this happened to me as well, despite them specifically advertising themselves as a platform for games. frustrating!!

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

Protagonist: Orion Cruz. Age: 22, Gender: nonbinary (they/them), Ethnicity: Portugese/Bengali, Birthplace: England, Team: Buoyant Collective, Personality: irreverent, driven, charismatic

meet the cheeky protagonist of Slipstream Daydreams, Orion Cruz! 🐬 #vndev

🏁 check it out on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4243110/...

Protagonist: Orion Cruz. Age: 22, Gender: nonbinary (they/them), Ethnicity: Portugese/Bengali, Birthplace: England, Team: Buoyant Collective, Personality: irreverent, driven, charismatic

meet the cheeky protagonist of Slipstream Daydreams, Orion Cruz! 🐬 #vndev

🏁 check it out on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4243110/...

congrats carrot!!!

i love YOUR weird art!! yaay lalalala

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

In Rome's Museo di Neo Geo (a fictional museum of geology), Agent Epsilon raises here hands exultantly as she smiles. Museum Director Stefania Plinth stands behind her, looking shocked. The art is cartoony mid-century modern style with strong line art, bold colors (the background is all purple nd gold) and paper grain showing.

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

hell yeah thank you!! i tried to balance making it animated but not too flashy/distracting

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...

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

submitted mine just now!

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

thank you for serving us Mac Gamerz 🙏

Slipstream Daydreams on Steam Who do you think of when you're about to win it all? Slipstream Daydreams is a y2k inspired retrofuturistic visual novel about antigravity racing and messy queer romance. Play as Orion, cheeky rising ...

wishlist my nonbinary yaoi antigravity racing vn on steam, we're only two away from 100 wishlists total! tell yr friends!
store.steampowered.com/app/4243110/...

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

thank you!!

just so you know, as all the pics in this article are hosted on imgur i can't view them without a vpn since im in the uk

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

<3 thank you i am glad it looks like i know what I'm doing lol

a more polished sheet of logo designs

...and the final logos (in colour/bw/mono cus its useful to have to using in other art and designs!)

a sheet of logo designs for various fictional brands

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

Slipstream Daydreams on Steam Who do you think of when you're about to win it all? Slipstream Daydreams is a y2k inspired retrofuturistic visual novel about antigravity racing and messy queer romance. Play as Orion, cheeky rising ...

wishlist on steam so you can romance my nonbinary anarchist on release <3
store.steampowered.com/app/4243110/...

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

going to be so real, the room where my dev computer not being constantly freezing now we're getting out of winter is making me a lot more enthusiastic about locking in for gamedev

Slipstream Daydreams on Steam Who do you think of when you're about to win it all? Slipstream Daydreams is a y2k inspired retrofuturistic visual novel about antigravity racing and messy queer romance. Play as Orion, cheeky rising ...

store.steampowered.com/app/4243110/...

screenshot of a work in progress visual novel scene with dialogue on the right-hand side of the screen

getting stuck into my second draft of Maxime's first scene tonight - with the towering figure of the default placeholder sprite representing the shitheel podcaster Orion and Maxime will be dealing with lmao

wishlist Slipstream Daydreams 👇

3 is the strongest imo!

i've spent so long working on steam store assets, i finally made my first github commit in months tonight and it feels great 😭 i got sketches for maxime's sprites in, ready for me to test with the first draft of their first scene's script 🦈