Anna-Louise | Games with DNA

PHEWWWW after holding our open VA casting call for 1 week, we received submissions from 142 different people, corresponding to 336 different character auditions! Interestingly, with an almost exact 50:50 split between amateurs and professionals 😱 #indiedev #indiegames #visualnovel #indiegamedev

05.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Now that the landing page is up on the Steam store (and we have a lil cinematic trailer I'll be sharing soon) today is about 1) sorting through the 86 VA auditions we've had (in 3 days!!! It'll still be open for at least another 4 🫣) and 2) appointing a couple more server mods #indiedev #indiegames

01.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Love & Fool's Gold on Steam A choice-driven romance-mystery visual novel set in the Wild West. Choose your partner and investigate the town's secrets to uncover the Eldritchian horror that plagues Cortez Creek.

LOVE & FOOL'S GOLD is now available on STEAM to WISHLIST ‼️❗‼️‼️❗‼️‼️ 😍 😍 😍 store.steampowered.com/app/4066670/... yay!!! yeehaw!!!! #visualnovel #narrativegame #indiedev #indiegames #romancegames

01.10.2025 11:36 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, and while we're at it, someone let their cat audition (in case I needed a cat purring for the game). That was cute. It might indeed come in handy #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #visualnovels

29.09.2025 22:30 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The other exciting thing about today is that we officially called it a wrap on the first VA recording session for one of our characters! Courtesy of our developer/designer-hybrid (and acting VA director, I guess) in California. It's all coming together 😍 #indiedev #indiegames #visualnovels

29.09.2025 22:28 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Today was a freelance work day so I only had time to work on L&FG stuff in the evening. Now we're at 1100+ Discord members, I created an open application for new server mods, and started to comb through some of our VA auditions (I got through about half of the 46 we've already received 🥸) #indiedev

29.09.2025 22:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yippee!!! Went to bed after celebrating reaching 900 members of our L&FG Discord server with the chat and then woke up to 1000+ members!!! I can't believe how fast this is growing! #indiegames #indiedev #narrativegames #communitygrowth

29.09.2025 12:22 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Not super good at keeping up-to-date with progress updates OOPS but yesterday I submitted our game's Steam store page (yippee) and I just posted a casting call announcement on our community Discord 🤠 everything is happening at an extreme pace but BOY is this exciting !! #gamedev #indiegames

28.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Today I also wanted to share some particular UGC from our Discord server - three members made some EXCEPTIONALLY insightful choices of Pokemon team for each of our three romanceable characters??? Did I mention the game isn't even released yet?! #narrativegames #romancegames #indiegames #indiedev

26.09.2025 19:41 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Indie game dev update (I'm going to try logging my progress here now): we set up a Steamworks account yesterday and it was approved today. Currently filling out the Steam page front so we have a landing page and hopefully score some wishlists :) #indiegames #indiedev #narrativegames

26.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

We reached over 800 members of our indie game's Discord community within 10 days of it going live!! We've already got OCs, fanart and memes which is just the nicest thing for any developer to see of their game-in-development 😭 #indiegames #indiedev #narrativegames #communitygrowth #gamesmarketing

26.09.2025 19:32 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

We also went viral on TikTok a couple times within a week (hence the massive community growth). Turns out TikTok is thirsty for cowboys... as am I, which is why I decided to make this game 🤠

24.09.2025 23:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We recently grew our Discord community from 0 to 800+ members in just over a week and have learnt a lot about community growth, so that's some of what we'll be sharing here! #gamedev #indiegames #narrativegames

24.09.2025 23:37 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hey Bluesky! We're making a Wild West romance-mystery game called Love & Fool's Gold and we thought we'd share some stuff about it 🤠

24.09.2025 23:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0