THE LEFT EYE: Fact Sheet
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A visual novel by Haunted Trumpet

TAGLINE
  A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes.

ABOUT
  The Left Eye is an LGBTQ visual novel serialized over six episodes, set against the queer scene of 1920s New York. 
  
  Follow Emile de la Roche, an illiterate con artist posing as an aristocratic French socialite, through the seedy underworld of 1920s NYC 
  as he juggles friends, enemies, lovers, and the most outrageous scam he’s ever tried to pull.

  But more seriously... The Left Eye is set in the 1920s, but it's about the 2020s. 

  It's about queer folks inventing themselves.
  It's about code switching and going stealth.
  It's an homage to Anna Delvey.
  
  It's about a moment of queer visibility and joy, right before a vicious backlash.

FEATURES
  - An LGBTQ crime caper set in the roaring twenties
  - Script by award-winning stage & TV writer Conway McDermott
  - Hand-drawn CGs and sprites
  - Original arrangements and music by Kymberley Cochrane and Tom Cagnoni
  - Passwords, secrets, and Easter eggs, oh my!
  - A noir-ish, monochrome world with an optional film grain filter
  - Accessibility options include dyslexia-friendly font options and audio description mode
  - Choices have consequences... make decisions for Emile and see you'll see different scenes, unlock new CGs, and change how the people he's fleecing feel about him
  - Developed by a tiny all-queer indie team, no AI!

AVAILABILITY
  Episodes 1-3 available now (plus a free demo). Episode 4 will be released later this year,
  and episodes 5 & 6 dropping in 2027.

  Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3811440/The_Left_Eye/
  Itch.io: https://hauntedtrumpet.itch.io/the-left-eye

STUDIO
  Haunted Trumpet is a tiny creative collective telling the stories they want to
  tell, not just the ones considered palatable enough for a mainstream audience. 

  The Left Eye is our first full game, and it won't be our last!

  Website:  https://hauntedtrumpet.com

CONTACT
  hauntedtrumpet@gmail.com

SOCIAL
  Bluesky —  https://bsky.app/profile/hauntedtrumpet.bsky.social
  Tumblr  —  https://www.tumblr.com/hauntedtrumpet
  Itch.io —  https://hauntedtrumpet.itch.io/
