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@spiralatlas.itch.io
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A small Australian creator of visual novels, visual novel tools, and other things. They/them. spiralatlas.itch.io

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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 09/10/2026
*Rolls eyes* Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has been *done* already.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 09/10/2026
@60yaks@mastodon.gamedev.place currently attempting to persuade me to add multiplayer and bullet hell to Northanger Abbey. But the game is done! I can add those to Pride and Prejudice!
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 28/09/2026
You can play the current version here: spiralatlas.itch.io/pride-or-pre...
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Pride or Prejudice [DEMO] by Spiral Atlas
Like Pride and Prejudice, but queer and interactive!
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 28/09/2026
Now that Northanger Abbey has been out for a while, it's time to get back to work on Pride and Prejudice! Or possibly Pride or Prejudice. Pride xor Prejudice? I should probably settle on the title at some point.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 26/09/2026
The game is set in 1800 so he doesn't literally talk about crypto but also there's no nearby trains to push him in front of. Whether this is better or worse is subjective.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 26/09/2026
Meet all these characters and more in Northanger Abbey, now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3855740/...
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Northanger Abbey on Steam
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 26/09/2026
John Thorpe: You have met this guy at a party and he tried to sell you crypto while talking constantly about his car. For fans of oddly endearing train wrecks.
John: The most charming man in Bath just ask him. A smirking pale blonde man in a dark regency suit with yellow detailing.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 26/09/2026
Isabella Thorpe: Sugar-sweet on the surface, a two-faced schemer underneath. For fans of toxic romance.
Isabella: Your new best friend like it or not. A smiling pale blond woman in a yellow regency dress.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 26/09/2026
Eleanor Tilney: A bookish trans goth girl. For fans of soft romance.
Eleanor: A melancholy artist with a secret. She is a gently smiling dark skinned woman in a pink and white regency dress with Indian patterns.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 26/09/2026
Henry Tilney: Under the jokes, he's earnest and kind, and charmed by your enthusiasm. For fans of green flag boys with a sense of humour.
Henry: a snarky priest with an eye for muslin. He is a smiling dark skinned man in a pink-red regency suit, holding a cane.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 26/09/2026
Someone asked me for a link to Northanger Abbey's press kit, which made me realise I should probably make one >.> Anyway, here's a thread of descriptions I made for the love interests of Northanger Abbey github.com/spiralatlas/...
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presskit/Northanger Abbey at main · spiralatlas/presskit
Materials for press and streamers about Spiral Atlas Games - spiralatlas/presskit
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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 22/09/2026
Game Devs of Color Expo 2026 kicks off today!🥳 Network in our virtual space @ 10:45AM ET ⭐️ Meet Supercell: Learn about & connect w/ the team ⭐️ Publishing AMA w/ No More Robots: Ask Director @mikerose.bsky.social about publishing, marketing & sales ⭐️ Speed networking & more #gamedev #gdocexpo2026
Game devs of color expo 2026 starts today! conference loaded!
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 21/09/2026
Figured out after someone else asked if it was possible: If you draw in black and white with a two-tone brush, duplicate the layer, then apply "brightness to opacity" to the top layer, you get line and fill layers to colour as you see fit. Here's a few minutes work with some default CSP brushes:
A picture of grass with coloured lines
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 20/09/2026
Ahhh people are buying my game!! Some of them even said nice things about it!! *bounces*
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 18/09/2026
Northanger Abbey is out on Steam!! Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey. store.steampowered.com/app/3855740/...
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Save 15% on Northanger Abbey on Steam
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 18/09/2026
Northanger Abbey is out on Steam!! Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey. store.steampowered.com/app/3855740/...
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Save 15% on Northanger Abbey on Steam
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 18/09/2026
The Steam game page and Steam version of the game, that is, Steam doesn't object to itch games linking to itch haha. And I seem to have gotten away with links in game and on Steam page to my github hosted homepage, which links to my credits page, which links to itchio assets.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 18/09/2026
Also I had to carefully scrub any direct links to itch not just from the game page but from any page linked from the game or game page, like my homepage and the walkthrough, even if I was just crediting an asset. Steam is apparently very strict about that sort of thing.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 18/09/2026
From a dev perspective: Steam objects to any other storefront having the same content cheaper, which is why Northanger Abbey Rewritten can't be PWYW like my other games, and I had to make sure the paid version had significant new content compared to the old PWYW one.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 18/09/2026
Absolutely! Both the original PWYW version and the updated version (which is the same as the Steam release in price and content) will be staying on itch permanently. The Steam release is to reach an audience not on itch, but the itch audience will always matter too :) Also, thanks!
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 17/09/2026
OMG Northanger Abbey is coming out TOMORROW!!! Wishlist it now! (while I quietly freak out)
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 16/09/2026
I made some simple transparent rain overlays for visual novel backgrounds: spiralatlas.itch.io/rain-overlay...
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Rain Overlay for Visual Novel Backgrounds by Spiral Atlas
Transparent PNGs of rain to put over the top of visual novel backgrounds and sprites.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 14/09/2026
Feel like I should be like... Northanger Abbey is debuting in four days! Gosh, how many will add it to their dance cards before then? etc but mostly I'm just going WHAT DO YOU MEAN FOUR DAYS. Anyway: wishlist my queer Jane Austen VN, releasing in 4 days (?!) store.steampowered.com/app/3855740/...
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Northanger Abbey on Steam
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 13/09/2026
I had a lot of fun with a friend playing the first edition. I feel like the kinds of stories and character behaviours it encourages are more about intrigue than Jane Austen novels tend to be, but that does create interesting gameplay.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 13/09/2026
The second edition of Jane Austen RPG Good Society is on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...
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Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition
Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.
