#devil's liminal

The extended demo of my yuri horror visual novel, DEVIL'S LIMINAL, now has a web build. Which means it's now playable on iOS/Mac!

Check out the web, desktop, and android build on itch.io!

Please also Wishlist on Steam for visibility!

I'm a solo developer, so every bit of support really helps. Pretty soon there will be updates (and previews?!) of the final game, so consider following on Patreon, Ko-fi, or Newsletter.

A bit about the game:

Margo Silva has done everything she can to leave behind the trailer park in Arizona where she grew up. Now all she has to do is focus on her summer job until she can leave for college. Her illusion of a quiet summer is shattered when a hungry ghost enters her dreams. Margo must contend with a demon's claim on her soul, and how to stop ghosts from this life and the past that want to take her future.

Uploaded just in time for Walpurgis Night, this update features the last available in-game days for Early Access! New content includes August 24th to 27th. For the next couple of months, the focus will be on polish, including more art, voice acting, and music. I will also, of course, be busy writing August 28 to September 1st.

The full game will continue to September 1st. This will be available when I post the full 1.0 release.

The update is available on Steam and itch.

Reminder - Join the Discord!

Studio Interlude now has a Discord. Anyone can see posts, but you'll need to post a quick introduction in order to chat. Join here!

IRL Events

Debug Games Festival - April 25 in Norwich, UK Now in the past, I'm happy to say the event was a success! For this one we experimented with handing out more goodies, such as stickers and zines. The crowd was super positive and enthusiastic.

I'm thinking about doing a longer post with a printable file of the zine and some games that looked interesting. That'll be another day, because I'm fried from doing the update.

itch Bundles

Queerly Beloved Bundle - Starts May 3rd, $10 with 32 items A bundle of books, comics, and games featuring queer romance.

Early Access v0.92 Changelog

Added in-game days August 24th to August 27th. This includes a pass on story branches, conditions, writing, backgrounds, music, and voice adlibs.

Corrected some minor typos and greyscale issues on a few backgrounds.

6 new backgrounds. Some are currently in sketch stage.

​Unfortunately this is a very small game update, with only August 23rd. However, there have also been some general quality-of-life updates AND I have studio announcements!

The update is available on Steam and itch.

Join the Discord!

Studio Interlude now has a Discord. Anyone can see posts, but you'll need to post a quick introduction in order to chat. Join here!

IRL Events

Indie in de Bunker - March 28th in Amsterdam, Netherlands I went from initially planning on doing nothing Saturday night, to a friend suggesting I check out this event, to finding out another friend was running this event and insisted I show DEVIL'S LIMINAL on his spare computer. Fortunately I am ALWAYS prepared, with business cards on hand and the convention build available to download. Ended up being a great night of catching up with friends and meeting some more local indie devs. A dark nuclear bunker is the ideal place to showcase the game, second only to being in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.

Debug Games Festival - April 25 in Norwich, UK I'll be at the Debug Games Festival to show DEVIL'S LIMINAL! If you're in the UK, swing by to say hi! I'm currently working on getting some stickers and mini-zines printed to hand out at the table. I've never been to the UK, so I'm also excited to do a little sightseeing.

itch Bundles

Queer Bundles Bazaar The Second Edition - Now to April 11th, $6 with 11 items A bundle of games by queer creators on itch. This bundle includes SFW and NSFW games.

Ghost Stories - April 3rd to 24th, $10 with 19 items Ghost story themed bundle of primarily books, with a few games and TTRPGs thrown in.

Steam Sales

Women's Day Sale - now over This sale included games by gender marginalized devs (not just women)! For this event I recorded a Steam broadcast of myself playing through the super-short convention demo; felt a little silly but was fun to do. This was the game's most successful event so far!

IGDA Foundation "Download for Charity" - now to April 6th DEVIL'S LIMINAL is part of the event, but not currently discounted. This event directly supports IGDAF with each sale. They've been a huge help to my career, so I try to support them whenever possible.

Early Access v0.91 Changelog

Added in-game day August 23rd. This includes a pass on story branches, conditions, writing, backgrounds, music, and voice adlibs.

Fixed text size issue on dyslexia friendly font.

Fixed auto play timing on text messages, should now display for the expected duration.

