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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 15h

3.2k followers?!!! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 Thank you all for keeping tabs on our #indiehorror game! We're hard at work on a massively branching VN, Catalyst: Blind Faith. I'm posting progress here, plus tons of #art, #writing, #programming, #accessibility & more stuff we love! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🔥🔥🔥🔥

A flowchart for the demo of a heavily branching visual novel, Catalyst: Blind Faith. Scenes, choices menus, and deaths or early endings are distinguished with different sized boxes. It shows a massive amount of divergence within each of the demo's chapters. Additionally, at certain points in the chronology of the flowchart, chapter numbers have numerous titles associated with each. This indicates where the player's choices causes a divergence significant enough to get an alternate version of each chapter. Links are at the bottom for the early development demo's itch.io page ( https://just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-blind-faith ) and a community Discord for regular updates ( https://discord.gg/24cmNWp )

Screenshot from the dark fantasy and horror indie VN Catalyst: Blind Faith. In monochrome red, a human stampede breaks out in the center of a rustic town square. Silhouettes of panicked, screaming humans are covered in abstract bloody motifs to imply gore. Silhouettes of shapeless, spiked demons tower over the periphery of the crowd. Wooden homes with thatched roofs and wooden watchtowers can be seen in the distant horizon, where a pale sunrise pulls over a dark forest. The textbox reads: "It takes a few minutes of agonizing, precious violence ("I SAID STEP ASIDE!") to reach the wooden platform. The rickety, rotten structure sways dangerously against the waves of people pressing against it."

Work in progress, grayscale, hand drawn art for the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. A loosely sketched woman with a dark cloak and fluffy hair lies on the ground, her face obscured by her hair as she looks at a a slender, heavily scarred young man. This priest of murder, the protagonist, is seen in third person perspective while his deity works through him. He's in an unnatural pose, leaning heavily to one side, which the dutch angle corrects so he appears to be kneeling perfectly upright. Motes of darkness and light drift around him. His hands are held in front of him, but loosely closed instead of in fists. He stares unblinking as light and darkness oozes from his eyes down his unemotional face.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 22/09/2026

[ #art #digitalart #vndev #indiegamedev #horror ] for the sake of keeping things painterly, wound up going for 1 background with 8 variants for this location, instead of layering its many pieces in-engine! though I do still want to release a music track labeled "oversampled modular corpse cave" 😂

Digital art in monochrome at 54% resolution, showing a small section of a dynamic background from a choice-based dark fantasy and horror visual novel. An unfortunate victim of a spider-like demon is wrapped up in webs, with only one hand and his face exposed. A very overstuffed backpack is on the ground a short ways away from the body, also covered in webs. The artist's work station shows a handful of other layers worked on for the variants of this location, whose palette and features will greatly vary based on how the player interacts with the features in the environment.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 16/09/2026

This month's devlog for my dark fantasy and #horror VN is out! 🩸 🎨Holy fucking #art progress batman 🎮Programming and #accessibility update! ✍️A psycho amount of #writing progress 🔀Updated flowchart spaghetti 🍝🙏🙏 🔥 Read it here: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli... [ #indiegamedev #vndev ]

Custom UI for Catalyst: Blind Faith, styled like a handmade journal. The deckle-edge pages are flipped open to a tab for the God of Vengeance, which is splattered with old blood. Along with tabs for all the other deities in the fictional pantheon, and places to review characters met, demons faced, inventory items, maps, and notes, the player gets detailed and dynamic information on each category. Here they have hovered over the first page for Vengeance, and a sheaf of paper appears with the player's history with this deity and the player-controlled MC's current reflections on their relationship. Though the player is tracking how many lives they have taken with this deity, their reflections are slightly more opaque: "You find yourself drifting from the path of the vengeful and vindictive. Such a thing can be easily amended."

