#so i'm making this vn about demons

[float-p]

uhhh HELLO??? 👉👈

i've been working nonstop on this visual novel as life allows it and lemme tell you-- i'm losing my MIND

Beware Soulbond!!!

A gothic visual novel where you play as a demon in the netherworlds of hell, working your way up the treacherous ranks of demonic nobility ✨

the main characters:

the features:

× You have 4 appearance options for the MC with 4 different color schemes each;

× You can choose your origins as a fallen angel from after or during Lucifer's rebellion in heaven or a cambion already born in Hell;

× You can also choose your pronouns, name and height;

× And all the characters that cross your path remember your choices 😈

also lots of lgbtqia+ rep and dating sim elements (yes you can date the demons)

Thank you for hearing me out --- the game's still under development but I'll be dropping a teaser by the end of the month and a demo(n) coming soon 😈😈😈

[yan-snowcave]

My brainrot is still going strong so I made this chart, apperance wise I based it off on the Cannibal Sweetheart one (also sorry if the arrows suck, I did all this in MSpaint & 3D Paint :'D)

Characters, Sprites & Background belong to; @perfectlovevn

[feenick]

JRPG, CRPG, WRPG... these aren't very useful subgenres, and geologically recent arguments have heated up the debate around them even more. So I propose throwing them out and replacing them with these 26 new, flawless categories:

ARPG - Action RPG: Do you perfom actions? Or are you stuck watching the title sequence over and over because the main menu doesn't work? BRPG - Bethesdic RPG: Can you pick up every wheel of cheese in the game and put it into a single room? Does the game needing to keep track of that eventually ruin saves? Then the game's a BRPG. CRPG - Computer RPG/Console RPG: Everyone will know exactly what you mean when you use this acronym. If need be, refer to games like Ultima IV or Final Fantasy VII, games that exclusively exist on either a personal computer or a console. DRPG - Dungeon RPG: Do you go into the prison cells underneath a castle? If you don't, are you really an RPG of any type, much less a DRPG? ERPG - Erotic RPG: A game where you find love. Did you talk to someone on an internet forum about Final Fantasy IV and get into a relationship through that? That goes here. FRPG - French RPG: Wakfu exists. I'm sure there's others. GRPG - Good RPG: They all go in here :) HRPG - Homeric RPG: Is the plot of the RPG directly ripping off 1) The Iliad 2) The Odyssey 3) A Simpsons episode? IRPG - Idle RPG: Okay, honest question. How much do you idle in these games anyway? Certainly you're setting up equipment and parties that'll auto-grind for you, right? The entire subgenre isn't just Progress Quest, right? JRPG - Judeo-Christian RPG: This category is exclusively for the 2008 game The You Testament. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. KRPG - Kinetic RPG: You know Kinetic Novels, ie a VN that doesn't have any choices at all? Throw any RPG you want to disparge for not giving you choices in here. Alternatively, this is for any RPG that has Kinect support. LRPG - Luddite RPG: Was it released on a console 20 years after that console ceased getting games? Does it look and act like it should have been released 20 years ago? MRPG - Monster-catching RPG: Any game where you catch monsters and have them battle for you. Notably, Shin Megami Tensei is excluded; you talk, bribe, and cajole demons into working for you, which is totally different. NRPG - Natalist RPG: Does the word 'breeding' come up at any point in the game description? ORPG - Orre-game-esque RPG: Like Pokemon Colosseum or Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness, is this game a spinoff of a larger RPG series that changes a major mechanic and has a small but vocal fanbase? PRPG - Panzer Dragoon Saga-like RPG: games that make SHMUP gameplay more approachable by combining them with an RPG. Other games that fit into this category are Undertale and Sigma Star Saga. QRPG - Questionnaire-having RPG: Does the game, at some point, ask you a series of questions in order to determine something? In that case, all other categories are overwritten by this one. RRPG - 'Real' RPG: You know, in your heart of hearts, what belongs here, and everyone else is wrong. SRPG - Strategic RPG: A game in which short-term tactical gameplay decisions [strategy] are the main focus. TRPG - Tactics RPG: A game in which long-term, strategic gameplay decisions [tactics] are the main focus. URPG - Ultraviolent RPG: Can you kill a guy and have a fountain of blood erupt from them? VRPG - VIPRPG: A category reserved for any game made by someone who frequents 2ch's VIP board, or features that :3 cat person that originated there. WRPG - Weeaboo RPG: Was it made by someone outside of Asia but still have anime stylings? XRPG - eXploratory RPG: A generous term for an RPG that throws you out into the world with little direction and expects you to figure out where the game is. YRPG - Yslike RPG: Does it have bump combat? Then there you go! ZRPG - Zero-loving RPG: Are the damage numbers padded to make them look more impressive? Alternatively, does Zero from Mega Man X show up?

[shuttershocky]

Hello! I recently finished Witch on the Holy Night, and it was the most fun I've ever had reading a visual novel. You seem to be a Nasuverse expert, so is it okay if I ask you some questions about it? 1: What was the red hooded figure that was haunting(?) Aoko in some scenes? 2: Was the trauma preventing Aoko from using the Fifth Magic the cat dying in the beginning? 3: I was wondering what exactly in the Nasuverse is in the same timeline(s) as Tsukihime? (Sorry for the one long paragraph)

The sad thing is, that as Mahoyo was originally planned to be a three part VN that never got its sequels, we don't have hard answers to many questions in Mahoyo yet and we may not ever get them.

