I've had this account active for a while, but now it's finally time to do something aside from lurking with it! This is the blog of a (mostly) solo game dev to yap about my project, and share some of my own favorite indie games I play!
I'm Boscirus (she/her), a video game artist who's spent the last year working on my first major solo project. One of my best friends is composing the music, but everything else from art, writing, and programming is all me.
My game is called, "Tales of Amythria" , it's a choice-based, fantasy visual novel all centered around mystery, dragons, and how one finds their way when they've lost everything. This project is inspired by my childhood of reading classic fantasy novels, playing D&D, and being generally obsessed with dragons!
You play as one of 6 characters, all from different backgrounds and with different lives, and travel to a newly discovered land to join a fledgling band of dragon riders. Get to know the people who've made this outpost their lives, go out and tame wild dragons, all while uncovering some dark mysteries along the way, that may just unravel everything these people ever knew. There's also some romance in the game, if you want it (I promise for any of my Aro-Ace's in the room, that high approval is written differently than romanced)!
This game has been everything for me, from designing (and re-designing) the gameplay, writing the story and characters, to have it finally be ready to actually talk about and share the progress for is a surreal feeling. I can't wait to show some more visual stuff here soon!
This post is already long enough, so thank you to anyone that read it!