#Entropic Float This World Will Decay And Disappear

[nicohverse]

Digitized and threw some color on a sketch I had sitting around of Peri and Abel, ten years into the future from their Entropic Float appearances. I wouldn't call these finalized future designs, but I do know they wear ace rings.

If you haven't played Entropic Float yet- Check it out! These are just two of the fourteen people trapped within the Anomalous Clocktower, a mysterious time-looping location full of secrets and lurking dangers.

If you have played it, or you just want to hear more about these two, under the readmore you'll find a blurb about my thoughts on writing them, in honor of asexual awareness week!

I had a bit of a dilemma on my hands when writing the profile pages for Entropic Float- Specifically when it came to Peri and Abel. At age 13 and 14 respectively, I wasn't sure how to go about expressing the fact that they're both aroace. At their age and in their situation, it's not something they've been able to put words to yet.

Another character in the game has his orientation listed as 'questioning'- But for these two, I decided to list their 'future orientation' as asexual. (Aromantic too, but my personal precedent in my work is to only list romantic orientation separately when it isn't the same as the sexual orientation). In part because they're both already pretty well aware, but in part because of the story they share.

For both of them, amatonormativity has already been and will continue to be traumatizing. Being as close as they are, it's assumed frequently by others in their lives that the two of them are or will become a romantic couple. Under those pressures, with none of those feelings, they're both frequently concerned that they're disappointing the other. As they grow up, they'll come to have terms for and understand their queerplatonic relationship, but still need to defend it from outsider assumptions.

So, I didn't want to add to that. I wanted to invite readers not to add to those assumptions and pressures on these kids- Yes, they haven't figured it out yet, but they're well on their way, and you should know. There's no speculation to be had there. Peri Dubois and Abel Moreau are aroace individuals, and they've had enough trouble with that fact already without strangers in another world shipping them together cluelessly; So I needed to let people know. It's the least I could do for them. We've got something pretty important in common, after all.

[gucciguccigarbage]

Pencil sketch digitization. Floam Loam's Loam Floam.

[doyouknowthisgame]

[cringefail-bi-romantic]

Poll: Round1 A #2

[ID: An image of Alito from yogioh Zexal and and image of Malcolm Shingle from Entropic Float. End ID]

[prinxe-with-no-crown]

hey. i am on mentally ill about your ocs island. really glad to see you, but why arent there more people here

(this post is about Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear, play it for free on steam or itch)

[indieswag-competition]

Indie Game Character Swag Competition!

Masterpost here!

Post propaganda to #indieswagcomp or @ me!

Rules and Info:

Matchups will be decided via randomization and a bit of my personal picks

A 50/50 tie means both characters move on and a sudden revival poll runs to bring back one fallen character to continue the challenge

Polls will last for 24 hours, so be sure to make it on time

Remember, vote for your favorites

BE NICE TO EACH OTHER. All these characters made it in for a reason. This is a friendly fun voting competition, not a deadly warzone

Here are our starting 32 competitors:

Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods)

Loam Arnault (Entropic Float: This World Will Decay and Disappear)

Nugget (Kindergarten)

Sal Fisher (Sally Face)

Rouxls Kaard (Deltarune)

Zagreus (Hades)

Chloe Price (Life is Strange)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

The Knight (Hollow Knight)

Six (Little Nightmares 1 and 2)

Sunny (OMORI)

Crewmate (Among Us)

The Goose (Untitled Goose Game)

Kel (OMORI)

Baba (Baba is You)

Gregg Lee (Night in the Woods)

Stella (Spiritfarer)

Garry (Ib)

Sebastian (Stardew Valley)

Niko (OneShot)

Kris Dreemurr (Deltarune)

Madeline (Celeste)

Sara Chidouin (Your Turn To Die)

V1 (ULTRAKILL)

Slugcat (Rain World)

Hat Kid (A Hat in Time)

Ori (Ori series)

Hornet (Hollow Knight)

Stanley (Stanley Parable)

Krobus (Stardew Valley)

Mono (Little Nightmares 2)

Webber (Don't Starve)

[beautiful-boy-bracket]

WELCOME TO THE BEAUTIFUL BOY BRACKET

lets start with the minor character section (both sections are in this post), where we have 32 characters handpicked from your submissions by me personally. they are as follows:

Shinjiro Nozomi from Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear

Xiao Yin from Dislyte

Cherry (Kaoru Sakurayashiki) from Sk8 The Infinity

Kashima Yuu from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Argalia from Library Of Ruina

Haku from Spirited Away

Mytho from Princess Tutu

Emrys from The Hero's Journey

Magnus Chase from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series

Kusuriuri from Mononoke, Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales

Kai Satou from Your Turn To Die

Santa from Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

Abi from Akatsuki no Yona

Ramuda from Hypnosis Microphone

Ronald from Jackson's Diary

Ryuji Ayukawa from Blue Period

Yuuya Sakazaki from Hatoful Boyfriend

Cure Infini from HUGtto Precure

Richard from Tales of Graces

Gero Akoya from Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!