The red hooded figure is narratively Death, in-universe I'm pretty sure is a Counter Guardian from the Counter Force. If you haven't read Fate/Stay Night or seen Kara No Kyoukai, the Counter Force is the metaphysical will of the mass consciousness of humanity. It works to "maintain" the human world, "correcting" errors through the use of force. Incredibly dangerous supernatural entities are often met with the Counter Force killing them through the use of its guardians, spirits that carry out its will with incredible power. Archer from Fate/Stay Night turns out to be a Counter Guardian, having made an arcane deal to grant him power in life in exchange for his afterlife to be lived as a killing agent of the Counter Force for eternity. For someone like Aoko, able to burn the fabric of time itself with the 5th Magic, the Counter Force would see her as a ticking time bomb that they need to deal with as soon as she turns dangerous to the safety of the world. Now I say the red hooded figure is narratively Death, because it doesn't necessarily appear only when Aoko is about to use her powers, but in every day life. There's a few scenes where she feels it watching her even as she just goes to school, and she sees it in the corner of her eye whenever she's alone, terrifying her every time even when she's not actually afraid of dying (to the point where she would rather have her throat ripped out by a werewolf than use the 5th Magic and risk the hooded figure coming to her.) Given that the first scene we ever get with Aoko was about her experiencing the horrifically violent death of a family of cats, how the hooded figure approaches her whenever she's near death, I'm pretty sure that the hooded figure is Death. It also makes her role as Shiki's mentor in Tsukihime appear much less coincidental. Someone like Aoko that sees the specter of death in her every day life just so happens to run into a 9 year old boy the same morning he awakens with the ability to see death in all things? No way it was an accident.

I think it was part of it. I think it was just fear of the hooded figure, since it approaches her whenever she feels pressured to use the 5th Magic. Although if we go with the idea that the hooded figure acts as the abstract concept of Death, then the death of the cats (the first time she sees something die) would factor in that trauma.

This is a question whose answer changes a bit over time and can get a little... messy. Nasu didn't actually split the Tsukihime and Fate timelines until much later when Fate was really taking off as its own thing, and the original Tsukihime and Tsukihime Remake also feature differences that also put them in different timelines. So first off, all the various Fate series obviously take place within the Fate timelines, except for Fate/Strange Fake which takes place in a merged Fate + Tsukihime timeline. Kara No Kyoukai also seems to take place in Fate timelines as the Ryougi family reappears in El Melloi Adventures while Shiki is a heroic spirit in both Fate/Extra and Fate/Grand Order, but Kara No Kyoukai's characters also form a part of Tsukihime and Mahoyo's background lore (Tsukihime's demon hunter families include the Ryougi, Asakami [Asagami], and Fujou families from Kara No Kyoukai, while Mahoyo also has Alice be a student of Reien Girls Academy, a school that appears in Kara No Kyoukai as a part of Misaki Town). Tsukihime, Melty Blood and sequels, and Kagetsu Tohya take place within Tsukihime, but could NOT be in the exact same timeline as Mahoyo (despite Aoko making references to Mahoyo in Melty Blood) because Mahoyo and the original Tsukihime both take place in Misaki Town, and the Tohno mansion and Kuonji mansion are both in the exact same location (as in, the Kuonji mansion is right where the Tohno mansion should be). The Tsukihime Remake moves the timeline up from 1992-2000 to 2006-2014, and moves its setting from Misaki Town to Souya Town, allowing it to exist in the same timeline as Mahoyo without contradicting anything. Melty Blood Type-lumina also exists within the Remake's setting.

[thefrenchydude]

Some news

Hello everyone!

I would like to apologize for my absence. I've been quite busy lately and haven't had time to do what I wanted to do. The request I wanted to answer is still not finished and I haven't made that much progress on chapter 4. I'm truly sorry. But now that I've got two weeks to rest ahead of me, I intend to do what I love and finish what I set out to do.

Also, I'd like to talk about the VN and everything I've done so far:

About the game:

Firstly, I've written and coded some of the first part of the game, I still have to correct it, complete it, change a few things (and I'd like to implement an inventory and level system in this game, but I don't know how yet.).

The different routes:

Wukong and Macaque: The first two chapters have been implemented in the game.

No choice yet to change the story.

Arthur (temporary name) -a tiger demon-:

Chapter 1 completed

Combat phase (in progress)

Start of chapter 2 (in progress)

M??n Wuk?ng: A hidden path which is not fully developed as yet in the game.

The tea house and sauna routes are still not finished and doesn't have yanderes yet. I think for the tea house it could be a dragon and for the sauna I really have no idea right now :')

The game will have three main paths (triggered by a choice at the start of the game):

Murderous Lust (you're with Lex and you follow the story)

Variant 1 (Lex is dead and you're working with the Facility for Mother)

Variant 2 (Lex wants you dead and you're tracked by the Facility for having betrayed Mother)

About the art:

It was a lot more complicated than I thought. First of all, I needed a furry artist at all costs (Wukong, macaque, ect… are demons with anthropomorphic designs, so a furry artist was the best option). I spent several afternoons looking for artists. On Discord, Twitter, Furafinity… It was so long and complicated. Either their style didn't match my project, or their commission were closed, or I couldn't trust them.

