iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Excuse the bad photo, but I'm so excited to be getting closer to a steam capsule look I couldn't stop to export a better quality! I think I've got some more fine tuning to do still, testing text logos and whatnot, but it's almost there! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegames #solodev

A top down view of a grove of birch trees, a shadow of a four winged dragon casting onto the green and gold grass below. Pages of a journal fluttering down.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Anyone else really struggle with drafting the Steam page write ups?? I feel like I've never thought of my game once trying to phrase this in a way people would be interested in 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Photo of a laptop with a draft of my game's steam page, "About the Game" section, where I anguish over describing and pitching my game to players.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

After so much work, I actually finished all the in game UI elements this month! Now all that's left is the main menu, and LOTS of importing and fiddling in engine.... Sneak peak of main menu progress! It's so rough still but I'm excited anyway #gamedev #indiegames #solodev #visualnovel #gameart

Heavy work in progress photo of the main menu/title card screen for Tales of Amythria. Including a green banner housing the button selections, overlooking a valley with jagged mountain ranges, a large oak tree in the foreground. Remnants of a campsite sit below it.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Honorable mention as just a demo I tried and LOVED, we have Witchlight Woods! A stunning visual novel with excellent witchy vibes and enchanting mythology, this game truly rewards you playing it over and over with new content after completing the demo! @delphincasado.bsky.social

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

And I just had to try out Sovereign Tower, after seeing it all over my feeds lately! Delightful characters, wonderful agency and impactful decisions, and flirting with statues, what more could you want! And gave me some great inspo for Tales of Amythria with great UI hehe @wildwits.games

Header image for Sovereign Tower, showcasing the Sovereign with some of roundtable of knights. Including a gothic woman, a very shiny golden knight, an unsure redheaded woman, and a mysterious silver haired duelist.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Next, Cozy Cleaner! A take at your own pace cleaning game, it was very satisfying to tidy up and clean every room. With the adorable cats and relaxing tone, it scratches that "Unpacking" itch so nicely! store.steampowered.com/app/2742710/...

Header image for Cozy Cleaner, showcasing a calico cat looking very proud of herself in front of a messy, chaotic room that will become your job to fix.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

First up, Songs of Glimmerwick! This was a magical delight to play, from the character building to the excellent voice acting, beautiful music, and delightful tone, I'm SO excited to see this as a full game! store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...

Header page for Songs of Glimmerwick, showing a red haired witch playing her lute by a potion, a frog, and a bone-xylophone?

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A wide collection of my stuff through the years 😅 Went from being an environment artist and VFX apprentice, to working fully 2D for my current visual novel project!

The most current work, a woman in blue mourning robes, a loose updo holding her grey-streaked black hair.

A skull with elongated features and missing teeth. Made for an environment project for my portfolio that never got finished.

A craggly rock. Done as a quick 15 minute study

One of my procedural materials made in Substance Painter. A wooden floor with a roughly carved in reverse pentagram and element symbols adorning each of the points.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Next month, we move into UI assets, and the main menu is the biggest prize at the end of it! I'll also be refining logos, header typography, and maybe even getting to a custom font?? Did I learn my lesson for making over ambitious goals? Nope! Have a sneak peak at the messy sketch for the menu!

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In a turbulent time in general, little things like a book I've been waiting on for ✨MONTHS✨ to come out is probably the best feeling! If you haven't read the first book, "When The Moon Hatched", I definitely recommend! Made me cry so obviously it's great 😂 #books

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Bonus real-time video just to really capture how long this took me. My poor wrist.....

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

#screenshotsaturday returns for Tales of Amythria! This month is all about the big illustrations of the life of the character you pick to play the game as. Enjoy me slowly losing my mind over hundreds of roof shingles! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegames #visualnovel

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Touching grass for a bit of a break 😊 I kind of want to hide tiny frogs in my games now, as a little developer signature lol

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Working on some background panels today ☺️😌 Also, how are people getting such smooth videos with this angle??? #gamedev #solodev #digitalart #lineart #visualnovel

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Finally have something to show off for #screenshotsaturday! Working on a new character's sprites! She's actually the first person I designed for this game, and it's so wonderful to start to see her come to life! Also some new UI layouts, still tinkering with designs. #gamedev #indiedev

A screenshot of a pause menu, showcasing four illustrated tabs in the upper right corner, with four more unfinished green buttons in a list format on the left.