Colored digital concept art for three characters in the dark fantasy and horror VN Catalyst: Blind Faith. An albino and heavily tattooed orc, splattered in blood, stands in an A pose. His only notable armor comes from leather pteruges and a pauldron fashioned from a demon fish's skull. Upon his back is a javelin made from an oversized fishbone, and beside him is a large axe whose blade is hewn from darkened volcanic stone. To the right is the slender, heavily scarred, trad goth protagonist, with curly hair, bright green eyes, and many gold fasteners on his structured clothing. A matching, dark, spiked collar is on his dog: a hulking English mastiff to the far left of the image. This is a game in development, so in the bottom right is a disclaimer stating these designs are subject to change.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 03/09/2026

crushing these final animations for the prologue today, no brakes no mercy #indiegamedev #vndev #art #digitalart #horror

Screenshot of a Clip Studio Paint work station. An indie game developer is chunking away at the silhouettes of three monstrous characters on the horizon of a bloody scene for a dark fantasy and horror visual novel. A dilapidated fishing village, with thatched-roof homes and a cold sunrise is in the background, but is almost totally obscured by the ever-growing chaos at the front of the scene. A crowd of panicked, faceless people flee in the foreground, with abstract smears of blood over them implying heavy gore.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 28/08/2026

Three thousand followers?!!!! Thank you all so much!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I drew a silly little something. Ray would love to know you're supporting our #darkfantasy and #horror visual novel!!!😊💙 💙Thanks so much for hyping up this #indiegame and its development. Hype to share more updates soon!!

Digital art of a very good boy, Ray, the English mastiff, thanking three thousand followers on Bluesky! He's wearing some sparkly, blue glasses shaped like the number 3000 just for the occasion.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 24/08/2026

#MythAugust Distinct from prayer, ritual, songs, sacrifices, or any other means of worship is literal "invocation" of the Gods. Divine intervention is made possible by pious humans channeling the abilities of a deity through their body—at a cost. This is rarely attempted by most. Our MC, however🙏

Script excerpt from the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith, from Chapter 28: Once Sacred. All dialogue is in a stark, crimson red.

There is no fear in your heart as you take several steps away from the balcony, readying yourself to jump. You place your trust in the Gods, grasp your holy symbol, and invoke with fire.

"Light is Your vessel, made ready in weakness. Willing is the Father—here, in the house of the Mother!"

Heat courses through your skin as if it were set aflame.

"Deliberate now is my tension! Aid this humble form, intent on exerting Your will!"

Smoke curls along your scars, streaking behind you in plumes of red as you tear across the hardwood floor.

"Flesh of my flesh, grant me your strength!"

You leap clear over the balcony with so much speed and force that you sail completely over the fight below. Your heart stops as the wooden floor rushes to meet you, and you scream your God’s praises in the hopes that you don’t die on impact.

"GOD OF BRUTALITY, HEAR MY CRIES!”

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 22/08/2026

character art work, no one can stop me from sketching #silly shit while I figure out how many pteruges to put on my warchief antagonist's blood-caked design 💖🩸 Ray the dog is our secondary protagonist and an undefeated chess champion so my bet is on him 🧠💖

meme featuring sketches of two characters in a dark fantasy and horror visual novel. who would win: ray the well-mannered english mastiff, or orgoth the genocidal warchief

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026

#MythAugust 👉You play as Father Richard Anscham, the 😊leader😊 of the 🙏Church🙏 of 💘Mercy💘 👿Our game takes place far underground, removed from the events on the surface. 🩸Why you are not leading the nation, and the nature of your "relationship" with Mercy is the name of the #horror game. (7/10)

Meme of a heavily scarred, brooding young priest, wearing a traditional holy symbol of the Goddess of Mercy (two open hands) and glaring at a mirror. He's also staring directly at the viewer as a result. In arrows around him is a derogatory play on the phrase "suffering builds character," with each word quoted separately to deconstruct how nonsensical the phrase is.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026

#MythAugust In my apocalyptic setting, religion is a form of government, but also a way of life for the last of humanity.🙏 Forced into one singular nation, where openly decrying their ruling theocracy is punishable by death, freedom of expression is vital for many!🗡 There are a few sects😉 (1/10)

Screenshot from a dark fantasy and horror visual novel, with a style swap for surreal horror. Upon a burning series of torn pages, the player-controlled protagonist is drawn in lineless art with a variety of troubling characterizations: a crying prisoner raising a bloodied knife, a cracking monster with wings made of fingers, an oblivious preacher, and a stereotypical hedonist in the vein of Dionysus. The textbox is from "Ofelia," who says: "Heh. See? I was right. I know your whole country's got its problems, but human healing's got a reputation despite that, you know? There's good reason I'm lookin' for answers here and not back at home. You got somethin' of a reputation—"

Dramatic silhouette in red and black of two characters fighting atop a colossal monster. One muscular, masculine figure with pointed ears sits upon the monster, raising a battle axe above his head. The other leaps through the air, seemingly from an impossible height; plumes of reddened smoke rise from his leap as he keeps a shield outstretched, a flanged mace swung back and ready to strike.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 17/08/2026

Hi! I'm the director for Just Write Studios. We're an extremely passionate bunch of LGBTQ+ devs and allies, working on a big game about compassion and the indomitable human spirit🔥🔥🔥 just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli... All of our work is human-made and always will be. We'd love to be added!