After a while, I found someone. I wasn't totally convinced by his style -although it was beautiful, I wasn't sure it would go well with my VN-. We started talking, he seemed interested… then nothing. With no response even after more than a week, I decided to give up and turn to another artist. So off I went again in search of an artist. Later, I found one. His style appealed to me and everything seemed okay with him. HOWEVER, there is something that I always do, I check all the artist's network. 1 - Because I like to do so and to know more about the person I can work with. 2- Because I don't want to work with a jerk. AND THIS ONE, it was a true specimen. He left hate messages on other artists' accounts and I even found homophobic messages he'd left under the account of someone who'd asked him for commissions. I ran away from this creep.

And the more I searched, the more I lost hope of finding someone for this project. Maybe I was only going to be able to make a VN without art… I didn't like that idea at all, but if I couldn't find anyone, I had no choice.

Defeatist, I gave myself one last afternoon of searching. If I still couldn't find anyone, I was going to have to make up my mind. And then I came across an artist whose style attracted me. His works were beautiful and the more I searched through his accounts, the more I liked this person.

So I went ahead and contacted him, I was so stressed about getting a negative response or no response at all. But the artist got back to me. He's a really cool guy and he draws so fucking good ijnreijnevineinzijnoznfiojfnipnlckd.

The first commission should be ordered early this month. I'm so happy to have finally found the perfect artist for the job!

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One rather important question: Will there be any NSFW? After a lot of thought, yes. There will be scenes like that in the game.

Sorry again for the absence, but I'm very busy with the VN. Thanks to everyone who sends me love through questions or private messages, I love you! It really makes me feel great and I can't thanks y'all enough for that.

[ruakichan]

So I tried out Tokyo Debunker. tl;dr: LOL that's how much?

I'm not really into otome/joseimuke cause I don't dig the self-insert/dating/tropey cast of boy characters aspect, so I appreciate that this game allows you to set a name for the heroine that isn't your IGN. Allowed me to enjoy the story as its own thing. And the story is about the most positive thing I can say.

The game looks mediocre and out of date, even by my lenient standards, though it's fully voice acted with a star-studded cast (JP) and story beats are highlighted by manga-esque cut scenes to supplement the talking heads VN visuals. But the character art is crude and simple (probably to make the live2d easier), most of the designs uninspired, and the GUI a confusing mess.

It's basically TWST but with horror, and where I had bounced hard off TWST's story and cast, the world presented here is interesting and most of the characters are charming. ...Although some are gratuitous expies of characters from other franchises. The blond screaming kid is basically that blond screaming kid from KNY, and he even has the same voice actor lol (edit: nope the guy just sounds like shimono) I keep expecting him to break out with some amazing power when he's asleep, and it'll have some of the best art in the game lol. But ignoring the ...homages..., I really enjoyed TD's tale, and that's what's keeping me going. There's also some fujobait teasing between the various boys; I straight up lol'd at a card you can get in VIP that is of two of them having a cigarette kiss.

Battle system is just a chibi battler with some music stages (lol), but I appreciate you can skip battles straight from the get-go, which is probably why they didn't bother with the graphics. The game also has an idle clicker base (though without the clicking), which is where you do the majority of your leveling and mat grinding (ie: it's done passively). There's (not live) PVP, but it's like pvp in dressup games. Looks like there's a guild raid boss open during certain times of the day. Guild system itself is eh. There just really is no actual, engaging gameplay.

The monetization is fucking hilarious. I am not one who flinches at spending, but holy hell this game is disgustingly offensive in not only the bazillion ways they monetize, but the cost. They have numerous USD100+ packages, things costing thousands of the diamond currency for progress (locked behind their own gacha), and a mixed summon pool that is less than half characters, with a total 1% ssr rate to pull gear cards or character cards--with gear having higher individual pull rates (you will be more likely to pull gear than a character). Pity for a character is 500, no banner carry over. Absolutely bonkers in this day and age. The ways to spend also include a VIP, sub VIP, weekly and monthly passes, tiered purchases, timed purchases, repeat purchases, rebate purchases... just LOL. I've played f2p games for over a decade, and I've never seen such an egregious amount of microtransactions.

Absolute cash grab. The moment I can't progress in the story due to paywall is when I'll uninstall. Really too bad since I am enjoying the story, and I'd like to know more about the cast (I regret getting the one who visually appealed to me as my starter card cause this pure, earnestly dense kid is smashing me in the face with his moe).

Anywho. Try, but don't spend. If you already play TWST, this is TWST at home but with demons and ghosts. Its troubled development history really shows, and I'd be shocked if it lasts a year. Would make a fun, brainless anime or manga though.

