S. A. Welland (Sun Labyrinth)

Post by @sunlabyrinth · 1 poll 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 6 · The Wizard and the Potter's Daughter, a Fairy Tale ·  A little experiment here. There's a poll at the end to help choose the next part of the story. --- There was once a wizard…

Last day to vote on what happens next in this fairy tale~
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#interactivefiction #fairytale #amwriting

Lots of options - I can make larger figure sculptures or doll heads, etc. :)

Thanks! 🙂 Maybe some of them, actually. I started this project so I could sculpt faces over the skulls, but they became more detailed and the project became more involved than I originally planned.

Sculptures of a cat, sculls and planar heads made of a light material.

Casting a sculpture of a cat I originally made in monster clay. Going to clean it up and paint next
#caturday #handmade #art

Thank you!! 🙂

Four casts of miniature skulls, one held up by a hand

Learning how to make copies of my skull sculpture continues~
Happy Halloween! 💀💀💀
#sculpture #art #paperclay

Halloween Sale 2025 by Sun Labyrinth A bundle by Sun Labyrinth, $4.99 for Tell a Demon, Winter's Trumpet, Drown the Bride

My interactive narrative games are on sale for Halloween 🎃
Outsmart a demon or save your best friend from a bad beau -- and choices matter. #pointnclick #visualnovel #gamedev
itch.io/s/163820/hal...

Image of a skull sculpture on a paper mache surface

Learning to make molds of my sculptures. This is the first attempt casting with paper clay 💀💀🎃
#sculpture #halloween #art

'Tis the season for skull studies~ 💀🎃
#monsterclay #sculpt #claysculpture

Drown the Bride is on sale for one more day on Itch!
itch.io/s/159384/dro...

A short interactive adventure about a young actress who must use her wits to prevent her best friend from being murdered...
#indiedev #gamedev #pointandclick #visualnovel

This was innovative! What I like about VNs and P&C adventure games in one title?! Mad sorcery, says I!

Yay~ it's always nice when someone notices. I wanted to make a point and click with more visual novel features, because I like how adventure games feel like an interactive storybook and thought it paired well.
From my game, Drown the Bride
sunlabyrinth.itch.io/drown-the-br...
#indiegame

Please check out this lovely point-and-click VN from @sunlabyrinth.itch.io--out today on Steam!

Save 20% on Drown the Bride on Steam A short interactive adventure about a young actress who must use her wits to prevent her best friend from being murdered.

Hi! I've released Drown the Bride, a short #adventuregame with #visualnovel branching that I developed solo.

It's about a young actress who must use her wits to prevent her best friend from being murdered.

STEAM: store.steampowered.com/app/3894260/...

#pixelart #indiegame #pointandclick

A scene on a beach with pixel art graphics. It depicts two characters speaking on the right hand side of the screen in front of a cabin. On the left hand side of the screen are two portraits: both young women, one with light brown hair and a sad expression, the other blond and with a confident poise.

Drown the Bride comes out today~

It is a short #pointandclick with #visualnovel style branching about a young actress who must use her wits to prevent her best friend from being murdered.

#indiedev

I want to make games faster but not with AI. I enjoy optimising my processes, and learning to make better decisions. So that I improve as a game dev.

List of parts of steam reviews: Very good, the other reviews do a better job at explaining it all. And why it is so good. I just wanted to post a review so the game can get a higher score, and hopefully attract a bigger audience. Buy it! This visual novel is a very fine work of fiction and deserve more attention. The art is (sic) shing and characters are very well written. Also I keep thinking from time to time about... Going to the game itself, it's criminally overlooked and underrated. It uses 20s-like stylistics couple with a supernatural story about demons, lurking in the margins of the world that stopped believing in their existence (you can think of them as vampires, as they have similar....) I am honestly surprised not many people seem to have played Tell a Demon. How in depth the story seems to go. coupled with the deeply established universe, intriguing story, and multiple routes that change how the character acts and their motivations is something that...

