Imperial Grace

Imperial Grace

@synstoria.bsky.social

Synstoria is a LGBTQ+ woman lead studio, working on romance games. Currently making Imperial Grace 👑 Previous work : Ballads at Midnight 🦇 & Autumn Spirit 🍁

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In those betatest time, I realize my toxic trait is to refuse to put a period at the end of tooltip's sentences 😅 I don't know why it feels like... aggressive to me? The sentence, is all cozy wrapped up in it's bubble, it doesn't need ponctuation..

I'm not fun police, while I designed the game in a certain way my philosophy will always be: play the game how you enjoy it the most! Want to save scum every 5 minutes? Yolo your way out? You do you!😁 In this spirit we have 3 modes: story, normal and hard! <3

31 game over ?!💀Are we the dark souls of visual novel? ⁉️Nop! Our goal was never to punish the player, if you can take the worst possible decision every time and never have any consequences, there is no stakes anymore!

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My goal is for people to enjoy their first blind run, but I’m team “there is no right way to play a game”, only the way YOU have the most fun. So if you want to plan the perfect run from the start we will sell our game guide listing EVERY choices and outcomes. No surprise!

31 game over ?!💀Are we the dark souls of visual novel? ⁉️Nop! Our goal was never to punish the player, if you can take the worst possible decision every time and never have any consequences, there is no stakes anymore!

If you don't ignore your problems and your subject and don't act dumb you will be fine!💕 Even if you do get a game over, the game has special saves at each chapter and during key moment so you don't lose too much progression and don't have to serial save yourself!

If you are a content creator and you would like to receive an EA key for Imperial Grace, please fill this form before the 30th October: bit.ly/ImperialGrac... I have my own list of creators I will contact anyway but I want to make sure I don't forget anyone🥰

bit.lyImperial Grace - Streamers & Content CreatorsHi! Here is the Imperial Grace form form for Streamers and Content Creators. We will contact you for the launch campaign if you are selected! 👌🏼 Please note that keys are limited and we cannot selec...

I'm happy to announce that so far we are on track for the release, English betatesting opened yesterday! The translation was a massive beast, there is still things I want to add or polish and typos to fix but were are getting there 💕

And finally the best accessibility options are the one for everyone! We used to have a "color blind" option, I removed it when I redesigned the interface: I included higher contrasts, icons and everything directly into the UI as it makes everyone's life easier. 💖

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The rarest accessibility options we have is the photosensitive and motion sickness ones! I never thought about it until I was educated by the lovely @lawrichai ❤️ It's not always possible but I try to accomodate our players as much as I can to make their experience comfortable😊

The rarest accessibility options we have is the photosensitive and motion sickness ones! I never thought about it until I was educated by the lovely @lawrichai ❤️ It's not always possible but I try to accomodate our players as much as I can to make their experience comfortable😊

Imperial Grace@synstoria.bsky.social

Sometime, a good font is not enough, so to be as comfortable as possible to a wide range of people we also added a high contrast and some drastic sizing option!

Sometime, a good font is not enough, so to be as comfortable as possible to a wide range of people we also added a high contrast and some drastic sizing option!

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This week I want to highlight our efforts to make the game accessible ✨ Starting with a very common feature for visual novel: changing fonts! Since we have a lot of letters in game, we even included the option to remove the fancy signature for something more legible!

This week I want to highlight our efforts to make the game accessible ✨ Starting with a very common feature for visual novel: changing fonts! Since we have a lot of letters in game, we even included the option to remove the fancy signature for something more legible!

So apparently there is 30k people who are interested by badass MC, medieval politics and our 3 hot love interests🥰👀 Thank you so much everyone for your support!

It’s official, after 6 years of development, Imperial Grace finally has an official release date! The game is coming the 🎉🎉🎉 11th November. 🎉🎉🎉 I’m so stressed and excited, thank you for believing in us for so long!🥰

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Our Sunday stream is always a home for VNs, but tonight as part of the #fallinlovefestival we're checking out Imperial Grace! A kingdom management story where our advisors seem to be our romance interests. Created by @synstoria.bsky.social #vtuber #envtuber #goinglive www.twitch.tv/autumnalregent

twitch.tvAutumnalRegent - TwitchThey/She. An alien, living on your world to experience its culture! I play a wide variety of games and like to keep a fun, casual atmosphere. The stream is intended for mature audiences due to swearin...

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moving onto our next demo after a quick break, Imperial Grace by @synstoria.bsky.social !

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another day, another bunathon, and still more VN's to play from the #FallInLoveFestival! P5R later at some point we'll be starting with Mermaids are Seafood by @lyyycaena.bsky.social ! watch here<3 { #sxkyuLive | #vSky | #vTuber | #ENVTuber | #VTLive | #vStreamer | #bunathon | #subathon }

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(4) Imperial Grace by @synstoria.bsky.social . Otome game with a really neat resource management/political strategy twist. Very attractive love interests (and other characters who aren't love interests but should be). Fantastic demo! #FallinLoveFestival store.steampowered.com/app/1652580/...

store.steampowered.comImperial Grace on SteamImperial Grace is a visual novel about romance, medieval intrigue, and political strategy. Will you rule with your head, or your heart?

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Very honored to be part of the choices matter fest hosted by @telltalegames.bsky.social 🥰 See you monday for more exciting news 👀 I will also be streaming on discord for the occasion (exact hour TBA)✨

Telltale@telltalegames.bsky.social

Celebrate narrative games w/ our first-ever CHOICES MATTER FEST on Steam! AUGUST 10 - 17th: It’s stacked with... 🪧40+ Demos 🪧Behind-the-scenes content 🪧Interviews 🪧A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-type quiz 🪧Exclusive announcements 🪧TWO WORLD PREMIERES (not ours) 🪧…and discounts on 90 featured games!

I am actively programming on Renpy since 2017, and I discovered a week ago, I could fix the error "label defined twice" by just clicking on the "force recompile button" instead of chasing them manually like a mad lass 😅 We never stop learning huh

🇫🇷 Je serais sur le stand de Women in Game lors de la Japan expo 2026, le 9 et 10 Juillet. N'hésitez pas à passer faire un coucou, je donnerais aussi quelques goodies gratuitement !

Update on the lore book and other merch, I finally received everything today. There were so much problems with the printing then the delivery, I was super stressed and forgot to also tell you here. 🙈 I'm very sorry about the delay, I will do my best to package and ship everything ASAP.

On a happier note, if you want to join, I will unbox most of the cardboard today at 4PM (UTC+2) on our discord, it will be story time if you want to know more about all of this or just chat!

Hello, a little update about the merch situation! I should receive the test copy of the lore book 21th May along with Asha, Alex and Theo bookmarks, if everything is correct I will order the rest right after and then start shipping everything <3

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I'm happy to announce that our temporary merch shop is opened! It’s your last chance to grab a physical copy of our carefully crafted lorebook, our gorgeous bookmark set or our cute sticker sheet <3 ✨ ko-fi.com/synstoria/sh...

Honestly if they don't back down it will be so crushing for us and so many dev, we worked so hard the past years to gather our wishlist, with the serenity that some day we would be there and it would make a little difference and now they just want to take it away...

Adriaan@adriaan.games

Steam is apparently taking away the Popular Upcoming list, which takes release dates into account, and replacing it with an Upcoming list with all future releases NOT taking release date into account. are indies losing another opportunity for visibility? www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c... #gamedev