[ruyalarincadisi]

RU MY GOOD MUTUAL RU!! i amn, return the favor.. please tell me about your oc(s)!!! do you have a story youre working on? any fandom ocs? non-human ocs? :eyes: do You have a favorite oc? <33

HI INT!! !! thank you for the ask! i have a lot of ocs too! UM i'm currently working on a few stories at once and never finishing anything. typical adhd girlie. but i'm focusing on these two called "unusual" and "seasons of mirage" especially seasons of mirage, it's my favorite story and i plan to make it a vn!! i don't make fandom ocs much but i self insert in stories a lot! all of the self inserts are based on me obviously but they're sliiightly different because i try to fit them into the stories accurately, they end up a like ocs that are similar to me!

for non human ocs, i have a few dragons, talking cats, cat girls, totally normal cats, and a few demons that mostly look like humans unless they show their real forms- that are again, just like humans but with horns wings and tails! i usually prefer human or cat characters ahaha i have two favorite ocs! under the cut because pics are big

this is fuyuko! she's one of the main characters in seasons of mirage and she has the winter route. i love winter aesthetic in general and winter colors. and she has white fluffy hair, she's so my type. this art is from last year but it's still one of my favorite drawings ;_;

and this is tia, mc of unusual! again a long fluffy hair case, i really love drawing long fluffy hair!! she's more of a sunshine girl than winter theme though!

[get-rammed]

Hi! I came from your twitch (guess which) and wanted to know what ‘feral fiends’ is. I tried looking it up but didn’t find anything

Pfft well hello there 💕

Before I say anything, it is an +18 universe because I may be ace, but I am unhinged. And if you've been to my nsfw Twitter, you know what kind of art I draw, and what kind of universe this is gonna be lmao. Like it is dark zone stuff. Not for everyone

Feral Fiends is a world I'm building/built because I had an idea and it spiraled out of control. But that's basically the universe name as I'm in the process of making a VN for one of the main guys!

I have a Twitter for it here and a Tumblr @feralfiendsvn but I'm really, really bad at explaining what's in my head. So I'm just vaguely gesturing around and nodding and people are nodding with me. Trusting my process

Long and short. You got Earth and Pit. Cosmic space bullshit has linked the planets, so Humans and Demons have grown together. It's just a funky world for me to throw ideas at. You can read the 28k word doc on it here if you want to get in too deep.

You don't need to know the world to enjoy the VN whenever I make it as it just focuses around Trevor, who isn't important to the overall world. He's just a guy in it. He's just my little murder boy meow meow. And I'd explain the lore in a subtle way without being like LORE about it as I trust people can make some connections

Which I try to do with my fnaf stuff rn too. Treat my audience like they're smart and can piece stuff together because idk about you guys. But I like media that does that

My icon is one of the characters from it, Rodney. My baby boy

And I do have a discord for me/for the project. Due to the nature of my art and the world, it is an +18 server and I do require ID to get in because I have trust issue lmao

Trevor and Veronica as how I draw them as human human, have appeared in my fnaf series too lmao

[shanicetjn]

Been meaning to ask a few of these uncommon questions for a while – your ocs are very cool and I want to know more! But life keeps happening and distracting me :(

Could you answer 7 for Azrael and 2 for Asmo? And I'm interested in 21 for both! I'm also very curious about A and B too! Feel free to pick and choose if this is too much for one ask!

(and sorry if you've been asked these before!)

PS. Saw on twitter that you'd made the deadline for your VN work - congratulations!

Aaa that means so much and I'm glad you like my OCs. I hope things will get better for you soon. Hang in there, I'm rooting for ya!! ♥

7. What triggers nostalgia for Azrael, most often? Does he enjoy that feeling?

Food, I think! He didn't grow up with many good memories but food has always been very comforting throughout his childhood. Hmm, I believe that he does! It's more along the lines of bittersweetness.

2. How easy is it for Asmodeus to laugh?

So very very easy! Asmo is your resident goofy silly sunshiney boi. ; v ;;

21. Why do they get up in the morning?

Azrael - To take the doggos out for a jog and to go to work. The 2 things that actually bring him some form of joy! xD Az loves his kids and he loves his work. [ Copied from a previous ask ]

Asmodeus - To go to uni unwillingly...He was forced by his brother to pursue his degree. xD But getting to hang out with his friends and go to football practice makes going there worthwhile!

A) Why are you excited about this character?

Azrael - It's honestly just because I have always been very obsessed with Death. The Angel of Death is my absolute favourite "being" and they are automatically my favourite in whatever media they appear in.

My Azrael has gone through many changes over the years and my love and excitement for him has not stopped growing. He's just a character that ticks all the boxes for me! :>

Asmodeus - He actually makes me so damn happy- It makes no sense to me honestly! xD Is it weird to say that Asmo makes me want to become a better person? He's a kind, sweet and bubbly character that views the world in such a positive light...It's nice.

B) What inspired you to create them?