Silly, pastel, color-coded flowchart for internal use when developing a massively branching, choice-based visual novel. The narrative structure and estimated story length of 8 intertwining stories are mapped out, with silly smiley faces on good and bad endings.

Flowchart showing the colossal branching choice design, endings, and quantity of variable scenes in part of the choice-based indie visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. This is for the "hard branch" for the God of Vengeance, one of 10 distinct thematic branches in the dark fantasy and horror game. A whopping 9 unique stories within the Vengeance hard branch are illustrated in various glowing colors: conveying numerous self-contained and/or massively intertwining stories, with 21 possible endings in Vengeance's content alone. Though this is not indicative of playtime or the length of any given scene, the bottom of the image links to the game's itch.io page "for progress, devlogs, updates, and more regarding the development of Catalyst: Blind Faith."

A before and after comparison of the UI design for a diegetic, optional player reference. A hand-made journal contains tabs for everything from modular maps of locations explored, to items in the players inventory, and detailed information on all the deities in a fictional pantheon. Though the mechanics have remained the same, the dark fantasy and horror game has a major glow-up from its early development demo!

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 13/08/2026

Ayyyyyy THANK YOU all!! 2.9k followers!!!!! 🎉🥳🎈🎈🎈 Working hard on this dark fantasy and #horror VN's development! Good things take time hehe.🙏💖 Here's a finished clip from a big fight scene in the demo as thanks for all the support! 🩸🩸🩸🔥🔥🔥🔥 [ #indiegamedev #gamedev #vndev #art #writing ]

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust 🖤Vengeance is the God of murder, shadows, vindication, retaliation, justice, punishment, repentance, honor, virtue, and blood sacrifice. ⚖His traditional holy symbol is a scale containing an eye; to perceive deceit and possess clarity of purpose. 🗡His path is not easily followed. 9/9

Mood board in monochrome black for the God of Vengeance. The sign at the center reads: "Crawling is acceptable. Falling is acceptable. Puking is acceptable. Crying is acceptable. Pain is acceptable. Blood is acceptable. Quitting is not."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust 💜Time is the Goddess of the sands: past, present, and future. ♾Her traditional symbol is an infinity symbol. The ends are left open. ⌛Her will is unchangeable. 8/9

Mood board in monochrome purple for the Goddess of Time. The quote at the center reads: "too much yet not enough happened between us." by "j.b. [unfinished]"

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust 🧡Storm is the God of chaos, destruction, freedom, travel, and the tempest: water, wind, fire, & lightning. 🔥His traditional symbol is a spiral: flame, water, wind, lightning, or anything else. ⚡Channeling these elements through a human body does *exactly* what you think it would. 7/9

Mood board in monochrome orange for the God of Destruction, Storm. The caption at the center reads: "I accept chaos. I don't know whether it accepts me."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust 🤍Spirit is the Goddess of knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, identity, abstraction, and the immaterial; minds & souls. 🧶Her traditional symbol is thread tied into a knot. 🧾Too much information is a very real thing. Spirit's devotees 🤍worship🤍 disseminating knowledge with care. 6/9

Mood board in monochrome white for the Goddess of Spirit. A tweet at the center reads, "people always say 'fuck around and find out' as if that's [a] bad thing. I love finding out. I need to understand."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust 💛Mercy is the Goddess of restraint, defense, compassion, love, honesty, healing, light, gold, the sun, and ALL emotion. 👐Her traditional symbol is a pair of open hands. 🌞The theocracy's divinely appointed King uplifts Mercy's tenets above all others, as humanity faces extinction. 5/9

Mood board in monochrome yellow-gold for the Goddess of Mercy. A graphic at the center of the image has the caption, "When you think of love do you think of pain?"