Elpizo from Mega Man Zero 2

YiGuang from My Vow To My Liege

Raikou Shimizu from Nabari No Ou

Lio Fotia from Promare

Aurelius from Royal Alchemist

Yuliy Jirov from Sirius the Jaeger

Mochizuki Yukimitsu from Skate Leading Star

Yuri Lowell from Tales Of Vesperia

Lord Golden, aka The Fool, from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb

Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet

Epel Fermier from Twisted Wonderland

Valimer from Women of Xal

some of these names may be misspelled, which i will find out when googling them again to save their images; fault lies with their submitters /lh

as almost 3/4 of these characters have only gotten one submission each, the minor bracket is not seeded, and the matchups will be randomized

now for the major bracket! as this one is possible to seed, i present you with...

the round one matchups in the major bracket will be:

Howl Jenkins Pendragon from Howl's Moving Castle vs Artemis Fowl from the Artemis Fowl series

Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender vs Izaya Orihara from Durarara!!

Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu from The World Ends With You vs Gerry Keay from The Magnus Archives

Kurapika from Hunter X Hunter vs Lan Wangji from Mo Dao Zu Shi | The Untamed

Alucard from Castlevania vs Aaravos from The Dragon Prince

Legolas Greenleaf from Lord Of The Rings vs Vash The Stampede from Trigun Stampede

Taako from The Adventure Zone vs Albedo from Genshin Impact

Leonardo Hamato from Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs Andromeda Shun from Saint Seya

Dorian Gray from The Picture Of Dorian Gray vs Yuri Plisetsky from Yuri!!! On Ice

Gunpowder Tim from The Mechanisms vs Affogato Cookie from Cookie Run

Klavier Gavin from Ace Attorney vs Marluxia from Kingdom Hearts

Mettaton EX from Undertale vs Chuuya Nakahara from Bungou Stray Dogs

Link from The Legend Of Zelda vs Essek Thelyss from Critical Role

Angel Devil from Chainsaw Man vs Kian Stone from Just Roll With It

Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club vs Yuri Leclerc from Fire Emblem

Wallace from Pokemon vs Sesshomaru from InuYasha

[aromantic-character-showdown]

[image description: tags that read "# also all of the entropic float characters hace really cool designs # someone needs to tell me what it's about". end image description]

well, boy, im so glad you asked!

before we get there - hello, the person who has been obsessed with the visual novel in question for almost a year speaking. for any poll you see an entropic float character in, i am always one of the people to have submitted them, and i am the person who has been writing most of the propaganda for them (qpr-competition is also me, btw, any "i wrote that massive essay" over there come from me as well). my obsession is in part fueled by the fact that almost nobody knows it, but ive been working on that

with that out of the way...

Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear is a visual novel that features a cast of 14 characters in an Anomalous Clocktower. the anomaly is of the timeloop type - every 24 hours, as the clock strikes midnight, time rewinds, and you might or might not be able to remember the events of the past loops.

ive said this before and ill say it again - i consider the selling point of the game to be the characters, which is great, because at its core its about getting to know and love them - the phrase "mortifying ordeal of being known" is used verbatim in the route leading up to the true ending.

for example, Peri and Abel, both featured in this poll, are canonically aroace. they have been joined at the hip since they were kids, although that wasnt quite for the right reasons - Peri was being raised as a bodyguard for Abel and his older brother. at the core of their shared character arc is the struggle against amatonormativity - people assuming that, since theyre a boy and a girl and are best friends, they must fall in love with each other eventually, and are just too young right now; that they should give it time, and it will happen. the pressure is worrying for both of them, and Abel in particular has gone on puberty blockers; "these people must be right, but i dont want to become someone who falls in love, so i will stave off my growing up".

