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Some stuff has come up IRL (nothing concerning, just family stuff!) and it looks like I'll need to postpone the start date of the jam to July 14th. Since it's a relaxed jam that allows WIPs, I'm not too worried about the date change.

I'm thinking July 14th - September 1st... so about 50 days. I think that should be okay!

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me?? Not feeling burnt out about the thought of Act to Flirt and actually wanting to touch it up and work on it again??

it's more likely than you think

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Just took a look at the poll results! I’m glad to see there’s quite a number of people interested in participating in the jam! ^^ Honestly it’s more than I was anticipating!

I’ve been working on a few things behind the scenes—the biggest of which is solidifying the guidelines and drafting the jam page.

I’ve also been working on designing an Undertale inspired UI for a Ren’Py template! It’ll be pretty basic—hoping to make the code readable.

(Please ignore the placeholder scribbles lol)

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I’m planning on hosting a game jam for Undertale fans to create visual novels and interactive fiction inspired by Undertale and its AUs!

I’d love to see how many would be interested in participating!

Please be aware I'm still in the planning stages! More details to come!

✨ Jam Dates: July 1st–August 31st ✨ AUs welcome! ✨ Demo or work-in-progress submissions allowed! ✨ Casual—you can start working before the jam OR you can use this jam to finish VNs/IFs you’re already working on!

Please vote and reblog to spread the word! Thank you!

And don’t forget… stay determined! ❤️

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I’ve been working on the jam page—writing guidelines and the about the jam sections—and I ended up writing a “Why an Undertale VN/IF Jam?” section. This jam isn’t just for completed projects. It’s for demos and works in progress, too. Even if you try and you end up not completing it, that’s still more of a fangame than you had before. I think that’s something to be proud of!

Why an Undertale VN/IF jam?

I know what it’s like to struggle with a passion project—especially one inspired by a game you love. I’ve seen fangames start and stop. I’ve seen fangames that never got started. That’s why I wanted to create a jam that sparks inspiration and gives people a reason to finally go for it.

Maybe this jam is the push you need to finish something you started. Maybe it’s a chance to make something new. Or maybe it’s just the perfect opportunity to try. No matter where you're coming from, I want to provide a space where your accomplishments—big or small—will be celebrated.

I want to share the determination in my SOUL, in hopes that it awakens the determination in yours.

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TWEWY: CALLING VISUAL NOVEL RELEASE!

Someone is Calling... 📳 It's been four years since the Reapers' Game for Rindo Kanade. In that time, he's finished high school and started attending college, but no choice he makes ever seems good enough. However, without access to Replay anymore, every single one he makes feels just as overwhelming and integral as the last. This was made as part of NaNoRenO 2025, and thus was made during just one month! Total playtime is approximately 1-2 hours.

📳 >> DOWNLOAD ON ITCH.IO!! << 📳

A basic walkthrough will be uploaded to YouTube at a later point in time :)

📳 >> Find a bug? Submit it here! << 📳

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I'm so confused on how i'm supposed to get Asgore to live, I have ran the game so many times....i'm so confuuuuuuused please help.

If you're on the neutral route, it's not possible. It's, however, guaranteed in the true passion route! :)

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*THERE'S A LOT OF CANVAS FLIPPING IN THIS ONE!! I apologize in advance!!*

happy halfway point for NaNoRenO oh no where did the time go

This week's an update with Rindo's sprites! I wanted to make a lot of them since the story is heavily focused on him very specifically. One again, I'm only doing clean sketches in my personal style for this game, so it's a little rough but I'm happy with it regardless! I think, even considering the fact that I've done over half the sprites now, these ones are still my favorites.

As for actual progress on development-- I'm behind schedule! Woo-hoo! Hopefully this does not spell disaster for me! And now I feel physically ill on top of it, so we're doing great 👍💦

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Rindo's been having these weird dreams lately about that "Haz" guy he met years ago...

