Conway McDermott

OBSESSED with this new art of our boys ❤️❤️❤️

#shipping #queercreatives #mlm

The Left Eye on Steam A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…

#steamnextfest was amazing! We’re so grateful to everyone who checked out The Left Eye demo! We tripled our total wishlists and the team is having a lot of emotions about it 😭 💕

#visualnovel #vndev #indiegame #lgbtq

I 100% use tumblr to take off my industry professional mask and just yell about our game like the dweeb I am, but in this post I also yell about OTHER people’s games, in some other VN demos that I’ve loved this Next Fest #vn #visualnovel #indiedev #steamgames #indiegames

The Left Eye on Steam A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an…

#steamnextfest starts now and we’re so excited to be part of it! We really hope you enjoy our demo of episode 1! 🖤

#visualnovel #amare #indiegame #lgbtq #gamedev

Promotional banner for Steam’s Next Fest. To the right is a screen shot of in-game art featuring two men and a woman ballroom dancing together, and to the left is the Next Fest logo and informational text reading: “The Left Eye/Haunted Trumpet” and “check out our game demo during Steam Next Fest”

The Left Eye is part of #SteamNextFest next week! If you haven’t played our demo yet, why not give it a go? 👁️🗡️

#visualnovel #indiegame #lgbtq #demo #vndev #begaydocrime

A screenshot of a visual novel, all in monochrome. The background is a 1920s diner. A young, chubby man is positioned in a diner booth and a dark haired woman is in the booth behind him, facing away. The text box indicates that the speaker is the woman, Jacqueline, and her dialogue reads: “Because I take care of you.”

#screenshotsaturday 🎵 we’re starting to wrap up the codependent dyke & tyke antics of episode 2 which means The Left Eye will be in early access soon! #vndev #lefteye #indiegame #indiedev

Our brilliant dev has added a browser playable version of our demo to itch! So if you hate downloading things or only use a mac, you can still play though the first chapter of #thelefteye !

Give it a play and let us know what you think 🙏

#interactivefiction #newwriting #narrativesedign #indiegame

A woman with an eyepatch over her left eye and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth (Jackie) glares angrily. She is possessively holding a considerably shorter young man (Emile) who is looking back over his shoulder at the viewer with a smug facial expression. The whole image is monochrome, with a brick wall background and a border with art deco inspired motifs.

“Don’t talk to me or my accomplice ever again.”

Jackie and Emile being messily codependent as per usual. #art by our CG/concept artist, @sanorganes 🖤

#digitalart #vndev #illustration #lefteye #indiegame

Super excited by the work our lead dev has been putting into making The Left Eye more accessible!

BUT in more mechanical games, your gameplay is part of narrative, fights ARE narrative obstacles, same with solving puzzles. So I would try and draw out a large outline of your story, figure out the parts that the gameplay tells for you, and from that, plan the scenes that need to be more “written”

Hello! I think a lot of this depends on what kind of game you’re making, and how much story you want in it. I’m working on a visual novel, so it’s very text heavy, and has a linear narrative, so I use stuff from the world of tv writing like a season overview, scene by scene, and script.

The Left Eye Demo is OUT TODAY!!! Which means you can play through the first episode of our pacey #period #queer #crimefiction #visualnovel for absolutely free!

Massive thank you to everyone who’s supported and followed the project so far, and we really hope you join us in New York!

#amwriting

THREE DAYS UNTIL OUR DEMO DROPS and I am feeling NERVOUS!!! Come grab a teacup full full of bathtub booze with us from your favourite speakeasy, in this queer historical crime caper / mob romance!

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#newwriting #romance #queerlit #1920s #amwriting #illustration

The Left Eye - Demo Release Date: July 31st - Steam News Episode 1 of The Left Eye Available Soon!

👀 Our demo of The Left Eye is releasing on the 31st of July! We’re so excited and also terrified!!

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#gamedev #vn #vndev #indiedev #demo

Yessssss please any friend of yours is a friend of mine!

So so so excited to share that The Left Eye now has a steam page! If you’re into #visualnovels, #queerfiction #newwriting #lgbtqhistory #mobromance #beinggay #doingcrimes take a look and maybe give us a wishlist?

Pitch and trailer for #TheLeftEye are up! Demo coming so so so soon!

#queerlit #indiedev #queerdev #newwriting #interactivefiction #indiegame #amwriting #caberet #scriptwriting #gamedev #queerart #lgbtqart

New blog post! About the tools I brought from TV Writing to working on our visual novel with@hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social, and the lessons from working on the demo!

#writers #screenwriting #narrativedesign #interactivefiction #writingcommunity #amwriting

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A bio for a character from The Left Eye: Deirdre Lawrence. The text reads: Age: 20 Likes: Poetry, roses, cocktails Dislikes: Small venues, bartending, liars Occupation: Up-and-coming singer "I'm just here to make a name for myself."

Deirdre isn't going to be singing in speakeasies forever. Just until she lands a better gig, or a manager, or a patron... but for now she's enchanting everybody at The Cadenza's Pansy Night.

#vndev #art #indiegame #lefteye #conceptart #sprite #writing

Just bigging up some killer promo art in progress from @noel-p.bsky.social ✨✨✨

This week our in game character introductions have had a UI overhaul! Here’s a little clip for #screenshotsaturday, so meet the singer and the MC ✨✨✨

#vn #visualnovel #caberet #1920s #indiedev #art #queerart #characterbio #writing #interactivefiction #lgbtq #vndev

Thisssss! People act like we’re using it as an excuse, as if having adhd gets you out of the consequences of not being able to do the thing! Guess what, I KNOW I have to do it anyway! I KNOW that I’ll have bank charges, no meds, missed deadlines, lost opportunities, poor health, and angry friends!

I love YOU John Hunter!!!!

Aaaaaaa!! Absolutely obsessed with the logo for The Left Eye! Every day we are creeping closer to releasing our demo, and I’m angled buzzing!!!

#visualnovel #writing #interractivefiction #scriptwriting #indiedev #indieauthors #lgbtq #queerfiction #vn

@hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social forgetting the #knifewife and #steponme tags for this art dump of our favourite character!

#lesbianvisibilityday #lgbtq #queerart #conceptart #indiedevs

Another character bio from the trumpet crew! 🎺🎺🎺

Me remembering the halcyon days when our trello board only had three columns and all fit onto one screenshot...

#vn #visualnovel #indiedev #gamedev #projectmanagement

Fun fact about me: I actually hate self promotion so much that I was writing these blog posts to record our process, while refusing to actually post them anywhere, but it’s really neat to look back and see how far we’ve come since then!

#writing #narrativedesign #interactivefiction #diy #gamedev

Am I just using Bluesky to repost every bit of art that we drop from left eye?

Yes and I’m not sorry the art is so good 🙏🙏🙏