Crystal Game Works

@CrystalGameWork

We're a female-ran #visualnovel studio focused on queer fantasy & romance games! Finished Games: A Pinch of Magic, Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea, and more

Memphis, TNcrystalgameworks.comJoined March 2018

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Crystal Game Works

@CrystalGameWork

Dec 30, 2021

Our Victorian vampire drama visual novel, Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea, is out now! Follow a runaway kid and a vagabond as they become entangled in solving a vampire attack from a decade prior. 🦇Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1804970/Cr ✨itchio: crystalgameworks.itch.io/crimson-waves-

Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇✨

Yesterday we released the extended demo for Canvas Menagerie on itchio which has a brand new chapter! This demo includes: - 16.8k words - new artwork - new features and more! 💖Play it here: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager

Crystal Game Works

@CrystalGameWork

Oct 29

The extended demo for Canvas Menagerie, our slice of life boys love visual novel about TV actors, is now here! This demo is over 16k words with a new chapter and features new artwork. 💜 Play it now: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager

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Oct 29

Great news! The extended demo for Canvas Menagerie will release... later today! This new build includes a new chapter that almost doubles the size of the demo as well as new artwork, new menu features, and other small improvements. #visualnovel #screenshotsaturday

Crystal Game Works

@CrystalGameWork

Oct 28

We're making a slice of life boys love visual novel about a group of actors going through their mid-20s together while on set 💜 🎞️Check out the demo on itchio: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 27

Take a break for a couple of hours with a Victorian-esque mystery about a string of vampire attacks and a pair of runaway kids. Our visual novel Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea has all positive reviews on Steam & itchio! 🦇Play it now: store.steampowered.com/app/1804970/Cr

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 26

You decide to spend the night downtown but run into a familiar face... The extended demo for our slice of life BL Canvas Menagerie is almost done! Follow our itchio for when it releases ✨ More info: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager #indiedevhour #visualnovel

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 25

Canvas Menagerie is our slice of life boys love visual novel about a group of actors filming a TV show and going through their mid-20s together. 💜Play the demo: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 22

It can be hard to talk to strangers, especially strangers that look so much like your coworkers (who are also kind of strangers). The extended demo for Canvas Menagerie will release soon on itchio! Stay tuned for a new half hour of content ✨ #visualnovel #screenshotsaturday

Game: The Witch in the Forest vndb.org/v23763 The Witch in the Forest (TWITF) is a short girls love visual novel centered around Fidelia, a somewh... #visualnovel #vn

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 20

New devlog ✨ Today we take a look at the concept art for the main cast of Canvas Menagerie and how they turned out in the game! Read it here: crystalgameworks.com/designing-the- #visualnovel #indiegame

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Oct 17

Niko 💙✨💖

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Oct 15

You walk into a bar and find a familiar looking face is your bartender... The extended demo for Canvas Menagerie is almost done! #visualnovel #screenshotsaturday

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 9

Some cutscene art previews for Canvas Menagerie, our slice of life romance visual novel about queer actors filming a TV show! 💜 🎞️Play the demo: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager #visualnovel #indiegame

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 8

Canvas Menagerie is set in Atlanta, Georgia, the Hollywood of the South and a vibrant town teeming with new possibilities. Here's one of the custom backgrounds to show off the downtown areas! #visualnovel #screenshotsaturday

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 7

This year we're hosting Winter Visual Novel Jam alongside

@Maricu_Dev

! It's a relaxed game jam about making winter-themed VNs. Submit: ✅Games already started ✅Brand new games ✅Demos/prologues Rules: ❌No judging ❌No rankings ✅Have fun! Sign up:

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Winter Visual Novel Jam 2022

A game jam from 2022-12-01 to 2023-01-01 hosted by Crystal Game Works & Maricu. Welcome to the 2022 Winter Visual Novel Jam! This is a game jam for visual novel and story-focused developers. Contin...

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 5

Canvas Menagerie is our in development slice of life romance visual novel about gay actors. We're working on an extended demo right now! 🎬 Play the current demo on itchio: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager #indiedevhour #visualnovel

Crystal Game Works

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Oct 4

There's been a lot of progress for Canvas Menagerie going on behind the scenes! - script has passed 50k words - each main character now has several outfits - new features have been added for the extended demo #visualnovel #indiegame

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Sep 24

It's Saturday so here's a look at a new scene in Canvas Menagerie for the upcoming extended demo! Niko and Serena head out to a bar and run into a familiar face... #visualnovel #screenshotsaturday

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Sep 23

New outfits are on the way in Canvas Menagerie! The cast will have more attire in the extended demo, coming next month. #visualnovel #indiegame

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Sep 15

A look at the opening to Canvas Menagerie, which starts with the cast filming the pilot for their show! Does it remind you of watching something on TV? #visualnovel #indiegame

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Sep 12

And here's the old version, for comparison.

One of the upcoming updates for Canvas Menagerie's demo is new artwork! Here's a look at Serena's new character art. #visualnovel #indiegame

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A small new feature coming to Canvas Menagerie is a character bios section! You can read up on characters and Niko's thoughts about them, which will evolve as the story progresses. #visualnovel #indiegame

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Aug 25

Version 1.1 of the demo for Canvas Menagerie has been released! This is a small update that replaces a few art assets and a couple other tweaks. Play it here: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager

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Aug 22

ICYMI: last week we released the demo for our next project, a wholesome, slice of life boys love VN about a group of actors going through their 20s together! Play the demo here: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager

Crystal Game Works

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Aug 20

The demo for our next project, a slice of life visual novel about a group of queer actors, is out now on itchio! Play it now: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager #screenshotsaturday #visualnovel

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Aug 19

The current demo features a variety of scenes from the full game and is about an hour long. This build was made for the Trans Rep Game Jam!

Announcing our newest game Canvas Menagerie! Follow a group of queer actors on a TV show set as they navigate their 20s together in this slice of life boys love visual novel. You can try it out right now! Play the demo: crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menager More info: crystalgameworks.com/visual-novels/

A preview of things to come soon...

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Jul 22

A year ago today, Asterism released publicly after being in development for over 4 and 1/2 years. Thank you to everyone who's tried out our gay action visual novel!

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Jun 13

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Crystal Game Works

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Jun 3

The Queer Games Bundle is live on itchio! Our games aren't in this bundle but we think this is a great cause, so go support it and get over 500 projects made by queer devs 💕 Check it out: itch.io/b/1404/queer-g

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Jun 1

2 different shading styles... maybe 2 different projects...? 👀

👀 #indiedevhour

Studio Élan ⚢ @ Please Be Happy Release Nov. 21

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May 7

Just 1 week left until Élan Festival, our streamed event where we'll showcase updates and announcements for LGBT+ games! Save the date: May 14th, 4PM PT | 7PM ET

Guess what-

will be continuing the development of Drops of Death! We hope you'll support them for the project while we work on a few other games we might announce soon 👀 Read more:

blog.snowhavenstudios.com

Announcing Drops of Death!

Hello everyone! We’re incredibly excited to announce that our studio will be taking over development for Crystal Game Works’ Drops of Death! Our studio had been closely following the development of...