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brightoakgame · 7 months

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Burdock Available Now!

Stick closely to the path, my dear, don’t wander and don’t stray! The mists are full of secrets, the woods are full of fae; And many careless mortals they’ve spirited away— So do not go a-wandering, but on the path please stay!

Game Now Live!

When you've lost your way and nearly lost your life, will your name be enough to buy it all back?

Burdock is a dark and atmospheric fairytale with fae creatures, riddles, and danger abounding. Will you be able to navigate the perils you face and reclaim your life? Or will the mists swallow you up for good...?

Features:

Nameable Protagonist (gender left undefined)

24,000 words (roughly 2-3 hours playtime)

Four Full Endings—and multiple Bad Ones

Original Soundtrack

It's free!

Content Warnings: violence, blood, and potentially disturbing imagery and sound effects. There are no intended jump scares, and no animals are harmed—though the same cannot be promised of the protagonist!

Created for the 2023 Spooktober Visual Novel Jam by:

Character Art and Design: Remnantation

Original Soundtrack: John Åhlin

Coding: Windchimes

Logo and UI Design: ingthing

Direction, Sound Design, Backgrounds, and Writing: B.L. McDarragh

#...and now I sleep for a week ✨#...and fix whatever bugs I inevitably missed 🫠#burdock #spooktober 2023 #spooktober vn jam #spooktober #dark fairytale #visual novel #oelvn #interactive fiction

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qveiis · 7 months

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BEARY THE HATCHET 🎸🪓

(psst! I worked on a game recently! you can play it here ) ^_<~

#beary the hatchet #spooktober vn jam #art #clip studio paint

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vndev · 9 months

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Somehow our little spooky competition turned into a monster in its own right, something people have been making plans over for months.

You know who you are.

When we first started the Spooktober VN Jam 5 years ago, it was little more than a handful of entries I played by myself. The next year was too many entries for one person to read in a month. Last year in 2022, there were over 150 visual novels, with as many shortlisted submissions as we had total submissions in the first year, and over 20 of which had voice acting.

The scariest thing about Spooktober isn't even the freaking entries. It's the sheer volume of fanatics waiting to get started.

But!... I'm not judging this year and I enjoy torturing other people, so feel free to join the competition this year and help me bully Ari.

#visual novel jam #spooktober vn jam

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seraphimslum · 7 months

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you see her approaching you from a considerable distance. wyd

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smilestrawbunny · 7 months

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Explore a lighthouse shrouded in darkness, and uncover the secrets inside...

Lightkeeper is a point-and-click horror/romance visual novel made for Spooktober 2023! You play as Princess Elizabelle, taken from your home kingdom by a dark dragon known as “The Lightkeeper.” As you venture deeper into the lighthouse, you’re faced with hard choices and the horrors that come with making them…

Lightkeeper is free to play now on itch.io! Please support me and my team mates and play it if you have time! 💚🖤

#Lightkeeper Game #Lightkeeper #Indiegamedev #spooktober #spooktober vn jam #lgbt #lgbt Game #wlw Game #yeah it’s gay #it’s very gay #but that’s a secret #release

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evillittlebug · 7 months

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i've got a new game out! Model Employee is a short, corporate horror visual novel. get through life in the same-hour-delivery shipping warehouse of the cyber-flavored near future. And maybe find love with your AI boss/companion/work-wife...

it's a perfect balance of weird, scary, funny, and kind of deep. made this with nth circle and a very talented team.

you can play FOR FREE on itchio for PC and Mac. Download it here!

#oelvn #spooktober vn jam #spooktobervnjam #my art #indie dev #visual novel

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goldieclaws · 7 months

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Hiii I finally finished and uploaded my submission to itchio! Please consider checking it out if you like demons, branching storylines, and watching mean men get beat up by said demon lmao

A short Dark Fantasy game made as a submission for the Spooktober 5th Annual Visual Novel Jam, being worked on during the month of September.

This game is set in an already existing universe, but can be experienced as a standalone story.

Game made in Ren'py

Roughly 6.2k word count

About 30 minutes of gameplay

5 different endings

Hand-drawn backgrounds, illustrations, and character sprites

Story, Artwork and Backgrounds - GoldieClaws

Music - Kevin MacLeod

Reblogs appreciated, thank you!! 💖✨

#renpy #renpy visual novel #my games #my art #spooktober #spooktober vn jam #spooktober 2023 #spooktober visual novel jam #demon #demon oc #multiple choice #multiple endings #short story

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specterofyou · 7 months

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Is that... a game launch?!? 🎉

At way later than I thought it would be for the release, here it is! The Rewrite Journal is a queer psych horror sci-fi dating sim with heavy fairytale inspiration.

