In case you didn't notice, yep, all I love is connected with story. Started out as a reader, then a writer, and then I guess my liking for video games led me to making my own interactive fiction ones (focusing on visual novels).
Most of what you'll find here will be related to those things, but at the moment this blog's aesthetic will be as my main in-progress interactive fiction game Tarnished in Sanguine.
Also, I write in English and Spanish.
I gladly accept SFW asks!
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En caso de que no lo hayas notado, sip, todo lo que amo está conectado con historia. Empecé como lectora, luego escritora, y después supongo que mi gusto por los videojuegos me llevó a hacer los míos de ficción interactiva (enfocándome en novelas visuales).
La mayoría de lo que encontrarás aquí estará relacionado a esas cosas, pero de momento la estética de este blog será como la de mi juego principal de ficción interactive y en progreso Tarnished in Sanguine.
También escribo en inglés y español.
Alegremente acepto preguntas SFW!
Where I'm at/Dónde estoy
Itch.io (my games/mis juegos): A. Villarroel - itch.io
"The Narrator Says We're Meant to Be!" has been released!
I've mentioned it over the past few devlogs, but I helped make a game!
It's your big date with your university's most princely bachelor...
But you got hit by a pebble on the head, and now you can hear the story's narrator giving you advice?!
Wait... he's charming too?!
Made for the Amare Games Festival 2026! I contributed the character design/sprite art/CG art.
Doing everything within a single month was a challenge, but a welcome one nonetheless. I learned a lot working with a team, and it was fun to see how other devs work! I'm hoping to apply some of the practices to my own gamedev as well.
The Team Peebles members with Tumblr accounts are as follows:
Hello! I found you through the game,, My Own Sweet Dionea, and was wondering if you still plan to complete it? It's such a intriguing game!
Please take care of yourself and thankyou for your time <3
Hi! Yes, I'm still planning on finishing the game because it's fairly short and I hate leaving things unfinishined haha. I answered an ask about this back when I planned on finishing the game in Jan-Feb, but I got really sick and quite a few other things came up 😅
While not the artist's, here goes a Dionaea eye in the meantime. Sorry for the messiness, made in it on a random layer after rage-quitting drawing a face😭
It is at this moment that I realize this is a summary of, like, half a year…
Anyway, this may just mean I need to make this a newsletter someday so I don't forget about it ehe. But because I can keep it brief and not much happens in dev life it'll be short. Posted and edited this a month after my bday in the end because these months were full of… surprises (I am still presently surviving my latest weeks-long cold lol).
My to-do list (last one I did):
Write and release my Spooktober VN: yes and no.
Write for 2 Spooktober teams: another yes and no.
What happened between September 2025 and February 2026
My Own Sweet Dionaea demo release!
First in a series of old news, in my last devlog I mentioned I was making a VN for Spooktober VN jam. Well, it happened! In demo though. I was going to finish it in October-November but then evading university responsibilities caught up to me and I had to survive lol. I'll be working to finish it in March as, having quite a few wips as I always do, I focus on one project at a time by periods. By no means can I promise a final build release date because the project has VA too (I just noticed so many of my projects have VA haha). It may be obvious, but I had to learn the hard way. Doing too many things at the same time is quite unproductive.
Anyway, to the actual VN. In short, (yet another) scientist creates a plant boy who may be a tad too happy to be the shoulder you lean on as you deal with your failing marriage. I'm very happy with how it's turning out overall, both in development with the team and in reception. I was a bit worried the characters would be a bit too much for players, but it seems like the story's reaching its audience. I can't say when it'll be out but atm it's 1st in my working-on list.
Manufacture Love full game release!
The endings to the murderboy scientist fiancé and bestie who definitely isn't crushing are out, as well as the Spanish translation. Just on time for the Yandere Jam again lol. To think I thought I wouldn't join.
Knitbone release!
I don't want to toot my own horn, but this is one of my favorite Spooktober games. To be fair, I wrote a little for Knitbone's script but mostly only proofread it. Can't help it when the story's a set of therapy sessions between 2 really sus guys and there are dynamic minigames (; It's also been translated to Russian recently.