All of my OCs are actually AU versions of my Angel-verse! Hence, the (weird) biblical names!! I've changed most of their names to better suit the modern setting (e.g. Amadeo, Belvan, Josias etc.) which is reflected in all the VNs they've appeared in. And I'm sure you can tell that I can't seem to change my habit of calling them by their biblical names... xD

Thus I was inspired by the angels and demons to create my OCs' earliest renditions...But for the Uni-verse? I made the decision to move them over because it's just easier for me to create and develop them. (Without getting too many unwanted comments from people because it touches on religion...I unfortunately shared it with irl people that weren't very open-minded so I just stopped. That was late-2014 I think aklsdfjalksdf)

I was in uni at the time and I have always been into Mafia-related media so I guess I just mixed both of those together! :>

Hopefully my long wall of text makes sense! ;; V ;; Thank you so much for these questions, they really got my brain working! And thank you for your kind words!! I honestly can't wait to share the VN with everyone. It's going to be a Halloween-themed one! >:]c

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

my immediate thought in regards to "why are all the grands men and beasts women" was "because sexism" but then I though that's jumping the gun, but then I thought about it and like....that actually tracks? Like look at the main stories people associate with Nasu, Heaven's Feel or Fate Extra or CCC or Hollow Atarxia. They all have a theme of "Women are extremely easy to corrupt and men are much more set in their ways". Even Notes is about a male killing a corrupted female figure. Pretty much every story Nasu writes boils down to a powerful force that's been corrupted into being evil, and the only male one of them that actually gets treated like a villain for it is Angra Mainyuu who still gets to be a main character and does the right thing in the end rather than have to be stopped by force.

I dunno maybe i'm overthinking it? I guess it could just be he really likes Sakura and Shirou and so he keeps making similar characters and THAT's why we get so many "evil woman of corrupting evil" characters vs "Bodysnatching and-or power/name-borrowing himbo who is very bad at trying to help"

I feel like it’s probably a bit of both of those reasons as well as a simultaneous combo of it being not that deep and also deep like

(Disclaimer that I haven’t fully read the source material)

As you mentioned nasu loves the shirou/sakura type dynamic and a lot of his work reflects themes that, while not identical do tend to mirror that in vaguely similar ways with the fucked up dude trying his best and woman suffering very much who then starts lashing out super hard thing it to varying degrees of success and compassion. And to be clear, I think Sakura herself in the original vn is a pretty good character- she isn’t demonized by the narrative so much as it’s seen as a understandable but not tolerable reaction to a frankly untenable situation, and she is allowed agency and to grow and heal as a person-her most important relationships in heaven’s feel aren’t just w shirou but also her estranged sister. Same case for shirou as well-he suffered extreme trauma at a young age that he never healed from, instead using an unrealistic ideal to keep himself moving cowards, and the routes all tackle that background and how it colors his relationships in varying ways. Obviously there’s still flaws w their writing and they/their proxies haven’t always been handled great afterwards (stares hatefully at ooku) but I think some of this really is just bc it’s two character archetypes that personally speak to the writer in question.

At the same time there’s def been more of a focus on evil and fucked up women after the case then there has been on the fucked up men, and if I had to say, in the most mercenary terms, it’s probably bc they think sex sells (or something along those lines). I know stuff like ccc was written with the premise that ‘all girls possess the ability to become monsters when in love’ and borrowed heavy theming from sources like utena, but at the same time there’s basically 0 focus on the men of that game or other games (sans gilgamesh and Charlie/karl in extella link.) Why can we not have any male secret gardens? Why is the game so heavily weighted towards exploring the dark side of feminine sexuality but locks you out of archer’s third secret garden if you play as a male character? (I know why, but it’s so petty when they don’t do the same to the female servants if you play as a girl) It hampers their ability to properly develop the character arcs and themes of the story when they shove recurring characters like Leo and Julius off to the side while giving loving attention to new people like liz and jinako and it’s truly a shame. This is a similar reason as to why goetia is now the only beast who is completely unsummonable (you can summon fou paws can you not?)-they simply want to dedicate more time to developing the women characters whether bc of preferential bias on the writers end or bc the women are more popular, but it does create a damaging implication about what they might think of women when they don’t also reflect that effort back into men

I don’t think this is something done out of complete malice but it definitely does give off unfortunate implications, especially bc a few of the beasts have no historical basis (kiara and koyanskya) and are just woman who girlbossed too close to the sun, whereas all the grands do have some connection to history even if they are more obscure, so it does give off the impression that the evils of humanity are all sexy sexy women and the world will have to be saved by men even if that’s not what the writers intended (I still suspect we will probably get a female saber, and ofc goetia is a man…72 men?)(I also argue that kama should’ve been a man or non-binary bc how tf are you gonna split list into a top/bottom side for yin-yang stuff and then make them both woman for personal horny reasons that’s just stupid. Fuck outta here men also list. Or, uh, women also lust? I’m losing track).

would also argue king Hassan is PROBABLY not a himbo.

[stopscammingartists]

My only criticism of Webcomic Relief is that he got a bit too focused on details such as speech bubbles not matching from page to page (which could be explained by Glip just changing the color to match the rest of the page or, most likely on the more sketchier pages imo, they just use gradient maps to save time by skipping the coloring) or Andre looking like abstract art when all the other demons look like furries (which is the point, he's meant to stand out as the head of Trebol, especially since he's hinted to be really powerful). Otherwise he hit it on the nail with the rest, especially with the confusing writing and site layout, some choices are disorienting (sketches usually being associated with bonus content actually being the main comic, having to go through both VNs and writing in the middle of comics and so on) and it was making it hard to follow the story even before Marl left and Floraverse exclusively became Glip's vent diary.

I have a few of my own criticisms of WCR's videos but I don't feel they're worth mentioning here.

I will say, good god I am glad someone finally said it about the website layout though. I don't talk about it here but web navigation and overall web design is one of those things I'm stupidly passionate about and both of the Flora sites make me want to pull out my hair. I will use this ask now to just complain about it.

