Runa Liore Winters

Narrative, Game, and Sound Design for Visual Novels, Queer Indie Horror, and the occasional tabletop game. Please direct Business contacts to info@waxweal.com.

77 Oleander Avenue Ghost House Investigation - Full Version Now Available!

Originally created for the 2021 Trans Game Dev Birthday Game Jam, 77 Oleander is a Visual Novel about exploring a Haunted House, forgetting why you went there, and remembering what you really believe.

Waking up disoriented and weary, Tabby (Short for Tabitha, but she's not gone by her full name since 3rd grade) wakes up in the parlor of an abandoned house. Her keys, wallet, and phone are missing and she can't remember why she's in such a place... not that it's too far gone from some of the other places she's woken up in over the years.

It doesn't take long for her to meet Evie, a ghost, and this greatly irritates Tabby on account of she was hoping to just grab her things and leave quickly. The Larkspur house on 77 Oleander, however, is not Evie's home. It is not the site of a bittersweet tragedy. It is not the skeleton left behind by a family's unexpected death. 

Tabby will realize this too late, and then, when she's finally ready to heed Evie's warnings, she will forget.

The full version of the game is available now at runa-liore.itch.io/77-Oleander

Conversations with a Skull

A very normal and non-threatening Magic Sigil appears before you. Once you break it, you'll be summoned to a distant world across the Breathless Lands, bound into a summoning circle, and asked a few questions. In a dark room on the floating cliffs of a crumbling world, a hovering, glass-like skull creature named Chira will ask you the most dire question of her present existence:

"Am I in Love?"

Please enjoy a conversation with your Summoner.

An Oath In Kind

"An Oath in Kind" is a Kinetic Novel about a dethroned demon queen and the one and only knight who remained loyal after her fall. When Claire finds her queen bleeding across the floor of a forest hollow, she swears to herself that she will fulfill her oath to see Galena to safety... even if Galena would have rather been left there in the mud. 

Become Dirt

Become Dirt is a PSX-style 2.5D exploration horror game developed as part of the 2022 TGD Spooky Jam! A young girl arrives home one day to find her home strangely quiet and her brother is unresponsive when she calls his name. Perhaps, she thinks, he's down in their hideout in the crawl space. Perhaps, she considers, he's hiding from their mother and grandmother. Perhaps, she realizes too late, he may have used the family's forbidden spell... and now he has no way to break it on his own.

In Development

Bridgewater Deepwood Radio Access

A Horror Anthology VN that focuses on two women who host an overnight paranormal call-in show. Reb has never been quick to believe in the supernatural, and she used to consider herself a reasonable skeptic. Her new co-host has been so dismissive and immediately hostile to callers though, so Reb has become a stubbornly credulous believer. No matter how horrifying and strange the call, however, her co-host Zinnia brushes the caller's account off as mundane, mistaken, or even calls it a misguided prank. If Zinnia wasn't so infuriating she'd be much easier to work with, and if she wasn't so hot she wouldn't be so infuriating. Join Reb and Zinnia for another night on the air as they listen to strange, unnerving, and horrifying tales from callers far and wide. 

Desiderium: a fleeting refrain

It's your first day of cadet training at Meridian Memorial Academy! Time to pick your classes, find some friends, and do everything you can to catch the eye of the academy's brightest star — the beautiful and elusive Sakiko Lace Gable. You've got two years to become the best spool pilot in your class, and the tiniest misstep along the way is a one-way ticket to the business end of a beam rifle...