There's a theme to some of my Steam reviews and that theme is that I am bad at marketing 🤣 #gamedev

Drown the Bride comes out in a couple days (Aug 25th) 😉
#pointandclick #visualnovel #interactivestory #gamedev

I mean, oops, it's not all ephemeral.. those pendants will probably look good a hundred years from now and won't yellow like the paper

Previous tweet - the ephemera is all stuff I've made over the years for this story world - originally Patreon-only, like the hand-made enamel pendants my mother and I collaborated on, some vintage-style embroidery, clips from a fictional newspaper and so on.
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Drown the Bride is a short #pointandclick adventure with #visualnovel style branching about a young actress named Rosemary who must use her wits to prevent her best friend from being murdered. 5/5

Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3894260/...

image of a still life with enamel pendants, three circular, with words/an alphabet from a fictional fantasy language, two enamel butterfly pendants, two scraps of newspaper that, a blue envelope of a thick paper, a scrap of silk with some embroidery, and a hat with a small rectangular chunk of glass art, now pixellated and with a more refined color palette appropriate to retro games

Rosie: If he doesn't take it for the gesture it is, that says something about him, doesn't it?
Trina: Maybe you're right. 4/5
#indiegame #vndev #pixelart

image of a still life with enamel pendants, three circular, with words/an alphabet from a fictional fantasy language, two enamel butterfly pendants, two scraps of newspaper that, a blue envelope of a thick paper, a scrap of silk with some embroidery, and a hat with a small rectangular chunk of glass art - the image is now slightly blurred and pixellated

Rosie: It's for luck. It's the thought that counts, even if he doesn't believe in magic.
Trina: I don't know, I think Fell is a skeptic. He might take it the wrong way. 3/5

image of a still life with enamel pendants, three circular, with words/an alphabet from a fictional fantasy language, two enamel butterfly pendants, two scraps of newspaper that, a blue envelope of a thick paper, a scrap of silk with some embroidery, and a hat with a small rectangular chunk of glass art, more saturated in color than previous image

Rosie: Now is better than never. Why don't you give him one of your charms?
Trina: Do you think he'd like that? 2/5

image of a still life with enamel pendants, three circular, with words/an alphabet from a fictional fantasy language, two enamel butterfly pendants, two scraps of newspaper that, a blue envelope of a thick paper, a scrap of silk with some embroidery, and a hat with a small rectangular chunk of glass art

Rosie: Why are you so worried?
Trina: I'm so late sending out that letter. He said I could bring a friend... 1/5
#amwriting #story

I played an early version of Drown the Bride late last year and it is such an inspired and lovely piece of interactive fiction. Follow @sunlabyrinth.itch.io and wishlist Drown the Bride on Steam!

YouTube video by BunkWire2X8 I Added 'Paper Mario'-Style Model Support to Godot (2.5D Skeletal Rigs w/ PaperSkeleton)

Released a proper showcase video about my PaperSkeleton addon, a way to easily implement 2.5D skeletal rigs in Godot!

youtu.be/SrHYdrwTya8

#Godot #GodotEngine #GodotAddon #MadeWithGodot #MadeInGodot #GameDev #IndieDev

Drown the Bride is a short interactive #pointandclick #adventuregame / #storygame with #visualnovel style branching about a young actress who must use her wits to prevent her best friend from being murdered. #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3894260/...

New flash fiction game: Red Riding Hood with sleep paralysis #o2a2 #visualnovel #gamedev #indiedev
Play on Itch:
sunlabyrinth.itch.io/ember-and-wolf

Closing Down Patreon | Sun Labyrinth Get more from Sun Labyrinth on Patreon

Closing down Patreon; posts with downloads for my current projects in various states are available for a couple of days.
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So I'm almost back. After a long break and figuring out how to make room for game dev in my life again, I have a couple of projects in the works, including this one:
#vndev #gamedev #indiedev