Prominent appearances: Swearing, light body horror/gore, burning to death, non-canon character death, blood, nightmares, insomnia, vandalism, vehicle accident, emetophobia, headaches, fainting, food and eating, social avoidance issues, hallucinations, paranoia, characters struggling with mental health, mentions of homelessness, mentions of protests, unspecified anxiety disorder, unspecified hallucinatory disorder, characters argue often
Minor appearances: City destruction, neglectful parents (implied), claustrophobia in crowds, allusion to gang violence, mentions of cops, mentions of politics, mentions of therapy
Summary: Rindo Kanade, now 19, has been having violent nightmares and visions of his time in the Underground. For reasons he can't explain, they subject him to watching himself lose his friend of four years, Beat Bito, to inevitable disasters. This story follows Rindo's journey towards realizing exactly why he's having this issue as he gracelessly and awkwardly navigates his complicated memories and feelings for Beat, laying out a tale that shows the boy's plights of his crippling trauma clashing with young love.
Partner: sitraxis
@sitraxis on Twitter
@sitraxis on Tumblr
Credits
SO I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FIC FOR A WHIIIILE NOW
I'M SO SO HAPPY TO FINALLY POST IT WITH THE TWEWY BANG!!! WORKING WITH MY BETA READER @TINPINWIN AND MY ARTIST SITRAXIS WAS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME AND THE STAFF OF THE BANG ALONG WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS WERE ALL SO AMAZING AND NICE AND I MADE NEW FRIENDS AND HAD SUCH A GREAT TIME!! If you read this fic, I hope you like it!! It's the first entry to my Run Through Fire series, which will be a BeatRindo fanfic universe that I'll make lots of art and fics and maybe even videos for!! Stay tuned!!!!! :D
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! ✨
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!
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!
We are pleased to present @sitraxis as our next Page Artist! Her works are filled of lively colors—dancing in our hearts, like the fluttering wind! Be sure to catch her Anemo Boys!
Bad End Rindo shows himself to Rindos from other timelines in the hopes of being defeated. However, the Noise possessing him forces him to put up a fight.
Run Through Fire 🧡 NEO: The World Ends With You AU 🧡 BeatRindo / BeatRin
Playlist — @subasekabang TWEWY Bang 2023
TRACKLIST:
On Starless Nights — Aimer
Film Out — BTS
Butterfly — Prologue mix — BTS
Forget My Pain — Pritom Hasan
No Stars — YU-KA
Lean On Me — Cheat Codes, Tinashe
Don't You Worry — Galactic Marvl
Sunshine — Hoody, Crush
thoughtboutu — Karencici
boy with luv — lonelyboy
Lucky — Chelsea Cutler
Bones — Galantis
Hello, I love you — Caleb Hawley, Eric Hutchinson
Feels — Kehlani
Until Morning Comes — Taichi Mukai, Joyce Wrice
Last Peace — Taichi Mukai, Night Plans
Run Through Fire — Pink Sweat$
WARNINGS:
Lyric warnings: Tracks #6 is very mildly suggestive, Track #14 contains swearing
Video warnings: Track #8 music video is mildly suggestive and features a cop with a large gun
Notes:
This is the official playlist of my fanfiction entry for the 2023 TWEWY Bang! A majority of "Starless Nights" was inspired by tracks #1 to #3, and the AU itself, Run Through Fire, is named after track #17! Track #9 was also had intense influence on the vibes of the fanfic!
We’re excited to introduce to you the mods of Lawsuits: An Ace Attorney Girls Fashion Zine! These are the people who will be making sure this project goes smoothly!
Nikukurin (@nikukurin | nikukurin on Twitter)
Role: Head moderator
Niku is in charge of handling the zine’s Twitter and presiding on the zine overall. They’re always trying to make the best decisions for the zine!!
Sequoia (@jihyxnkim | jihyxnkim on Twitter)
Role: Co-moderator
Sequoia is in charge of handling all the nitty gritty technical stuff and helps run the zine’s Tumblr.
Sitraxis (sitraxis on Twitter)
Role: Graphic Designer
Tris is in charge of all the gorgeous graphics you will see on our zine’s social media and within the zine itself!
For more updates regarding the zine, follow our Tumblr or our twitter (@aagirlszine). We’re all excited to bring this project to you all!
We’re very happy to start introducing our guest artists for allure vol 2~
@ohprcr
With a unique syle combined with a strong sense of detail and graphics, Iree joins us as a guest artist for allure vol 2, do welcome her!
Twitter : @ohprcr | Instagram : @ohprcr
EVABEESMITH
Joining us too is Eva, our fantastic zine artist with gorgeous aesthetics and style! Please give her a warm welcome and check out her works!
Twitter : @EvaBeeSmith | Instagram : @evabeesmith
SITRAXIS
Last but not least, please welcome our third guest, Sitraxis. With her excellent design skills and vibrant cell-shade art, she’ll add a unique vibe to our zine!
Twitter : @sitraxis | Instagram : @_sitraxis
We will post our GUIDELINES next~ Please look forward to it.