AKABAKA

solo indie game dev studio 🤍🖤🩷♥️💛💚💙💜 Sucker for Love series and Chromatose (Upcoming) Follow for fan art, poorly photoshopped memes, and studio news

[akabaka-dev]

📢 Excited to announce our new game!! 📢

Sucker for Love: Crush Landing ✨ ☄️

BIGGER. BADDER. METEOR.

Feed Hheily's fire with the right colors to save the world in this horror-comedy visual novel! Maybe you can win a smooch... if you survive long enough!

Crashing directly into your living room sometime in the future 💫 wishlist now!

Sucker for Love: Crush Landing on Steam

Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' When a captivating comet named Hheily crashes into your apartment, you are drawn into an interplane

[akabaka-dev]

🩸 THE BLACK WOODS LIVE ON 🩸

Thanks to a flood of hundreds of last-minute orders, Makeship has extended the Rhok'zan plushie campaign by one more week for the folks who would have missed today's order deadline.

This is her final stretch, don't miss out 👇

Rhok'zan Plushie

The Black Woods part as the Firstbornes cry... The All-mother haunts your realm from just beyond the treeline once more! Rhok'zan, the Black

As a note: the other plushies from this set did not fund within the campaign period, so refunds will be issued. We really do appreciate anyone who showed interest in them even though they didn't fund ❤️

Get Rhok'zan while you can ❤️

[akabaka-dev]

happy mommy mothers day from your favorite local All Mother ❤️

[akabaka-dev]

Muu would make multiple accounts to leave kudos on your RhokStar fics

Look at her, she's so cutie patootie~ bring her home:

Muu Plushie

Muu has come ashore! Bring the shoggoth shut-in home with you, so she can read your smut, drink your Mountain Dew, and spectate your gamepla

[akabaka-dev]

Rhok'zan, the Black Goat of the Woods, has arrived in an adorable plushie form to haunt your realm from just beyond the treeline ! 🐐

She funded two weeks early. So if you want one it's guaranteed now!

Akabaka

Sucker for Love

[pinkstilettos-onmyface]

I’m gonna go back and refine the tentacles another time, but I’m pretty proud of her. @akabaka-dev thoughts?

[akabaka-dev]

Is this why everyone asks how tall she is? To make an accurate Mii?

(Also I love her ❤️ thats crazy that you can draw the tentacles on her! I think yhey are perfect-- she looks dead-on with the chibi version of Ln'eta)

((Share pics of the wedding if she gets married in game :3 ))

[smiuffzo]

daily pressure doodles until i make a bunch of origami birds with cheap tissues day 134

ive been missing sucker for love like a bitch. i need to give these doodles another go sometime in the future cause im not quite satisfied with these GAHHHH

FREEDOM TOMORROW!! YEEHAW

[eldritchcatserpent]

A “What If” scenario

In a sea of infinite cosmos, you’re bound to find exactly what you’re looking for, right?

What if Stardust while floating through The Space Between Dreams found Astrid’s Court and found Rhok’zan.

Just a little idea that kinda came to mind while I was doing/practicing some pen art.

Stardust and Rhok’zan belong to Akabaka

DO NOT REUPLOAD MY ART OR FEED MY WORK TO AI

[midnighteclipze]

WOO I MANAGED TO FINISH THIS BEFORE THE DAY ENDED LETS GOOO

. . . would this even count as anniversary art if everyone has their clothes swapped?? 😭💀

[akabaka-dev]

Omg this is so sweet 💚💜💚💜

[akabaka-dev]

Feeling a lil witchy~ ☆

(Wishlist my game to meet her~~ she's fun! And definitely not a threat!)

Sucker for Love: Crush Landing on Steam

Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' When a captivating comet named Hheily crashes into your apartment, you are drawn into an interplane

[batgirldid]

The second Sucker for Love game is yuri, it has a different protagonist

well they don't advertise that one the store except apparently through the anime opening video (I don't watch steam videos for sensory reasons) so how was I supposed to know? Like legit if they don't have one of the main tags be LGBT and if they don't say it on the store how am I suppposed to know?

[akabaka-dev]

That's actually a question with an interesting answer!

