Just flipped through the #HBHS special edition package and damn we made a really nice fuckin' book
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A table with Heartbeat Highschool TTRPG books, stickers, heart shaped decoders, and branded color-changing pencils.
#HBHS #TTRPG dating sim fulfillments... We have been packing the Kickstarter rewards!
Miss the Kickstarter and physical preorders? You can buy the PDF right now!
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
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Had a GREAT time at PIE today! Thank you to everyone who was so welcoming towards #HBHS, I'm very pleased with the reception ❤️❤️
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If you come see me at the #PittsburghIndieExpo this Sunday and tell me happy birthday for my baby nephew (he's 2 this weekend!) I will give you a Kattabolt sticker. But you gotta say it!
Table 502 ❤️ I could be having ice cream with a baby but im just too excited to show you #HBHS
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I keep mentioning that I'll be at PIE on March 15th to show off the #HBHS TRRPG, but here's more info. If you're in or around Pittsburgh, come support indie comics and games!
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Heartbeat Highschool TTRPG banner design, featuring the entire teenage cast and the logo. The characters are all colorful high school students in the 1990s, with the red-headed Dani in the foreground.
We ordered a last minute #HBHS vinyl banner for this weekend and I really hope it shows up in timeeee
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The #HBHS sticker sheets came in but I don't get to see them myself until the next time I see Onslaught in person and that is simply no fair!! I wanna hold them and marvel at the cuteness
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Now with a shiny new video description by yours truly 😌✨ I feel so professional #HBHS #TTRPG
youtu.be/Zv36gpIuemg?...
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A few days ago I wrote a neat post that has some cool #HBHS design stuff in it, for free! There is also a paid portion at the end, in which I share some personal challenges from the last year and why Kattabolt progress suffered as a result.
If you like my work, join me on Patreon! IT SUPER HELPS!
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I opened 2 slots, price reflects turnaround time. If you see this post, it means I really need money!
Get a chibi TOMORROW in the same art style that I used for the #HBHS TTRPG stickers ❤️
Shares and boosts appreciated, the school won't pay me until the 6th 😭
ko-fi.com/c/21e5473b8d
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If you're curious about the #HBHS dating sim TTRPG and how it works, there's a nifty gameplay tutorial! Did Llama and I sneak a Wilhelm scream in during editing? Of course not. That would be absurd.
Buy the game: tidalwavegames.itch.io/heartbeat-hi...
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March 15th I'm supposed to be at PIE with @tidalwavegames.com to wave my arms and tell you why #HBHS is a good game. If you'll be there, come say hi at the TWG table! I will be wearing a button with my pfp on it.
#PittsburghIndieExpo
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Onslaught Six - Game & Character Design, Writing, Layout Demon Dionysus - Lead Artist, Cover Art areyoshi - Art Direction & Character Design Escher Cattle - Additional Character Visual Design Sarah Elkins - Additional Writing & Character Design Slyllama - Location Artwork J.M. Nemo - Copy Editing Leon D. Richardson - Sensitivity Paul Czege - Intro To Solo Roleplaying
People following me for #HBHS are very sweet, but I'm just the art director!
@tidalwavegames.com is the head honcho and designed the mechanics
@demondionysus.bsky.social was our lead artist
@slyllama.net did date location art
@escherbug.art helped me with the back half of character designs
Et al
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Promo art featuring KC, a teen with pale skin, wavy green hair, and an unaffected expression on their face. Their clothes look carefully chosen and high end, and they have black nail polish and lipstick. The game logo is in the top right and a QR code in the bottom right leads to the link from the post. There is a caption with the date, Valentine's Day: February 14th, 2026.
It's 1997. You're the new kid in the senior class at Heartbeat Highschool. 16 of your classmates stand out to you for various reasons, but one thing is pretty certain... KC is definitely the coolest.
