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black and white background illustrations

visual novel background sketches #indiegamedev

Visual novel screenshot showing a dilapidated caravan and a notice text for "Investigation mode"

A visual novel screenshot of a teal house with the text "If I wanted to snoop around, this might be the time to do it."

Visual novel screenshot showing a redhead policewoman named Adams looking inside a car through the window, with the dialogue text "I can handle this."

Visual novel screenshot of an icy road in a misty suburb.

Grave Regrets is part of Detective Fest! 👁️🔎

If you love investigative gameplay or policework themed visual novels, you should totally go wishlist it: store.steampowered.com/app/3161540/

#indiegamedev #detectivefest

Spent the last five days trying to code something simple that was supposed to take a couple of hours. Today I learned it wasn't working not because there was anything wrong with my code but because my image files were somehow corrupt (for no apparent reason).

How's everyone else's new year going?

the worst part about this is that in my attempts to fix the issue my code gradually became worse and worse and now it's a long inefficient mess for no reason lol

Pixel art is a beast of its own, that's for sure

the worst part about this is that in my attempts to fix the issue my code gradually became worse and worse and now it's a long inefficient mess for no reason lol

Spent the last five days trying to code something simple that was supposed to take a couple of hours. Today I learned it wasn't working not because there was anything wrong with my code but because my image files were somehow corrupt (for no apparent reason).

How's everyone else's new year going?

Visual novel screenshot showing a tearful woman and three dialogue choices: "Reveal what happened", "shift focus on the promotion", and "deflect".

Visual novel screenshot showing an ominous house and the text "Could I really have done it? Done something so... evil?"

Visual novel screenshot showing a dilapidated caravan and a notice text for "Investigation mode"

Visual novel screenshot showing a redhead policewoman looking inside a car through the window, with the dialogue text "I can handle this."

Finally, we get to participate in #wishlistwednesday with Grave Regrets. 🖤

Featuring story-rich psychological horror and cute anime girls, what more can you ask for?

Some Reddit comments assumed the Grave Regrets trailer contains AI animation, so I want to point out: there's zero AI, and every frame is hand-drawn. If anything I almost wish it was AI-assisted with how long it took to animate a simple head turn.

Will be sharing more progress shots in the future.

Oh noo haha

friendly reminder to not mention that new creative project you’ve been working on to your family this christmas, unless you want to experience an annual “so how’s it going?” and “when’s it gonna be finished” interrogation next year and every year after that

An anime style illustration of a polaroid photo of a our visual novel character Lily, holding her pregnancy bump and wearing a Santa hat. In handwriting: Merry Christmas xoxo

It's that time of year again when I must post Lily in her Santa hat ♥️

friendly reminder to not mention that new creative project you’ve been working on to your family this christmas, unless you want to experience an annual “so how’s it going?” and “when’s it gonna be finished” interrogation next year and every year after that

Cute anime style policewoman smiling with the text 2000 wishlists next to her.

Can't believe we broke 2000 in under one week. Thank you to everyone who wishlisted Grave Regrets!

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Thank you, Denfaminico Gamer for covering Grave Regrets. 🖤 The outpouring of support from Japan has been extremely meaningful.

A long handwritten to-do list for "announcement day"

A sleep tracking app, showing terrible sleep for "announcement day" and the days before.

Heartrate tracking app, showing a peak midweek

You have no idea the physical toll that announcing your game has on a person #indiegamedev

bluesky, I love you, but get your shit together.

(add post scheduling)

👁️_👁️

bluesky, I love you, but get your shit together.

(add post scheduling)

Thank you for the incredible announcement day everyone. 🖤

The wishlists are so much higher than I dared to hope for that I'm scared to even trust the number.

I'm looking forward to sharing more information and teasers about Grave Regrets soon!

I finally announced my game !! 🥳

Not only can people finally wishlist it, it feels soo good to be able to talk about the project more openly. Very excited to share more with each day!

I'm realizing now it probably wasn't the smartest move to start our announcement trailer with a black screen since videos don't autoplay on the bsky browser. #indiegame

So to those who are too lazy to click, here's the summary:

Screenshot of a twitter post by Japanese outlet Denfamico Gamer, showing 725 retweets and 2.6k likes

Our game announcement got picked up by Denfamico Gamer 😱

I guess Japanese localization just went from "would be nice" to a priority...

Thrilled to announce GRAVE REGRETS - a psychological horror & mystery visual novel. 🪦👁️

Play as a haunted detective. Gather evidence, navigate fragile relationships, and hold onto your sanity. Every choice matters. Will you do the right thing?

store.steampowered.com/app/3161540/

Please repost 🖤

this is hilarious

After years of working on the same project, I can't believe it's about to finally be announced and "out there".

I aim to keep the momentum going, which means the real work begins tomorrow.

Let's look forward to it together 💪
#indiegamedev

that’s the spirit

But but it’s part of the experience

My psychological horror and detective mystery visual novel announces in mere two days! #indiegamedev

What do YOU see in this image?