Going to the site now leads to the tab automatically playing the 'music' from the latest visual novel.

This has been a joke and has been for years.

This leads to a 404.

This leads to a page that says they don't sell prints anymore but you can buy the old figures at a link that also 404's.

This Wiki navigation is absurdly obtuse, which is particularly insane to me given the PMD-E wiki never had this issue.

[artwithoutblood]

Weird question, but I've been trying to improve at diversity.

If Genesis and Aeron were in a different art style do you have any particular thoughts on what their noses and skin tones might look like? In the past I've tried to guess by referencing pictures of people in the regions they're "from" but the features of the people are really diverse.

In that computer meme I gave Genesis a warm skintone, kind of golden to complement his eyes and hair. Afro-Turks have always existed and his hair has some texture (I forget which again and search will not smile upon me) so for his nose I made it a little wide, rounded and upturned with a low bridge. Kind of a cute mischievous button nose without making it small. (His lips are still full. They look smaller because Genesis is pursing them, half suppressing a smirk.)

Aeron got cooler toned darker skin to contrast the hair, plus accidentally very textured hair because I really haven't nailed drawing their hairstyle yet. A longer more aquiline Arabic nose because it gave off an older, more elegant intimidating look. I get a feeling that despite causing unintentional chaos Aeron is kind of the defacto leader or at least the eldest/most powerful?

But pictures of Turkish people also show a more prominent rectangular nose that would also look really good on Genesis (the button nose might look a bit young on a dad), and the noses of Jordanian people aren't all as slim and exaggeratedly downturned as I made Aeron's.

Also completely random, but what are everybody's teeth like? (Even just the Galleria trio and Dorian.)

Sorry if this is inappropriate to ask, a loaded question, or puts you on the spot. You're free not to answer, or not have thought about it much.

I'm just thinking about art styles, realism, and improving on drawing non-white features. Because there are PoC characters in the VN community, and you can get a lot of character out of specific features.

Do I just like, pick a headcanon and stick to it, or draw it different each time? I guess sticking to semi-realistic cartoony I can just kind of fudge it and just barely suggest impressions of differing features.

These are demons and not tied to hard rules of appearance.

Plus I think Aeron would subtly shift their appearance if they noticed you trying to draw them, just to fuck with you. And Genesis changes bodies so many times nobody really knows what he looks like anymore, not even him.

There you go, that's it. My art isn't inconsistent. The demons are just trolling me 👍

my art style could and should be improved upon concerning facial features and hairstyles. i want to give pointers, but you also make a point that i hope resonates with other people: you can also do whatever the fuck you want.

do not erase skintone, do not erase what makes them who they are. but if you want to draw characters with different hairstyles, different facial features, different outfits, different body types, whatever, do it. but let the characters serve as a guideline. they all have, for one reason or another, changed their bodies over the years. maybe they're one way, maybe they're the other.

what matters to me is that you, to some degree, connected with the characters while drawing them. i put a little bit of myself into each of my ocs. that shouldn't stop at me.

so....do what you think fits. do whatever the hell you want, just as long as you're respectful in the process!

[nanapop]

Heya! I'm Kai, an author turned solo indie dev who is currently working on visual novels as my medium! This blog will be a main hub for posts about my projects until I decide to branch out and make them their own sideblogs.

Here are the projects I'm currently working on:

A Cruel Demon's Fate: The King is Dead and you're the only one who can commune with the Cosmos to name the rightful heir to the throne.

The first part, which doubles as the demo, is currently posted up and available to play for free.

If you play and post about it, please tag it as "acdf vn" so I can see! :3

Links: Itch.io || Discord

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Noctilim: In a land rebuilt by magick, there's something looming in the shadows of the woods threatening the balance that keeps the world from splitting apart once again.

This was a submission for the 2022 Phantasia Jam on itch and is currently only a short demo, but full production is planned for as soon as Demon's Fate is completed.

Will be following the tag "noctilim vn" for posts about this one! ^^

Links: Itch.io

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[just-write-studios]

2023 Celebration and Recap

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It is so good to round out the end of 2023 by looking back on the overwhelming amount of progress that has been made. I've been gathering up devlogs and progress reports over the last week and am sincerely shocked by (and very emotional about) just how much was accomplished!

Thank you all so much for joining me on this insane journey. I have so many plans for 2024 and could not be more motivated to press on with the development of Catalyst: Blind Faith! I'd love to recap all of this progress with you today. I'm going to break this into categories to help with navigation.

Without further ado! The recap is under the cut.

JUST WRITE STUDIOS 2023 RECAP

ART - BACKGROUNDS

Pictured: The second background for Catalyst: Blind Faith.

Pontos: A ramshackle fishing village, and the first location in the game.

Enchanted Stairs: A mysterious and unlockable location in the demo.

ART - CHARACTERS

Pictured: An early concept for Celegwen, a main character/party member/potential love interest for the full game of Catalyst: Blind Faith.

Father Richard Anscham: A polytheistic human priest—our young, troubled, and compassionate antihero.

Malimos: An easily-amused, spider-like mass murderer, and the first demon seen in the game.

Offala: A treacherously beautiful and unbearably violent monstrosity; the second demon encountered in the game's demo.

Orgoth: A gregarious orc warchief, one of the main characters in the demo.

