Lydia's Labyrinth Has Made It To Over 100 Downloads!

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Disconnected by Teharra Rose

Every choice matters when a single call could mean life or death.

Always happy to see a good grisly mystery! Just played "Disconnected" a fantastic visual novel by Teharra Rose.

You're a 911 dispatcher. You're taking to a woman who wakes up in an ice bath. She doesn't know how she got there. Can you save her life?

Getting some practice drawing done on a pretty spring day.

Travel Dev(il)Log – And so it begins...

Hello and welcome to the first DevLog of Travel Devil 2!

Ever wanted to get out of the daily grind and escape to a paradise of travel-vlogging in Europe? Well, so did Tornacense the demon! The Travel Devil series follows Tornacense and the (un)lucky human who summoned him, Kirby.

In Travel Devil 2, Tornacense and Kirby are going to Amsterdam to enjoy all the fabulous delights that this city has to offer! The outline is done and development is beginning! Robert has been writing away and has sent over the summary. Now it’s time for me to get stuck in to the art and the code.

So to keep me on track, I'm making weekly progress lists to help keep me motivated. This week I have:

Practised drawing the characters lots (I haven’t worked with these characters since October so I’m a bit rusty!)

Designed our new character Chloe, reveal coming soon – she’s a peach!

Watched a lot of travel guides for Amsterdam – it’s been years since I’ve been there so I hope I can do this fantastic city justice.

Researched art from famous Dutch artists to give the game an air of culture and sophistication - Amsterdam isn’t all red lights and smoking and we want to showcase all the great aspects of this famous city!

Travel Devil 2 is the sequel to a game that I made for a game jam. It was set in beautiful Paris and showed the first episode of Travel Devil featuring the overnight doomtube sensation, Tornacense. I had so much fun making it that I’m diving back in and we’re heading to the Netherlands on the next step of the Journey.

If you want to check out the first instalment it’s right here waiting for you to come enjoy it!

Thanks for stopping by!

No filters and hot off the drawing table! These are some work in progress sketches for an upcoming project...

Lydia's Labyrinth has received some wonderful feedback during the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam. We aimed to make a choose your own adventure story with a healthy dose of mystery and a cute and deadly host and thanks to some helpful comments and suggestions from amazing players, we're going to bring out a game book of the story 😁

It's going to be the first book in our "Choose Your Fate" series and we hope to bring many of our ideas and stories to the table under this project. The sketches above are for dividing sections of the story and feature props and elements from Lydia's game.

Thanks to everyone who has played our game! It's the most downloaded one we've ever made and it really means a lot to me and Robert.

If you want to see the original jam version of the game you can check it out here...

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Lydia's Labyrinth by Valhallions, DoubleFree

Welcome to my labyrinth darling! Do please try not to die too quickly, will you?

Thanks for stopping by and take care!

It's been a long time in the works, but we're finally getting ready to launch these kobold themed t-shirts (and other kobold themed goodies)!

If you're interested please consider signing up to help us get as successful a launch as possible and make these shirts a reality!

You can find it here:

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It's time to join the Yip Yap Crew!

From Sockmuffin Studio - It's time to join the Yip Yap Crew!

Anyone else love getting back to the basics? Been having a blast working up these paragraph dividers using a ballpoint pen and pencil!

Tunnel Vision and How to Summon a Demon. Spooktober Visual Novel Showcase!

Hello and welcome everyone,

It's great to have started playing the entries in the Annual Spooktober Visual Novel Jam. This year I'm hoping to play as many as possible to get into the Hallow'een spirirt!

So far I've given two spooky gems a go and I want to show them off so here goes!

Tunnel Vision

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Tunnel Vision by Melancholy Marionette, LazyPolarBear, Lanae, Polaris

March to the beat of obsession & oblivion.

The first one I've tried this year is Tunnel Vision and wow is this game something! Tunnel Visions was made in Unity and is a horror visual novel with five different endings. It opens up with some gorgeous artwork and user interface details. From the get-go this visual novel shows it's technical prowess. The story follow a charcter who wakes up in an unsetling predicament with no memory of how they got there. The story twists around, subverting expectations and changing your perception of the character that you are playing with some genuinely stomach dropping moments. I played this just before bed and felt incredibly creeped out as a result but also intrigued to know more so that's a big win for this team!