Short answer:

Fun fact-- Developers don't have control over how their game is tagged on Steam! Players chose the tags!

Long answer:

Devs have very limited control over what tags get applied to the game, especially after the game has been out a while. There is some~ ability to remove tags if we feel they are inaccurate, but not really a chance to add them, with one exception. Steam highly weighs user-defined tags, way over whichever tags that devs assign. Basically, if the game has been out for any amount of time and has more than a few hundred players, as people add their own tags for the game, the 3 most popular tags will become the 'main' tags for the game

https://store.steampowered.com/tag/

The exception is the initial setup of the steam page. We get 20 tags basically to categorize the game for algorithm purposes, and can choose which are the top three tags *only at the start*. With how people search for games, you have to prioritize the most basic descriptors of the game as the top 3 (specifically-- you have to make the two of them genre descriptions and the third one for major game mechanics. Or if you are able- one for genre, one for game mechanics, and one for major theme.) I think that top three tags we chose at the beginning were "dating sim", "visual novel", and "horror". Like, Date to Die For is also definitely, intentionally an LGBT game! But yeah, I mean when we had only three words to describe the game so someone understands at a very basic level what it is-- its a romance horror comedy dating sim. And we didnt even get the "comedy" tag in, lol.

Just to 100% clear though-- despite those initial tags-- we really have no control over the tags that are there now. Users have applied their own tags over time, and thats what you see on the Steam page now. FWIW, DTDF *is* tagged by players as an LGBT game, just not the top 3.

To your point, I do see now that b/c we wrote the steam page description in second person, that we don't explicitly state that you play as a lesbian protagonist. This wasn't an intentional oversight, but we really did strive to communicate this in all of our other marketing like the trailers, all our interviews, how we described the game to press, social media posts etc.

That said-- Date to Die For is proudly an LGBT game! Among the many things that make DTDF fun to play, DTDF is inseparable from Stardust's identity as an (alloromantic) asexual lesbian. Literally-- the story could not have even happened to anyone other than Stardust, specifically because her immunity to Rhok'zan's love aura makes her one of the few people who can save Rhok'zan without being driven insane...

Anyway that was probably way more than anyone wants to know about games marketing and how Steam works!

[akabaka-dev]

The wait is officially OVER ⭐️🐐🐙

New Sucker for Love plushies in collaboration with Makeship & DreadXP are now live! We’ve seen all your messages (really! So many!), and we're grateful for y'all bringing the girls (and D) to life ❤️

These are limited edition; once the campaign ends, they’re gone forever. Get yours here👇

❤️ Darling: https://makeship.com/products/darling-plushie

🌟 Stardust: https://makeship.com/products/stardust-plushie

🐐 Rhok'zan: https://makeship.com/products/rhokzan-plushie

🐙 Muu: makeship.com/products/muu-plushie

Also HE'S HERE TOO

[akabaka-dev]

The wait is officially OVER ⭐️🐐🐙

New Sucker for Love plushies in collaboration with Makeship & DreadXP are now live! We’ve seen all your messages (really! So many!), and we're grateful for y'all bringing the girls (and D) to life ❤️

These are limited edition; once the campaign ends, they’re gone forever. Get yours here👇

❤️ Darling: https://makeship.com/products/darling-plushie

🌟 Stardust: https://makeship.com/products/stardust-plushie

🐐 Rhok'zan: https://makeship.com/products/rhokzan-plushie

🐙 Muu: makeship.com/products/muu-plushie

Also HE'S HERE TOO

[akabaka-dev]

Also, Aka has been in the lab-- looking forward to sharing a lot more cool stuff with y'all over the next month ✨️🫡☄️🌈✨️

[akabaka-dev]

⚠️INCOMING THIS WEEK: NEW SUCKER FOR LOVE PLUSHES ⚠️

🩷⭐️🐐🐙

Campaign starts next Tuesday! Share with your friends! Share with your enemies!!!

The time is (almost) now!!!

[catovyen]

XOXO

Bro how do y'all draw armpits? Believe it or not this is my first time drawing it on this angle LMAO 😭 it looks odd, feel free to give me critiques to improve it

[sunder-art]

Hheily (unfiltered)