A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

What's the deal with airline food?

Made for the Mixed Media Queer VN Jam within it's time constraints, August to September 2026. 7k+ words long.

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A plane's bleating heart is a game intended for a strictly adult audience. This work contains possibly mature and especially sexual/NSFW topics and themes in detail.

This work contains depictions of suicidal ideation, impulsive thoughts and masturbation. More can be read here.

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Art, writing and programming by Martin (me)

Renpy build taken/used from Hamaonoverdrive

Most background images (if not photographed by me) from Wikimedia Commons and hurtnullifiedcatgirlsforfun

Most SFX taken, used and modified from Freesound.org (specific users/creators credited in game files)

BGM taken and used from loyaltyfreakmusic, specific tracks/albums composed by Rrrrrose Azerty.

Published 12 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorCompulsiveComputer
GenreVisual Novel
Made withRen'Py
TagsAdult, Kinetic Novel, LGBT, mixed-media, Queer, Surreal
Average sessionA few seconds
ContentNo generative AI was used

Download

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bleating_heart-1.0-win.zip 141 MB
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bleating_heart-1.0-mac.zip 149 MB
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bleating_heart-1.0-linux.tar.bz2 127 MB

Comments

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HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE A JOB AND A BODY FOR REAL FOR REAL...

delicious use of contrasting visual textures and collage to really capture unfiltered dysphoria abt being forced to live on this bitch of an earth. I also appreciate the nvl format for internal monologues.

i really appreciated the shouts out to YTPs/fetish sites/mentally ill+terminally online gen zillenial culture. No holds barred on depicting How It's Goin' [it's Going Bad]. 

i wish there was an image gallery to see your collages w/o the text overlays since, there's SO much to appreciate there. I esp love the TF background with the different life cycles of animals + my bimbo/book girlieeee. 

really raw stuff, thank you for showing me the guts of the plane 

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I'm glad you enjoyed and were able to relate to my work!!! From the start references to ytp/meme/very online stuff was always planned cause I think genuinely they are forms of mixed media, cutting up and taping shit together to form new things... and also as a form of escapism from the real world where you can kinda disconnect from your "real" self and have some sense of normalcy/control... But even that's not working anymore for poor EM...

Also haha since you're the second person who said stuff about an in-game image gallery I might look into that for my next games!

Once again thank you so much for the thoughtful and wonderful comment ❤️ it was really nice go wake up to.

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absolutely dreadfully miserable and bleak. So crushingly meaningless to live for work, and to work for nothing but crumbs and disrespect.

You did a wonderful job making me hate EM's life. I'm biased because I'm into transformation, but I feel like you did a great job demonstrating the appeal of the kinks explored in this game.

As a side note, I found that the instant text speed, paired with the heavy use of text pauses was jarring and a bit nauseating, but it was much better when I switched it to a slightly slower text speed.

Also! I love your use of digital collage, and how everything blends so seamlessly into everything else while also not mattering, much how Em's life feels.

Thank you so much!!! Your words and feedback are insightful to me, I'm glad I was able to convey the bleakness and misery of EM's life.

Also, for the text, I actually also have it on a slower text speed! I thought I already tampered with the cps speed on it but I might make a patch/note about it!! I'm sorry about that 🙇

Once again thank you so much for playing!! :-D

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I really love your visuals. I love the amount of texture and layering on nearly every screen. It's really striking and compelling, while also feeling really overwhelming and oppressive (positive) when it needs to. I really love the background under the part talking about transformation kink, with the juxtaposed frog life cycle and bimbofication art, but it's like every other screen is something I just need to sit and look at and dissect before I can move on.

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Thank you so much for playing! As for the transformation part I think the theme of physical change/transformation aligned well with those two subjects to thematically make sense yet be so contrasting :-].