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Runa Winters @runa-liore.itch.io · 09/09/2026
I usually catch the nintendo Indirect it's where I hear random reactions from people on my timeline and I have to piece together what happened in the direct like a crash scene investigator
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 06/09/2026
I know the Fall In Love festival in particular has been having difficulties with visibility on Steam so definitely check them out.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 06/09/2026
Here's to life letting up sometime in the next two weeks so I have the energy to do some promotion leading up to Northanger Abbey's release. Festivals really have been a godsend for getting my game actually seen by anyone, much appreciation to the people who organise them.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 06/09/2026
Sean, you may ask, why are you posting about the Fall in Love Festival so late? Because I thought I had forgotten to apply and so wasn't in it >.> I'd been meaning to repost the announcement anyway but my brain has (evidently) been absolute mush lately. Thank heavens for more organised people.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 06/09/2026
Northanger Abbey is in this along with many other cool games!
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 04/09/2026
This thread of reactions to the book is a lot of fun.
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caede styles @caede.sanctuary17223.com · 02/09/2026
A little Queer Wrongs Jam postmortem. How easy it is to run a jam, how it was not primarily a response to the censorship you're thinking of, and how I embraced love for the internet again. caedestyles.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/h...
Progress pride flag with text reading: how and why I hosted the Queer Wrongs Jam
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Carrot 🥕 @justacarrot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Are you a streamer or press outlet who'd be interested in covering games for the first ever ace-focused Steam festival? Then fill out this streamer/press interest form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help us make this a wonderful celebration of ace games and developers! #asexual #GamesThatAceIt
A logo for the Games That Ace It Steam festival featuring the ace colors.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 12/08/2026
Even if I *could* somehow guarantee that censorship would only affect works I don't personally jive with, I'd still be against it, because the people making that stuff deserve to be able to make it! My personal preferences are not the arbiter of morality or what should and should not exist.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 12/08/2026
And my works are mostly G rated, and while I do consume sexually explicit works I have a bunch of squicks and triggers. I would still much rather live in a world where people are encouraged to create what they want, including things I would not make and/or consume myself. The alternative is Bad.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 11/08/2026
if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction.
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's late so I'll do a proper post tomorrow and splash it about everywhere, but: The nonbinary names survey results are up! gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/8238848...
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2026 nonbinary name survey: results
While the big annual survey continues (until 13th August), I'm here to give you the results of the nonbinary name survey! This is on the blog because it's technically a side survey for fun. The survey...
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 27/07/2026
🎮 new post: running a third-party steam event for the first time sharing some numbers & a timeline for nonbinary coded games! hopefully this info is helpful to other indie devs interested in running a steam sale event tnywndr.cafe/office/2026-...
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nonbinary coded games - running a third-party steam event for the first time
organised nonbinary coded games with nomnomnami so here's some numbers, timeline, & thoughts
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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 21/07/2026
Happy to have been a small part of the team for the o2a2 game Lover's Call CANCELLED. I promised a hideous half-assed background and like to think I delivered ^_^ It's a fun little game, give it a shot! omegabutton.itch.io/lovers-call-...
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Lover's Call [CANCELLED] [ANNOUNCEMENT] by omegabutton
(CANCELLED; PLEASE SEE GAME FOR MORE DETAILS)
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 19/07/2026
Pay what you want for these Modern House Visual Novel Backgrounds. Pretty happy with how these came out! spiralatlas.itch.io/more-house-b...
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Modern House Backgrounds by Spiral Atlas
Backgrounds with variants of a modern fancy house
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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 18/07/2026
It's still #NonbinaryAwarenessWeek so it's still #NonbinaryCodedGames time!!! check out all these cool games made by nonbinary devs! have you found some games to enjoy yet? 💛🤍💜🖤
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Clara 🌟 wishlist Pelikeeper! @trendywalnut.dev · 16/07/2026
CALLING ALL LOW BUDGET INDIE GAMES‼️ We're gathering games interested in participating in a "Low Budget, Big Heart" Steam Festival! 💰Self Published, Self Funded 🤏Under ~50k budget 🚫NO AI if you're interested in the festival sign up here: forms.gle/cndDrEf4rxiL... rts appreciated :)
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Low Budget, Big Heart Steam Festival interest form
We're looking for interested developers of low budget games to participate in our potential steam festival! Self published/self funded games are also welcome. If your game had a development budget ov...
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Studio Ephua 🦋 Play SOLOMANIA on Itch.io! @studioephua.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Are you a game developer? Do choices matter in your game? Sign ups for the 2026 edition of the successful Choose Wisely Festival and Showcase are now open! Join us in celebrating branching narrative games! Open globally to developers of all sizes. 📝 cutt.ly/CWF26DevSignUp #ChooseWiselyFestival
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ
Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 14/07/2026
Upcoming queer Jane Austen adaptation Northanger Abbey in #NonbinaryCodedGames! Play my demo or check out some of the other cool games by other non-binary devs! Non Binary Coded Games: store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... Northanger Abbey: store.steampowered.com/app/3855740/...
Non Binary Coded games July 13-20 2026 celebrating games made by nonbinary developers. Inset is the key art for Northanger Abbey.
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Behind every "solo dev success story" is usually a partner working 9-5 for years to pay the bills.
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A short and easy survey about nonbinary names: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Closing date: 19th July 2026 #nonbinary #survey
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Nonbinary names survey
Just a fun survey to find out about popular names and common naming trends among nonbinary people! You will get the chance to enter up to three names. If you go by more than three names and you're not...
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Sean @spiralatlas.itch.io · 27/06/2026
I don't click with a lot of podcasts so initially only listened to this because they mentioned Northanger Abbey, but this was legit really fun and interesting, and I got some games for my to-play list. Gonna go back and listen from the start, they have some interesting looking episodes.
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