Twisted Flamingos

Twisted Flamingos is a husband-and-wife team that develops creative projects. Look out for our first game: Monster Magnet!

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Yesterday, we hit 500 wishlists! Thank you to everyone who has wishlisted our game, shared it online or with friends, or interacted with our posts. All of this helps to spread the word on Monster Magnet, and we're so happy to have reached as many people as we have already!

If you haven't seen it already, here's a link to our game on Steam. Please check it out!

Monster Magnet on Steam

Follow Michelle as she moves to a new town and meets 4 single boys and 1 single ghost. Grow closer to them and you'll get the opportunity to

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We're streaming our Mini-demo now! Come join us at Dustdred on Twitch to check out our game and help select our character choices!

Watch this video on Twitch Live

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The Monster Magnet Mini-demo is now available to the public! Go check it out on Steam! (Link in the comments)

As a reminder, we will be streaming a playthrough of the Mini-demo at Dustdred on Twitch, Sunday May 17th at 2pm CST. We hope to see you there!

Credit to @eleanorgrootch for our CGs! https://www.instagram.com/eleanorgrootch/

Credit to Silvano Beltramo for designing the Monster Magnet Logo! https://www.silvanobeltramo.com/

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We've been approved by Steam, and the Monster Magnet Mini-demo will, in fact, be releasing this Friday, May 15th!

We will also be doing a playthrough of the Mini-demo on the Twitch account "Dustdred" on Sunday, May 17th, at 2pm CST! Come and watch if you want to see the game before downloading it, or if you just want to chat.

Credit to @eleanorgrootch for our CGs! https://www.instagram.com/eleanorgrootch/

Monster Magnet on Steam

Follow Michelle as she moves to a new town and meets 4 single boys and 1 single ghost. Grow closer to them and you'll get the opportunity to

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A couple months ago, we realized that if we don't have something the public can download by mid-May, we would lose our Trademark applications. Because of this, we buckled down and got our first several events ready for the public eye, and they'll be available for download soon in what we're calling our mini-demo!

We had previously had these events and more be technically playable, but not very pretty. Thankfully, the work involved in prettying up the game will also be applied to future events, so that work's done already, even if it did fight us. Constantly. I blame Tristan; he is haunting our computer.

Sorry for not posting for so long, making this mini-demo took all of our energy. Ultimately, our release plan is approximately the same, we just added this step. We hope you enjoy it, and please Wishlist the game on Steam!

Monster Magnet on Steam

Follow Michelle as she moves to a new town and meets 4 single boys and 1 single ghost. Grow closer to them and you'll get the opportunity to

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So, we haven't posted for about a month... but for good reason! We've been working very hard trying to get things together, and we should have a few REAL updates very soon. Credit to @eleanorgrootch for our CGs! https://www.instagram.com/eleanorgrootch/

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It took a couple extra days to make this, but we thought it was important that we FINALLY show a proof of concept so everyone can be on the same page about what Monster Magnet is going to be.

In case you don't know, Monster Magnet is a monster boy dating sim following 22 year-old Michelle who moves to a new city and meets 5 love interests who all turn out to be monsters. Find our previous posts for descriptions of the characters!

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Over the last 2 weeks we've been dealing with sickness, spontaneously injured bodies, one of our cars going missing, trying to get our home together, and the inherent dread that comes with living in the United States post November 2024.

Through this, we did manage to go back over some of our main game routes! It doesn't help the demo come out any faster, but it keeps our characters and our narrative on our mind, and the overall story will be better for it in the end.

We anticipate that more tangible progress will be made now that we're past most of our personal setbacks.

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Whenever we think about our priorities, Monster Magnet is always towards the top, and while we don't expect that to change, we have realized that actually prioritizing something means making room in your life to have the energy for whatever that may be.

When we first started posting regularly we anticipated the demo, or Act 1, would be complete much sooner than our current predictions. This is due to a combination of us underestimating our workload and real life events in the later half of the year that maybe impacted us more than they should've (both personal and societal).

We didn't want to go too public until we were closer to having something to show for it, but we're already public and will have to move forward with that fact. This is why we've decided to space out our posts, to keep the algorithm somewhat on our side, but not overloading our page with posts just for the sake of it. We hope posts going forward will be more substantial and we'll try to think of more meta posts that give insight into our processes as well as our progress.

Our main goal going forward will be to reexamine and reshuffle our personal lives so we can give Monster Magnet the time, energy, and care that we feel it really deserves, and hopefully posting this will help keep us to that.

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We've decided to pull back on posting for now, since it seems to only take time away from us working on other things. We'll get into it more on our next post, but just know that we'll only be posting every 2 weeks for a while.

You should know that this is only about posting, though. We'd rather die than give up on this project.

Talk to you soon!

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Why are the holidays so stressful? Why can't it just be the time of year where I confess my feelings for the 1 or 2 beautiful men that I've spent the last few months with?! Life is so unfair...

Credit to InvPanda for our backgrounds! https://www.artstation.com/invpanda

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Christmas is stressful. Gifts are stressful. We're just giving everyone bread this year. This is how hard it is to get gifts for these boys. Okay bye.

Credit to @loojii for our chibis.

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Despite saving Michelle from having Endometriosis just to make us feel better, we are now cursing Cale to have to lotion his hands during the cold months or they'll crack. Just another reason for him to hate winter.

Credit to @loojii for our character sprites!

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Quick reminder to go on a date with you significant other, because if you don't actively try to, you might just… not. For months. Or years. No one tells you this, but it's actually really hard to work on a dating sim when you're ignoring the romantic aspect of your partnership. Oops.

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Over the last week, we've been discussing how each Monster Magnet love interest would be as a Thanksgiving guest. After some consideration, here is our official ranking.

Credit to @loojii for our chibis.

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With Thanksgiving coming up this week, we wanted to give everyone some advice for the holiday from the main cast of Monster Magnet.

Credit to @loojii for our character sprites!

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