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust ❤Flesh is the God of action, aggression, strength, perseverance, achievement, muscle, bone, and the material; human physicality! 💉His traditional symbol is three straight needles, scratches, stitches, or a simple staircase; all of ascending size. 😊He's very easy to please. 4/9

Mood board in monochrome red for the God of Flesh. A few parody tweets are its center, reading:
"God, give me patience."
"Think you mean 'God give me strength.'"
"If God gave me strength, you'd be fucking dead."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust 💙Dream is the God of the arts, creativity, nightmares, madness, imagination, interpretation, the moon, the night, and rest. 💤His traditional symbol is two closed eyes. 🎨A visit from Dream is regarded as divine intervention. To 🎇induce🎇 a vision from Him guarantees insanity. 3/9

Mood board in monochrome blue for the God of Dreams and Nightmares. The subtitle at its center reads: "Awake, free, disappointed by reality, he takes refuge in the dream again."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust 💚Agriculture is the Goddess of life, fertility, growth, bounty, harvest, excess, generosity, poison, and death. 🌾Her traditional symbol is a long-bladed scythe with two handles. 🍷She's disparaged as a patron of hedonists, but Her practitioners serve vital roles in society too! 2/9

Mood board in monochrome green for the Goddess of Agriculture. A quote in the center reads, "Death and I have been scandalously intimate for some time now."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/08/2026

#MythAugust In my #darkfantasy & #horror VN, the Gods are real! Their abilities can be channeled through the bodies of pious humans—the ✨perfectly normal✨polytheistic priest MC included.🙏 Learning about these 8 deities and how to 'please' Them (or not) is a BIG part of the branching game.😉🩸 🧵 1/9

Eight deities from a polytheistic, fantasy pantheon; embodying abstract concepts of reality. These inhuman Gods and Goddesses are portrayed with monochromatic colors, abstract symbols, and hands evocative of each deity's practitioners and domains. From left to right: Vengeance, Flesh, Storm, Mercy, Agriculture, Dream, Time, and Spirit.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 01/08/2026

New #devlog! 🎨 #Art flood! ✍Massive #writing milestones! 🔀Punishing #indiegamedev +narrative design discussion, comparing my first outline to a completed flowchart! One week early for patrons ($1 unlocks all posts 😉) as huge thanks! 💖💖💖 💖You can read it here: www.patreon.com/justwritestu...

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 30/07/2026

Had to get another attack in this month on @lavandul.bsky.social 's beautiful Prasenti!!! Such gorgeous character designs, I had such a good time TwT 🖤🤍🖤🤍 [ #lavandul_ocs #artfight #Artfight2026 #demon #horror ]

Monochrome digital art of Lavandul's demon-spawn, Prasenti. Beams of light and shadow illuminate and obfuscate the cult-leader's neatly fitted and pristine religious attire; versus a horned, many-eyed, razor-toothed, fur-covered, and decidedly more monstrous appearance. He's smiling, happy to reveal different aspects of himself to the viewer in any combination of light or dark.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 29/07/2026

I have been very busy this month! Bingo!!!! Looking forward to sharing #indiedev updates in this week's devlog! Trying to keep most #artfight stuff to the site. I'm overjoyed by the attacks I've received and am going to be revenging well into 2030😂 Best event!! #horror #vndev #gamedev #writing

2026 bingo card from an indie dev. Goals include completing posts in a devlog series, numerous art studies, attacking friends on artfight, writing specific routes and endings for a branching horror visual novel, and drawing specific characters. Only a few spaces remain!

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 29/07/2026

[explodes] @etrikia.bsky.social THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH FOR THE ART OF MY BOI! You fused this humanoid design with his monstrous personality PERFECTLY! 🖤🤍🖤🤍🩸 #artfight #Artfight2026 #horror

Digital, grayscale, humanoid art of a demonic dark fantasy and horror villain. If you can ignore his shark-toothed grin, etched out eyes, and the spiderwebs he's casually lounging in, the stylish and handsome man gesturing towards the viewer is surely inviting. Surely.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 29/07/2026

AAA @tricketcat.bsky.social thank you for the beautiful beautiful humanoid art of my villainous demon boi! You COOKED with the zoot suit inspired fashion and captured his aura immaculately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #artfight #artfight2026

Grayscale 2D digital art of a foreboding, well-dressed, and handsome villainous man. with slender features. Darkened sockets obscure his eyes. On his white dress shirt is a pattern of many red eyes, with each eye staring directly at the sinister man or the viewer. The clasps of his suspenders are eyes like red gemstones. He is caught or suspended in strands of red string, akin to puppet strings or thick spiderwebs.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 21/07/2026

