Stella @ Make Visual Novels
@makevisualnovels
Exec. Director of Visual Novel Developer Network Narrative Game Competition Host & Judge Asset Creator, Indie Dev and Bot Developer Opinions are my own
I made an overlay tool that helps me make my weekly schedule. I want to have a random art show case on the side eventually but for now I've got little floating stars. I can just screenshot my source in OBS to export it quickly for sending.
Imagine having 'DNI pro-woke' in your profile and asking me for any kind of favor.
She was sitting there, glaring at me, as I waited to take the picture lmao
I really loved being here with everyone. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun. I'm kind of a crybaby. I keep catching myself tearing up and blaming spicy curry. April could not come fast enough. View from our room at sunrise. Hello world, goodbye #OffkaiExpo #Offkai
Couldn't resist getting a few different angles. The convention center is big, but not quite as big as I thought it was. I've had a lot of fun thus far. Today is the last day and I'm sore AF from queuing and standing.
I'm out at Offkai this weekend. Got up early this morning and walked around the center some.
This year's Spooktober Visual Novel Jam banner is done by @pumpkinrogue.bsky.social! You can sign up for this year's Spooktober Visual Novel Jam here on itch.io! itch.io/jam/spooktob...
You ever get on to a website to do something and then get immediately distracted by some goofy thing
There is SO MUCH to unpack about this ad I got serviced an none of it says good things about me.
Our very own Vimi will be giving a talk at our upcoming Speaker Series in May! Be sure to grab your tickets and join the Discord for the event! Tickets get you access to the event itself and immediate access to the recordings after! www.tickettailor.com/events/visua...
Super excited that we're seeing it happen. A very special thanks to everyone who bought my Smart Barks pack, as the proceeds from it is financing the entire event! We're also looking for more speakers for our lightning talks! If you're interested sign up here: forms.gle/zKUwktgRCbwL...
Cat print, special transitions, two more slash away effects and a new category of line transitions coming, thanks to your support! I've been working on some shaders to pair with these transitions to add some style and fire to them. The financial support really helps, so thank you!
I super appreciate the huge amount of support! As promised I added some(14) puppypaw transitions, 2 slash away transitions (as requested by a friend) and also added 100 additional abstract transitions! I'll do some more animal prints and other effects if folks have requests.
As always, your girl is still working on the main transition she's been working on, so cash is appreciated. For every $25 I get I'll make some animal print transitions like these, until I get bored or run out of animals that I know the shape of their feet.
When you've been running and judging for jams for nearly a decade, you learn to either optimize your workflow, or get real comfortable with bulk downloading. I showed a few curious jammers the output of the python I used to capture, catalog and verify all of the #Spooktober2025 submissions.
I'm convinced I should stop doing stuff, for the sake of Itch and everyone else.
Last but not least, THE OOZE. The pack comes with an ooze effect which you can adjust the shape and speed of. This pack includes a transition version, and a number of other wipe and adjust version. The color is customizable, and has 12 other adjustable options to get the right look.
The Ghostifcation effect (aka Lucify) allows you to make your characters go ghost. The color and depth of transparency is easily customizable, and it comes with an invert mode to flip the application of color and transparency.
The candle effects have two major components, the illumination and flicker, and the candle warp. Combine with a few frames of animation and you can create nice, reactively bending candles and flames, and have them emit a halo of illumination. Comes with 20 customization options!
But that's not all! This same effect also incorporate digital glitches, so you can create digital or analogue horrors. This effect contains 20 adjustable components in total, plays nicely with animations.
By popular demand, this pack includes a reworked version of my VHS effects, and now includes VHS warps with adjustable settings. This combines chromatic aberration, scanlines static and noise, and VHS warps into one effect. Apply it to your camera to warp an entire scene at once!
Spooky Effects pack coming soon. It'll feature the following, just in time for you to have fun with for this upcoming Halloween season!
I promise I'm not complaining about having a thing work successfully, but this really isn't what I was expecting I've never sold 100+ of anything ever, and the one time I set up a soft limiter on something by introducing a price barrier, it sells 115 things when I projected 50. What the shit.
This is easily the most kitchen sink effect I've made to date. It's a full VHS effect, similar to the one in my OG pack, except it's all of it in one, plus the digital glitching and now full VHS banding. Going to try to release the full pack soon.
