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hi are you press or a blogger or something and do you wanna play my tiny game early

HELLO DO YOU WANT A PRESS COPY

Hello journalists, bloggers, youtubers, streamers, podcasters! 👋📝📹 (Are those real words?)

Whether you're big or small, if you would like to cover tiny visual novel 'this game will end in 205 clicks.' please fill out this form! We would love to send you a key a little early!!!

[insertdisc5]

oh i just cant read. yeah go forth and make mods

Okay, question about modding:

I've seen in the ISAT FAQ page where you've talked about your stance on RPG Maker fangames and mods for other games, but how do you feel about people modding ISAT? Is it a general "not approved"? Are there certain things not to be touched? Is it all fair game? I have most certainly thought about modding the game, but I wouldn't wanna start anything sizeable without knowing whether such activities are condoned or not. If you see this, thank you for taking the time to do so and exponentially so if you respond :)

All the best,

Sam ✨️

puts this post that was in the FAQ in your hands for you to peruse. all the best

[insertdisc5]

hey any advice for folks trying to do they own rpgmaker things

you can find some advice here in my ref tag! good luck

[insertdisc5]

Okay, question about modding:

I've seen in the ISAT FAQ page where you've talked about your stance on RPG Maker fangames and mods for other games, but how do you feel about people modding ISAT? Is it a general "not approved"? Are there certain things not to be touched? Is it all fair game? I have most certainly thought about modding the game, but I wouldn't wanna start anything sizeable without knowing whether such activities are condoned or not. If you see this, thank you for taking the time to do so and exponentially so if you respond :)

All the best,

Sam ✨️

puts this post that was in the FAQ in your hands for you to peruse. all the best

[insertdisc5]

If it's not a spoiler, what've you found the most fun/exciting to get working in ren'py?

it's so easy to test for bugs and fix bugs. thats what's exciting

[insertdisc5]

i hope ts has unromancable npc that everyone can be insane about 🙏 it's really important for health

i have put my money on one unromancable npc that a specific subset of fan will go "why not this one", yeah

[insertdisc5]

In visual novel "this game will end in 205 clicks.", every click brings you closer to... Something? 🖱️🤔🤷

Get to know what the Something is... NEXT WEEK!!!

[insertdisc5]

In visual novel "this game will end in 205 clicks.", every click brings you closer to... Something? 🖱️🤔🤷

Get to know what the Something is... NEXT WEEK!!!

[insertdisc5]

Hii!! was the censored parts on the 205 clicks game description on purpose or is there fancy text in it? whatever word was describing Royal is just a bunch of boxes </3

( sorry if this has gone through several times!! tumblr was saying it was "having trouble with the request" </3 )

it's on purpose!

[insertdisc5]

I'm always watching episode of GIRLS!!!! One of my favourite episodes is GIRLS 75: 7RU7H 5CRAPPER 📺👧💥

[insertdisc5]

I was given a new screenshot from @insertdisc5's new game coming out on August 5th, "this game will end in 205 clicks."! I wonder what this means? 🤔😈⛔

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wow it is so nice that everyone read the devlog and got to see Amour's "callsaul" pose

Truth Scrapper Devlog #3 📚 Implementation

Hope everyone is once again staying cool in this dreadful summer.

In case you just stumbled upon this, I am Adrienne, also known as insertdisc5! I am the creator of timeloop RPG In Stars and Time, and now am working on my next game, memory visual novel Truth Scrapper. It’s gonna be a good one.

This month, I finished Day 4!

DAY 4 (out of 11-ish) IS FINALLY DONE AND IMPLEMENTED. This is the moment in the game where the story and character development picks up in a new way. And the Romance Sections are starting to get somewhere… It was so fun to get all this in the game!

So… What does it mean to say that a day is “done and implemented”? Take my hand. I will explain.

[MORE UNDER THE CUT]

WRITING:

First is writing the damn day. The first step of this first step is writing down bullet points of what happens during that day! What will happen? How does this further the mystery? How do the characters develop, and how does their relationship develop? Depending on what the player makes Sosotte remembers, will Sosotte be more attracted to Amour or Betz? In what way? Etc etc.