This is such a fun thing, I am very late but couldn't help making a grid of my fav 25 video games! My overstuffed backlog goes so far back, I still haven't played the sequels to many of these retro titles 😂 a paragraph of honorary mentions but there are too many good games not to lol 🔥💖

An indie devs favorite 25 games: ranging from cozy sims and rhythm games to action, turn-based strategy, mystery, and experimental indie games. At the top of the list are Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Yume Nikki, Undertale, and Faster Than Light.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 08/07/2026

🔥New devlog!! #indiegamedev #vndev #horror #gamedesign 🖌️2D & 3D #art flood, character sheets, and mooore ✍️Big #writing progress and research deep dives! 🔀Updated flowcharts to show script progress! 🔥You can read here: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli...

Full body character reference for the two protagonists of the dark fantasy and indie horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. Ray, a giant English mastiff with light fur and marks like eyebrows, is shown with and without his spiked wolf collar. His human, Father Richard Anscham, is shown with and without a gothic and slim-cut black coat (also with a high and pointed collar). Richard is dressed in remarkably modern and luxurious materials for a dungeon romp: a solid gold holy symbol, ample holsters and suspenders with gold fasteners, matching knee-high boots, and dark nail polish. While Ray seems untouched by fighting demons, Richard's little visible skin is plastered with old scar tissue, and his eyes are an unnatural, bright green with no pupils.

Flowchart spaghetti depicting one of ten distinct branches in the epic dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. No story moments or distinct choices are immediately apparent due to the scale. This image strictly shows dozens of significant choices, hundreds of unique moments, and seven radically different continuities of events. Five of these continuities all funnel into an appropriately named "torment nexus," which contains 11 "fates worse than death" alone. A total of 23 unique endings are shown on this flowchart, on which a large disclaimer reads "this flowchart represents variables and branching but is not indicative of length and/or playtime".

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 05/07/2026

THIRD REVENGE RAAAA! Couldn't resist dressing Isobel up. Love the personality so much for this monochrome crown princess!!!🖤🤍 @hrmkingizzy.bsky.social #artfight #artfight2026 #teamcomedy

Grayscale digital art of a 'Leiy' crown princess, with dragon-like wings typical of Leiy protruding from her back. Motifs of water-based magic in monochrome bubbles and streams of water surround her. The slender and elegant young woman is dressed like a medieval princess. Her modern hair peeks out from a steeple hennin, which is covered in motifs of flowers. Lace akin to flowers and motifs of blossoms also cover a fitted bodice over her long and flowing gown.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 05/07/2026

Second artfight attack!! Revenge on @rafaanimations.bsky.social's silly Sketchy OC. I had so much fun with squeezing in a couple of their OC's designs in the gallery too! 💖 #artfight #artfight2026 #teamcomedy

Digital art of a humanized talking notebook/artist, Sketchy, enjoying a day in an art gallery. The character's black journal cover, yellow bookmarks, and colorful stickers have been stylized as a black beret with ribbons, striped t-shirt, and numerous colorful pins. In the background, two other OCs fill the canvases in the gallery: a pop art stylization of a purple feral fox, and a bust of a smiling Iranian teenager with a green hijab, a colorful red dress, and bright orange flowers.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 01/07/2026

Today is the day!! 🎈🤡 Thought some whimsy was very needed while working on a horror game hehehehe. Can't wait to support my friends this year and hope to see some really cool styles! #Artfight2026

Artfight card for Palaric, on Team Comedy. The lich-like indie game dev has dressed up as a spooky clown for the event, aiming to get revenge on two friends from Artfight 2025, and is featuring two of her fluffiest characters from her current game. A young, scarred priest protagonist with a long face and a motivated English Mastiff with a dark wolf collar are drawn in grayscale. Her characters are humans, monsters, and a very good boy.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 29/06/2026

Hype af for Artfight!! Finished my MC's ref sheet just in time!!! [ #horror #darkfantasy #priest #scarring #indiegamedev ]

Character reference sheet for Father Richard Anscham, a young and troubled polytheistic priest and protagonist of the indie horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. This body horror veteran is shown with a wide variety of possible body types, eye colors, and extensive scarring. Motifs of open hands are prominent for the gothic, theocratic leader of the fictional Church of Mercy, from his solid gold holy symbol to the emblem on his shield.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 20/06/2026

Happy Pride Month everyone! 💖🧡💛💚💙💜 Working on character sheets for #artfight and for development reference. 💖🧡💛💚💙💜 Had so much fun researching historical nail stain and painting methods this week hehehe.💗 Couple small snippets from the sheet for our bi and poly MC!