Jasper Jasmine "Jazz" Jekyll, who has been voted out in the preliminaries, is grey-aromantic and pansexual. however, the more present in the narrative part of her character is that she is a trans woman, and that she considers her gender to have changed rather than having always been there; "i was fine being a boy until i wasnt". she is working towards her masters in social studies, and has used her falling into the anomaly as data for her thesis.

as i have said, there is a total of 14 characters in the main cast; ive told you about three, as they are fitting for the theme of the bracket, but all of them are queer of various flavours, and written in a very alive way - from Shinji who im pretty sure is only stated to be bisexual in his profile and nowhere in the rest of the text, to Kanatsun who brings up questioning his sexuality in his memories and is still written down as questioning, to Loam whose gender identity isnt respected because of their disability, to JJ who throughout the anomaly gains the courage to come out as trans to his adoptive mom... theres a lot of different ones! fourteen of them!

and btw, its free, and available on steam and itch

Oooh!!!

[canonaspecswag]

Canon Aspec Swag Qualifiers: Shubble vs Abel Moreau

Shubble from Empires SMP who is asexual. Shelby, who created Shubble, is also ace.

vs

Abel Moreau, also from Entropic Float: The World Will Decay And Disappear who is asexual and uses that label in the text, further commentary from the creator says he is also aromantic.

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Peri Dubois from Entropic Float: This World Will Decay and Disappear is asexual!

[nicohverse]

Entropic Float 2 Demo and Kickstarter Launch!

Picture a point-and-click adventure game. Now picture a branching, time-looping ontological mystery visual novel. Entropic Float 2 combines those into its gameplay concept: A point-and-click where you can never solve every puzzle at once. Where you have one key that fits two locks... And the only way to see what's behind the lock you didn't choose is to die, repeat the day, and try something different this time. With only you and your protagonist aware of the loop, seek an answer that earns new information. Through trial and error, solutions and murder... Can you find the way through this new Anomaly?

In early 2021, I started working on a project just for fun. Using the character creator and scene assembly tools of Illusion's Koikatsu, paired with the visual novel engine ren'py, I decided to learn to make a VN. A year and a half, over three hundred thousand words, and quite a bit of pocket money later, I released 'Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear' for free on steam and itch.io. 

Something that was never meant to be more than a fun exploration of a concept grew into a huge endeavor for me, a visual novel as long as any two Umineko episodes combined! I got guest artists, made plenty of art myself, and learned a lot more about coding in ren'py than I ever thought I would. After releasing the game, my friends were proud of me, and I've heard from a lot of people it connected with. It became the basis of what I want to keep doing creatively- Expanding on this world, telling its story, and finding those people it will resonate with.

That brings us to Entropic Float 2: Land Of The Witch. A sequel I've been planning since the first game released a little over a year ago now. It's a game that can't be free (though if you, for any reason, cannot purchase it- I care more about sharing it than I do about making money) and a game I want to create to that standard. There won't be assets made in a character creator or royalty free music this time. I hope to bring the Pine Creek Anomaly to the screen with my own two hands, and a little bit of help from freelancers. I want to make a point-and-click adventure worth paying fifteen dollars for, an artistic experience that constitutes a huge step up from the first game.

A demo is available to download and play from itch.io! Features already reflected in the demo include:

The general structure of the point-and-click gameplay; including travel between maps, item collection and use, and conversations with other characters.

Hand-drawn backgrounds (with minor animations) and talksprites.

Profile screens for each character and a memory-seeking system improved from the first game. Also improved from the first game is exposition being mainly in a linear-locked part of the story so it doesn't need to be repeated in different places so different players don't get confused!

Planned features yet to be implemented include:

Loop Randomization- The demo includes only the very first loop of the story, but in the actual timelooping gameplay, many factors will be randomized between loops. Characters and items will appear and disappear, characters will have different trustworthiness scores, and eventually, the weather will even change and impact puzzles and character behaviors.

Zones- Minigame areas that abstractly inform you more about a character and are locked behind obtaining certain profile notes and memories. The rewards for completing zones will be tools to access additional areas, such as Area 2 waiting beyond the broken bridge.

Characters- Several of EF2's characters don't appear yet in the demo, due to having their introductions tied to maps that aren't accessible in Area 1.

General Improvements- Characters currently only have one talksprite. The preferences page is still in the ren'py default configuration. Some music tracks recycled from the first game aren't the best fit for the situation. These are all things that relate to the current version being a demo. These are all things that will improve sooner if this kickstarter is a success.

Shortly after handling the Anomalous Clocktower in the Black Rock Desert, Kanatsune Ame was promoted. Now, as an agent of the Wish Task Force at a rank equipped to handle more complex Anomalies, he's received an assignment for another one above his pay grade. Pine Creek, an entire town that was wiped from the map and from all memory several years ago, only to suddenly begin dragging new victims inside within the last few months... Somebody inside this forgotten piece of miserable Americana decided to call out to the world that left it behind, and it's up to you to find out who that could be.

Thank you, as always, for reading!