Once I have those bullet points written down, it’s time to actually write the scenes! Thankfully, I am getting to the Fun Parts of the game, so some of those Day 4+ scenes have been written down for a while. As I write, too, I usually realize I didn’t foreshadow some parts well enough, so I tend to rewrite some old scenes from previous days too. Day 1 has changed a lot since I first wrote it…

(Part of my script. As you can tell, this has no caps because it's easier for me to write without thinking about it too much at this stage. I will regret it later)

This part takes me maybe… 3 weeks, a month? Longest part for sure.

ART:

Now that I have all those scenes written out, I need to do ART!!! Thankfully, the artstyle for this game is pretty simple for me to do, and having the backgrounds be collages of stock pictures make the background work a breeze. Day 4 in particular was VERY HEAVY with art, so that one took some time. (20+ backgrounds, 2 new characters and their myriad of expressions, 20+ illustrations and all their variations…!!!)

(This sweet thang is from Day 4)

This part takes me 2 weeks!

IMPLEMENTATION:

Now that all the text is written, and the art has been done… WE GOTTA ADD ALL THAT INTO THE GAME!!!

I divide this work into a few parts:

-Add all the text and dialogue in the game, which means copy/paste, but also adding all those pesky quotes so the software can recognize this as text. I also add the character tags (here, “a” and “s”) to let Ren’py know who’s talking, as well as {w} to tell Ren’py “hey I want the player to have to press a button before the rest of the sentence appears”.

-Add all the damn code. Which means: adding when a point and click section appears and how it works, adding any “if AmourPoints>BetzPoints then do this”, etc. 

-Add all the expression changes.

So for the above, the white text can be translated as “Character Amour, side pose, eyes “hm”, mouth “eh”. Here’s Amour’s “callsaul” pose, named after a certain guy.

During the implementation stage, adding expressions is the part that takes the longest amount of time by far.

-Add all the glossary/case entries. Truth Scrapper has many words and Sosotte needs to remember them all, and so the game has a glossary full of the many words, which needs to update as you find the new words.

-And finally, add all the music and sound effects. PHEW

This took a week this time because I exhausted myself doing it, but this usually takes me more like 2.

EDITING:

And then I usually spend a week or two playing through the ENTIRE game to make sure it’s good. I usually make a lot of edits, and so I have to play it through a second time, and a third time…

AND THEN WE’RE DONE. PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is how I go about things.

Anyway I finished Day 4 so I’m taking a break for a couple weeks. Heehee <3 Thanks for reading

DON'T FORGET TO WISHLIST THE GAME ALSO IT REALLY HELPS BECAUSE STEAM’S ALGORITHM IS MORE LIKELY TO SHOW OFF GAMES WITH A HIGH AMOUNT OF WISHLISTS THATS THE REASON WHY GAME DEVS ALWAYS ASK TO WISHLIST!!! OKAY BYE!!!!

Links!

📚 Official Website 📚 Join the Discord 📚 Sign up for my mailing list 📚 Follow Truth Scrapper on Bluesky 📚 Follow ME on Bluesky

[insertdisc5]

do you ever feel limited by what renpy allows you to do (mechanics-wise)?

im worried it wont allow me to.. create something that is unique on that front.. something that really stands out..

nah. im not gonna use even half of what renpy is capable of doing lol

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I'm sorry, we need to cancel you now 😔

You can't just spread misinformation like that, everyone knows only the government is allowed to do that smh

aw beans ;_; into the cancel mines i go

[insertdisc5]

I'm trying to reproduce ISAT delisting thing. I see it when not signed in and signed in.

Did you search the name? Did you use tags? Which tags did you use? What is ISAT tagged as

yeah turns out i'm both dummy and thick and we had this "sensitive content" turned on, which removes the game from search unless you have "show adult content" on. i turned it off and now it appears. false alarm that was my bad i am so sorry for the fake news everyone

(as a note, seems that you can check here to see if itch DID delist your game)

[insertdisc5]

(looks ever so cute and sweet and not sweating bullets) so turns out ISAT had "has sensitive content" turned on and thats why it wasn't appearing in searches 💖💖💖 im totally not sweating bullets about not triple checking 💖💖💖 heeheehoohoo

[insertdisc5]

Also very politely asking. Are the neopronouns for the kid, the lizard or both?

The two are living in my head rent free they’re so cute. They’re both so silly…

the kid is lizard/lizardim/lizardis, and the lizard is she/her/hers!