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Defeat the Darkness DATE! Dev question:

Development of my Defeat the Darkness high school-AU otome vn is going swimmingly and I finished programming the common route tonight on my stream. I already promised to stream development Monday and Tuesday, so whose route should I showcase? Waldo (left): A himbo of the most traditional sense, Waldo is a fun-loving goof who often quotes the old tv show "The Adventures of Sir Beaumont" and is writing a novel based on it (please don't call it 'fanfiction!')

Milia (center):

Just like in the original DtD, Milia has been forcefully removed from Pleasanton, and her family moved to North Town last year. She's kind, a little rough-and-tumble, and loves to take pictures of wildlife.

Chinchin (right):

Chinchin can be a witty and insightful young chap, assuming he can be coaxed out of his shell. The way he interacts with his friends (Waldo and Miila) isn't the same as normal people. A deep thinker, but sometimes hard to talk to.

Please let me know! We go live in about 21 hours!

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May the Middies be chewed to death by the Mouse.

ETA: a little more detail--

Plaintiffs to the lawsuit include Disney Enterprises, Inc., Marvel Characters, Inc., MVL Film Finance LLC, Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC, and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (collectively “Disney”), as well as Universal City Studios Productions LLP and DreamWorks Animation L.L.C. (collectively “Universal”). The lawsuit was filed at the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California on June 11. Specifically, Plaintiffs seek relief over Midjourney’s alleged direct copyright infringement, and demand that Midjourney be barred from further alleged infringement and pay either actual damages (an amount of damage that can be proven Midjourney is responsible for) or statutory damages limited to $150,000 per infringed work. Furthermore, for secondary copyright infringement, they also demand actual damages or statutory damages, again, up to $150,000 per infringed work.

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Defeat the Darkness DATE! now has a finished draft, 35,375 words long

It's three and a half times longer than the current DtD2 script and at least 2.5 times longer than the original Defeat the Darkness. Lot of thoughts right now. I can't share them because it's 5am and I'm exhausted, but I hope to share them later this month when we get close to the jam deadline.

But I'm definitely sure of one thing: We're back.

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We're bringing CUTE VIRUSES BACK! #indiegame #gamedev #horrorgaming #visualnovel #memes #dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6KclDj62iI Wishlist: https://ift.tt/BpKLUWe via CatTrigger https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzea0YWTKcQJeDZhUqbC_-w June 06, 2025 at 05:00PM

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Feeling Emotions Song Tournament Round 1

Sometimes a song just hits you right in the heart and might even find you falling to the floor in tears. Or the joy it brings you is so palpable you can't help but dance. Submitters were asked to include propaganda to make their case for why their choice was the most emotional song and now you get to vote!

Talking to my Angel propaganda by @defeatthedarkness:

I sold my soul for freedom, it's lonely but it's sweet

Melissa Etheridge is, to borrow a phrase from the kids, PEAK YURI. Her 1993 album, "Yes I Am," is her official coming out: "Yes I am, in fact, gay." Unlike the soft and gentle implications of 1989's "Brave and Crazy" and 1995's confident and insanely horny "Your Little Secret," this album is Etheridge in between those states, a tortured woman, grappling with her religious upbringing, her childhood trauma, her queerness, the bits of love she's found along the way, etc., while leaving absolutely no stone unturned. After a rambunctious ride through her personal struggles over 9 songs, the final track, "Talking to my Angel," establishes that she's made peace with her past and is ready to embrace who she truly is and take that bravely into an unknown future. The track ends with a 2-minute instrumental for the listener to complicate their own life journey before (in those days) the CD would loop back to the beginning. Listening to it heals me. If she handled all of that, pressed it onto a CD, and found a happy existence 30 years ago, shit, I can do anything.

Ilyenek Voltunk propganda by anon:

Ilyenek voltunk, vadak és jók Bűnösök közt is ártatlanok Ilyenek voltunk, és marad egy jel Amit itt hagyunk, ha indulni kell (Trans: This is what we were, wild and good, Innocents even among the sinners, This is what we were, and there's a mark We will leave behind when it's time to leave)

Okay, so. The singer? He went down a road I'm not supporting. But this song ohmygod. The passing of time. The passing of life. How a generation is followed by the next generation. And the music video to it! I already try not to think about death, but I like this song, but it makes me feel so unwell.

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Jincan Underground Chapter 3 Release!

The new chapter can be read by running the module on the main page, on webtoons if you prefer an infinite scroll format, or on namicomi if you prefer single page swipe. It is noted that the quality deteriorates a bit on webtoons and shrinks the images a bit to make it more fitting to read on the phone. Both webtoons and namicomi will require login to those sites to read. 

The itch module can also be used to read on the phone, so whichever method you prefer will work! 

Chapter 4 will be coming 6/15!

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Steam let me run an otome festival?!

now that my Steam festival Otome Games Celebration is over, I've made a postmortem for the event and talk about how & why other developers should make their own festivals!

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he's too good for her 😭

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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FUCK MISINFORMATION & FEAR-MONGERING

Discord has NOT silently made or added AI bots to your Servers! That is misinformation & fear-mongering!

Those are just Apps anyone can make, and there's nothing special about them! They cannot be used unless you explicitly add them to your account or to a Server. Nor do they have ANY access to ANY messages/images unless you use a command on them (when not explicitly added to Servers).

Here's some ACTUALLY ACCURATE information here:

Which I have put as a GitHub Gist here too for easy linking.

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❤️1 day until Fearbonding releases🍴

An intense year of development went into this game. And finally I can show it in full to you!

It has a manipulative protagonist and a deranged yandere to tame, a match made in hell 💖

Wishlist on Steam!

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updated the rpg maker iceberg I made a while ago

A year ago I made this iceberg (with another account) trying to put as many games as possible and I ended up receiving a lot of comments with suggestions, and I saw that I left a lot of things out, so here they are!

This time I also made a docs file with links to each entry in this iceberg, so if you want to know about a specific one, you can look for it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSsIG6uetPY9IHXbZDdsNBDYmrRoe6glAyh5f1afPpRAlyWtU734gvl-ogydpByPoJvtDNY2AZ2cKKT/pub

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Special thanks to u/BeeMessageMStore for helping with several interesting links and entries, thank you very much! :D

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Hiya everyone! Long time, no see~!! >w</ I hope everyone's been doing well! And it sure has been ages since I posted on here. Just wanted to share some new art, since Träumerei is likely going to end late 2025, early 2026.

Once Träumerei is complete, I'm switching over my focus to "Death & the Saintess" (Featuring the two characters in the second image). 'Saintess' Milagros Santana & the last remaining Philippine death god, "Diwata."

I don't have time to make RPGMs these days. It'll be a novel, but if all goes well, I might try to draw a Webtoon version of "Death & the Saintess." The entire plot was outlined in-depth from start to finish, and it'll be much, much shorter than Träumerei.

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THANK YOU!! With your help, we've been able to not only fully fund the rest of the development for Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, but we were also able to hit our 1st stretch goal of adding more music to the game!

As always, it's your support that allows us to keep making gay games. Thank you.

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NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR THE VISUAL NOVEL OF ALL TIME POLL

What is it? A poll to determine the vn of all time ofc! Best of all time? Weirdest of all time? Something else of all time? Who can say. But it is of ALL TIME!

All vns are welcome if they have an entry on vndb.org or are tagged visual novel on itch.io

SUBMIT SOME VNS COWARDS! /silly

*submissions close whenever I feel I have enough vns. This post will be edited when this is the case