In it, your mission is to rewrite the course of your life... But such high ambitions come at a price.

A steep price.

Features: -Over 10k words of shenanigans galore

-Time management sim?!? (but barebones because I had one month to make this)

-And most importantly of all.... CUTE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4noki-vns · 6 months

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Thank you for selecting The Final Prize is Soup as 2nd place in this year's Spooktober Visual Novel Jam!!

Our awesome teammate Pauline Reinacher drew this!

May every day be yuri in everyone's hearts (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

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doublefreegames · 6 months

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Travel Devil - better the devil you know!

There's less than a week left of judging for the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam and it's been a fantastic experience for us so far! Travel Devil has received such wonderful feedback and critiques. We take on board everything that is written to us so we can make better games every time!

So today I'm going to give a little insight into how and why Travel Devil came to be.

Do you wanna know how Travel Devil came to exist?

Originally we put together a game idea for a spooky pet adoptions agency. The game would take place on Halloween and have six pets (3 unlocked and 3 locked) to play with. Each pet was going to have a unique story and minigame associated with it. It was codenamed "Spoopy Pets" and it was far too much for the me and Robert to take on and complete in the Spooktober VN Jam timeframe. We worked on it for the first two days of the jam before we were flagging problems up, so we changed trajectory. It's not a dead idea though, it's in the list of rainy day ideas.

Speaking of the rainy day ideas list, that's where Travel Devil comes in. We thought this up a while ago but just put it on the back burner as there was no time to work on it. The concept was simple - a demon escapes hell and starts a travel log. Then the servants of hell follow in its wake starting the apocalypse march on humanity. When Spoopy Pets became too big we had a look at what we had to play with and Travel Devil just sort of fell into place. Robert started writing and I started drawing.

Character design went pretty smoothly. I went for a mix of cartoon styles, drawing inspiration from things like Dead End, Gravity Falls, The Simpsons and Garfield.

Traditionally, visual novels use anime and manga style design but truth be told, I'm not very good at that style. It takes me ages to make characters look good when I try to draw like that. Hats off to all the wonderful artists in this jam who made beautiful, scintillating characters. I'm so impressed by their dedication to fantastic character art.

One of the first pitfalls I encountered was background art. I like to use sites like Pixabay to get backgrounds but recently it's been flooded with AI artworks. The game jam expressly forbids AI use in your game so we had to get creative.

Fortunately this game revolves around travel vlog creation in Paris and we found loads of creative commons photos of the famous tourist destination. Seriously there are so many fantastic photographers out there and it was a complete life and time saver for the jam. All I had to do was add a translucent white filter to the top of the photos to make the characters pop out and we had our backgrounds!

Development went well once we got on the right track. Travel Devil was made using Ren'py which is a joy to develop with. We did have to wind back our ideas at one point as both Robert and I got sick with a nasty bug but we made it. We stripped back some choices and streamlined the game to make sure we could get finished. Originally, we wanted the player to be able to unlock multiple hidden scenes in one playthrough. As the deadline loomed we simplified it so that the player would only see one of three potential side stories that were growing due to the activities of our main character Tornacense per playthrough. We included 7 unlockable scenes and also 6 unlockable images in our gallery.

There's also a nifty guide to finding all the unlockables right here if you want a more relaxing time while playing.

If you've had a chance to play Travel Devil you may have noticed that we planted some seeds in our side stories that will be big plot points as we go forward. Travel Devil is going to be a series of five games travelling around Europe making video journals and outrunning the underworld.

Tornacense and Kirby will grow, we'll meet lots of new strange and devastating people and love could be just around the corner! Who knows? That choice will be yours.

If you want to check out the first installment of Travel Devil you can nab a pentagram portal and find it right here.

Travel Devil was made for the 5th Annual Spooktober Visual Novel Jam in under 30 days. The next one will be made with a lot more time dedicated to it!

Thanks for stopping by!

