#yaaaaaay...

[hummingbird-games]

Dev Diaries

March 5th, 2024

So. We're 3 months into the new year. Huh.

Updates from me? I started a new job! I've been reading/catching up on a toooooon of manga lately (I'm also sloooooowly making my way through a nonfiction read and can't help thinking how Corey would heavily sympathize with me. Sigh.)

I also got another free month of Spotify (lol, I think I'm the only person I know who only uses the free plan because I'd rather spend that money elsewhere??) so I've been on a listening spree and flagging songs for a writing playlist I will use for the majority of the HSDJY 2 drafting process moving forward.

I still have yet to play BG3. My family gifted me the physical edition, so I've been impatiently waiting for it to ship out. It's been 84 years JFJEHFJHJF!!

Hmmm...nothing else interesting has happened to me (that I can publicly share ☠️) so on with the game development updates!!!!!

What Has Gemini Been Up To? -> TKD (again)

March 16th!!! Y'all, this is the deadline the team and I are working towards for a finished and published game 😭 unfortunately my plans for full voice work won’t be realized by then (but they will be realized. Just in a few months. Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if y'all get the updated HSD 2 demo before the fully voiced TKD….)

What Has Gemini Been Up To? -> HSD:JY and Ko-fi

Ko-fi first!!

It’s only been a few months (since November??) but I’m super proud of my posting consistency! Granted, I’m a little anxious about how posts will look moving forward once I start moving major updates and general silliness to Tumblr. But. We shall cross the bridge when it appears.

March snuck up on me and I only have the free and any-paid-support ready, but the subbies are just There™️. That being said...when I'm quiet or posting non-Hummingbird content here, there's 99.9% chance I've made a free post on ko-fi.

Tumblr is looking like the other social media platforms right now with its flagrant support of AI, and it gives me a headache trying to decide how to keep everyone informed as well as share posts from my peers and new kids on the block. Anyhoo!!!

High School Daze goodies??

At the time of this post, a couple things have been happening that I haven't had the time (or the energy) to talk about. The obvious? HIGH SCHOOl DAZE: JUNIOR 2 HAS AN ITCH.IO PAGE!! I...have no idea when the full game will be out. I have an idea...but I don't want to say it and feel obligated to make that deadline just so I don't disappoint players. (I'm well aware that some people took one look at Crushed, went "Aww, that's nice, Gemini. Now where's HSD??" 🤣)

The first round of sprites have been commissioned!! If you peeped the key art (also done by my sprite artist, heehee she's lovely) you might notice some new outfits, some new hairdos. Fingers crossed I'll be able to update the page--to mirror the debut game's page--at the same time the new demo goes live (which will showcase all of or at least 75% of the common route of the full game. Stay tuned to find out if we'll focus on the friendship route or if I can defeat the Coding Monster to include all the variations for the romances too aha).

Writing wise? Five of the six total routes are outlined. (Florence's I've…barely started 🥲…this pre-production thing is kicking my ass). I’ve started drafting out the friendship route too, as seen by the random posts I’ve made about HSDJY 2. Well, a combination of friendship route + the common route with its lovely variations that aren’t a nuisance at all. Nope. *eye twitch*

I alsooooooo discovered that all the raw and edited music I created for HSD and for personal projects over the years using GarageBand were deleted. And I never backed them up. So. The tracks I made, the jingle for the splash screen, the main theme and it's 2 variations, and alllllll the little cute things I made that are as old as my own high school days are....gone.

Poof!

If I sound very calm about this, what an astute observation! But my anxiety is being used elsewhere, and I decided that I while I can't go back to the original files to tweak them, I've backed up the other files. And I don't mind starting from scratch with this.

But also y'all, please back up your shit. Please. Don't be caught slipping.

That poll I made a while back that now has results and I totally didn't forget about?? The boys won!! And I'm not surprised 🤣 I haven't decided yet if I'll do a live developer stream or a prerecorded one, but either way it'll happen closer to October, the 2nd anniversary date.

What Will Gemini be Up To?? -> Rest?!?!?

I assumed a lot of things about what would be done or not done by March, and that led me to loosely block out March as a 'rest' month. I wouldn't work on any projects, and instead would read, play console and computer games, and basically take the break I didn't take in December.

Well. The Knight Dance is still in production. And I commissioned sprites earlier than expected. And I didn't plan enough ko-fi content to be scheduled in my absence. LOL and I started a new job!? 🥹

But!!! But but but, I do need to take some type of break so I'll do my best to be scarce in this space (and lower the temptation to work because I see y'all are working LOL). Cool? Cool!