2D, digital art sketch of rainbow nail polish on a young man's heavily scarred, bent, and long hands. This is reference for a polytheistic priest in an original fantasy game. His left ring finger is accented with a yellow circle. His right pinky is accented with a symbol of white string tied in a knot.

Small section of a character reference sheet. Golden surgical tools with black-bladed scalpels are spread out on a flat, dark, plastic bag. Beside them, a small window focuses on one color palette for a dark fantasy and horror protagonist's eyes when cursed: they are a bright sage green, with no irises.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 09/06/2026

Failed to mention for players new to the game that our antihero's name is Richard. 😂 I may have been so excited to share the art I used some community memes without thinking about it, apologies for any confusion lol

Screenshot of a devlog in which an indie developer has been practicing expressions and body language for a protagonist named Richard. She forgot to mention her protagonist's name, so the community meme of calling this large grid of Richard images the "Dick Catalog" has fallen flat out of context. lol

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 21/05/2026

Template by MagicalPouch 💖 Finished! This was such good #practice for poses and expressions!! Built so much more confidence in the process! I can't decide which one I like the most lol #sketch #art #digitalart #oc #indiedev #horror

Grid of 30 expressive poses and expressions. Template by MagicalPouch on the left. Sketches of a scruffy, young, heavily scarred priest on the right. This is the anti-hero protagonist of a choice-based game, so he's drawn at a wide range of ages and body types in numerous outfits too.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 19/05/2026

🎉Final narrative #devlog complete!!! 🔞"Extreme" content in a #darkfantasy & #horror VN 🔧How players can easily opt OUT of it ✍My process, from conception to finish! 👁A sneak peek at my most challenging chapter 🎨 #Art & more #indiedev progress! Read here: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli...

Philippe Petit, a highwire artist, walking between skyscrapers on a tightrope. Philippe has an indie game developer "Alaric" written above his head. The long pole he carries for balancing has one end labeled "Moral Compass" and the other end "Dedication." The length of wire behind him is labeled "Vindication Route" and the length of wire ahead of him is "writing a dying character with dementia and catatonia."

Meme parody sketch of Tommy Lee Jones with a newspaper, but it's a wrinkly English mastiff instead. The dog is wearing the same rectangular glasses and looks mildly amused.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 08/05/2026

#Demons in Catalyst: Blind Faith cannot speak of or read the word of deities! Ofelia would kindly redact the numerous mentions of the Goddess of Mercy so that Yech, a demon of generosity, can participate in the activity. Hope you guys have fun with the chaotic preview! #indiegame #horror #vndev

A character writing game, first filled out by the the young and troubled priest protagonist of a dark fantasy and horror game, Father Richard Anscham. Two of his friends have ripped his obsessive and self-deprecating answers to shreds. 7+ mentions of Richard's Goddess have been redacted with black tape, so that the last character to touch the disastrous sheet can safely read it. Yech the Disgusted, a foul-mouthed but sentimental demon, has doodled numerous childish caricatures and additions onto the page. Not only has he crossed out enormous swathes of everyone's writing, has verbally eviscerated Ofelia and Celegwen's criticism, and propped up Richard thoroughly; he seems determined to take him out for drinks later and begin a gardening club.

Lineup of main characters from the dark fantasy and horror visual novel, Catalyst: Blind Faith. Humans, orcs, elves, and service dogs are given equal attention in the dimmed background. A short and outrageously dressed demon lord is highlighted to the right: Lord Yech, the disgusted. A fusion of harlequin and Landsknecht fashion in red and black complements the skeleton's oversized poulaines and laced up codpiece. A small doodle of a bottle of liquor and tree are beside him.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 08/05/2026

These replies are from two potential party members in the full game of Catalyst: Blind Faith, who would do so much redacting and correcting I almost ran out of room😂 💙Blue and bubbly font = Ofelia Banks, rogue with a heart of gold 💜Lavender and elegant font = Celegwen, venerable elvish sorceress

2D digital art of a female elf with a sly expression, asymmetric hair, and many piercings. Celegwen's incredibly long ears, the lack of natural color in her hair, and the rare metals she wears are the best indication of her venerable age; the sorceress's body is immortal, but she is over three centuries old.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 08/05/2026

Template by: hokkyokuro on Reddit ✍Writer's Flock #character prompt: Your #OCs are put in a room together and given this sheet. After 1 person fills theirs out, it's given to another person to add their own comments to it, and so on. How does it look like in the end? This was so much fun.🧵 below!