DoubleFree - Artist and coder for Travel Devil

#visual novel #vn development #visual novel game #spooktober #vndev #game jam #renpy #spooktober 2023 #vn game #travel devil #spooktober vn jam #devlog

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brightoakgame · 7 months

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Spooktober 2023 Jam Project - Burdock

(logo by the ineffably cool IngThing) We're skidding closer to the finish line and coming in hot, so I'm very happy to share a quick peek at Burdock, the project I've been working on for this year's Spooktober Visual Novel Game Jam!

(stunning character art by Remnantation, textbox by IngThing)

This is my very first time participating in a game jam, and I've had the joy of working with a phenomenal team of very talented individuals--two of whom also worked on Bright Oak, and two artists I've greatly admired from other projects!

Character Artist: Remnantation

Original Music: John Åhlin

Logo and UI: @ingthing

Coding: A wonderful (but currently secret) artist

Writing and Backgrounds: me!

I'm going to save the story pitch for release, but here's a taste of some of the aspects that excite me:

(Rem's detail work on the main sprites is absolutely jaw-dropping and beautiful!!)

(Ing's UI is gorgeous and atmospheric)

(John knows that the quickest route to my heart is to have words like "kantele" and "rusty mandolin" included in the music track listings)

That's it for now--I look forward to sharing more with the official release announcement at the end of the week!

#burdock #spooktober 2023 #spooktober vn jam #spooktober #game jam #visual novel #oelvn #interactive fiction #interactive story #game dev #indie dev #vn dev

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terraessencedreams · 7 months

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#TwistedCarnival's Demo is up for the 2023 #SpooktoberVNJam ! [The full game will come out mid-late October~]

Like carnivals and dark romance? Go check it out and follow for updates on the impending full game release!

#otome game #indie visual novel #visual novel development #visual novel #amare game #horror #spooktober vn jam #spooky season #Twisted Carnival

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vndev · 9 months

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Spooktober VN Jam Sponsorship Announcement!

We're very happy to announce our sponsors for the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam 2023 competition! Without them, our competition couldn't exist, so lets thank them for what they do for visual novels!

Ratalaika Games joins us again this year as our top dog sponsor! Ratalaika Games is a publisher and port service provider for visual novel developers looking to take their RenPy games to the Switch console!

JAST USA and JAST Blue joins us for the first time this year! JAST is a name known well by fans as a localizer of Japanese games and visual novels. They're seeking new otome and BL creators and showing their support for our community and competition!

Vograce also joins us for the first time this year! Vograce iss a merchandise provider for charms, pins, and other merch essentials. Vograce is seeking to support developers by being the best place to get merchandise made for your fans to enjoy!

Visual Novel Design also joins us for the first time this year, though many of you already know the man behind it! Spooktober VN Jam winner Vimi shares his tips and tricks to creating great visual novels through his YouTube platform. New and veteran devs can learn a lot!

Lastly, Visual Novel Machinery joins us this year. VN Machinery is an Unreal Engine based plugin designed for experienced Unreal Engine developers looking to make visual novels through their engine of choice!

We've received a total of $8,500 from our sponsors, and we're excited to see what you'll make this year! We're working to get the prizes and categories sorted out still, so stay tuned for more information and check out the jam page over on Itch.io!

#game development #otome #visual novel #vn development #vndev #spooktober vn jam #spooktober

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seraphimslum · 7 months

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👼 Seraphim Slum is a yuri-focused, horror visual novel revolving around fallen angels and love conquering self.

👼 This is a project made from a team of twenty, for the Spooktober 2023 5th Annual Visual Novel Jam!

For extensive updates, you're in the right place! To keep up with us in different facets, come check out our socials over here! You can find our website and our press kit there, too.

Enjoy your stay!

#game dev #spooktober vn jam #spooktober 2023 #vn dev #vn development #visual novel #indie dev #intro post #vn intro #yuri #wlw #fallen angels #lesbian media

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glaistigs-garden · 7 months

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Just popping in to say I've entered a game into the itch.io Spooktober VN jam, Ball of the Black Cat! if anyone has half an hour and is in the mood to help a silly little cat find a partner to dance with at the upcoming ball, give it a play!

#spooktober visual novel jam #spooktober vn jam #spooktober 2023 #oelvn #vndev #indie game #visual novel #indie visual novel

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nimesoreol · 7 months

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🥩Us Three Joined by Flesh🥩

Pushed into doing a ritual by their friend Leila, Mirabell and Dahlia are roped into Leila's antics.

With every step they complete they witness the slow transformation of Leila.

#visual novel #spooktober vn jam #artists on tumblr #horror #horror vn

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