A neutral expression of a new character sprite, a woman in a red cardigan and wild curly red hair pulled into a messy bun.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

You could say I've been spending a bit of time on UI assets.... This is only one of my files, I have 2-3 others for different sized assets used as needed #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #VisualNovel

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I know I could get brushes to do this faster, but I just LOVE the feeling and look of doing these forests by hand 😅 Working on an interactive fantasy map! Thought it would show off locations and give background world lore better than exposition dialogue. #gamedev #digitalart #indiedev #solodev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sketch vs Final! Finally getting around to making the full screen illustrations of the intro scenes for the game, I wanted them to feel loose and like you're peaking into a memory. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #Indiedev #solodev #DigitalPainting #DigitalArt #art #sketch #visualnovels #vns

A large, dead tree in a night-time glade covered in strands of silver bells. Left half the screen is the rough sketch of the environment, and on the right half is the final illustration.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Appreciating the intentional slow pace of line art, or going insane drawing dozens of tiny bells in a background piece? Up to interpretation at this point! I'll be taking a long weekend to host a dear friend, be safe stay warm peeps ☺️ #gamedev #digitalart #lineart #solodev #handdrawn

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Me when I get a Ground News notification and need to steel myself before I look at it

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Introduce yourself with 4 indie games! This was unreasonably difficult for me to pick...

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Working more on the tarot cards for the character select screen! Finished "The Warrior" and started work on "The Jester" :D GAH they're just so pretty already I love it!! Still gotta work on the frames lol #gamedev #gameart #digitalart #solodev #visualnovel #indiedev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Working on some rough foundation sketches for background illustrations, and it's my goal to include as many tiny random stories in the background as often as I can 😆 And thus, a dragon throwing a tantrum about leaving town! #gamedev #visualnovels #digitalart #sketching

Sketch of a mountain side landing, where a dragon pulls against the reigns as its rider desperately yanks the other way. A well behaved wyvern sketched into the foreground.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thought I'd show off how my entire game ticks! I've built the entire visual novel to run off a data table, each asset selected and added for every line of dialogue. It's definitely not the most efficient system, but it works well for my needs! #gamedev #indiedev #Visualnovels #Indiegames

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Some background and story panels for Tales of Amythria getting worked on! Super excited to get on with rendering the sketch on the left. #ScreenshotSaturday #Gamedev #Indiedev #Indiegames #Visualnovels #Digitalart

A sketch of a great dead tree with a spiral knot in the center, many strands of bells hanging from it's boughs in a forested clearing

A digitally painted image of a desktop littered with correspondences, an inkwell and quill, with preserved plants dotted around.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Finally #ScreenshotSaturday! Been working a lot on UI layouts and starting some simple fade animations, giving the character selected a card deck feel, and adding a Dyslexic friendly font! Any other ideas for accessibility I should add? #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovels #indiegames

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Building up that texturrreeee Background illustration in the works currently! #gamedev #indiedev #gameart #digitalart #solodev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

In my happy place! Game art, apple cider and spooky horror game streams 😄😄 Hope everyone having a great Tuesday! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #visualnovel

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

What's everyone picking up on this beautiful Steam Autumn Sale?? I grabbed a copy of Year Walk and Along the Edge! Some good spooky, supernatural games for spooky month 🎃👻 #Steam #AutumnSale #Indiegames

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I present for your Caturday pleasure, my two dumbasses

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Another #ScreenshotSaturday! Some coding work was done on QoL improvements to menu navigation, but the bulk of the work was on starting character sprites! I'm working on about 4 sprites per character, with 12 total characters to get to know in Tales of Amythria 🤗 #gamedev #solodev #visualnovel

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Happy birthday to me (yesterday but who's counting), and all the tasty foods I got to eat! Partner made me a Skyrim sweet roll themed carrot cake, and we went to a haunted house bar where I got ghost beignets and a glowing apple crisp mocktail 😋

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Fun fact about me! I would rather eat hair then use the fill tools, don't know where the aversion comes from but my theory is my background in traditional ink art. Real-time video of how long it usually takes me (when I'm being careful) #gamedev #indiedev #digitalartist

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

#ScreenshotSaturday that I definitely didn't forget last week! The final major feature has been implemented, the character archetypes and backgrounds you can select to customize your playthroughs in Tales of Amythria! Now, it's polish, art and writing time! Let's get that demo! #gamedev #indiedev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Not winning any beauty pageants yet with this #ScreenshotSaturday progress, but what matters is all the background work for my relationship system is starting to finally look like something! Motivation has been low this week, but an hour a day has kept me making steady progress 😊 #gamedev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Who was gonna tell me BlueSky was doing #Smaugust2025?? Don't have time for a full prompt today, but enjoy some dragon sketches and studies for now! #Smaugust

