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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 05/09/2026

Resumed working on Incubus...

Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 02/09/2026

Hardships Of A Vampire was part of #FallinLoveFestival again this year! I had made minor art update to the demo today. You can check it out here! store.steampowered.com/app/3331600/...

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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 21/08/2026

Join us September 1-9 on Steam for our Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, a Steam festival dedicated to romance visual novels from across the world! 💖 Fall in love with your next favorite romance story with demos to try, discounted games, streams, and more~

Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival
presented by studio élan
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ebi @ebihimes.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

two sentence horror story: you're an indie game developer who's just finished making a game. now you need to market it.

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pumpkin spike @pumpkin-spike.itch.io · 13/01/2026

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Pumpkin, a digital artist currently focusing on #manga and #visualnovels. I am currently available for long term projects! 🎮 pumpkin-spike.itch.io/jincan-under... 🗯 namicomi.com/en/org/pumpk... 💼 vgen.co/PumpkinSpike 📧 pumpkinspike18@gmail.com #animeartist #gamdev #vnlink

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Sol ✨ Play my Steam games @solarprotag.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I'm Solara/Sol! I'm a Canadian illustrator and character designer who makes visual novels! #PortfolioDay solgallery.carrd.co

Screenshot from Bread Makes The Heart Aflutter.
Shows the bakery scene, with sprites of three fairies floating in the middle of the screen, and Emile's side portrait in the bottom left.
The text reads: "Emile: Hello, Snowdrop. Hello, Azalea. Hello, Magnolia. It's good to see you, too!"

Cropped artwork featuring the vtubers from Holostars English. The two in frame are Banzoin Hakka — who is holding up a drink with an excited look on his face — and Josuiji Shinri — who is looking at him with a smile on his face. Just out of view are Machina X Flayon and Regis Altare.

Screenshot from The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not.
It shows the museum interior, with Irina's sprite in the middle of the screen and Desirée's portrait in the bottom left.
The dialogue reads: "Desirée: (It's just the two of us right now...)"

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 13/01/2026

I'm Saitoki, Indie Visual dev and freelance artist. I like making BL! saitoki.itch.io #portfolioday

The Useless Incubus and the ruthless Hero

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 31/12/2025

Purple experiment with acrylic markers and gel pens. The girl on the left is Plum, one of @vndev.bsky.social's mascots.

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 22/12/2025

Too carelessly done, but experimenting with color combination was a good learning experience.

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arimia @arimiadev.com · 19/12/2025

if you want to support visual novel devs: - wishlist our games on Steam - leave reviews / ratings for them on store platforms - tell friends about our games - recommend them to streamers to play - share posts on social media - tell a developer you enjoy their work

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 19/12/2025

Finished painting the cover of my sketchbook! It was fun.

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 19/12/2025

Painted Micah on the backcover of my mini sketchbook. Gonna do Sylas on the front!

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 16/12/2025

More acrylic marker sketch...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 15/12/2025

Sketched elias on the next page. I wonder if i should paint him...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 14/12/2025

Uneasy night. Acrylic marker hard...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 11/12/2025

Morandi gel pens mini painting...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 09/12/2025

I was looking for a scanner to scan traditional art and found a used multipurpose scanner-color printer for 1.6x price of the cheapest scanner, so why not... Printing old art is so much fun...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 08/12/2025

Oliver's Christmas part-time job and friends, redone with marker.

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 30/11/2025

New day new sketch. I draw so much boys so i haven’t picked up the skill to draw longer hair well...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 29/11/2025

First girl in this sketchbook ever...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 29/11/2025

Tonight sketch. Which will totally goes into a HSOAV CG later.

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 28/11/2025

I've been doing one quick colored sketch every night lately. It is effortless and fun, which improves my mood a lot. Recently, i realized that it's much more economical to buy specific marker colors than buying a set of varied colors i never use, worst are oversaturated ones. Light colors are best!

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 20/11/2025

One big advantage traditional art has over digital is that it's really therapeutic. My mind has been in a bad space lately, and just some quick doodles on paper really helped me.

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 04/11/2025

Another bad attempt at traditional art... this time it's Ink.

