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Looking at code you wrote over a year ago

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Night falls on the prairie, showing off the mostly-complete multiple parallax backgrounds script in action! Some of the more dramatic maps have more layers, but this is the basic one for the prairie.

Once we get all the sound design stuff sorted, there will also be an audio cue (like a wolf howl) before it happens so that the panning effect isn’t startling to the player.

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Believe it or not but the game is getting really close to it’s completion. After we took a break out of personal reasons, things are now getting back with full steam.

I’ll give my best to have the game finished at the end of Jan. 2017. This is not a final release date or a promise it’s simply a well educated guess.

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So I’ve been totally in the zone on this project lately, and the only reason this blog hasn’t been flooded with new feature updates is because a lot of the stuff I’m working on involves big ol’ spoilers. Or, well, technically not spoilers, but I don’t want to spoil too many of the features before release, y’know?

Anyway I was coding and spriting until 3:45 AM today… debugging, finishing up loose ends, and all that. Here’s a fun little detail… slightly randomized baby-talk when you give affection to your pets. It even changes a little depending on gender, the player won’t call a female dog “good boy” and will refer to themself with different terms depending… stuff like that. It’s only a few lines of code, but I thought it was more fun than the hearing the same thing every single time. I intend to include a lot of little details like that to make the world feel more lush and engaging and alive.

…Also check out that shiny new HUD, fireplace, and stove! Yeahhh!Those are just the tip of the iceburg, too… (Gee, why does the house look so barren today?)

And it seems like an obvious design choice in retrospect, but I’ve changed it so that the clock is always paused when you’re indoors. This a) makes the game’s day considerably longer, since the clock is no longer counting down on you while you feed your cows, b) gives players more of a chance to explore at their leisure without having to watch the clock all the time, and c) allows more complex daily NPC movement schedules without turning the schedule code into a complete rat’s nest. Only a little baby rat’s nest, which I’m okay with. Which, by the way… coding for schedules is well under way! Core of it is probably 80% done. We’re just waiting on getting some more sprites finished so that the code can be showed off properly. :]

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Hi everyone~!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ I’m pretty much finished with every CG for this chapter minus backgrounds, which won’t take too long. Just deciding on whether I should scrap a few or not since most aren’t really necessary. 

This had a border since I’m really fond of those, but I might not include it since it looked a bit cluttered. On the bright side the titlescreen is now animated. It’s not just Noël blinking, though it wouldn’t be too out of character.

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Been a bit busy for the holidays, but I want to keep a consistent 1 post per week if possible! So here’s a quick little preview of an area I’ve worked on recently.

Hope everyone is having a good week!

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- Lavender  v1.03 -

Lavender got some updates, mainly includes bugfixes.

Changes:

Audio balancing.

Added descriptions to the statues on the “Beginning” floor.

Tried fixing the puzzle on the “Plea” floor.

The “Extra” titlescreen option password is no longer case sensitive.

Made obtaining certain items more consistent.

(Download links below the cut.)

Keep reading

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birthday update

As promised, here’s a little “““release date””” (no) progress update. As of a week ago: “Actually dying at uni right now. I desperately need a reading week. Or a hobby week. Whatever. т_т Not an awful lot of game development going on at the moment.” That still sort of holds. However. - Rummaged through my folders and tried to find all the scattered art I’ve done. Resized a few nice pictures to fit the game’s resolution. They might appear! This actually made me feel good about my old art and all the work I’ve put into this story over time. The illustrations are a mix of traditional and digital art and the style varies quite a bit. (What is consistency. An illusion, that’s what.) I’ll try to put more effort into concept art in the future, with the idea that I might just implement it directly into the game ^ ^ When I actually have time to sit down and draw It’s actually possible to resize most things to 320x240 with some trickery. I thought it wouldn’t look good, but it’s ok.

- Consequently, conquering the show/hide picture commands. You can do some pretty neat things with pictures. - Made a new sprite variation for Arnika. It looks kinda like a bubble around her.  Then I locked myself out of my own room for 3 hours…D: <-not even relevant, just hilarious Still need to code what this bubble does, and hopefully make a little animation for it.