- Gemini 💛

[ronanxing]

house party

[pignk]

[seagiri]

me puse a llorar dibujando

[imekitty]

Being a whump writer means having to find a new way to say “it hurts” over and over again.

[eyefocusing]

😔

[praxieserver]

the case of polaris togami's shirt buttons (and the genocide jack killings i guess)

[3lsmp]

hello limited life enjoyers. sparkle smajor sunday

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Your need him pregnant poll comics have been giving me LIFE lately omfgggg 🤣🤣🤣 - pls accept these bits of dialogue that've been bouncing around in my head (use them if you want, but I just wrote this out purely for funsies and I am not asking for a request or anything, lol)

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Bill: C'mon Fordsy, I'm the last of my species! Could you really live with yourself knowing you deprived me of my one chance to continue the legacy of my people?

Ford: *deadpan* Yes. Go find someone else to... procreate with.

B: Oh ho, but it's a done deal, Sixer! It has to be you. Like I said, our baby was conceived years ago. It already exists, there's no taking that back.

F: Don't care, stop talking now.

B: Oh come ON! Euclydians don't just mate with anyone you know! We're very selective.

F: Uh huh.

B: No, really! And besides that, you're... you're the only one I've ever actually...

F: Oh, what, I suppose you're gonna say I'm 'the only one you've ever loved' *rolls eyes*

B: 🥺

F: You're so full of it! I'm not gonna stand around listening to this utter nonsense any longer. Goodbye.

B: No, please! You're my one chance! My ONE CHANCE! And when you win, we can... y'know... re-create that ~magical~ night. For the 'transfer'.

F: Oh my GOD! Of course! This is all just your desperate pathetic little attempt to fuck me again, isn't it? That's all you care about! There was never a "baby," you're just an obsessive sex-crazed little creep!

B: ... Maybe so. *narrows eye* But in the end, none of this is even up to you or I. The votes are what's deciding this, Sixer, and it looks to me like you're still in the lead. A good ol' shoe-in if I've ever seen one.

F: *head in hands* *sniffs* I know...

"SO, DOES THAT MEAN YOU'RE DOWN? ORRRR...."

Maybe if he asks really nicely :'D

[turnipoddity]

what a cool cardigan huh

[fisherrprince]

various balloons of varying quality

[no-tengo-ojos]

MALEVOLENT CARDIGAN IS DONE

[meggn]

🔩 👻 🕸️ 🧛

[dexbian-archived]

REBLOG GAME!

send me a gif of YOUR f/o (max of 2 please!) and i will make a stamp out of them ^_^

for example

1st one is my lovely wife hopper and the 2nd one is for my friend @ilikemenjamin

PROSHIP DNI/READ MY CARRD/I HAVE THE RIGHT TO SKIP F/O’S IF NECESSARY OR UNCOMFORTABLE

[froginmygarden]

DP x DC It started with an ad

It's been a week since he came back to earth, two weeks since the notice was taped to his apartments door, and he didn't have much time left to look for a new place. Why did this keep happening? He couldn't crash on the station, because someone was allways up there, and get interogated on the state of his civvy life. On the other hand would anyone even rent to him at this point? Like yeah, he knows he doesn't look really good on paper, what with the months of absence, injuries and ocasional confescated contraband, but Hal Jordan is an upstanding citizen, he swears.

So in short his current probalm was this - by discription he sounds like a criminal. So noone was really willing to rent to him after looking him up. The eviction day kept approaching and he was getting desperate. So how could anyone blame him for jumping at the first willing offer he could find?

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It wasn't all that bad, the apartment was quite spacious, the walls a soft pastel yellow. What furniture they could get was second hand - Ellie absoluteley loved her bed as it was, covered in faded stickers and doodles, probably by the kiddo who last had it, from nonsencical swirls and stick figures to little clouds and planes on the headboard. It was nice, cozy even, but as much as this place had been a godsent, it came with it's own set of problems, that cheep homes usually did.

There was much that needed to be fixed, and while some of it could be done quickley with a bit of cash, like replacing the moldy curtains - likeley left behind by the last owner, however long ago they actually lived here - some would take a bit more money then he curnetly could afford to spend.

So he had a problem - he didn't make that much and he couldn't spend it on renovation. He had a daughter to take care of and the bills didn't feel like paying for theselves, so he did a thing.

He paid a buck for a newspaper ad, it really wasnt much, just a small square among many of it's kind at the back of Coast City Ledger. So imagine his suprise when someone actually saw and was interested in his spare room.

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Part 1 ; Part 2; Part 3

[zipzedziltch]

How could I ask for anyone brighter?