A character writing game, filled out as if it was written by the antihero protagonist of a dark fantasy and horror visual novel: Father Richard Anscham. The young and troubled priest has self-reported a truly obsessive series of personality traits; most of them are defined by his faith and/or leadership of a fictional, polytheistic religion. His fondness for the Goddess of Mercy is front and center, up to and including redacting all relationship fields and pasting an entire tenet of chastity over them instead of answering normally. Father Anscham doesn't seem to reflect on mundane matters often, as many fields are blank, and he doesn't have the most positive interpretation of his personality traits. A self admitted bad habit is telling of the unreliable narrator: "I don't always say as much as I mean."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 03/05/2026

2.8k followers?!!!!🥳🎉🎉🎉 Thank you all so much! I'm posting #indiegamedev progress here for our dark fantasy and #horror VN Catalyst: Blind Faith!🩸🔥 You can also expect a flood of branching #gamedesign, #art, #accessibility, #programming, #writing, memes & hype for other things we love!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Party member preview for the dark fantasy and horror VN Catalyst: Blind Faith. From left to right:
A silhouette of Ray, a gigantic English Mastiff wearing a spiked collar.
A sketch of Father Richard Anscham, a young, scruffy, and lanky priest wearing a bizarre combination of very modern textiles and bronze age metals. He carries a bloodied iron mace and beat-up shield, with many gold fasteners on his gothic attire. His mop of very curly hair fails to cover the excessive scarring on every inch of his exposed skin. Despite looking so grumpy, a small heart is sketched beside his face. (You) play as him.
Orgoth, an elderly and muscular albino orc with bat-like features. One of his large, pointed ears is missing a giant piece. He's covered in dried blood, and his exposed upper body has numerous blackout tattoos with motifs of nature and battle. Numerous trophies of large teeth and a pauldron fashioned out of a demon's skull covers one shoulder. His pointed teeth are bared as he smiles broadly. A tiny sketch of a battle-axe dripping with blood is beside his face.

Also in silhouette are three more party members to the right:
Celegwen, an elvish sorceress, with extremely long and pointed ears. She's wearing an incredibly tattered, light colored dress, sandals, and has many piercings. Her choppily cut, cloudy-white hair is dyed lavender at its tips. Three stars hover around her right hand.
Ofelia Banks, a short and stocky walking armory. She's covered with thieves' tools, knives, scabbards for short swords, and wears an enchanted cloak. Her very fluffy, blonde hair covers most of Celegwen's staff as she stands in front of her. A little sketch of a skull and crossbones is beside her.
Lord Yech, the Disgusted has on a floppy hat with massive red and white feathers, striped and slashed clothing evocative of a harlequin and Landsknecht, very long poulaines, and a completely impractical pointed cape. A sketch of a bottle of liquor and a tree are beside him.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 25/04/2026

working on art & animations for an ending cutscene for the last 2 weeks!🔥 maintaining the integrity to not spoil it during long #indiegamedev cycle is not easy. it is times like this that I imagine David Lynch, sneering at me over a cup of black coffee, telling me to never forget my principles.🙏☕

Four panels, with a quote from David Lynch; said disparagingly and with tongue-in-cheek humor. "As soon as you finish a film, people want you to talk about it. And it's, um, the film is the talking."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 19/04/2026

A little fun and whimsy while working on assets for my dark fantasy and #horror VN 🩸 after all what is surreal, abstract, grungy, photobashed, totally different visual style if not an opportunity for quick perspective grids and bloodborne health bars 😂 [ #digitalart #indiegamedev #vndev ]

Low-effort hand-drawn perspective grid while an indie dev quickly photobashes and paints over 3D, abstract art for a dark fantasy and horror visual novel. The working canvas has a towering library's gleaming shelves, stacked with thick books, rising endlessly towards a starry night. Numerous other grungy, surreal thumbnails from other parts of the cutscene are on the same canvas, such as smears of saturated red paint and oily paintings of other libraries and prisons.