The Goddess of Time: All of space and reality.

Celegwen: A venerable elvish sorceress, who loves knowledge and anarchy almost as much as her immense Magical power.

ART - GRAPHIC DESIGN

Pictured: An audition lines card I made for our upcoming, live performance of Catalyst: Blind Faith.

Logo for Just Write Studios created!

Logo for Catalyst: Blind Faith created!

Made the audition line cards for a vtuber live performance casting event! If you are interested in keeping up to date with this event, check out our Catalyst Discord or MiMoMedia's official server!

Placeholder, animated credits screen!

Redesigned all 8 holy symbols for the Gods and Goddesses in the pantheon!

Concepts done for all 32 achievements!!

Revamped all of my social media!!

COMMUNITY

Pictured: Sweet mousepads!!

Hosted the 4 Year anniversary stream in the Catalyst Discord server in September!

Featured in the PARANOIA festival in October!

Partnered with mimomedia for a live vtuber performance of Catalyst: Blind Faith (this will take place on January 20th)!

Selected as a speaker for the upcoming VN Conf on January 27th, you can get tickets and more info here!

Monthly updates for our incredible Patrons.

Over a dozen Tumblr posts.

120+ new Twitter followers!

50+ new Discord members!!

8000+ new views on Catalyst: Blind Faiths' game page on itch.io!

800+ new downloads!!!

7 new glowing reviews on the game's page! (This is a great way to support the game, feel free to leave us a nice review if you have played the demo!)

Got the opportunity to make some merch from Vograce, a lucky Patron and we now have matching mousepads featuring Richard and Orgoth!!

DIRECTING

Pictured: The logo for Just Write Studios!

Founded Just Write Studios. <3

Brought together 7 of my strongest warriors (our art director, background artist, lead editor, quality assurance team, and composer)!

Created a studio compendium for Catalyst: Blind Faith!

Managed our 4 year community anniversary event!

Coordinated streams for PARANOIA and throughout the year!!

Partnered with mimomedia!!

Oversaw and picked from auditions from 146 vtubers for the live performance!!!

Participated in a research discussion regarding choices in interactive fiction!!

PROGRAMMING

Pictured: Our robust save and load system!

Timelapse animation with a pause and play button!

Scrolling credits screen

Toggle for any SFX

Toggle for quick menu

Slider for textbox opacity

Revamped inventory system!

Unlockable save system

Robust save and load screen

All splash screens and ending screens for the demo

Pimped out History menu

Sleek functionality for the entire players Journal

Functional gallery (will be finished in 2024)

Learned how to use the action editor in Ren'Py and incorporated tons of camera movement into the demo!!

TIME TRAVEL

SOUND

Pictured: A short sample of the MANY sound effects used in Catalyst: Blind Faith!

Harvested over 160GB of SFX and music.

Laboriously picked out placeholder music for the entire demo

Mixed many sound effects, including custom noises for gore

Unique SFX provided by Amidst None and Addigale Stewart for the JWS logo, choice menus, and more!!

Balanced EVERYTHING

WRITING

Pictured: The completed flowchart for the demo of Catalyst: Blind Faith. The full game's flowchart is way too long for here lol

Beat NaNo twice

Outlined, wrote and edited 545k+ words

Which completed almost three full passes through the script of Catalyst: Blind Faith (70 chapters, 66 chapters, and 49 chapters respectively)!

Mapped every single choice and variable across the script so far in a flowchart in Twine

Finalized choices for two more routes (the remainder of the script will be written in 2024)

Finished the 45k word script for the demo

Brought onboard 16 beta readers, editors, quality assurance leads, and reviewed a cumulative 185 chapters together.

Began a critique group and have reviewed 27 chapters together.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Pictured: Our new logo.

Made it through an awful health scare that had me in and out of the hospital (as a result of medication and many misdiagnoses). Luckily I am totally recovered!

Also made it through COVID for the first time (due to aforementioned health issues this was particularly difficult)

Got outstanding support for my long-term sleep issues

Fully upgraded my motherboard, CPU, and graphics card!

Lined up for a nice raise at my day job (I'm working 45-50 hours a week at a day job, on top of all of this, to fund the demo).

Celebrated my nine year anniversary with my partner. Without her support I could not have done any of this. 

We made it! That's the entire recap. I can hardly believe that this year was so remarkably productive, despite everything.

Thank you so much for reading this far and joining me in 2023! This coming year I have BIG plans for development. All of us at Just Write Studios are working incredibly hard to complete the demo of Catalyst: Blind Faith. My goal is to complete the script for the full game, and to get as many art assets commissioned as possible. We still have a lot of work to do, but I am more motivated and determined than ever to get it all done!

Patrons will be getting sneak previews at art assets as they are made, script excerpts, and a whole lot more. Keep an eye out on our socials for updates! You can find us on Discord, Twitter, Tumblr, Itch.io, Ko-Fi, and here on Patreon.

I hope you have a fantastic new year. Here's to a bright and productive 2024! See you soon!

[mrzoetuxedo]

READ BEFORE TO JUDGE

This is the last thing I'll put in this year, I'll no post something on Tumblr and Twitter till I get a therapy and finish my REAL jobs of university.