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arimia @arimiadev.com · 24/09/2025

hop on visual novels NOW !! I've gathered 200+ romance-themed visual novels from 100+ developers across the globe and categorized them by romance type, genre, mechanics, amount of love interests, and more. NO EXCUSES TO NOT PLAY ROMANCE VNS ANYMORE!!! store.steampowered.com/sale/fallinl...

screenshot of the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival Steam sale page

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pumpkin spike @pumpkin-spike.itch.io · 09/09/2025

@saitoki.itch.io and I worked on a small demo for #yaoi jam this year! The Useless Incubus and The Ruthless Hero is a kinetic BL #visualnovel about finding and falling in love against the odds society has stacked against you. 😈🗡️ saitoki.itch.io/incubus-and-... #blvn #boyslove

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 03/08/2025

Our #yaoijam2025 project will have animation after all...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 21/07/2025

Suddenly, I had an idea for O2A2, so I made an impulse project over the weekend. Took an all-nighter, but I'm pretty happy how it turned out. saitoki.itch.io/confessions-...

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Confessions Of A Beta by saitoki

ABO verse story about a scientist's misconduct

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 14/07/2025

#yaoijam2025 progress: - Sprites done - BG 4/5 - CG 1/5 Here is some sneak peek!

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 04/07/2025

Surely I'm not adding animation to my game...

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arimia @arimiadev.com · 25/06/2025

Announcing the Fall Into Love: Romance VNs Festival, a Steam festival just for visual novels focusing on romance held at the end of September! 💖 We're currently looking for more Steam games to join us, as long as they're visual novels. Please sign up before July 15th. forms.gle/oBCkYx3SNqVL...

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Romance Visual Novels Steam Festival Sign-up Form

This is a form for developers & publishers wanting to join a romance visual novels Steam festival in the fall of 2025 during the last week of September, held by Studio Élan. Submissions will close Jul...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 22/06/2025

Mixed media fun piece. Originally he was naked but i didn't like his nipples so now he is censored with eccentric clothes.

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 19/06/2025

Slowly sketching for the unamed #yaoijam2025 project...

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ebi @ebihimes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My new BL visual novel, Beneath the Bleeding Moon, has been released! It's an adventure story about a cross-dressing young man and a devious thief who go on a journey to lift an ancient curse! 🌖 store.steampowered.com/app/2553080 🌖 ebihime.itch.io/bleeding-moon #yaoi #boyslove #blvn

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 17/06/2025

So... I'm joining #yaoijam2025. Here is the (very rough] draft for the MCs sprite. Decided to partner up with @pumpkin-spike.itch.io for this project, the characters were designed by her!

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 31/05/2025

After alcohol based marker, here are some (a bit fail) attempts at Acrylic marker and watercolor painting. Traditional art is so unforgiving with mistakes. I should get back to digital art for the beloved undo button...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 15/05/2025

Saw some cool youtuber drawing video that made me have the urge to dust off my marker set and attempt traditional art again. First fanart in years, recently I just learned that DNAngel ended...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 01/04/2025

Hey, just an announcement regarding Hardship Of a Vampire.Recently I had gotten into animating and decided to make the game fully animated. Release date will be greatly delayed so just a head-up...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 14/03/2025

Drew one of Vamp game npc on paper, gonna trace her digitally for sprite later...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 09/03/2025

Impulsely bought a cheap market set yesterday so i did an Oliver for testing... Traditional art hard...

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Sol ✨ Play my Steam games @solarprotag.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My newest game, The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not, is now out on Itchio and Steam! Explore the city of Twinbells and experience this girl's love visual novel about phantom thieves! #visualnovel #indiegame #girlslove store.steampowered.com/app/3333600/…

Screenshot from The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not.
Shows the flower shop scene, with Desirée's sprite in her uniform in the middle of the screen and Crow's disguise side portrait in the bottom left. The text reads "Crow: You've gotta get back to work at some point, lover-girl."

screenshot from The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not.
shows the balcony scene, with a cut-in of Forget Me Not looking over their shoulder with a smirk in the center of the screen. The text reads: "Forget Me Not: Good night, Miss Lebedev."

Screenshot from The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not.
Shows the CG of Desirée catching Irina on the rooftops at night.

screenshot from The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not.
Shows the museum entrance scene at night, with a cut-in of Forget Me Not smirking in the center of the screen. The text reads: "Forget Me Not: I am Forget Me Not, and it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance tonight at my debut heist."

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 22/02/2025

Hardships Of A Vampire Extended Demo is released: - 11k words - 9 CGs - new revamped UI -new characters and locations -a lot of transitions and character blinking saitoki.itch.io/hardship/dev...

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Saitoki @saitoki.itch.io · 19/02/2025

Thanks @twoandahalfstudios.com for hosting the story teller festival. Even though I didn't manage to get the demo up in time for the event, I'm still happy to be able to participate with Hardships Of A Vampire. Check out all the cool games here! store.steampowered.com/developer/Tw...