KoptenOwl
Picky Owl Editorial Services
Found the indie game scene in 2019,and fell in love with the creativity and collaborative culture on this site. Mainly involved in the editing side of things; I love being a fresh set of eyes to help a project be the best it can be. DM me on Discord ( kopten_owl) if you have a project and you want to discuss my rates.
Projects I'm a part of:
- Creator of Furry Visual Novel Species Diversity Spreadsheet
- Beta-reader for When the Crickets Cry by Monu (Feb 2024, TBD )
- Editor for Sex Drive by MinoAnon and Eddio (6/2023-)
- Proofreader/Beta Reader for Devil's Gambit by Roddo (3/2023-)
- Timelord for Burrows by CaptainNikko (11/2021-)
- Beta Tester for Beyond the Harbor :r by Harmonius(7/2021-)
- Beta Tester for Minotaur Hotel (10/2020-)
- Proofreading / Beta Tester for Nerus by Roddo (8/2020-)
I've also contributed violin towards a few VN tracks:
- Cascade, for Hiro Day 3 of Burrows , by CaptainNikko (7/2024)
- My Moment to Shine, for Gabe Day 3 of Burrows, by CaptainNikko (3/2024)
- "Like A Tree"(Credits Theme) by Eymon from BURROWS a paradise beyond by Harmonious (1/2023)
- Himmel Träger, for Hiro Day 1 of Burrows, by CaptainNikko (12/2022
I've edited and contributed towards quite a few projects, too many to list here with itch's wordcount limit. For a full list of my past projects, visit my Linktr.ee; here's a spotlight on a few:
- Editor for One Thousand Yards by Shiro
- Co editor for A Handful of Dustby Shiro
- Co-editor for What a Day That Was! by Shiro
- Co-Writer for PenguiNFT (O2A2 - Visual Novel Jam).
- Editor for Roddorod's Harvest Lab (7/2022)
- Co-writer for The Gang Goes Through the McDonald's Drive-Thru(4/1/2022 -NaNoRenNo 2022)
My Rating System
*I have borrowed this system from AdventureGamers because I really like how they articulate things. For the purposes of itch.io ratings, I will be rounding up the half-star score to the nearest whole star. However, while I am in the process of re-reviewing games, I will be denoting the half-stars in my review. Here's my rationale for reviewing
The Good Stuff
The Best Things I've Found on this Site
Play as a Rabbit in this Furry-themed platformer, filled with cutscenes and easter eggs!
Platformer
Build a socialist utopia out of the ashes of late capitalism
Simulation
Play in browser
The long-awaited killing game visual novel. Defeat the mysteries of Bitokukawa Academy!
Visual Novel
16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Visual Novel
Comics / Writings
Giovanni/Lt. Surge Pokemon fancomic
LGBTQA+ Adventures through Alphabet Soup Land!
Gay erotic fanzine about crocodiles and alligators.
Autobio comic about the Navy
Logan, navigates his life as a gay rural Australian fly-in fly-out mine site worker
A skinny dipping shark finds himself home to a curious critter~
Petty revenge gone terribly right.
The collection containing all the Call Me Series parts 1 through 7
A romantic short novel by and for people that love hydras.
A teacher-student story with a twist.
To Try Out: Software and Icons
All in one tool that let's you rip the textures out of photos from any perspective and make them seamless!
Run in browser
CC0 (Free) SFX pack of Goofy Sounds for Scary Monsters
Free 2d Mushroom Image Assets
Interactive archive of Geocities-era backgrounds
Backgrounds related to a mansion
Free to use with credit Anime style backgrounds.
Asset pack created as part of the Make Visual Novel Assets jam.
Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all.
It's like SnowBlossom.
For your chilly winter VNs.
It's like a subtitled anime!
Script sprite expressions visually. No more memorising attributes!
Infinitely scrolling, RPG-style save files for Ren'Py
A collection of Ren'Py minigames code.
