arrived!

Retcon the narrative to your heart's content in the latest update to...

Dear Diary, We Created a Plot Hole! is written as a love letter to all the kids-at-heart out there, who’d like to revisit their childhood and reimagine it as one big fantasy adventure.

If you like episodic shows and stories with a deeper overarching narrative, then this story is just for you!

🌌 【Play it here!】 🌌

~ 608,000 total wordcount (including code) ~ 99,000 additional words (including code) ~ New average playthrough of 129,000 words! (up from 115k)

14 New Secrets/Variations to Discover, 25 New Trinkets to collect, 9 New Sidequests, 4 New Achievements!

6 New Character Traits, 12 New Ancestry Passives, 2 New Phobias, 4 New Status Effects!

Revamped Heritage Passives!

Retcon the narrative and your choices with the new Narrativium Points mechanic!

Revamped Health & Intimidation Stats, Traits and EXP System!

Revamped Chapter 1 Twin Fight Scene!

Added new Sleepover Branch!

Updated bestfriend scenes!

Crush sidequests can now be declined!

You can now change what your MC calls certain characters via the diary!

Added more backstory details about MC's dad, and you can now choose his home country if MC is Half-Filipino!

Increased save slots to 20!

New and improved gender and pronoun options!

Updated diary entries!

Updated content warnings to include themes that will appear in future chapters!

Fixed missing background music!

Tons of new choices, edits, adjustments, and additional flavor text/variations/characterization details!

Roselyna is now approximately 20% more huggable!

The Trinkets & Secrets Guide has also been updated!

If you encounter any errors, or have any questions or feedback, feel free to send me an ask. The complete change log for the update is almost 400 lines long, so I hope it was worth the wait! 😊

[mangolei]

Hello there!

We're Mangolei Entertainment, a budding indie game studio from Germany.

You can also find us on various other places

Current Project

We are working on a magical and comedic detective game with romance elements set in a fantasy world inspired by ancient Mesopotamia.

It will feature:

a theatre-kid protagonist with an ego as big as his ambitions

four love interests (2 male, 2 female....two are cat people)

point-and-click mechanics

teaming up with your chosen love interest to act as the Watson to your Sherlock

✨magic ✨(you can use it too!)

dramatic courtroom battles in which you can even argue yourself out of choice menus

a comprehensive Twitch integration that let's your chat vote on choices and manipulate the game in lots of other ways

We'll be documenting our development journey on this blog with weekly dev-updates and other stuff!

Devs on Tumblr

Project lead: @beryllheliodora

Character artist: @bakemangocake

[yamielsun]

Because I might as well try posting here. Yesterday I launched the demo of my first visual novel Euryphaessa Space Station

Description

“Euryphaessa Space Station” is a bisexual sci-fi romance visual novel with a male protagonist and two possible romance routes, one male, one female, both aliens.

Summary

Against all odds, Sirius Chiwase’s small artificial gravity company gets their biggest job to date: the design and installation of a new AG System in the research space station Euryphaessa, located an entire quadrant away. Now him and a team of his most trusted technicians must live in the space station for the foreseeable future, where they’ll meet the cast of colourful characters that call the Euryphaessa their home.

Main Cast

Features (demo)

2 Love Interest. One male, one female.

14k word Common Route

Lots of Aliens

Please play my demo? 🥺 link

[breathlesswinds]

Another sneak preview of Gallardia's route!

[infinitestarsdev]

Devlog 2023-09-01

Friday again! And for the other side of the World where I live, it means Spring has finally arrived!

We have an internal date for the next public release of Infinite Stars, and we're prepping for the next Patreon release that will happen first.

The next Patreon release will include some content for Engineering, a Tabitha scene, and Khalil's second intimate scene. The content is written but has been on the back-burner for editing while we continue to work on Episode 4. (I've been putting in longer hours than usual, starting at 6:30 in the morning, and I was up until 22:00ish last night. It's not sustainable, but I'm anxious to get through everything that needs to get done!)

We also plan to release Lebeny's second intimate scene in a follow-up patron build before the next public release.

The next public release will ship closer towards the end of this year and will continue the story for Episode 4. Your Mah'Abue and the crew will zip around the solar system, visiting several low planetary orbital stations and meeting many new characters and aliens as you pursue your goal. We've got some nail-biting decisions for you to make, and we have an exciting reveal near the end of the first act. Ta-dah-dummm!

In the meantime, we'll need your help naming some of the new aliens, and the first poll is already up for Patrons. As an added benefit, it also gives you a (unblurred) sneak peek at the new characters!

I'm concerned about the backgrounds that still need to be completed before the release, but if worst comes to worst, you might have to tolerate concept sketches for uncompleted backgrounds until we get them done. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.

