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daemon brothers sketches for the heck of it. maybe i'll finish these one day, maybe...

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New shitpost story concept (like those creepypasta cryptid things) haha

A supernatural harbinger of demise who assassinates using art supplies. They sign their assassination job in their target's blood, before they leave the scene, with 'credit to the owner'... So no one can trace the assassination to which assassin.

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🍃 “Oh, Link…I’m home!” 🍃

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“Learn to love yourself?” What does that mean? How are we supposed to find something good about ourselves? The whole reason we hate ourselves… is because we can only see the parts we hate. So forcing ourselves to find “good points” feels hollow, like we’re making things up. It’s not like that. That’s not how it works. I think that it’s only when someone says they love you that you’re able to start loving yourself. I think when someone accepts you, that’s when you start feeling like you can forgive yourself a little and start to love yourself.

Yuki Sohma [Fruits Basket (2019) S01E18]

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@crowind1 has been very supportive of my quest to gain the "Big FIsh" title.

I wanted to get another fish but I kept getting these giant squids. I had been fishing for quite some time at this point. I was fictionally throwing these squids in frustration.

Crowind mentioned what if her WoL was all "aw, I wanted to cook that."

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More of these two.

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My Highlander male WoL and @crowind1 's Raen female WoL.

My back story of my WoL keeps changing... But I think I've got a full proper one now.

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Threads of You: Beyond the Bay 🌊 Monthly Devlog #2: November 30th, 2023

Yet another month, another devlog... Hey, everyone! 🎉 Welcome to the mass post for all things Threads of You: Beyond the Bay, where we spill the beans on what's been brewing... behind the scenes.

This month has been a whirlwind as we inch closer to the big reveal of our demo! Crunch time has hit, and the Lavendeer team has been putting in extra hours. How about a virtual pat on the back for our hard work? 🙌

But, hey, enough about that. Let's dive right in! ✨

Our socials! @lavendeerstudios | Follow our Twitter!

Programming wise, it's been busy this month! Relationship modifiers, arguably one of the most important things in a romance otome game, between the MC (You) and the characters were successfully implemented.

Alongside that, we've refined our scenes with proper animations to both our characters and UI to make it flow smoother and look pleasing to the eyes! It should also easier to navigate.

On the aesthetic front, our commissioned GUI is now not only complete, but seamlessly integrated into the game! Huge thanks to @sitraxis! We've shown a couple of sneak peeks, but look forward to more now that our key art made by Somate Studio is finished! Big thanks to them as well, we can't wait to show you guys how it looks!

The character customization progress has also undergone a significant overhaul. With a keen focus on every one of our players getting the representation they deserve, we've decided to add more options! Down to more skin tones (including albinism/vitiligo) to even adding religious wear and fashion styles. Feel free to send suggestions under this Twitter post!

Last but certainly not least, the programming team (it's just Lumi) has implemented a series of choices which can further personalize the main character and will reflect in-game (such as height or education)!

Our art team has also achieved a significant amount of milestones as well! The car interior/exterior BG art is now a finished masterpiece thanks to chuupew, Lumi, and newcomer, Jin!

BG art of the Hostel and its interior is currently a WIP, but we are expecting its completion pretty soon. All character sprites have been finished and 6/7 have been posted to all of our socials! Glad you guys are loving them. Huge thanks to @134340zzz and chuupew!

We have one more CG in the works as well! Keep an eye out for that~

Our commissioned keychains and standee designs have also been finished! Big thanks to mochibunny & Luii Lafete! The designs were made for Kickstarter, but Kickstarter's been sort of an issue for us recently... so we'll keep you updated with what we decide to do with these newly made designs.

Fun fact! Our character release sheets were actually inspired by my (siilycat/ai) scuffed Apple notes drawings. I was not home, but I still wanted to share my ~~artistic~~ vision SOMEHOW and I'm glad I did so through my notes app! (I am the only one on the team with no artistic talent whatsoever, but they turned it into something great!)