First progress update for NaNoRenO! This was actually the first thing I did on March 1st. These CG's are used in multiple cutscenes across the game. It was perhaps the thing I was most excited to work on, so I ended up tackling it first as a result lmao

I'm only doing clean sketches in my personal style for this one! I'd LOVE to be able to render this whole thing TWEWY-style, or even just with lineart, but that takes a lot of time. I've only got a month to work on this after all, and I unfortunately planned out a LOT of art assets… in part because I feel I have to make up for using almost exclusively audio assets from NEO and TWEWY lol

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Ta-da! I'm going to make an attempt at NaNoRenO this year and the premise I decided on was a TWEWY visual novel!

Calling takes place 4 years after NEO, following Rindo's perspective as he navigates having to make some huge life decisions without Replay to fall back on if something goes wrong.

I wanted to do this promo art for it beforehand to tease the premise, but other than this, design sketches, and notes, I've done literally nothing else and it's been driving me nuts because I have SO MANY IDEAS but the point is you're supposed to do it during March, so... 🤣

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Hi I recently downloaded the full release of AtF I played through the game once and got the neutral ending and then went back to do the true passion ending and when I went to go do sans' route I got the phone call n all that. I reset the game again and...his route didn't work? I'm not sure if I did anything wrong but the game just played normally so I don't know how to get it to work and I'm not sure if it's a bug or not sorry for the long ask.

That depends-- how far into a new run did you get? The Ruins aspect is entirely unaltered and Sans's route kicks in at the start of Snowdin.

If you got to this point and it still didn't work, then I will probably have to check that out 👀💦

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Just a quick update, regarding this blog and the YouTube channel!

Since Act to Flirt is now a finished project, minus 5.1 bugs I still need to update; I plan on updating them both for future use by using them as be my (@zirkkun) general game dev/visual novel update stuff!

Do note: future projects won't be guaranteed to be Undertale-related like Act to Flirt was, and hopefully some in the future will be original works (as opposed to fanworks) if I can get myself to figure out some I want to pursue :)

There won't be any major changes to the way this blog functions-- I'll probably just update the tagging system. And any Act to Flirt related content will still be posted here!

Thank you guys so much for all the support over the years. I hope you'll continue to support me on my future endeavors! For now, I have some tentative plans to partake in NaNoRenO this year, but we'll see how that goes...

In the meanwhile, I gift you guys a Valentine's gift! 💗

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Sorry for bothering you, but can I have a tip for the word that sans can react to on his date ? I've see something on ytb to help me but I still didn't find anything yet 😭 (sorry if that sounds rude)

Time travelers might know the words :)

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Hello! I love your game, it's literally amazing and it helped me get through a depressive rut; infinite praise. I was thinking the other day, and figured it would be best to ask the people who made the game: how would sans and papyrus go about saying I love you for the first time?

Thank you so much!! I'm glad AtF was able to help you even when life was beating you down, that's truly the experience I really wanted to give people with this game ✨

I don't really do headcanon/drabble prompts regarding general UT stuff on this account, it's more for updates, feedback, AtF-lore-specific stuff, and sharing artworks/fanworks. Also, the in-game endings also cover a similar topic, to an extent! I didn't want to get too specific about the players' or characters' feelings by intention, however :)

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I'm doing the heartbreak ending and i don't understand what are the words that i should type in the "fight" with Willo can anyone tell me what are the words in order?

There is no "order" to them, but they should pop up in the grey text while on the talk/act/items/wait menu!

There is also still some parts I need to revisit and fix here, as well, so I apologize if you've come across a glitch ^^;;

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Regarding the keyboard direction inputs during the Asriel Fight; I found a good workaround by using my PC controller and twirling the left thumbstick around and around. For some reason, when I did this, none of the inputs registered as incorrect, and I was able to blaze through it. This is not a problem, in my opinion, I just wanted to share something that might help other people who were having difficulty~

Oh interesting. I do not have a controller to connect to my PC so I never tested this myself, but it does make sense that it would work. Glad it was a good workaround 😂✨

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hi! i just wanted to say that i really loved this game. i don’t have enough words to express how amazing it is. the art is amazing, the writing is brilliant, the characters are amazing, the gameplay is really fun… yeah. i could rant about this game for hours and how playing it makes me feel like i discovered undertale for the first time all over again. this game was just so powerful and it really touched me! i wish the team behind this game the best, and stay determined!

wahhh thank you so much for your very kind words anon!! 😭💖 It means a lot to hear that -- and I'm really happy you were able to enjoy the game this much!