Mixed Loopable Music 4 Various Moods - Instrumental, Vocal, Romantic, Horror, Cute, Tension, Atmospheric, Chill
Easy, seamless footnotes
Audio pack containing 168 original synthesized sound effects for your interfaces, menus and devices.
Ren'Py addon: Automatic language list & Language-individualized build packages for translators
Umineko-likes to play
A decade-long search for a town of immortals sparks a chain of impossible murders.
After years of resentment, a man pays a visit to his brother's unusal grave to put the past behind him.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The task is simple. All you have to do is leave the vault. Any means will do. Provided you abide by certain conditions.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
At the end of the world, a locked-room murder creeps its way into the lives of seemingly unconnected individuals.
A woman sits in an interrogation room. What has she done? Navigate a difficult conversation to find the truth.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A man murdered on New Year's Eve in 1999 returns to life 20 years later to solve his own murder.
A midnight train. A ragdoll that pops into existence from nowhere. The dead body that takes its place.
A man disappears from a small airplane bathroom under impossible circumstances.
In the middle of a frozen lake stands a mansion. Among its guests hide monsters. One has decided to kill everyone.
A group of people reunites following a friend's mysterious death
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Un fangame Umineko. Reconnaissez l'existence de la magie grâce à ce nouveau scénario.
Visual Novel
Knowledge of mystery will let you see the pattern, but is the pattern a communist?
An ace attorney inspired visual novel where you play as the private investigator Neo!
Visual Novel
An attorney gets caught up in a game of death by a showboating serial killer.
Visual Novel
Murder mystery romance adventure. Members of a Detection Club find themselves entangled in a series of murders.
Visual Novel
Willard goes to a tea party.
To Play Bundle
A system-neutral fantasy one-shot adventure
Intra-System: Trust Issues is a short game based on decisions.
Interactive Fiction
An audio mystery set in a time loop. Record, rewind time and broadcast snippets of radio shows!
Interactive Fiction
It's a pixel art game inspired by the classic point & click adventures from the 80’s and 90’s.
Adventure
Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a night shift cab driver in Paris, you are many things to different people.
Simulation
An unofficial book on Undertale, delving into the game's explorations of compassion.
A post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver.
Puzzle
It's the season for penny buns, Grandma forced you to come along a bit. But deep down you know it'll do you good.
Visual Novel
Nelly Cootalot is the stupidly named pirate adventurer with a heart of gold.
Adventure
12 interactive conversations based on real interviews carried out in 2018
Educational
To Play
A parallel universe: Familiar yet different in unexpected ways.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
You are assigned to look through the letters to find a place where people have been dissappearing to!
Puzzle
Play in browser
For Anka, the stars awaited his revenge. For Soyala, the stars awaited her freedom.
Visual Novel
A German language pragmatics detective game.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
New hire, huh? Let's see if you can keep up with the line of hungry guests.
Puzzle
Play in browser
That’s the role of a Muse. To be... To pose... and to earn money from their beauty.
Visual Novel
To Play Bundle Multiplayer
A fast-paced local multiplayer word game that rewards players for thinking naturally about common word usage.
Puzzle
Cooperation is a strategy, not a requirement. Make temporary allies, break promises, and watch out for backstabbers
Action
Go on an expedition, cooperate with up to four friends and fight your way through the woods
Action
A narrative driven boss-rush adventure game with 4 playable characters and multiple endings.
Action
An action-adventure game about digging for fossils and building your own dinosaurs!
Adventure
To Read: Writings
Instructions to leave the thumbprints in your games
What are you, a cop?
Yet another low-effort manifesto written by a depressed fuck at 2 am
make gay video games and defy god
a manifesto about women who make videogames and men who hate them
time's a-wasting
Written for Manifesto Jam 2026
Use waveforms and a printed manual to solve a deep sea escape room
Puzzle
Play in browser
Short kinetic essay about touching dudes, gender, friendships and playing.
Visual Novel
A dive into how the field of comics lies about its own work, and defends bigots, harassers, and more.
(that's good)