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Lovewood Game Dev Log
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Content Overview

Since I love myself a good efficient pinned post, here’s an overview of games in the Lovewood setting that exist and links to where you can get each one! All of these games are available for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.

Lovewood

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The original dating sim that introduces the six main characters as love interests. It’s free, it’s cute and it’s cottagecore. The protagonist can be named and pronouns for them can be chosen! A playthrough takes around 2 hours.
Available on Itch here!


Frightwood

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A short and sweet Halloween-spinoff created over the course of a month for a game jam. Focuses on Aleth, Moth and Blossom as teenagers who are trying to discover a spooky treasure in the woods - Big 90ies Halloween special episode vibes. The protagonist in this story is called Janus and uses male pronouns. It’s free and a playthrough takes around 40 minutes.
Available on Itch here!


Invisible Seams

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A large sequel that explores a timeline in which Moth wasn’t chosen as the love interest in Lovewood. He’s now our protagonist and gets together with a gentle lycamorph tailor to take a stand for their shared passion - dressmaking! Lots of wholesomeness and some dramatic action ensues. A playthrough takes around 3 hours.
Available on Itch here!


When Trees Turn to Ice

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A small winter-themed spinoff about Nord and Atlas having to make it through a long and harsh winter together. Similar in scope to Frightwood, and a tad more serious in tone than the previous games. No choices in this one, and a playthrough takes around 45 minutes.
Available on Itch!


Living With Ghosts

Screenshot of Blossom sitting up in bed at night, gazing out of the window. The narration says "Of course she recognized the lullaby. She had heard it many times when she was a child."ALT

The shortest of the bunch, a free spinoff game with focus on Blossom as she has a ghostly encounter and has to navigate grief, guilt and all the feelings around it. Be warned that this is a real tearjerker of a game. A playthrough takes 10-20 minutes.
Available on Itch!

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Seasons Greasons!

Portrait drawing of Aleth of midtone paper, featuring mistletoe and pinecones as decoration.ALT

Hullo folks! Happy midwinter to all of you - I am quite looking forward to the days getting longer again, myself.

Here’s your obligatory reminder that there’s the Winter Sale currently running on Itch, in case you’d like to treat yourself to Invisible Seams or the Lovewood artbook before the end of the season! ❄️

And if you haven’t checked it out yet, I invite you to have a look at When Trees Turn to Ice, a free spinoff game to Lovewood that tells the story of a harsh winter and the power of two hearts to keep each other warm. It’s still my favourite from the set of short jam games in the Lovewood setting!

Screenshot of the snowy forest landscape, with Nord leaping from one tree to another.ALT
Screenshot featuring Nord and Atlas in the rustic kitchen of their cottage, as they are holding hands.ALT

When Trees Turn to Ice can be found on Itch.

Enjoy yourself, and stay warm out there!
- Dev 🌻

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Hullo all! A quick update:

Creator Day on Itch.io is tomorrow, November 28! This means that all payments will go directly to creators, without Itch taking a cut. Be sure to give some support to creators whose works you’ve been smitten with for a while! Many folks are putting on a Black Friday Sale to accompany this, and so will I. You can find the sale here!

Regarding progress on Lunchbreaks: I am currently drawing props and side character sprites! I like having minor characters be visible from the back, since this way I can draw less but still give them a visual presence. Here are some examples of how that looks like, with Jasper’s parents in the first and the book merchant in the second.

Screenshot from Lunchbreaks, showing Jasper's mom and dad talking to him at the midsummer ball. In the text box, Jasper's mom says "She keeps talking about a little cottage in the woods, as if that will get her anywhere."ALT
Screenshot of Kaileen and Titania talking to a book seller who says "Oh, my apologies! I sincerely wasn't aware."ALT


And I’m still steadily working on prepping the code, blocking and directing. It’s a lot of fun! I haven’t had as much time lately because other work piled up, but I’m feeling particularly motivated to chip away at Lunchbreaks during my free time.

Stay warm out there, and take care of yourselves!
- Dev 🌻

lunchbreaks dev log game dev sale jasper screenshot See the jewellery on the ears of Jasper's mom? That was my bro's idea! It seemed really fitting for the flapper-style outfit so I included it For any other character it would be too flashy; but for her? Perfect
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These last few days, Living With Ghosts has received an unexpected influx of downloads and even rose up to a high spot in the Popular Games tab! I’m really surprised and happy to see that more folks are giving the game a chance now, after it originally kind of flew under the radar in its initial release year. <3

In other news, progress on Lunch Breaks is coming along!

I’m currently doing the directing - setting the sceneries and character sprites for each line - and making steady progress each day. Here’s a little glimpse of scenes that are already done! (Don’t mind the UI, it’s still the old interface from Invisible Seams right now.)

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There’s still much to do, but I always love seeing how backgrounds and sprites work in tandem with the writing to create an actual story!
I’ll keep you updated once I have more to show. In the meantime, enjoy spooky season! I hear there are a lot of cool games in the Spooktober Game Jam that are worth checking out. 👀
- Dev 🌻

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Sprite preview for Jasper. He's a short young man with blonde hair, wearing a blue and white fancy outfit with the emblem of the Tailor's Guild on his chest. His expressions give off a smug energy.ALT

“I’m the treasurer of the Tailors’ Guild in Fitzburg, you see. Usually I’m concerned with bookkeeping, but I was invited here to create a custom suit for a client.”

“Oh, even though Liebwald already has a tailor?”

“Hah, who knows. Maybe he was all booked out. Or maybe he just didn’t cut it…”

Second sprite preview for Jasper. On the left he is wearing a traditional fencing training outfit, looking sweaty and a bit flustered. On the right he is awkwardly adjusting his collar.ALT

Jasper is ready to join the sleepy little town of Liebwald and stir things up a bit!

This is quite the exciting milestone, because it means all the main character sprites for the game are finished 🎉
It took me longer than I had expected, but I’m very happy with how all of these guys turned out, and now I can begin exporting them into the game as Layered Images. Can’t wait to take these guys and put them in situations!!

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Sprite preview for Lady Titania, the queen and royal scientist. She's a tall woman with light blonde hair and piercing bright gray eyes. In her regular outfit she is sporting a dark blue tailcoat, and there's another variant of her in her sporting a lab coat and goggles as she takes notes on a clipboard.ALT

“The alchemical formula I’m currently pondering over has been keeping me puzzled for weeks… But its complexities will not evade me much longer. I am not one to abandon such a promising project.”

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My queen, my queen!! I’ll be honest, working on Lady Titania was intimidating at first. She’s a new addition to the cast, so I first had to “find her face” when I started drawing her. Once I had that sharp, calculating gaze, it all came together.
Titania’s personality is inspired by many important people in my life, so I hope that players will have as much fun interacting with her as I had fun writing her. 👀

titania lunchbreaks sprite art character art dev talks Can you tell I'm especially proud of her ball gown? Lol