- Starting to implement a game mechanic called “Dreaming”! ..which I’m not yet completely sure what to do with. But it’s, yes, a remnant of the YN fangame idea. Or maybe just a way to insert more random scenes into an already pretty surreal world. It’s extra work for sure, but I like what it adds to the story. Some dreams might end up as optional, easter-egg-type things.

- Got an offer to help me out with sound effects and maybe music! <3 Excited.

- School is close to being done (excluding battles for now). I’ll try to wrap it up soon and finally move on to the next area. Wonder if I have oversaturated it with puzzles and events… The next areas might be a bit smaller, actually. Schools are just huge.

- I have a save point, a dreaming point… Need to think what the recovery point should look like. Something that would stand out and be one of the main motifs. Hmm. Also want to start making more pixels soon, like battlers or facesets for the party members.

That’s about it for today! Thank you for following this blog, and happy birthday to my Arnika. I’ll try to draw some cute birthday art, but that might be late because assignments. But I’m sure she’ll understand…

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Not really an update, I posted this on Vocaloid amino because there was a video game ideas challenge and I posted a few screenshots of mundane pieces of dialogue from what I had thus far. Thought it unfair to not post them here since this IS the development blog.

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Released games - October 2016

Congratulations to all the devs who completed their projects last month! Click the titles for links to downloads.

Bug Friend Release date: 10/01/2016 Developer(s): @beangames Genre: Exploration

Flatwoods Release date: 10/07/2016 Developer(s): @flatwoodsgame​ Genre: Exploration

From Next Door Release date: 10/29/2016 Developer(s): @spacezeta Genre: Horror, Mystery

Hello Charlotte (Episode 2) Release date: 10/08/2016 Developer(s): @etherane Genre: Horror, Surreal

New Friends on Haunted Hill Release date: 10/23/2016 Developer(s): @aniktothepast Genre: Exploration

Talk Like a King Release date: 10/02/2016 Developer(s): @sunchildstudios​ Genre: Visual Novel

Trampled Flower Release date: 10/07/2016 Developer(s): @rukomura-games​ Genre: Horror, Surreal, Exploration

Your game isn’t here? We must have missed it so shoot us a message!

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Did everyone remember to bring some extra AA batteries? They sell them at Caldor, yknow.

This is something I put together in VXAce in the course of a couple of days, since I have had remarkably little time to work on games lately and I figured I’d do something to keep myself busy. Maybe I’ll make a working game out of it someday.

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The RPG Maker Series is on sale for the next 21 hours at humble bundle (until 12:00pm EST).

If you’ve ever wanted to try one of the makers or want to add another to your collection, now’s a good time!

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The forest of drizzling rain

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(please excuse the quality if it’s off, I haven’t quite figured out tumblrs size/res poop)

Man, so many people followed me today, I’m about to pass out! ;;

And to show those who’re interested that I’ve actually made some progress until now, I wanted to post Costa’s sprite! The sprites are kept very simple, like the maps, but I’m not sure if I’m gonna keep them that way. Something seems off. I’m probably going to get rid of the sharp black edge since I’m trying to avoid the color black alltogether, haha. 

I actually made some more sprites for different characters, but I won’t post them until I posted an introduction post for them. (3x “post” in one sentence, nailed it)

On a side note: omg, i’m so happy people actually care about my story what the heck why what whyyy ♥

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Ocean’s Nostalgia pack!

This is a royalty-free resource pack made by Ocean’s Dream in a nostalgic gameboy style! It is available in green, gray, and colored versions!

This pack contains:

11 Animation sheets

13 Battle backgrounds

10 character sprite sheets, containing animal sets, chests, doors, enemies, heroes and NPCs

56 enemy sprites

HP gauge pictures and numbers

Icon sheets, system menu sets

7 tilesets: Dungeon, Exterior, Futuristic, Interior, Overworld, Ship and Town

16 midi/ogg songs

Bonus iconsheet with 49 icons for use with another project

Can be used with any program/engine you choose, but is already formatted to work with RPG Maker 2003, VX Ace or MV!

You can find it here or here!

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Maps and zooms!

Half the maps for the demo are prototyped, and I’ve also managed to add something I’ve always liked, that is the characters changing sizes as they get closer to the camera. It adds a nice sense of depth. I gotta refine how it works, but so far, so good!

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Behold: the Seaworm.