I want to take some time and touch on the sound design too. It was very immersive and great quality. I really enjoyed the music and sound effects too. Definitely complimented the story nicely.

This was a fantastic game to start my terror-riffic journey with!

How to Summon a Demon

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How to summon a Demon by Psyckomeico

Choose your Demon VN for SpooktoberGamejam23

After playing Tunnel Vision, I wanted to try something completely different and this visual novel was the perfect treat.

How to Summon a Demon is a visual novel devleoped in Ren'py about a demon summoning video tutorial and you had me at demons! I have a soft spot for putting them in my games and stories (as you may have guessed if you've seen my lastest game Travel Devil) so this game was a must play! Plus I was delighted that I could play it in my browser!

The game is downright adorable with wonderful character and scene design. The purpose of the game is to build a demon by making choices throughout the video. You choices can lead to summoning 20 different demons on different playthroughs and they look fantastic! The interface really elevated this game with gorgeous artwork, especially during the choices. On their itch page they mention that development is continuing beyond this jam so it looks like we'll see big things for this novel.

I'm looking forward to trying so many more games this Spooktober and have had a blast with the first two.

You can check out all the entries here:

Thanks for stopping by!

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What is the key to surviving the ever shifting edges of the Blade Room?

A hidden panel, a memory locked away or just dumb luck?

"Choose Your Fate" in Lydia's Labyrinth the game book - coming soon.

I'm currently rearranging the art from landscape graphics from the visual novel game to portrait book style. I'm also recolouring for print and ebook :D

The game experience will be similar to the "choose your own adventure" novels. The the writing is done and now, the writer and I are working on the formatting and editing. Things are moving forward fast and I'm really excited about it all. Just got to stay focused and get the work done!

Spooktober Visual Novel Game Jam - Judging is LIVE!

And we got our game finished!

Hi and welcome everyone!

It's been a whirlwind this September but I'm delighted to annaounce that Travel Devil is live and a part of the jam!

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Travel Devil by Valhallions, DoubleFree

The essential demonic guide for touring the human world.

It's a short VN about a botched demonic summoning turning into the adventure of a lifetime. Our host, Tornacense, finally escapes the administrative department of hell to pursue his dreams of becoming the hottest new content creator on Doomtube! But will all this exposure lead to unwanted attention from the upper echelons of demon society?

Travel Devil was made in collaboration with Robert from Valhallions. He was fantastic to collab with and got stuck in with all aspects of the game.

I worked on the coding, character design, image manipulation and GUI. I'm so glad we got it finished on time! It was a mad rush at the end and there were times we weren't sure we would make it. I'm still so tired but so happy!

Also, I can't wait to try the other entries in the jam. This is my favourite time of the year, it's going to be so much fun!

You can check all the games out here:

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Spooktober 5th Annual Visual Novel Jam

A game jam from 2023-09-01 to 2023-10-28 hosted by Remort Studios & Crystal Game Works. Are you a streamer looking to stream for the jam? Be

Thanks for stopping by!

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Travel devil 2 - Shame the Devil, tell the truth - DevLog 4

Well folks it's been such a week. I've had some extra work on this week but fear not... Travel Devil 2 continues its march through development.

This week I have

Designed some additional menu assets

Worked on a talk show set

Designed some apocalypse assets based in Paris

Learned about the national dish of the Netherlands - Stamppot (critical cultural research and tonight's dinner)

Paris has fallen to the unholy march.

Unfortunately the talk show set is still a work in progress as it's not coming together in a way that I like. Also things are going a bit slower than I’ve expected. Just gotta keep my head up and keep on with it.

I've also got some news about the writing. Robert has been leading the story development and has

Been writing many new scenes

Started a point of view chapter for our new character Chloe (art reveal coming soon!)

Finished a secret scene

Carried out location research about demonic art in Amsterdam

Poster for the play "Lucifer" from 1910 painter by Richard Roland Holst (1868 -1938) - https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:WITS01:109324, Public Domain

I'm glad to say that things are still moving forward. These devlogs help me to recognise that. Next week is going to be hectic as well so I'm going to try and focus on character art. I'm also hoping to make some time to play some visual novels. There's a few I've been meaning to try and I always find it inspiring to see what magical creations other people are making.

If you’d like to see how the infernal story began you can download the original Travel Devil narrative game for free on the Valhallions itch page. You can also see my side projects and asset packs on the DoubleFree itch page.

Take care everyone!

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