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YAYYY thank you for the food. New game looks amazing!

slowly going through my VNs backlog, what a beauty of a game this is

AMAZING 10/10! Best game of the year so far, think it matched my favorite RPG game ever too.

My only issue was that the amount of save instances available were a bit limited to me but I admit I may not have the best frustration tolerance lol. I liked this game so much and was so damn intrigued though that I "finished" it by watching playthroughs.

Now I need to go do some fanart to cope, poor Moku 🥲

This looks awesomeeeee! Wish i knew Russian, if it ever comes out in English I'll be ready for it

Sorry for the late reply. MC has an elderly dog with increasingly bad health issues, so you get to see that from the get-go. Next not sure if it's spoiler considering this is a horror VN but you can ask me again if you really want to know 😅

I will probably link a more in-depth list of content warnings once the full game is out too if that's helpful!

Seems interesting, but the gen AI images are very art-people repellent. I'm been writing VNs lately, but here are some of my IF works: My IFs - Collection by A. VILLARROEL - itch.io One cover is just a title, another one is a mix of willling artists' art, and the third is an illustration I made. They may not be perfect, but I'd say many readers prefer real art over gen AI, while others skip works with gen AI covers entirely.

Found this treasure before being productive today... Oh well, time to gorge on the rest of Headlocker games!

Just read the devlog, and I can only say I 100% loved reading too much into the biblical references lol. It's been a while sinnce I've read this kind of short horror story narrative structure in VN format and it's my favorite ahhh. Anyway, very interesting game!

First Don't Eat the Cashier, now this. I think I have a thing for Viktors lol.
Nice style, and I'm impressed by the animations btw!

UPDATE YASSS!!! Ty for his year's late Chirstams gift

Hmm, depends on what character you ask? But strictly speaking, no, not truly.

Hshs, Bradly's my favorite, am I ok? Anyway, I saw some people commenting the story had rather vague spots. Tbh I agree to an extent BUT I happen to like slightly opaque works, so I recommend. Still, this structure has left me wanting more as I feel the story would work even better, flesh things out more, in a longer version of the game or continuation.

Beautiful game, nails the atmosphere especially. I was so hooked I couldn't believe how fast I read this; I'll keep an eye out for the update hehe

I was so waiting for THAT Florian reveal, so satissfying when it happened. He's obviously my fave LI but the other guys follow close behind. I find the girls sweet and I really like how the game lets you just best-friend any character if you don't wanna or can't romance them.

Then MC, oh how spoiled I feel when I get to see their art and enjoy making choices while they still keep a personality of their own. 

I'm eager to see more of the buying and selling mechanic too. The thing I found a bit bothersome was how new text appeared because I'm just not a fan of the text displaying of textboxes on the side in general, I couldn't immediatly tell where the new text began.

Anyway, excellent job making everything fit fantastically together!

After my review, for bug report:

I got only one bug, in day 7. I chose to clean in the morning and I found a fish pendant. In the afternoon I was going to pay taxes (I think) and went to the inventory. I changed the fish pendant's price and when I went back to the game I couldn't go on. Rollback only took me back to the inventory. Don't know much coding but here's the traceback just in case:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

  File "game/events.rpy", line 202, in script call

  File "game/events.rpy", line 392, in script

IndexError: list index out of range

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "game/events.rpy", line 202, in script call

  File "game/events.rpy", line 392, in script

  File "renpy/ast.py", line 1818, in execute

    next_node(self.items[choice][2][0])

              ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^       

IndexError: list index out of range

Windows-11-10.0.26100-SP0 AMD64

Ren'Py 8.4.2.25111201+nightly

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Fri Dec 12 15:21:39 2025

Reading these devlogs is always so worth it. Lovely work, as always

All I can say is damn I love not only the art and unique premise itself but the writing 🤩 I usually prefer more "serious" horror but when I see horror well-combined with wittiness I'm sold. Love dark rom-coms when I see them. The game makes me care for absolute everyone (even a FROG) and the dynamics are so much fun because I just can't with Diana's replies to these guys 😭 

I just know this is one of those VNs it's worth staying for so I'll be keeping an eye out for the rest of development. Keep it up guys ❣️

All I can say is damn I love not only the art and unique premise itself but the writing 🤩 I usually prefer more "serious" horror but when I see horror well-combined with wittiness I'm sold. Love dark rom-coms when I see them. The game makes me care for absolute everyone (even a FROG) and the dynamics are so much fun because I just can't with Diana's replies to these guys 😭 

I just know this is one of those VNs it's worth staying for so I'll be keeping an eye out for the rest of development. Keep it up guys ❣️

It very much depends on how I feel about writing the endings and VAs about voicing so I can't say 100% "no, this is perfectly clean"😭 However, I can say that the "final" version we're about to release has no NSFW art nor sex scenes. It's mostly on the suggestive side.