💕 PDF AVAILABLE NOW: hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
#HBHS #TTRPG #DatingSim #anime
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Heartbeat Highschool standard edition cover, with art by Dyo. Subtitle: Solo journaling dating simulation roleplaying game. In an art style reminiscent of 90's anime, three characters head to school, with two looking back towards the viewer. Dani is excitedly pulling the viewer by the hand. She is a teenaged girl with long orange hair and big green eyes. Sam is a shorter teen with brown hair, a sweatband, and a huge smile. Mark is further back, arms crossed and looking moody with his big chunky headphones on over his mullet.
Heartbeat Highschool release day is tomorrow, Valentine's Day! You'll be able to buy the PDF outright... But if you want early access, anyone who pre-orders the physical edition can get the PDF right now!! 💕
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
#HBHS #DatingSim #TTRPG
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In the #HBHS dating sim, the characters are what you make of them. If you decide in your playthrough that a character is trans or otherwise, it's valid gameplay. Similarly, the player character has no sex or gender restrictions.
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
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Heartbeat Highschool promo image featuring Gus, a fat teen with a friendly smile and short brown hair. He's wearing fingerless gloves and an unbuttoned dress shirt over a graphic T-shirt featuring an armored hand holding a sword. Gus has a small knick in his left ear. The game logo is in the top left and a QR code leading to the link in the post in nearly center left. There is a caption that says "Let's party like it's 1997!"
Everyone either knows a Gus or simply is a Gus. This shy future historian can't catch the bus on time, but maybe he can catch your attention while you both go to Heartbeat Highschool in 1997!
- queer #DatingSim
- solo journaling #TTRPG
- 16 dateable characters
- Gus!
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
#HBHS
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JUST FOR THE RECORD, if you've wondered about any of the beautiful art for #HBHS assets... I may have directed, but the final character page arts are by @demondionysus.bsky.social and date location illustrations are by @slyllama.net! Working with either of them is always a pleasure, I recommend 'em.
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A Heartbeat Highschool illustration of a mini-golf course, with a prize booth, some tacky swan statues, and a close-up windmill and golf club.
The most repeated number at this moment was 3. So here is the 3rd date location in the #HBHS dating sim.
Who likes putt putt mini golf? 👀
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I really cannot overstate how pleased I am with #HBHS. It's been a really long year, especially if you remember my life unexpectedly turning upside down not even a full day after we launched the Kickstarter. But I'm so PROUD of this #TTRPG and our dev team.
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
Valentine's Day
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They need final cleanups, but Llama and I just spent a few hours designing the #HBHS sticker sheets 👀 I think they are gonna be VERY CUTE!!!
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Discord screenshot. apricot: AGAIN.... MELODY WITH THE 1.... THIS GIRL IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DATE. IS SHE SNUBBING US ON PURPOSE (cry emoji) OnslaughtSix: Call more often!! apricot: We're calling her at least once a week! OnslaughtSix: Then you're coming on too hard!! Lay off!! apricot: (laugh emoji, laugh emoji, cry emoji, cry emoji)
apricot: Hearts with Sam dropped to 0, they hate the museum (emoticon cry face) Regained 1 from dating pool at least OnslaughtSix: Wow you're bad at this apricot: CRIES
ketpia: Melody does not like the park apricot: She hates the state park OnslaughtSix: (pretending to be Melody) "I thought you said SKATE park" apricot: Screaming crying throwing up
Test playing #HBHS and getting my ass handed to me by a bunch of high schoolers. This is too real
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Art of Mark, a teenaged white boy with a mullet, playing an acoustic guitar. He has a moody look and has a furrowed brow. Mark is from the solo dating sim TRRPG, Heartbeat Highschool, of which the logo is above him and a QR code leading to the link in the post is in the upper left.
It's 1997 and nobody gets Mark. Don't put him in a box, you can't define him. His senior year of high school will be just as pointless as every other year- unless maybe you, the new kid, have something to say about that...?
PRE-ORDER THE #HBHS DATING SIM GAME: hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
#TTRPG #anime
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The special edition cover art for the dating sim TTRPG, Heartbeat Highschool. There are several high school students in a cramped classroom. Chloe, a fat teen girl with dark eyeshadow and blue hair is throwing pencils up so they stick in the ceiling. Mark, a white teen boy with a mullet and plaid shirt, is sleeping at his desk. Roxxi, a Black teen girl with big box braids and a beret, is interviewing Sam, a teen with freckles, brown hair, and dressed in sports gear. Sam is holding a soccer ball in place on their desk, where it is crushing papers with their bad grades. In the foreground, a white teen girl with red hair, Dani, is looking in surprised shock at an unfolded note from a secret admirer.