Here is the decision I made, some things I want to make clear, what I think about of this and the changes I decide to make:

First at all, for my own good and mental health I made the decision to DON'T DRAW A VN ANYMORE.

But I have my exceptions, the only visual novels I will continue drawing will be A DOUBLE SIDED MIRROR and DEEP PRESSION, the rest one I don't want to see it or draw it anymore and some of as form of prevention to don't make the situation worst. Now the topics you will see in the account will be random things (More Pokémon and Dragon City), my OCs and the before mentioned VN.

What I think about the mistake I made

What happened that day made me feel awful and made myself disappointed, but also I felt disappointed of the ones I liked before because the form of how they took it and treated me made feel that I don't belonged to this world.

I lost followers, I lost people who really was interesed on my characters... Was one of the worst day of my life. Also there was people who think that what I made was childlish when the true is that I was trying to say an anecdote of what happened to me, with your wrong reactions you showed me you are really unreasonable people. But now I'm better, I love myself when I never did and I finally understand that I shouldn't be always aware of anyone that is not myself, make me know that i'm not worthless and cry for VN devs who judge me wrong don't matter and doesn't mean something.

Changes I will made about Mr. Zoe BGM:

Here is now the forced and not very forced changes:

- Florencia will be FORCIBLY REDESIGN and Salem's boss will be someone else (Please don't say the name of the person here because is now forbbiden).

- Rosen x Helen WILL NOT be canon anymore (I finally see that Rosen doesn't deserve Helen and she doesn't deserve Rosen).

- Also thanks to that change I'm implenting the law of demons can't have kids with mortals as immortals anymore.

- When someone said that Mr. Zoe was a T3rr0r1sT, you ARE WRONG! The one who was, were a character that I killed without say something. And well, Mr. Zoe were thought to be a powerful character (Even more powerful than Black Hat from Villainous), but now thanks to the one who spread that, now Mr. Zoe will be just a demonologist who has a lot of jobs, mix science with magic and sometimes use the powers of their demons to make things.

- For obvious reasons the VN saga comics is cancelled now and only will be Mr. Zoe interacting with A Double Sided Mirror and Deep Pression characters.

- My plans of my own visual novel... It will never goes out now anymore and will something I will buried it for a good time till feel i'm ready to do it.

CONCLUSIONS

Finally I would like to say that please listen this:

- DO NOT harrass me for what I did or talk about the ones who treated me bad and almost made me feel I'm nothing, they almost drive me to the other world.

- If you want me to draw a VN character who is not from A Double Sided Mirror or Deep Pression, please don't do it understand my reasons and don't talk me about them.

I'm really sorry for all I made with a simple iceberg, the iceberg that I made was done without the objetive to hurt anyone and ENTERTAIN, but after the problems it gave me, I think I'll remake it take off some points. Also now that I leaving the majority of visual novels I would like to say too that I see the true nature of the people who blocked me for all so what I want now is PLEASE UNFOLLOW ME if you only are here for the visual novels that are not the ones I said before because you will not see them anymore, go ahead, I'll be grateful if you do that.

Again, I'm so sorry for everything but this is for my own good and mental health.

GOODBYE BECAUSE I'LL NOT BE PART OF THIS ANYMORE AND I WANT TO BE FINALLY FREE FROM A LOT OF PAIN.

With honesty,

- The Strangest Parodist.

[doublefreegames]

Tunnel Vision and How to Summon a Demon. Spooktober Visual Novel Showcase!

Hello and welcome everyone,

It's great to have started playing the entries in the Annual Spooktober Visual Novel Jam. This year I'm hoping to play as many as possible to get into the Hallow'een spirirt!

So far I've given two spooky gems a go and I want to show them off so here goes!

Tunnel Vision

The first one I've tried this year is Tunnel Vision and wow is this game something! Tunnel Visions was made in Unity and is a horror visual novel with five different endings. It opens up with some gorgeous artwork and user interface details. From the get-go this visual novel shows it's technical prowess. The story follow a charcter who wakes up in an unsetling predicament with no memory of how they got there. The story twists around, subverting expectations and changing your perception of the character that you are playing with some genuinely stomach dropping moments. I played this just before bed and felt incredibly creeped out as a result but also intrigued to know more so that's a big win for this team!

I want to take some time and touch on the sound design too. It was very immersive and great quality. I really enjoyed the music and sound effects too. Definitely complimented the story nicely.

This was a fantastic game to start my terror-riffic journey with!

How to Summon a Demon

After playing Tunnel Vision, I wanted to try something completely different and this visual novel was the perfect treat.

How to Summon a Demon is a visual novel devleoped in Ren'py about a demon summoning video tutorial and you had me at demons! I have a soft spot for putting them in my games and stories (as you may have guessed if you've seen my lastest game Travel Devil) so this game was a must play! Plus I was delighted that I could play it in my browser!

The game is downright adorable with wonderful character and scene design. The purpose of the game is to build a demon by making choices throughout the video. You choices can lead to summoning 20 different demons on different playthroughs and they look fantastic! The interface really elevated this game with gorgeous artwork, especially during the choices. On their itch page they mention that development is continuing beyond this jam so it looks like we'll see big things for this novel.

I'm looking forward to trying so many more games this Spooktober and have had a blast with the first two.

You can check out all the entries here:

Thanks for stopping by!

DoubleFree