We're announcing our Spooktober game entry today! In the spirit of playing fair, we haven't started working on it yet, but now that September is here, we'll spend all of our available free time working on our Infinite Stars Halloween Heist! We're already spreading ourselves thin, but we want to use the opportunity to introduce more people to Infinite Stars, and what better way to do that than a short but fun stand-alone game for Spooktober?

We have yet to figure out all the logistics, but we want to involve our existing community in the creation as much as possible! Keep an eye on the Discord patron server; there will probably be regular polls and opportunities for you to help shape the heist!

Our monthly pinup for September is the much-adored Lochem for all patrons! He should grace your screens in the next few days!

Have fun, be kind and enjoy your weekend!

[snowhavenstudios]

Valerie & Cadence Getting Cozy

Just look at how cute these two are together!! We just had to end the festival with sharing this cozy CG. A picnic with pizza and candles is the best date, really.

We also just wanted to say, that as a small indie studio working on our first rhythm game, it's been incredibly rewarding to see the amount of feedback we've received on our Love's Crescendo demo featured in the Steam Next Fest!

Tomorrow is the last day for the festival but get ready for Nov. 14th because that's when the full game launches!

If you want to play our demo, you can find it on our Steam page here.

[rosesrotofficial]

killer chat! expanded vs. killer chat! original

in case you wanted to know what's new ❤️

[team-avia]

This darling is somber and calm. Peer into the murky depths of her past and help her wash away the bad to bring the good ashore.

[dreamty-games]

After one month of work, @aoi1dee and I have the pleasure to announce that our new game just released for free on itch.io!

When your friend, Eiran,  left the country to go on a family trip for about three months, you weren't upset that he wasn't responding because, obviously, he didn't have service. But now he's been back for two weeks and hasn't responded to a single message you sent, and even left you on read?!

Now you're on your way to a party his family is hosting with your parents. And so help you, if you see him there, you are going to confront him. You want to know if you did something that might've made him uncomfortable or hurt his feelings. 

Or, worst case scenario, he found out you have a crush on him...

Left on read is a short fanntasy romance made in a month for Nanoreno jam.

Game features:

7.8k Words

3 CGs

1 Ending

1 male love interest 

Pronoun & Gender Options 

Customizable Doll 

Voice acting

[qkayoostudio]

OUT NOW! A Tavern at Night: Firelight

Past, present, or future. What fate will the cards uncover?

After striking up conversation with a wandering terrifying mercenary in a remote tavern, he's agreed to travel together for a while before you go your separate ways. 

That separation is approaching soon.  To commemorate your final night together you suggest reading him his fortune; might be useful for the road ahead, right?

Except neither of you are particularly looking forward to saying goodbye..

PLAY IT HERE!

features:

♡ a cosy campfire

♡ chooseable pronouns

♡ a variety of fantasy-tarot readings

♡ multiple endings

[ddwcaph-game]

Chapter 4 & 5 is finally out!

The wait is finally over. Grab your plot armor, Chapter 4 and 5 of Dear Diary, We Created a Plot Hole! is finally here!

🚌 Play it here! 🚌

To celebrate the release, a +50% ✨EXP Bonus Event will be running for the next couple of weeks!

The full change log is over 500 lines long, so here's an overview of all the new stuff:

🌈 UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

~ 509,000 total wordcount (including code) ~ 278,000 additional words (including code) ~ New average playthrough of 115,000 words!

New Stuff to Discover!

52 New Secrets to discover, 8 New Trinkets to collect, 12 New Achievements

30 New Character Traits, 15 New Heritage Passives, 3 New Phobias, 16 New Status Effects

3 New Main Quests, 12 New Sidequests

and 1 New Song to sing along to!

New Scenes!

Introductions to Wayne, Lily, and JM's parents!

New exclusive bestfriend scenes!

Get a sneak peek into the story worlds you'll visit in future, in the Story Exchange!

Revamped crush confession scene with your twin!

Steal a kiss on the cheek from your crush!

Catch a preview of Chapter 6!

New Choices and Customization!

Choose the name of MC's dad!

Choose a second bestfriend, other than your twin (and give them a custom nickname)!

You can now choose to have two different pronoun sets!

Choose a mild swear word for your MC

Added B as a crush option

Tons of Diary and Stat Improvements!

New, updated, and expanded character diary entries!

New unlockable codex entries!

Write custom post-scripts in your diary!

Added new toggle settings for simple/detailed view of traits/passives, and background transitions

New trait option that reduces the frequency and gives additional context to Filipino expressions

Improved diary and stat notification layout

So Much More!

Added lots of new character art!

Added gameplay tips!

Lots of references to In Auctorem Credimus!

Roselyna is now approximately 20% more huggable!

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I've also updated the Trinkets & Secrets Guide, as well as the Twin Character Templates!