[gucciguccigarbage]

A few spare Entropic Float doodles! I posted these over on twitter as a countdown to release, but only just realized I hadn’t shared them over here. Since none of these images show up in-game, I’ll post em here on my personal tumblr. Featuring some lyric doodles, a set of siblings, Amelie dressed up as one of the characters who inspired her, and the one tattoo Malcolm has that he didn’t give himself~

[wakraya]

then i very much recommend Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear. its a visual novel about time loops with an all queer cast that has three protagonists with your help solving the mystery of the anomaly they and eleven other people got trapped in. at its core, the game is about seeing and understanding the hearts of others. its free on steam and itch

Sounds... Homestucky! I'll keep it in mind! :D

[nicohverse]

Entropic Float's One Year Anniversary!

One year ago today- On July 7th, 2022- I released the 300k+ word long visual novel Entropic Float: This World Will Decay and Disappear, at no cost on itch and steam.

(Madeline by @unluckyerror404 on Artfight)

It was a labor of love- I worked on it for just over a year and a half, and my life changed a lot during that time. I got a job related to my degree, then proceeded to crash and burn when it turned out that I couldn't actually manage that job alongside my chronic conditions. Working on Entropic Float was the only thing during that time that really made me happy at all, so it's no surprise I ended up quitting for my health shortly after release...

Since I released Entropic Float, lots of things have happened. I've seen it referred to on reddit as 'the queerest game I've ever played'. I've received wonderful fanart. People have come to me saying that the game helped them realize they were physically disabled. My good friend, the vtuber FreyaFukunaga, played through the entire game on stream. There have of course been bad reviews too, negative feedback- No game can be for everyone, and Entropic Float is a game for some rather specific people. I've taken into account critiques made in good faith, and made efforts to improve these things where possible in updates to the game, and even moreso in the way they will be structured in Entropic Float 2: Land Of The Witch.

But before we talk about Entropic Float 2, which I'm sure you've all been waiting for information on, let me put some concerns to rest. I have, by no means, been doing nothing all this time. EF2 is coming along, though not in ways that are easy to share. Still, have a look-

Admittedly, it's a bit ugly without all the extra buttons, text, and more that will accompany this frame- It's just one small piece of the GUI I've been building. Entropic Float 2 is a big shift in style from the first game- For one, I'm no longer using Koikatsu for talksprites or environments. For another, it's going to be a point and click adventure game (Though the final release will include a 'kinetic novel version' option for those who prefer to play VNs on auto-advance!). You can see it, right? The menu buttons along the right edge, an inventory with tabs you can cycle in the bottom right corner, some information about the current state of the game in the empty space on the left...However, besides EF2, there have been other things I'm working on, and I'll admit to having some trouble finding a good workflow. During EF's development, it was simple enough- In my free time, I did those things which made me money (commissions, convention prep) and when those were done I worked on Entropic Float and did very little else. This workflow can no longer apply, because in the interim year, I've been building my small business, Nico's Fan Niche, on etsy. There are some pieces of Entropic Float merch available there! But the point is, now it seems there is always 'something to do which can make me money', as designing new products has a direct impact on my life now.

Besides the store, I'm also involved in other gamedev projects- I continue to be support staff on Heart Fragment, and am the primary artist of an RPG with a few friends of mine, yet to be formally announced. To top it all off, I do still have a day job. I work 30 hours a week (sometimes up to 39) with a studio called Small Victories. It's a wonderful and fulfilling position that gives me the space I need for personal projects, but that's still 30+ hours of the week not spent on those projects.

(Sharma by Quartoch on Artfight)

Finally- Entropic Float 2 is a loftier game than Entropic Float was. When I started EF, it was just for fun, to play with ren'py, and was never supposed to be as long as it ended up being. EF2 is a followup game. It needs to be bigger, better, and the pressure is on. For this reason, I decided to postpone making the game's art until after July- After Artfight 2023. My username there is nhitori if you want an attack from me! Each year, Artfight represents a huge burst of improvement for me and my artistic abilities. A talksprite drawn in June and a talksprite drawn in August would by nature be very obviously different in quality. I've been writing, outlining, working on GUI, but there hasn't been anything worth sharing on here yet.

Even so, I am very happy to announce- You should be able to expect the Entropic Float 2 Demo, and its Kickstarter, in November 2023!

Enter the Pine Creek Anomaly to discover exactly what happened in the small, Appalachian town several years ago- And why, so suddenly, the Anomaly started to invite outsiders in, after flying under the radar all this time. Kanatsune Ame returns to be guided by the player as he searches for the answers within a new cast of characters; Some familiar faces, some made more familiar after a mention in the Anomalous Clocktower, and some he's never met before at all.

