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I love the who broke it meme, I always want to do thissss

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Guesss who baby is it❗

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QIU LEAVE OUR SNOW WHITE ALONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHE JUST WANTS TO TALK TO THE ANIMALS 💔💔💔

Ah Tammy, my angel princess forest godess

Qiu has a point though, rabies is a small concern

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HAHAHAHJAHAGSJAJA QIU!

The little criminals.

Cove's here because it's my free time that i choose to waste. (And i couldn't find Prans sprite files....)

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Welp, rip

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B12!

(I JUST NOTICED THE TYPO I'M CRYING)

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Have you noticed the lack of romance game focusing on love interests of color ? Well I'm hosting a jam about it...

COLORFUL LOVE JAM

let's make our own games !  This is a beginner friendly, visual novel jam aimed at making more diverse romance focused stories. As it's beginner friendly, I added resources for game making on the jam page.

Since it's my first Jam ever, reblogs are heavily appreciated !

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🎮 HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 🎮

Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?

To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:

SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!

Ren'py (and also a link to it if you click here do it): THE visual novel software. Comic artists, look no further ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It has great documentation! It has a bunch of plugins and UI stuff and assets for you to buy! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) You can also port your game to a BUNCH of consoles! ✨Cons: None really <3 Some games to look at: Doki Doki Literature Club, Bad End Theater, Butterfly Soup

Twine: Great for text-based games! GREAT FOR WRITERS WHO DONT WANNA DRAW!!!!!!!!! (but you can draw if you want) ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's versatile! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) ✨Cons: You can add pictures, but it's a pain. Some games to look at: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, Queers In love At The End of The World, Escape Velocity

Bitsy: Little topdown games! ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's (somewhat) intuitive! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! You can make everything in it, from text to sprites to code! Those games sure are small! ✨Cons: Those games sure are small. This is to make THE simplest game. Barely any animation for your sprites, can barely fit a line of text in there. But honestly, the restrictions are refreshing! Some games to look at: honestly I haven't played that many bitsy games because i am a fake gamer. The picture above is from Under A Star Called Sun though and that looks so pretty

RPGMaker: To make RPGs! LIKE ME!!!!! NOTE: I recommend getting the latest version if you can, but all have their pros and cons. You can get a better idea by looking at this post. ✨Pros: Literally everything you need to make an RPG. Has a tutorial inside the software itself that will teach you the basics. Pretty simple to understand, even if you have no coding experience! Also I made a post helping you out with RPGMaker right here! ✨Cons: Some stuff can be hard to figure out. Also, the latest version is expensive. Get it on sale! Some games to look at: Yume Nikki, Hylics, In Stars and Time (hehe. I made it)

engine.lol: collage worlds! it is relatively new so I don't know much about it, but it seems fascinating. picture is from Garden! NOTE: There's a bunch of smaller engines to find out there. Just yesterday I found out there's an Idle Game Maker made by the Cookie Clicker creator. Isn't life wonderful?

✨more advice under the cut. this is Long ok✨

ENGINES I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND THEY SEEM HARD BUT ALSO GIVE IT A TRY I GUESS!!!! :

Unity and Unreal: I don't know anything about those! That looks hard to learn! But indie devs use them! It seems expensive! Follow your dreams though! Don't ask me how!

GameMaker: Wuh I just don't know anything about it either! I just know it's now free if your game is non-commercial (aka, you're not selling it), and Undertale was made on it! It seems good! You probably need some coding experience though!!!

Godot: Man I know even less about this one. Heard good things though!

BUNCHA RANDOM ADVICE!!!!

-Make something small first! Try making simple: a character is in a room, and exits the room. The character can look around, decide to take an item with them, can leave, and maybe the door is locked and you have to find the key. Figuring out how to code something like that, whether it is as a fully text-based game or as an RPGMaker map, should be a good start to figure out how your software of choice works!

-After that, if you have an idea, try first to make the simplest version of that idea. For my timeloop RPG, my simplest version was two rooms: first room you can walk in, second room with the King, where a cutscene automatically plays and the battle starts, you immediately die, and loop back to the first room, with the text from this point on reflecting this change. I think I also added a loop counter. This helped me figure out the most important thing: Can This Game Be Made? After that, the rest is just fun stuff. So if you want to make a dating sim, try and figure out how to add choices, and how to have affection points go up and down depending on your choices! If you want to make a platformer, figure out how to make your character move and jump and how to create a simple level! If you just want to make a kinetic visual novel with no choices, figure out how to add text, and how to add portraits! You'll be surprised at how powerful you'll feel after having figured even those simple things out.

-If you have a programming problem or just get confused, never underestimate the power of asking Google! You most likely won't be the only person asking this question, and you will learn some useful tips! If you are powerful enough, you can even… Ask people??? On forums??? Not me though.

-Yeah I know you probably want to make Your Big Idea RIGHT NOW but please. Make a smaller prototype first. You need to get that experience. Trust me.

-If you are not a womanthing of many skills like me, you might realize you need help. Maybe you need an artist, or a programmer. So! Game jams on itch.io are a great way to get to work and meet other game devs that have different strengths! Or ask around! Maybe your artist friend secretly always wanted to draw for a game. Ask! Collaborate! Have fun!!!

I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye

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Don't mess with mama bear, Baxter 🥀

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Keep the flame going for those we have lost to suicide. 

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i make more memes soon.. soon...

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Starbox - Website to Host Indie Games Affected by Censorship on Steam and Itch

Since the poll that I posted has gained overwhelming support, I have put together a new (temporary) indie game hosting website in the past couple of days.