If you encounter any errors, or have any questions or feedback, feel free to send me an ask! I'll go through my ask backlog after I have recovered from the update.

I hope it was worth the wait! 😊

[vanade]

IT IS DONE 📢

The Dawning may be over but it's still on in my heart...

Spend a few days with my guardian Ceph, helping him figure out cookie recipes with Eva's 1st gen oven. Will you befriend him? Spend every moment flirting?? Will you EAT THE FORBIDDEN DOUGH?

Features:

10.7k of text (10-15 min per playthrough)

lots of dialogue choices

customizable player name (pronouns are unspecified/gender-neutral throughout the game)

be a human, awoken or exo (changes some flavour text)

original OST by my sister

too many cookies

Play it for free over on itch.io ! Windows, Linux, OSX and Web-Playable! (download recommended though) Also if you enjoy it I would really appreciate if you could leave a rating!! This was a solo project for #WinterVNJam2023 and it was a work of love (and insanity)

[prikarin]

New cover art y'all

Art by @mustacheskulls

[dreamtydraw]

SLEEPING UNDER SPELLS IS OUT ON ITCH.IO

You've been pining for your neighbor for a while, and tonight seems perfect to maybe confess your feelings... That if Alioth wasn't the most dense mage in the region. 

Sleeping Under Spells is a short urban fantasy romance between two idiots who banter a lot over nothing, when they really just should make out...

Features : 

20K Words

3 Endings 

2 CGs

1 male love interest

 Full voicing

Genderless mc ( custom name )

All my love ( no tears this time )

[infinitestarsdev]

Devlog 2023-06-23

FriYAY!

Before I start, I wrote a whole devblog for last week, scheduled it, and never submitted it. Sorry about that. 

As a reminder to all the new people, I consistently post updates every single Friday. On rare occasions I miss one, but that doesn't mean that we haven't made progress for that week, it just means I didn't write (or click submit) the devlog. That said, I do have a day job that takes priority over Infinite Stars, but I spend every (and I mean EVERY) free hour I have working on Infinite Stars. Sometimes we'll get tons done, and other times we'll have little to report. <3

That said, this has been a very productive two weeks!

A lot of it is behind the scene stuff that needs to happen, but doesn't look like much. This includes all the writing… We've been writing a lot. So much writing.

Lochem's MxM observatory intimite content has been added to the game, and the shower scene you all voted for is almost done! It should be ready by next week.

I've also added a Lochem friendship/flirt scene in the Mess hall as a precursor to the shower (or other) intimate scenes. You can chill with the best space commander friend there is, or you can– you know– very deliberately push your foot up against his thighs under the table. He loves it, but flusters easily. This scene is in the new patron build released today, but the facial expressions still need to be coded.

Other writing stuff that we've also been working on:

Episode 4's content, including an optional scene where your Mah'Abeu takes a ride in a VERY cramped, old and rumbling elevator with Matthias. There is a lot of brushing against each other, making Matthias very conscious of your presence which leads to some embarrassment on his behalf. Your Mah'Abeu can either ride it out innocently (hurr hurr) or lean into the situation (I make no apologies!) and "innocently" tease him all the way until, well, you both arrive (that's it! A hat trick!) at your intended destination.

Some of Lahkush and Lahkhadia's content, don't want to say too much about it.

The first crew interaction with an Uhlikti. Also spoiler hush-hush content, so won't expand on it.

Snippets of Reyna's arc

Snippets of Veera's arc

Some more Raymond stuff

Some additional Matthias stuff

Some Lindi stuff

Some Andrea's stuff

Yeah, we've been writing all over the place, and it's going to pay off in the not too distant future.

On the drawing side, Tae has been working on more Cephilusks, and Stoffies is busy with the new and improved bridge. (We're reworking the command platform, and I'm very excited for it!)

On the coding side, we implemented the framework for unlockable lore snippets as you progress/make different choices in the game. The unlocks are universal, across all your saves, and it might require a second or third playthrough to unlock all of them. The basics are there, and I love the freedom it gives us to expand on the already expansive world of Infinite Stars.

As a team we've also been spending some time exploring the lore and world-building, including how Cephilusks sleep. We've got some really cool ideas, but I'm curious as to how YOU imagine they sleep. If you want to have some fun and speculate, I'd love to hear your ideas. (We might even steal some of them or use them as a bouncing board for new ideas!) Let me know in the comments!

Oh! And we received the first version of our new trailer! Wooo! We just need to change some of the text and character sprites, but that should also be ready before the end of the month!

Patron's can go play footsie with Lochem over here. No android version this week (My Ren'Py was updated and I need to reconfigure the store keys etc)

Have a fantastic weekend! As always, stay safe, be kind and believe in yourself! You are worth it! <3