Who let me cook?

After further inspection, we realized how... lifeless and subpar some of the writing feels. So we have decided to revisit it and put life into an otherwise mediocre script.

Writing is pretty important in a visual NOVEL and we don't want to disappoint the people who play it. Hope you guys enjoy the new, revised script. We also had a concerning amount of... grammatical errors relating to past/present tense.

We also added more descriptive sections based on the player's choices which is always fun!

This has been a HUGE month for social media, most especially over on Twitter! We released 6/7 of our characters and VAs were announced! In case you missed it, here are the posts announcing the characters!

Kai Nguyen - Twitter | Tumblr Wyatt Quinn Quiggley - Twitter | Tumblr Vince Matador - Twitter | Tumblr ⭐ Jean Williams - Twitter | Tumblr Andrew Mitchell - Twitter | Tumblr ⭐ Kevin Zuño - Twitter | Tumblr and one more coming soon...

The stars ⭐ are the fan favourites! And their VAs in respective order are...

[not yet announced] Cam Raleigh, Wyatt Quinn Quiggley - Twitter | Twitch Noah Keawekane, Vince Matador - Twitter Noir Thornton, Jean Williams - Twitter Phil Ava, Andrew Mitchell - @philsterman01 | Twitter | YouTube Jerron Bacat, Kevin Zuño - Twitter | Twitch and one more coming soon...

In other news, we went from 100 to 1000 followers on Twitter in a month! Isn't that crazy? We were really worried about marketing the game, but I think we're making good progress!

Besides that, we have also started working on the itch.io and kickstarter page! Speaking of kickstarter, we're having issues with it so we're thinking of approaching a couple of publishers... Any suggestions or advice? Hit us up on Twitter!

We also received fanart for the first time! A huge win! Our dear artists were so happy to hear that someone loved their character designs enough to draw them themselves!

Go check these wonderful artists out!

bluuescluues - @BluuClr haven - @vipersiia GreenVampBun(Only peace) - @Mesaku18

Thank you so so much for the fanart, you have NO IDEA how happy you've made the Lavendeer team 💖

Our plans for the next month include things like revealing our beautiful key art and final character, holding a raffle to celebrate the support we've gotten, finishing character customization and character expressions, and implementing a unique OST for the demo!

Commissioning music as a person who doesn't know anything about music is a really hard thing to do by the way. Shoutout to our composer, Ben Sigerson for putting up with my bullshit and going COMPLETELY based off of vibes. It's genuinely really good music and we're really low on budget so we thank him for all that he's done.

We really can't wait for you guys to see what we've been cookin' up for the past year. Also, stay on the lookout for an in character q&a soon!

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Here is my updated commission prices sheet!! I'm ngl, I'm a bit scared because I never raised my prices so much 🥲 I hope you can still continue to support me in any way!! If you have any questions feel free to ask! 🥹💖🙏✨️

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deciding to give evil/glitch!bonnie green eyes hehehe... and also testing out a new sketch brush

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ey bro, im a silly animator who still listens to your Dream Eating Baku english cover. could I have permission to animate a few verses? with credit of course!!l love your work, you are totally amazing ^_^

It's so old lol

But by all means! Make sure to send it to me or tag me so I don't miss it either!

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Au where protag returns to his world, but volo is also there

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Doodle of my waking situation this morning

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"Don't worry, Superstar, i will keep you safe."

its just so cute to imagine when Bonnie is gregory's companion in evil!freddy au...

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A PRESENT!

Edit:

Two duckies.🦆🦆

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@chachacharlieco

I never realized I posted this to twitter but never here! I'm a fan of @chachacharlieco and @crowind1 OC's so when I saw this animatic I wanted to try and voice Mophin ^^; I'm glad crowind liked the clip, just hope Charlie liked it too since he's their OC and all!

Please support both artists and here's a link to the original post!