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

What's everyone's passions outside of #gamedev?? Mine is coffee! I don't see a world in where I'm not creating video games or making coffee 😊

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This week for Tales of Amythria, I worked a lot on establishing a save system, but I also began the process of creating a title design for the game! Enjoy the very unaligned and messy sketches 😁 #ScreenshotSaturday #Gamedev #Indiedev #Solodev #VisualNovel

The first pass of designing the Tales of Amythria title's look, trying out different font looks and layouts

Second pass of Tales of Amythria's title design, I picked the design I liked best and started playing around with layout and sizing of the words.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A bit late but made it to another #ScreenshotSaturday! We got a functioning settings menu, we got fonts, we got sound effects (kinda...), we got a traveling mechanic, we've cleaned up some messy code and fixed some bugs, things are really taking shape! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

69 followers, nice! Jokes aside, thank you all so much for following my page! With my game still so rough and new, I didn't expect any kind of attention for a long while, but I'm so happy and excited people have joined for the ride 😊 #gamedev #solodev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A new entry for #ThePagesofDavos, about the humans of Doms Dannan (Featuring some sneak sketches of two characters in the game!) #gamedev #indiedev #TalesOfAmythria #VisualNovel #Lore

A field journal sketch page, with a woman in light armor standing proudly with long black hair, and a disinterested man with heavy face scars, in green with navy blue swirling tattoos labeled "Ivarra" and "Hati". To the right, a sketch illustration of The Creation, how humans came to be in the lands of the Doms Dannan, showing a woman emerging from a golden wheat field underneath a tree.

Humans: "The Mother took from her chest, her beating heart, fashioned it into soil and sand - Raising Humans from the fertile soil" - Excerpt of The Creation, Lines 7-8 & 16

Across The Continent, humans of the various tribes remain the most varied and interesting. When agreeing to this "Great Expedition", I never thought I'd be most shocked by my own people when on the hunt for new lands and dragons to study.

What a life there was beyond the mountains Hati and I hail, Ivarra especially was a surprise, harsher than we'd ever give credit to one so used to the cobbled streets of An Siopa. Arne has goals to recruit more to our cause, "From Cothrom to Lis Muire" he insists.

I can only hope the differences band is together, instead of divide us. We head for Talamh on first light, to find a giant of a man next, Arne is already thinking of building "when" we find our mark! The man's optimism is astonishing, frankly.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Happy #ScreenshotSaturday devs! Some good progress this week despite *gestures vaguely* things going on Prototyped a dynamic dialogue log to read back on, and the town map/travel system! Another Page of Davos to come soon too! #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel #gameprototype

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Who ever said game devs never touch grass?? How ELSE would I get the perfect inspo for cherry baskets?! hope everyone is staying safe in the heat waves!

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I'm super excited to announce a new series for Tales of Amythria! Welcome to The Pages of Davos, follow along for the findings of the famed dragon rider as he documents in his field journal. Today, the hardy and reliable Morgoat! #indiedev #visualnovel #ThePagesOfDavos

A page in a field journal, depicting a massive goat called a Morgoat. It shows an illustrated domestic Morgoat with bells hanging off his long horns, and a wild Morgoat traversing a rocky landscape. To the side in a separate box, is a showcase of different horn shapes, labeled Spike, Spiral, and Four-Point.

"The Morgoat: Standing above 5ft, these massive animals provide the lifeline for the farmers of Doms Dannan. In my travels, I've seen these beasts lumber aimlessly in fields, or in their feral state, scale mountain-sides and escape from dragons effectively even with their bulky frames. Providing the main source of meat, dairy, and fur for the people of Doms Dannan, baby Morgoats (called Morgies affectionately) are given as wedding gifts to new couples in the Talamh region. While their horns never stop growing, in the wild they are regularly shaved down by scraping against stones, on farms however the horns are maintained to hold a series of engraved bells along the lengths. This is both in effort to locate in massive fields, and the bells are used in a protection ritual by Druids to safeguard the invaluable animals. On a side note, the milk-based alcohol, called Jolmolk, is stronger than I gave credit for. Must aquire a bottle to bring back to Hati.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Belated #ScreenshotSaturday post because it was a wild day yesterday! More UI prototyping, bug fixing and organizing my existing code to move to the next steps! Plus some work on UI icons that I'm slowly getting a real idea for.

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