And following shortly after the EF2 Demo and Kickstarter- There's one backer reward that will be fulfilled right away. Releasing in December 2023, right away for backers, just in time for the holidays if you just want to purchase it on its own (For only 5 USD- But if you played Entropic Float because it was free, and you really can't spare the money for any reason, do reach out to me.)

">It's been such a long time... But I've finally found You." (Box by Vanitasium on Artfight)

Quite a while after the stabilization of the Anomalous Clocktower, but not yet when you join Ame in the Pine Creek Anomaly- A voice calls out to you. A voice that is familiar, the voice which spoke directly to you throughout the first game. Informing you of the endings you've acquired. Warning you of what's ahead. Asking if you'd like to bring about the miracle. You never would have imagined that voice belonged to somebody. But it seems... She's gathered a new collection of stories for you. Fragments of those you've met before. Histories you couldn't see at the time, updates from the year since you left them behind. If you can read these stories and become more powerful again, like you did in the Clocktower, then maybe, just maybe... You and Her can meet face to face.

The Letters To A Beloved Ghost DLC for the first game will be arriving in December 2023! Along with the DLC, you'll also be able to install the 'Anachrono Mode' for Entropic Float. This mode replaces koikatsu talksprites with drawn talksprites in any cases where those have been added for DLC content. As the characters may be dressed in different clothing in these talksprites, and there may not be exact analogues for every expression, and the environments will remain koikatsu-style in most if not all places- It promises to be a bit anachronistic. But if the talksprites exist, may as well give you the option to use them!

One last thing- I'll be tabling in the Artist's Colony at Connecticon 2023, though I haven't got a table number yet. I also may be tabling at FANEXPO Boston 2023 (Unconfirmed), and Otakuthon 2023 (Waitlisted, but I'll still be attending as a guest if I don't get a table.) So if any fans reading this wanted to come say hello- There's a few opportunities. I might even have something for you, if you come by my table.

With that, the anniversary update is finished. That's all I've got for you right now- But there's a lot to look forward to! Thank you, as always, for reading, for playing, for being here with me on my gamedev journey.

[beautiful-boy-bracket]

do you have any guesses as to who the finalists will be? I feel like in these polls, it's the most popular characters who win- which makes sense coz it's just a silly competition but- do you have any characters you think have strong chances? (if you want to say that is)

i do not in fact want to speculate on finalists (while i have my guesses and biases i would like not to create any. which i am probably failing at). so instead ill show you one of the two guys that inspired this and who will probably not even make it past the first round:

Shinjiro Nozomi! he is from a visual novel called Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear, available for free on steam and itch. its about timeloops and the mortifying ordeal of being known, and every single one of the 14 characters in the cast is queer - this guy in particular is bisexual

look at him. you know he deserves to win this

[beautiful-boy-bracket]

WELCOME BACK TO BEAUTIFUL BOY BRACKET

round one has seen some harrowing matches, some flipping once or several times, some having the lead pull ahead by the skin of his teeth, and one requiring the intervention of a tiebreaker.

without further ado, let me announce round 2!

in the minor bracket, the matches will be as follows:

Haku from Spirited Away vs Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet

Elpizo from Mega Man Zero 2 vs Yuuya Sakazaki from Hatoful Boyfriend

Argalia from Library of Ruina vs Epel Felmier from Twisted Wonderland

Abi from Akatsuki no Yona vs Cherry (Kaoru Sakurayashiki) from Sk8 the Infinity

Kai Satou from Your Turn To Die vs Magnus Chase from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Lio Fotia from Promare vs Shinjiro Nozomi from Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear

Mytho from Princess Tutu vs Kashima Yuu from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Lord Golden (The Fool) from The Realm of the Elderlings vs Shi Yiguang from My Vow To My Liege

as for the major bracket:

Howl Jenkins Pendragon from Howl's Moving Castle vs Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu from The World Ends With You vs Lan Wangji from Mo Dao Zu Shi | The Untamed

Alucard from Castlevania vs Legolas Greenleaf from Lord Of The Rings

Albedo from Genshin Impact vs Andromeda Shun from Saint Seya

Dorian Gray from The Picture of Dorian Gray vs Gunpowder Tim from The Mechanisms

Klavier Gavin from Ace Attorney vs Mettaton EX from Undertale

Link from The Legend of Zelda vs Angel Devil from Chainsaw Man

Vash the Stampede from Trigun Stampede vs Sesshomaru from Inuyasha

the time of the polls will be added in the reblog to make it easier to see!