Noooo it's one of my favorites T-T The same thing happened to my studio's yandere game. Emailed about it months ago and nothing 😒Hope Perfect Love gets re-indexed soon anyway 🫂

Hmm in what sense? 👀 My brain translating this to Spanish gives me an idea 😅

Also, THANKSS SO MUCH to all of you supporting in comments! I may not reply to everything but I'm reading 💓

Hi! we'd love it if you played our horror otome game here https://a-villarroel.itch.io/my-own-sweet-dionaea

Tagline: "Created a plant hybrid and he may want to kiss or eat you!"
 

Thanks to everyone who's rating and leaving their comments!!!  I'm reading y'all even if I can't reply to everything 🥰

Also, if you posted in here but not in the game page we'd appreciate if you copy-pasted it there: Comments - My Own Sweet Dionaea by A. VILLARROEL Feel free to consider!

Hey there! Ty for comment and I'm glad the demo piqued your interest. As we mentioned in the game itself, we aim to have the next build for Erohorror jam which means a couple of weeks. However, we'd love to be able to flesh it out the best we can and if you rate now it's a great push for a chance at having an expansion even after the game releases. It helps for our place in voting for Spooktober jam too if you can rate it there as well when voting is enabled in a couple of hours!

If you're curious about any of it you can follow and get a notification when there's updates <3

I'm so sorry my expression of emotion and lack of clear feminine name triggered your (false) homo boy alert!

Get well soon, and I hope then maybe you'll start actually engaging with the work and writing great criticism, or try making your own games. It takes a little more brain power but it's fun I promise!

(OPEN) looking for CG Artist for Spooktober 7th Annual Visual Novel Jam (https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2025) and Erohorror (https://itch.io/jam/erohorror-jam-2025) jams

This VN will be free and short (about 10k words). Note that Erohorror jam requires teammates to be 18+.

Setup concept art and sprites:

Pitch: you're a botany scientist preparing yourself for the upcoming exhibition where you'll showcase your latest experiment and fruit of your research: your own dionaea species. As one of the top investigators in your field, you feel the pressure of competition slowly crushing you and to make matters worse Walter, your husband, is anything but comforting. Regular fights are normal between you, but since the last time you "reconciled" the gap separating you seems to be growing. To top it off, you're starting to feel Dionaea's whispers on your neck and eerily beautiful eyes staring at you. An illusion, surely, because you didn't accidentally drop undefined DNA into the specimen's mix, *obviously*.

As a sci-fi/psychological/body horror VN with romantic elements you will caretake the carnivorous plant and *maybe* fall under its "love" spell. The more you love it the more you despise Walter. The more you embrace the plant, the less of your humanity remains. Is this your rediscovery of happiness or a deathwish?

Doc with list of teamates, character info, and concept art with aesthetic refs (CW too): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EfRyMwS61syDi5Dv5zz4OTjYvp5Yj0PLxjgr2URtnaM/...

About CG artist role: 2-3 minimum CGs, looking for more manga/anime style so that there isn't stark contrast between CG art and [sprite art style](https://vgen.co/cvlnite)

If interested in joining DM me: @thesloth777. Will gladly answer your questions!

Idk how but it's one of the few horror games that freaked me out lol. I hated hurting him so much.

Saw it! Thanks for your reply :) Think I got everything

I could only get 3 endings but damnnnnn. The writing and art combo was so atmospheric. Now my poor heart is in pain but also there's the sweet nostaliga vibe. Hope to play your other games soon and any upcoming ones :D


PS: Maybe I'm dumb or it's cause i missed one of the endings but I'm still wondering what is up with the back of Nate's car stain.

Thanks for checking it out! Happy to have met my goal hshs ❤️

Thank you so much! I was hoping to avoid an infodump so i'm glad I could show just enough :D

Hi there! My team and I are volunteers looking for a character designer for our free interactive fiction game so I wanted to pitch it here in case you're interested.

Story: MC is an Italian Renaissance artist forced away from his family as a child to work with his father's collaborator. In that worshop he meets the closest friends: Emiliano and Aurelia. Emiliano is the charming art prodigy from a humble background while Aurelia is the master's daughter who is aiming to rise into her own fame. As the three are on your quest for greatness, you can deepen your relationship with either. It's a "dark" coming-of-age and psychological drama with surreal elements. I'm a writer and programmer with a composer, portrait and CG artists looking for:

• Character designer/ concept artist: The GUI will contain character info's and character portraits. You won't do the final artwork but the designs that will be referenced. For this role you contact me (with examples of your concept art or character designs for a better application). The main characters are 2-3, but if you're able to do more character designs later on we can discuss. Applications will be open, ideally, until the 13th of June,

Timeframe: I'm aiming to go slower with this game for better skill growth and ideas to marinate, but you aren't tied to my pace. The first chapters are written and I'm aiming to release them on July while I'll complete the entire IF before the year ends. I have an outline as well so I can provide it and chapters upon request.