It's not a solution or an alternative to big gaming platforms, it's a simple bare-bones website to help out fellow developers for the time being. We have to remember that the main issue lies with payment processors and until it is resolved, there is not going to be a viable alternative.

About the website:

⭐You can create an account, join and create groups, download games and submit applications for us to upload your games!

⭐I am not able to process payments. This website is intended to host free demos and free games. You can request to link your socials, Patreon, Ko-fi or any game platform where your games are up. You can also request to link a platform where your full game is available if you upload a demo. You don't have to have been directly impacted by Itch and Steam's payment processor's new rules to apply for your game to be uploaded to our site. Similarly to Itch, you can also apply with anything besides games, like board games and such.

⭐️I am a team of one, working on this project out of my own very slim pockets. I will be processing upload applications as quickly as physically possible, but please keep this information in mind when applying.

⭐I will be constantly working and updating the website, but it will likely remain very rudimentary.

⭐While the website is available on mobile, it is not fully functional on it, so I recommend viewing it on desktop.

⭐Since this website is intended to exist temporarily, it highly likely will be deleted at some point in the future once the main issue gets resolved and there's no longer a need for its existence.

You can visit the website at starboxy.com.

Consider also supporting me and this website on Ko-fi.

Happy landing, astronauts!

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My humor

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Another meme heh

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Rip Xyx🥀

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⋆｡°✩┊ Found some frames! <3

{f2u no creds required}

Source: Yandex

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Stygian Devlog July 2025

I did not expect this to take so long, but some things happened IRL that really, really got in the way.

TL;DR

Major progress on The Woeful Rose & The Bitter Crow CGs

I don't hate the outline and draft of Contego as much as I thought I did. So I won't be rewriting the first bit, just altering the second bit to include more of the romance.

I didn't post for a while because I wasn't able to game dev for a while due to work and illness.

I hope to start working again more proactively after next week (IRL job that pays my bills has a big event, so I know I'm likely to be trashed).

Longer version:

The Woeful Rose & The Bitter Crow

I've gotten the SFX added through out the entire game. I've also caught a handful of bugs while adding said SFX.

CG wise, I am happy to report:

All 4 CGs for Zahir's route are complete!

1 CG for Yukimura's route is done, and one is in sketch phase.

2 CGs for the Poly Route are Complete!

1 Major Common Route 1 CG has gotten modified to make the CG make more sense.

1 Major Common Route 2 CG is done. 2 are in the works. Though both will still take some time, as they have a lot of variants.

The mobile version seems to be remaining stable, so I hope to release a version for Mac, PC, and Android out the gate.

Sadly, Dante and Baron Lysandre likely won't have sprites, but thems the breaks. I think I'm going to include a concept art section that unlocks after unlocking an ending (of any kind) to show off the lovely work the concept artist did for them (Dante shows up in a CG, so at least that one isn't going to total waste).

Sacrarium Contego

I thought I absolutely hated the first draft of Sacrarium Contego. It turns out that I actually didn't. I just felt bad that it isn't as romantic or intense as Gelus and Pario, and honestly....that kind of fits Necare better? She's the most stable Warden, and the Greatsmith has come to her willingly. Thus, it is a bit of a slow start.

I am going to tackle the second and third challenges to have more tertiary conversations to help develop the blossoming friendship/romance between the two more though. I definitely think the outline is solid for major plot beats, but Necare's natural borderline aromaticism (seriously, if she falls in love it is with just the Greatsmith and only the Greatsmith) is shining through a bit XD

I've found some better art to turn into backgrounds. Thus, so long as I can secure a sprite artist and some CG artists, I think we'll be able to do things in a traditional VN style! Fingers crossed.

Sacrarium Rescisco

I've decided to stick with my different personalities = different options plan. Thus, this game might end up really being the one that has the most replay ability. The consequence, of course, being that each play through will probably end up a bit shorter compared to the other three.

The Grinning Spider & The Lone Hound

I've figured out a major plot issue (namely: how the fuck does the Faded Glory even meet Fahima and Noelani in a way that has stakes but the stakes aren't so high they can chat). It's been fun plotting out interactions now that that has been resolved.

Kiss's IRL

So I caught something viral in April. That viral infection then developed into COVID which knocked me flat on my ass for like a week. That has not been fun. Luckily, my body aches are mostly gone, and outside of an annoying cough that probably won't clear up for weeks, I'm doing much better!

My IRL job has been throttling me a bit. I am learning how to compartmentalize and not bring that shit home with me, but it's been a day.

I'd intended to have a whole lot of Contego progress in the summer because Summer = Necare, but that just didn't happen.

Especially since one of my family members is visiting from abroad, so I spent 42 hours at my job last week, and then each day I spent anywhere from 4-5 hours with my cousin. Needless to say, I've been a limp noodle of exhaustion. Now that she's with a friend we both trust, I'll get to breathe a bit more (love her to bits, but a 40hr work week plus driving around with a bum leg is rough).

I won't be able to make any dev progress this weekend since it's my cousin's birthday and my D&D group is meeting to do a mega session tomorrow. Still, I feel a lot better now that COVID and whatever smaller virus I had before isn't kicking my ass.

Still, though, I am sorry I haven't been around as much or as consistently. I've tried answering a few smaller asks here and there, but it's not as much as I'd like.

As for the last little bit of news, I've almost got enough Yan Alphabet for their event. I think I'm going to hold those until October and do some kind of Yan October thing for VV and Amare. So feel free to send in more Yan Alphabet letters or Yan specific asks in anticipation of Oct. Yes, I know that's 3 months away. I blinked though and my life went from March to July.

Anyways, thank you all so much for your continued support! I genuinely appreciate it.

Have a wonderful day or evening!!!

-kiss