Prima Donna release!
This is one of the VNs I helped a bit for Spooktober as a writer. While it has some known bugs to fix yet, you're free to check it out if you're into Needy Girl Overdose type of games.
A/B/O Speed Dating release!
Simple enough, I playtested this little comedy for the BL/Yaoi and omegaverse jams. Gotta say, catching the Live2D sprite bugs was the most entertaining thing for me because I don't get to play VNs with it often.
And that would be all!
Some thoughts (and some plans-for)
I usually write down here my plans for each month, even though I update far later most of the time. However, today I decided to make this a bit of a dev diary dump AKA understated meltdown based on what I've been thinking lately so fairly skippable.
Thought 1: being an undergrad is time consuming. Period!
Thought 2: lately I've been enjoying doing art as much as I enjoy writing? Ig having art improvement was on my goals list for a reason. I've also enjoyed learning some composing stuff from bestie. I have been having a hard time sitting down and writing lately though.
Thought 3: I see internships on the horizon so I have to be clever about which to pick, and I WILL pick something.
Thought 4: What will become of my Tumblr…? 😭
Conclusion (kinda):
I need to improve college grades, so no jamming as lead in 2026 (I'll try). Game dev life is taking a turn, at least for now and testing how it goes. Considering the skills acquired over like… almost 2 years and time management in current student life, it's time to try out solo development, only when I do have time to avoid long demo vs. final release time gaps. That's the main shift of the year. Combined with my art learning, unfortunately for those who did follow me so far, that means there are many bad projects to come lol. If it's comforting at all, I'll focus on finishing current works before I get to my new ideas and will continue to collab in secondary roles for other teams or work in studios.
What can you expect from this blog in 2026? Still posts related to my VNs, but now the account may look more like "OC blog"or it'll include fanart of some media I've enjoyed lately because of my art practice and less new projects, meaning more focus on certain OCs. Needless to say and I still say, you may start seeing art start looking like it's made by one person (I hope?) because it'll actually be, mostly. Posting times won't be consistent, they never were, but I hope my now small monthly updates will be, even if there's little or practically nothing to update so there's proof I'm alive.
If anyone read this to this point, I know you had enough of my ramblings because of course I make this blog about me. Have a good day, you deserve it!
Since Manufacture Love is coming out in three days, I have a question about Eden. Because the game was made for a Yandere Jam, Eden is basically the yandere in the VN, if I am not mistaken, please correct me if I am wrong 🥲
I’m mostly curious about what kind of yandere Eden is toward the MC. Is he the obsessive, “too in love” type?
Sorry if this comes off as a spoiler 😅
Hey! Don't worry, don't think it's that much of a spoiler but we'll add the "keep reading" to hide the info in case someone doesn't want to know.
Writer's statement: "The yandere jam gave me the idea, but I'd say Eden's actually not a very lovey-dovey yandere. He's always been unwell and had dormant sadism. He loves MC as one loves a project + (his) idea of a spouse. He's obsessed with the mesh that is MC pretty much!"
Will Manufacture Love have any NSFW or any suggestive content? Also, will there be any happy endings with either Eden or Jackson? Happy Valentine’s Day as well ❤️, and thank you for reading—I can’t wait to play the full VN!
Hi there! Ok, we'll answer in order:
First question: Manufacture Love will not contain NSFW in the explicit sex way, but it'll have suggestive content (and gore as previously seen). In visual terms, partial nudity's the max (inserting sneak peek because we can lol):
Second question: Since this is a horror story, you can say there are better or worse endings, yet no true "happy" endings. Endings aren't labeled as good/bad in-game either as players are meant to have their own interpretations.
Thanks for writing! Hope we were able to answer your questions (:
When will Manufacturer Love fully come out completed?
Well, dear reader...
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We just posted lol. So yeah the final, complete game version is coming out this February 27th! 😊You're welcome to share the news or leave any comment you may have if you'd like
At last, I have finally stopped procrastinating and finished my first little digital illustration. Nobody knows this one as it's one of my first IFs and not my fave but hey, I needed a motivating concept and the og cover sucked so why not a redesign?
