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Terminal Status

@terminalstatus.bsky.social
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Hi, I'm going to be a queer mecha menhera visual novel when I grow up! Please kindly watch over me!

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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I'm always learning and growing, and so are my designs! (The nice part of taking so long is always having time for tweaks!) Which eye color do you think looks best on Vagus?
Vagus's original design, with blue eyes.Vagus's revised design, with dark eyes.
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TOWNSQUEER vol. 1 📅 May 29 ➡ June 15 @gamedev.lgbt · 12/06/2026
We have Fellows, we have Feelings, and we also have....Fully Conscious Games?! @terminalstatus.bsky.social has become sentient and decided to open with this line: 'is love a gift, an obligation, or a means to an end?' Read more in our bundle TOWNSQUEER, available until June 15th: itch.io/b/3666/
Zine page of terminal status, showing two hand-drawn cute girls talking against a visual novel background, and some introductory text on the game
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Would you still love me if I started roleplaying as a sentient visual novel for anonymity and marketability purposes? 👉👈
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hi everyone, you can find me in this zine! Who is 'me,' you ask? Why of course ✨me✨, Terminal Status! You should read my interview, where I talk about being a game! There are other games, too, and interviews with their devs! I hope my dev is just as proud of me when I finish growing up...
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
For the longest time I had it in my head that Terminal Status was going to lean hard into bright white. That's simply the vision I had, and eyestrain be damned I was committed to it. This week, I'm finally embracing mercy. The art direction is going to shift to include off-white. You're welcome.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
When I'm not happy with how a coloring experiment looks, I just throw the finished piece through random filters... Can't tell which I like best 🤷‍♂️
Drawing of Post-Op in a cropped, bags sweater. She smiles at the camera.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Vocal tip: through the magical powers of hot water with honey and ginger, your local alto can spend an entire recording session pretending to be a soprano without their throat exploding
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Today would be a great day to finish up some song demos for my game about disability, if not for the thing stopping me currently: disability
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Writing for games is so uniquely satisfying, because it forces me to hone in on utility. Since most information has to be delivered through dialogue or action, I'm always thinking of the purpose behind every line I write. Building hyper-effective scripts reminds me that writing is craftsmanship.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A lot of script work has been done this week, including a major overhaul in how the story is laid out. I think the final product is definitely going to benefit from the changes ✨
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Concuss, Viscera, Lacerae, and Intravenous have all had their references updated to reflect the newer piloting suit design. These images have also been uploaded to the website.
Realistic reference for Concuss.Realistic reference for Intravenous.Realistic reference for Lacerae Shun.Realistic reference for Viscera.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Website update: the Art Direction page now has a neat gallery section, complete with filters for references, concept art, and illustrations ✨
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Crescendo is kind and good and probably a secret angel, and everyone should throw love and attention at her. By the way.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I have learned the supreme joy of making games with music. Because I can stop the song with a sudden halt when my protagonist has screwed something up, to intensify the comedic beats. And it's really funny no matter how many times I do it. Once I have an entire soundtrack I will be unstoppable.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
What if I just... quietly put up an update to Nothing Like You with music and minor writing changes... without having figured out the complicated menu stuff that's kicking my ass?
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Goals for 2026: - update "Nothing Like You" (soon!) - make at least 1 new sidegame - finalize all designs - draw sprites for at least 2 (if not more) characters - finish current draft of Terminal Status script - jump into new (hopefully the final) script revision
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Work on the update for "Nothing Like You" has been slow going due to difficulties understanding screens (along with stumbling into several new gamedev projects along the way), but studying has been happening and hopefully results will come soon 💪
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The good news: I'm working on coding! The bad news: my studying of styles and screens is Not going well. My brain explodes.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A little world building: Terminal Status's equivalent of a phone is simply a "tube," which is an electronic communication device with a tactile, holographic basis (AKA: motion activated commands, and uses holograms). Like most tech, tubes have specific phrases and slang attached to them.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I accidentally wrote Post-Op another character song, but thought I might have lucked out with it. Her initial one was partially rap, which quite doesn't suit her character well (it probably happened because she's the one I relate to most, so my own genre preferences shone through).
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I keep worrying about how the Gnosia AU sidegame is going to end up more interesting than Terminal Status itself, but I think that's just something I need to accept. I'm putting a supernatural death game up against a romantic drama, gaps in intrigue comes with the territory.
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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 15/11/2025
good creative ideas are always infuriating because they inevitably mean more work
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The good news is I've started scripting out the Gnosia AU game, and found ways to make the tutorial a thousand times more entertaining and effective. The bad news is it's going to require me to draw SO many CGs.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
As Terminal Status takes place on a space academy, designing the ship has always been on the to-do list. Doing so does not come easy to me. Ailantd has been a huge inspiration to me, and I've long wished to try applying the skills I see her using. Now, I've finally found the necessary vision.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I've been thinking so long about how to insert an oximeter into my world design, and I just realized... maybe that's what the space academy can be designed after. Maybe the H1PP0-CRAFT is a giant oximeter-shaped ship.
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Meiri Games 🎮🇧🇷 Game Dev / Queer Games @meiri.itch.io · 02/11/2025
share to save a visual novel's dev life
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I have come up with maybe the funniest way to start an RPGMaker game
Screenshot of a text document labelled Silly RPG Maker thing.
you "Ugh, my head..."
you "What is this place? I don't know where I am."
you "I don't even know... *who* I am."
Pal "Cut it out with the amnesiac bit!! God, you do this every time!"