I'll be updating monthly or bimonthly on itch.io so if anyone would like to collab or get insight into development this is the call.

Timeframe: I'm aiming to go slower for better growth and ideas to marinate/experiment with while I finish this long-term project. However, the first chapters are written and I'm aiming to release them on July/August. For time of completion of at least the current outlined game without add-ons I figured it'll be before the year ends. For more direct info on my work you can check: https://a-villarroel.itch.io/

Payment: I'm a hobby developer making games for free without receiving donations. This game is as such and I can't offer money as payment. You can then volunteer or we can trade. In either case you will be credited unless you don't want to be. If you want to trade I can compensate accordingly to the equivalent in money with: 

• Writing: visual novel/interactive fiction scripts, traditional writing (flash fiction, short story, etc), copywriting, etc.

• Proofreading

• Community/social media management.

• Project management.

• Translation: I can translate to English or to LATAM Spanish.

Composers, I'll be reaching out in a bit! 

Alright! You can DM me to further discuss. Handle is @thesloth777

Story: Cosimo Spadaro (potentially renamable MC) is an Italian Renaissance artist forced away from his family as a child to work with his father's collaborator because he failed to meet expectations. Then he meets the closest friends of his life, first Emiliano and then Aurelia as they all work in the workshop. Emiliano is the charming art prodigy from a humble background while Aurelia is the master's daughter who is aiming to rise into her own fame.
As the three are on your quest for greatness, you can deepen your relationship with either and walk down to the ends of their paths. It's a "dark" coming-of-age and psychological drama with surreal elements.

I'll be updating monthly or bimonthly on itch.io so if anyone would like to collab or get insight into development here are who I'm looking for:

- Character artist: I'm coding a GUI that will contain character info's and, if an artist would like to make the official designs, character portraits. For this role contact me with examples of your art and if you'd like ask me first for character descriptions. The main characters are 2-3 but you can do more if you'd like.

- Main menu artist: whoever would like to do a main menu is free to concept the ones they wish. I will provide input on context, readability and theme cohesion only. Please DM me with examples of your work if you're interested.

- Logo artist: same details as main menu artist above.

- Beta testers/proofreaders/editor: for the first this is an invitation for those who would like to hang around the server and get early builds of the game to discuss and point out bugs in sever. The second 2 have access to that *but* if you apply to proofread I will hope for checks on the text before I add it to the game and feedback if you have a more editorial mind which I would really appreciate.

- Composer: I know how to implement music into Twine so if anyone would like to compose an OST you can contact me for more details, let me know how many songs and what your vision would be for such.


Timeframe: I'm a writer focused in developing and releasing short visual novels and interactive fiction (https://a-villarroel.itch.io/) at a fast pace but here I'm aiming to go slower for better growth and ideas to marinate/experiment with while I finish this. However, the first chapters are written and I'm aiming to release them on July. For time of completion of at least the current outlined game without add-ons I figured it'll be before the year ends. You don't need to follow my pace though.

Payment: I'm a hobby developer making games for free without receiving donations. This game is as such and I can't offer money as payment. You can then volunteer or we can trade. In either case you will be credited unless you don't want to be. If you want to trade I can compensate accordingly to the equivalent in money with:
• Writing: visual novel/interactive fiction scripts, traditional writing (flash fiction, short story, etc), copywriting, etc.
• Proofreading
• Community/social media management.
• Project management.
• Translation: I can translate to English or to LATAM Spanish.

If you're not looking to participate with the mentioned roles and would just like to hang out/help in another area or another subarea/collab let me know regardless! I'm always up to something when it comes to projects and like chatting (:

My Discord handle is @thesloth777 so DM me there if you'd can with this post linked. If I don't reply immediately I'm not ghosting, will reply eventually and to any more questions. I can also provide script so far and story outline upon request. That said thanks for reading!

The atmosphere and color choices were wonderful!It's the vibe I fall for lol. I really liked that mini game too 10/10

I'm looking forward to whatever else you're working on :D 

Hey all! We’re making a free, horror and romance VN. We need a UI artist who can volunteer. If you’re interested you can DM @breezy_the_cat on Discord with examples of your work.

Story: by your smiles at customers, others would think you love your job as a barista... or they would know how much you hate it yet need the money. But you need to look at the bright side! You must routinely buy flowers from the cute florist next door and steal glances at the lips that form his sunny smile, discreetly! So, will you cross your fingers and hope to snatch yourself a date who definitely isn’t hiding something at the back of his shop?

We already stated we need a UI artist, but if you’re interested in another role not mentioned and you think you can work within the jam’s time frame you can DM @thesloth777 on Discord with examples of your work.

Positions filled:

• Character artist
• CG artist
• Writer
• Programmer
• Editor
• VA