I may reread the reviews it got and revisit the concept someday, but for those who are curious it's still up here: https://a-villarroel.itch.io/larvae
Note: for any followers of other games, I'll be posting a larger update post before my birthday in February I swear lol
I didnt want to ask at first, since I dont want the development team to feel pressured, but when is the full game My Own Sweet Dionaea coming out?
In your October post you said its out "soon" but when exactly is soon?
Hiii! No problem, Anon. I ws actually gonna touch on this on my last ask but felt it was rather off-topic, and my New Year's dev wrapped with updates was too far away so this is the perfect push.
To me "soon" in this context is anytime under a year because several VNs I follow are long-term so they take longer than that to update. The next update will be the final game, not counting any bug fixes if we end up finding any more. I ended up needing to cut scope, and because none of the team are paid we can't have the same availability. Because of holidays and other personal reasons finishing development has been postponed to January though, communicating with newer teammates, I can't hype up a promised date.
TL;DR: we'll be working on the game to finish it on January though we can't have a set date of release.
Hiii I watched a gameplay on youtube of your game and i absolutely loved it!! I cant wait for further updates! Anyway can i ask how tall the characters all are?^^
Hey hey! I'm so glad you loved one of the games tyyyy! I'd love to answer your question, though I'm not sure which game you refer to exactly 😅 Feel free to ask again for other characters if I got it wrong, but I'm guessing game's My Own Sweet Dionaea soooo...
That's how tall you would see them (I think, for now lol) but Dionaea is at a disatvantage because he's kinda lacking legs, having roots and such instead. If we imagined he had his legs the scale would be more like this:
The scale obviously shows generic proportions, but the reason why Dionaea would be like that is 'cause he needs to have a longer and (when using his flexibility) wider trunk... You may guess why he needs such characteristics.
MOSD Devlog #1 - VA Announcements (and tiny update)
Hey everyone! Sloth again. I'm making a super short update post because I should be sleeping but I could not let the opportunity pass to announce our amazing VAs already! 🎉
Though not perfectly implemented yet, the demo is fully voiced and the rest of the game will be too. Download again if you haven't if you wanna get the best experience currently out and get a sneak peek below!
You can find them on credits but, in short, our voices are:
Saoirse: Chandler White
Walter: Kristoff Grey
Dionaea: Thomas Vu
Check out their work over here too. It's lovely fr 😌
To general update now
Alright, so some of you might have noticed we intended to release the full game for Erohorror jam, which ended 2 days ago. Obviously we did not because, first of all, adding full VA in less than 15 days was deadly. Secondly, we didn't want to rush the editing process of the script. That's why we focused on getting the demo VA for that jam.
All of this is to say that while you may ignore the Erohorror message in-game until we remove it, we'll be releasing the full game soon (I can say that based on the script's completion). We're still waiting on Spooktober competition results so that's a potential game changer.
Here's a little list of what we've been doing or will do in development:
VA! We added voicing for the demo in the latest build and will continue recording for the rest of the game.
Script: being edited (on editors and I 😭)
CGs! If you liked the sprites I'll let you imagine what awaits here 👀
New soundtrack! Saying new may be a bit tricky because we have songs from the demo BUT ty to Bryson because he's taking the time to craft tracks that'll be working on a scene-specific level.
That's it from me for now. I may elaborate more on different elements of development when I get to chill a bit and think but expect small notices from me like these in the future.
See you later guys, and THANK YOU to y'all for the comments, streaming, rating of the game and like 3K plays so far for the demo. What this guy be telling me every time I go see the page's comments:
Question for the ones reading all the way, if any: is there something you'd like me to talk about in particual in my devlogs? I tend to do summaries but it could be fun to focus on certain areas or turning around questions in my mind.
I just whined about this on Twitter but why does TikTok have my vids limited to my country pretty much 😭 Should link my Tiktok on my profiles? And tumblr doesn't even show the vid's preview 🤣