🎨 I've been waiting to post this, it's the Heartbeat Highschool special edition cover art, by yours truly!
We're only making 100 of these, so if you want to snatch one before they're gone, check out the #HBHS preorders:
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
There were a lot of technical challenges to this piece!
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Sam, from the solo journaling tabletop game, Heartbeat Highschool. Sam has light skin, blue eyes, fluffy brown hair, and a smattering of freckles. They are dressed in a track jacket and short-shorts, complete with a sweatband, and they are grinning proudly while balancing a soccer ball on top of their head. Under the game logo it says "You'll have a ball!" There is also a QR code and a URL that leads to the link in the post.
It's Sam! They are going to win!
Win what? Probably everything, don't ask too many questions (or they'll want to win at that, too.)
When it comes to matters of the heart, this hyper-competitive teen wants a winner. Is that you?
PRE-ORDER HEARTBEAT HIGHSCHOOL: hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
#TTRPG #HBHS
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Art of Josh from the solo journaling game, Heartbeat Highschool. Josh is drawn like a smug, pretty boy anime character. He's wearing mostly pink, has pink hair, tanned skin, and has green eyes. He's holding a rowing oar over his shoulders, which has been separated into two pieces for easier carrying around and also because it's easier to fit into one drawing with limited space. The HBHS logo is at the top, and the bottom has a QR code leading to the link in the post. Next to Josh is the caption "All the good pick up lines were taken, but I'm not!"
It's 1997 and Josh's senior year of high school has been perfect. He's working hard at violin and he's going to take the rowing team far, but if he's REALLY lucky, the new kid (that's you) will ask him out on a date.
PRE-ORDER OUR TTRPG DATING SIM!
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
#HBHS
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Roxxi from Heartbeat Highschool. She is a thin Black girl with braids, orange eyes, a yellow beret, and a matching sweater. There is a caption that says "Hope you can keep up, new kid!' The HBHS logo is in the top right and the bottom right has a QR code leading to the link in the post.
Roxxi is probably the coolest person you'll ever meet, but first you gotta catch up after she zooms past on her rollerblades 👀
PRE-ORDER THE #HBHS DATING SIM:
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
- 16 dating partners
- journal your way through 1997 senior year
- roll dice to determine how dates go
- have fun!
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Just finished another #HBHS meeting. We're really in the endgame now, y'all. Book is looking real solid
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Heartbeat Highschool advertisement featuring Chloe, a cool stoner girl with blue hair in a side ponytail. Chloe is fat and wears a pair of cute pastel overalls that have a color block pattern. She's blowing heart-shaped smoke out of her mouth and has one hand held out to support her bass guitar case. There is a QR code to the link in the post, the HBHS logo, and a caption that simply says "Hey."
"Hey." -Chloe, c. 1997.
If that would work on you, check out our 90's solo TTRPG dating sim, #HBHS, where you play the new kid at Heartbeat Highschool.
- 16 datable characters
- Full page art
- Character secrets to unlock
- Mini games
- More Chloe
PRE-ORDER: hbhs.tidalwavegames.com
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2025 art summary by areyoshi, using a template by umi.umo, in an art nouveau style. There are 13 pieces apricot has drawn throughout the year on display, organized by month, with one deemed the 'masterpiece of the year'. Overall, the pieces are generally colorful and drawn in apricot's somewhat cutesy style. There's some fanart, like Pikachu, and a lot of OC work, like Kattabolt page panels and some HBHS character art.
🎨 I managed to scrape together a #2025ArtSummary! I know I don't HAVE to do one of these, but I enjoy looking back on them. This year was half Kattabolt pages, half directing other artists on #HBHS, so there really wasn't a lot of time for full pieces. I hope I can turn it around for 2026! ❤️
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