Hiya, I’m Arimia / Aria (she/they). I’ve been an artist since 2010 and a game dev since 2014- I specialize in indie game marketing and making visual novels. Here you’ll find my thoughts on marketing visual novels, my occasional drawings, and some rambles. I’m a self-proclaimed shounen manga connoisseur (derogatory) and I have a soft spot in my heart for theme parks. My current fixation is finding old forgotten doujin fangames. I have a bachelors of science in computer science (surprise, no marketing degree).
I own Crystal Game Works, a visual novel studio. I also work at Studio Élan, a yuri visual novel studio, doing marketing for the past 6 years. This blog is mainly for talking about marketing and visual novel development. You can find my best articles listed here. I run & cohost a variety of visual novel-oriented game jams, Discord servers, and events, such as Otome Jam, Winter VN Jam, Otome Games Celebration and more.
I’m open for freelance marketing work and I do marketing consultation for commercial visual novel devs. My Bluesky is arimiadev, my (defunct) Twitter is @ArimiaDev, my Tumblr is arimiadev and my Discord is arimia.
My mascots are Rimia and Mari.
(some) games I’ve developed & directed
(some) games I’ve worked on
(some) games I’m currently developing
