Foxglove Games

Women-led indie game studio. Currently working on: Burn the Midnight Oil, a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel. Demo + Kickstarter live now!

[foxglovegames]

In case you missed the news, Burn the Midnight Oil's Kickstarter was funded! 💖

We've raised $113,075 USD (or €96,596 EUR) and counting thanks to our backers. If you missed out on the campaign but really want to nab some merchandise or one of our other cool rewards like beta access, late pledges will remain open for the next few weeks!

Every extra penny made goes towards our stretch goals.

For the rest of this month, our socials might be a little quieter. We've already jumped straight back into working on the full game, but we're going to need a min to gather our bearings. Just know that we're working hard on our first demo update, which will add over 15k+ words and more art to the current demo!

🦇 Play the Kickstarter demo on Itch or Steam

💖 Join our Discord server (17+) and chat about BTMO with us!

[grimalkinscribbles]

Circe from Burn the Midnight Oil 🫶

[foxglovegames]

I'm really curious, what are the sexualities of the characters?

We've answered this question before here!

[foxglovegames]

Is Matthew the new design/name for Jude, or a new character? And is he single?

Nope, he’s another character. We’ll announce the new ”Jude” designed by our backer in the coming months.

He’s single, but he’s not dateable for Dante or Circe :)

[foxglovegames]

BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL | DEVLOG #1: May 2026

Pheuw! It's been a busy but productive month post-campaign. If you're one of our Kickstarter backers, remember to check out the longer version of this update over there. Late pledges close on the 7th of June, which means there's still a little under two weeks left to back us on Kickstarter and join in on the KS-exclusive fun!

GOALS FOR 2026

The next few months, we're focusing on a content update for the demo. More scenes, more sprites, and an extensive update to the GUI. We're also going to improve save/load times, and tackle some other feedback we received from our demo players. Development's not perfectly linear though, so as we work on the revamped demo, we'll also be working on the game as a whole!

MAY PROGRESS

Our art team has been incredible. Chester and Rouwan have finished almost all of the "mandatory" side character & monster designs (what we consider the bare minimum to do the story justice), Cameron finished the missing BG for Lazarus's lounge (see the start of this post), and Chester's even gotten started on the secondary sprites and extra outfits for our main cast.

At the same time, Cherry finished the 4 animal companion sprites (designed by our backers) for Abraxas, Edgar, Raoul, and Zeno.

Meet (from left to right, top to bottom) Macaroon, Daphne, Baz, and Primrose! Can you guess which pet belongs to which character? 👀

IMPORTANT DATES IN 2026

Some important dates to remember for the coming months!

JUNE 7TH | Late pledges close on Kickstarter at midnight (CET)

Q4 2026 | Beta access to the demo update for KS Backers

LATE 2026 | Public access to the demo update for everyone

IMPORTANT DATES IN 2026

Our public updates are not always going to be this packed (as we're saving most of it for our KS backers), but we wanted to share a lot of what we've been up to this month after being so quiet on socials! If you're interested in reading a short script sneak peek and seeing a few more character designs, here's your final reminder that late pledges remain open to June 7th which will give you access to all of our backer-exclusive updates. Link to our KS page here!

Thank you for reading! See you in June for our next update 🌻

[blackholezzz]

I got this super cute Zeno keychain！

He's like a lime-flavored soft candy.

[foxglovegames]

This is super cute!

[foxglovegames]

Super curious about the art direction of btmo, how was an art style decided and what was the inspiration if any? Im always interested about how indie games like this are developed and what it takes.

The character art style mostly just comes from our lead artist Viiperfish (Chester). We had another lead artist, and one other artist, who originally designed the main characters and then Chester expanded upon the original designs when he took over :)

We were loosely inspired by other neon-noir media, and other visual novels, when it comes to the the UI and the general setting.

[foxglovegames]

we need edgar lore 😛😛 mayb about his sister?

She was older than him! That’s all we’ll say about her for now :)

As for general Edgar lore: He had his first kiss in his 20s, he initially came to North Haven looking for his sister, and he’s really good at baking!

[phil-pokr]

Matthew

i love hiiiim ahhhhhhh

[foxglovegames]

BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL | DEVLOG #1: May 2026

Pheuw! It's been a busy but productive month post-campaign. If you're one of our Kickstarter backers, remember to check out the longer version of this update over there. Late pledges close on the 7th of June, which means there's still a little under two weeks left to back us on Kickstarter and join in on the KS-exclusive fun!

GOALS FOR 2026

The next few months, we're focusing on a content update for the demo. More scenes, more sprites, and an extensive update to the GUI. We're also going to improve save/load times, and tackle some other feedback we received from our demo players. Development's not perfectly linear though, so as we work on the revamped demo, we'll also be working on the game as a whole!

MAY PROGRESS

Our art team has been incredible. Chester and Rouwan have finished almost all of the "mandatory" side character & monster designs (what we consider the bare minimum to do the story justice), Cameron finished the missing BG for Lazarus's lounge (see the start of this post), and Chester's even gotten started on the secondary sprites and extra outfits for our main cast.