Meme digital art. Grungy, oily, photobashed books line a towering series of bookshelves. They dissolve as they rise, leading up towards a watercolor night sky in shades of deep blue. A boss health bar from Bloodborne has been pasted onto the picture at about 40% health, for the "Perfectly Normal Library."

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 06/04/2026

✍️busy week! much #writing and #editing ✍️polishing 6k words of structurally complex content is not good for sharing on social media lol please enjoy some silly af doodles from Ray Quest while I'm hard at work on the heavy narrative stuff ❤️‍🔥 #indiegamedev #vndev #narrativedev #writesky #horror

silly chibi digital art of an english mastiff with a big spiked collar, in bold neon white on a black background. he has a tiny pink halo, large pink wings more befitting of a flamingo than a good boy, and an obnoxious pink and gold medallion on a neon green ribbon.

Digital art of an English mastiff who is much too large for his owner's twin sized mattress; the scruffy young man is drawn sleeping behind him. The dog's legs completely hang off the bed, but he smiles as he sleeps, wearing a gold medallion on a deep green ribbon.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 02/04/2026

Happy April 1st! 🐾 Playing Ray Quest, a goofy #interactivefiction game, with our community Discord. The last update will be tomorrow! Everyone can roll to fight the God of Flesh until then. If you would like to join in on the silliness: discord.gg/24cmNWp #petthedog #bethedog #drawquest #IF

the titular protagonist of ray quest 3 ascends above the title card, in chibi black and white digital art. it's a determined english mastiff, with thicc eyebrows and a big spiked collar.

The God of Vengeance poses a trolley problem to Ray the Dog, whose apotheosis is going well.

$The God of Flesh and His fractal, crimson musculature flexes before a dark background.$

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 22/03/2026

🖌️practicing expressions 🖌️body language 🖌️and character consistency w/ my fluffy MC!🙏 🔥🔥slowly but surely. looking forward to sharing the full grid when it's done!🔥🔥 [ #priest #art #digitalart #characterart #illustration #sketch #vndev #indiegamedev #gamedev #horror #bubblyrichardisstillhorrifying ]

Work in progress grid of sketchy digital art from an indie game dev. The scruffy, lanky, and heavily scarred main character from a dark fantasy and horror visual novel is being drawn with numerous expressive poses and faces. A variety of ages, body types, and text are used to convey him from adolescence to middle age. He's usually shown with big eyes, fluffy hair, and a long face; wearing a striped turtleneck, suspenders, a coat with a big pointy collar, and a holy symbol resembling two open hands on a chain.

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 16/03/2026

🖌️practicing expressions 🖌️body language 🖌️and character consistency w/ my fluffy MC!🙏 🔥🔥looking forward to sharing the full grid when it's done! such good practice🔥🔥 [ #priest #art #digitalart #characterart #illustration #sketch #vndev #indiegamedev #gamedev #horror #bubblyrichardistrulyhorrifying ]

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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 13/03/2026

🗣️🔥 FEBRUARY #indiegamedev PROGRESS! 🔥 45K words fully written & edited 🔥 its difficulty was no joke 🔥 beeg #art progress 🔥 monster narrative #devlog about how I write CWs FEBRUARY PROGRESS CROSSPOST: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli... (free💖) FULL POST: www.patreon.com/posts/devlog...

$An indie dev attempts to encapsulate a fraction of the herculean effort put into completing the script writing, editing, branching narrative design, and dozens of visuals for particularly sensitive content in a dark fantasy and horror visual novels. Heavily commented, story-relevant variables; immense gratitude towards her QA team; and a dizzying visual representation of cascading player choices honored in the narrative are shown in an intentionally overwhelming collage.$

Cheeky visual representation of why some script in a heavily branching, dark fantasy and horror visual novel warrants a content warning while other chapters to not. The writer and indie dev has shown three very distinct files, one with a suffix "X" for "extreme content." The increasingly deranged and wildly differing characterization of a demon in the game is overlaid on low opacity fanart of him: a skeletal lord looking way too chipper as he sasys, "I fucking love giving." The dev has added in bright red comic sans for emphasis, "it gets weird(er) when you see it side by side" (in reference to the differing characterization possible in the game), and "one of these is not like the others" in reference to the most deranged behavior from this monster being contained to its own labeled document.

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