We are getting CLOSE to the ending! I expect it'll take another 2-3 months to finish the writing, and then another 2-3 to get final edits, art, music, and voice acting requested, implemented, and cleaned up. The update is available on Steam and itch.

This update features: Jade's house! A terrible day for Bec! An uneventful medical appointment! Lovely trips down memory lane!

Early Access v0.8 Changelog

Added in-game days August 11th to August 16th. This includes a pass on story branches, conditions, writing, backgrounds, music, and voice adlibs.

Changed how the big dream events on June 28th and July 23rd work. Got rid of the loop so the player will always complete it on their first attempt, with variable outcome. Players seemed to pick at random after the first attempt, so I think this will narratively work better.

Added a new content warning.

Moved the medical appointed to Thursday the 13th.

New backgrounds: 3 new locations, 2 variants, 2 placeholder.

New sprites: 2 variants, 1 animated event.

Fixed a bug on the demon's sprite.

The DEVIL'S LIMINAL November update is up on Steam and itch!

This month's update:

🖤 Blow up your life and kiss a secret, third girl!

🖤 Things are not going well in the 1500s!

🖤 Save the hometown you hate!

🖤Clara's tragic and/or horrifying backstory reveal!

I'm a day late, but I needed a bit more time to play through the update. A lot of variations in this batch! There were a few outstanding bugs I still need to address, that will be mentioned at the end of the changelog.

This update includes some of my favorite scenes, so I hope you enjoy them too!

Early Access v0.6 Changelog

Added in-game days August 5th to August 8th. This includes a pass on story branches, conditions, writing, backgrounds, music, and voice adlibs.

Added a new content warning.

4 new backgrounds.

Updated Bec's sitting sprite to look less stiff.

Updated Clara's pajama sprite to have bonnet and hair down variations. Hair down version implemented on July 11, 23, 25, and 26.

Text Preferences updates. In most places, text will resize itself to fit the displayable area. Now displays what the text box will look like during CG events. Slider to pick the opacity of the CG event text box.

Bug Fixes

Fixed arrows on the "Skipping" UI.

August 4: Bec/Clara correctly mentions if you talked about the dream or not.

June 29: Fixed a condition in a conversation with Clara about Margo's soul.

July 29: Clara's bedroom is now upstairs in her childhood home.

Known Issues

Need a separate option to turn off UI clicking sounds. Currently their volume is controlled on the general Sound Effects slider.

Need polish and expressions on new character sprites that appear in the islands memories.

Some of the font options can break the formatting of the CG Gallery.

Particle effects in some of the dreams no longer work with the newest Ren'Py update.

The October update has been posted on ​Steam​ and ​itch​!

Compared to last month, October has been much quieter with a smaller update as I had some more classes and exams to study for. My wife helped a LOT with this update, bringing some new character sprites and text options!

As a quick reminder: I have a Patreon! There's a few exclusive posts there, and I hope to start adding more. Maybe some posts about the references and themes in the game?

Early Access v0.5 Changelog

Added in-game days August 2nd to August 4th.

Added new font and color options for the text

Adjusted the requirements for Clara's route, so it should be easier to start.

2 new first pass versions of sprites: Karina and Alejandra.

2 new background: 1 dream with animation, 1 island memory

Adjustments to Clara's sprite.

Bug fixes.

It's International Lesbian Day! Please consider celebrating today by playing my visual novel ft two lesbians that you could date and Halloween-appropriate creepiness. There is a demo!

It's a short month, so the focus has been entirely on content with very little time for bug fixing. I included some known issues in this log to keep track. Please don't hesitate to let me know about any issues you find! The update is available on Steam and itch.

This update features: A party that goes sour! Someone goes missing!

Early Access v0.9 Changelog

Added in-game days August 17th to August 22th. This includes a pass on story branches, conditions, writing, backgrounds, music, and voice adlibs.

Made the dyslexia-friendly font slightly smaller to reduce instances of text overflow.

Added more backgrounds: 2 building exteriors, 1 interior, 8 interior variations

Added more sprites: 8 sprite variations

Known issues

When using non-default fonts, there may be some overflow text. Please report any instances that you find so I can fix them. There are plans to debug this more thoroughly before release.

When using auto-play, text messages are quickly skipped over. This will be investigated soon.