At the same time, Cherry finished the 4 animal companion sprites (designed by our backers) for Abraxas, Edgar, Raoul, and Zeno.

Meet (from left to right, top to bottom) Macaroon, Daphne, Baz, and Primrose! Can you guess which pet belongs to which character? 👀

IMPORTANT DATES IN 2026

Some important dates to remember for the coming months!

JUNE 7TH | Late pledges close on Kickstarter at midnight (CET)

Q4 2026 | Beta access to the demo update for KS Backers

LATE 2026 | Public access to the demo update for everyone

IMPORTANT DATES IN 2026

Our public updates are not always going to be this packed (as we're saving most of it for our KS backers), but we wanted to share a lot of what we've been up to this month after being so quiet on socials! If you're interested in reading a short script sneak peek and seeing a few more character designs, here's your final reminder that late pledges remain open to June 7th which will give you access to all of our backer-exclusive updates. Link to our KS page here!

Thank you for reading! See you in June for our next update 🌻

[monbun0]

Mother and son

Commission by RivenLyatos

[foxglovegames]

would any of the cast enjoy their hair being played with or are some of them like “absolutely not, don’t touch”? need all of them to drop their routines because i’m incredibly jealous 😭

Abraxas: Would like it Circe: Absolutely not unless her hair's already messed up from other activities lol

Dante: He likes headpats a lot. (Don't tell him I said that.)

Edgar: Would like it

Iridis: If you've got permission to touch him, sure. He himself doesn't do a lot with his hair, but he's very tolerant to others styling his hair. It's hard to say whether he enjoys it, but he does appear pretty relaxed whenever someone works on his hair, so maybe he does?

Nocturne: Depends on the situation. Sometimes, yes, sure.

Raoul: Not constantly, but let's say it's a nice cozy evening, and his partner plays with his hair… Sure.

Zeno: Only sometimes. Absolutely only in the capacity of "playing with" his hair though, he will not let you style it, for example.

[foxglovegames]

Hii what's the love language for the cast of burn the midnight oil?

We'll focus on the type of love language they show towards others, not necessarily what they'd like to receive back. Abraxas: Acts of service

Circe: Tough one. Gifts and physical touch, maybe?

Edgar: Acts of service and quality time

Dante: Physical touch and acts of service

Iridis: Adjusts to what his partner wants (personally likes quality time)

Nocturne: She's also tough for me, hm. Gifts, I think.

Raoul: Quality time, words of affirmation

Zeno: Physical touch

[foxglovegames]

How do the characters feel about physical touch? I kinda wanna pet Dante lol

Abraxas: Keep your distance at all times or face the consequences. 😅 As a vampire, he’s not a fan of random physical touch, mostly because he’s no longer used to it — he’d be relatively touchy if he did manage to get close enough to someone.

Circe: Very physically affectionate/touchy.

Dante: He’s going to act like he doesn’t like being touched, and currently he really doesn’t, but a relaxed and healthy Hellhound is very cuddly and affectionate. That includes being petted.

Edgar: Though he’s very cuddly with Circe and animals, he’s not really a cuddly guy in general as he needs to be pretty comfy with you first. (He isn’t averse to touch, it’s more like— uh, why would you hug unless you’re close?)

Iridis: He's perfectly fine with physical touch only if you fulfill one of three conditions: He likes you, you're a child, you're an animal. (Bonus if you're a baby animal.)

Nocturne: Not physically affectionate at all with friends or family. She’s happy to be physically affectionate w her partner, as long as you’re not trying to hug or kiss her when she doesn’t want to be distracted.

Raoul: He's okay with shorter, friendly touches, but he's not one for randomly hugging people, for example. Even in a relationship, he doesn't need that much physical affection, though he's okay if his partner wants it.

Zeno: He's quite needy and loves physical affection, but only if he can decide when. He slips away very quickly if he's not in the mood, and won't be forced. All of that is assuming he likes you - with the exception of a fun night out, he doesn't really allow strangers to touch him.

[foxglovegames]

Hi I have one question if Abraxas and Circe were in vampire the masquerade what clans would they be in and there generation of vampire they are. This can also implied any other vampire in your game.

Circe’s definitely a Toreador. I guess Lazarus also would be.

Abraxas is more difficult, he doesn't fit into any of them as neatly. In theory, he'd be Ventrue because of his background, but I think it'd be very interesting if he was Banu Haqim.

Answering what generation I think they'd be is tough. I feel like that'd slightly spoil their stories in BTMO lol

[tea-leafz]

we’re so back ‼️

do NOT ❌ help zeno, he’s exactly where he wants to be.

(inspired by zeno absolutely CHEESING when dante flips him around in the demo. just having the time of his life while dante thinks about accidentally snapping him in half 💀)

[foxglovegames]

I put Dante and Raoul onto my tomodachi life island and they're just happily married rn with a kid on the way, I barely had to do anything before they just decided to start dating and what not, meanwhile I have been desperately struggling to get my dragon age Fenris and Hawke miis to even LIKE EACH OTHER 😭

That’s so cute. No matter what happens in-game, at least they’ll always be living happily on someone’s tomodachi island <3

Also, noooo, what are FenHawke doing smh