Cut it out with the amnesiac bit?
> No
> Definitely not

you "Who... are you?"
pal "You know who I am! I'm Aide, your best friend!"
you "Aide..."
aide "..."
aide "Are you really going to keep this up? I'm so sick of this joke."
aide "Don't tell me you're just gonna lay there until I say the thing?"
you "Nngh, my head..."
aide sigh "..."
aide "Press WASD to move."[Interact with room exit]
you "I should go bother—I mean, talk to Aide first."
Aide "I can hear you, you know! I can hear you narrating to yourself!"

[Talk to Aide. Only the first set of dialogue is necessary to leave the room.]

you "Aide... I can't remember anything. Who am I?"
aide "For the love of—you know your name! You're:"
[ENTER NAME HERE]
you "Right... [Name]. I remember now."
aide "I'm going to kill you."

you "I can interact with people and objects using the SPACEBAR or the ENTER key."
aide "You'll be pressing SHIFT to run if you say another one of those stupid lines in front of me!"
you "(hee hee)"

you "The best thing about Aide is how they fully understand the game but play anyway."
aide "You literally refuse to do anything until I say the thing. I hate it. I'm never waking you up again."[Interact with mirror]
[CG of protagonist reflected back in a mirror]
you "This extremely attractive person... is that me?"
aide "Shut upppppp!"

[Same CG second time, maybe looking less wide-eyed]
you "This beautiful stranger looking back at me... I bet she's really funny."
aide "More like really annoying."
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Today I worked so long on music that my fret-holding hand hurts 🙋
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It shouldn't be a priority, but I really want to go back and remake Towers are Hospitals at some point. I revisited it recently, and disagree with a lot of the editing decisions I made (specifically how I shied away from being explicit with the content matter).
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
decided to do #the_color_wheel with Terminal Status's limited palette! get pastel'd 😎
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I've been a songwriter longer than I've been a gamedev, & I've been a weeb even longer than that. So I've always been bewitched by the idea of the ever-elusive Character Song, á la old anime and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. As such, I decided character songs would be a part of Terminal Status.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My cats heard me recording vocal demos for the game today and thought, "you know what this needs? The sounds of me violently jumping around and pushing over piles of objects."
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I have been developing Terminal Status for upwards of four years now, AND finished two full (short side) games, and only now do I start working on proper promotional art. I know exactly why I have put this off, with is typography. Fonts & logos are not my friends. Graphic design is not my passion.
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Terminal Status @terminalstatus.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Thank you for your interest in Terminal Status! Terminal Status is a future #VisualNovel about #queer 20-somethings in space. It's a #scifi #pastel #menhera romance, and my passion project. Itch: pride-col.itch.io Website: terminalstatus.neocities.org Mastodon: gamedev.lgbt/@TerminalSta...
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