So I Lamely Kind Of Burned Myself Out Doing My Taxes Yesterday And Didn't Really Get Anything Done On

New shop added for the Midnight City Mall in 2-Headed Boy, upcoming free to play yandere boyfriend RPG.

Buy candy, eat trash, be free

I wrote this poem for Kage:

I don't even know you. I don't know what you've been through.

What is it that you really feel? Why is it my heart you want to steal?

Please don't be so brash. All of your actions are so rash.

If you really love me, give me space, or I will flee.

No more stalking, or I'm done talking.

Do you understand? I'm being as nice as I can.

We can take things one day at a time. But, hold me captive, and you won't be mine.

Dang I love this :') Kage would probably

find it terrifying to be called out but he's not going to say that part out loud

Deny he's a stalker

Keep this poem forever

Just a small update. Tuesday was minimal progress, just configured a few more plugins and set up an in-game credits page that's accessible from the start menu (setting it up now so I can more easily track everyone I need to give credit to; I've also hyperlinked back to contributor websites when one is provided).

There's one newly added plugin I'm particularly looking forward to, as it will allow the game to use the player's custom character portrait to make different facial expressions depending on the choices you make during conversations.

Also set up text macros for every time I have to use a pronoun in a sentence while writing to save some time. Since the player picks that at the beginning, I had to assign "he" "she" or "they" to a variable, and then write an evaluation that would assign the appropriate pronoun *and form of it* (she, her, hers, his, him, them, their, etc.) within the context of any sentence I wrote that included it...every time it would come up in writing. The macros are already saving me a ton of time with writing, so that's been pretty nice.

I'm not gonna show the whole intro scene for meeting Yurei, but I got the bulk of that written last night too. Although I still have to draw his sprites for it, so even if I showed the whole scene here it would just be chibis talking to each other. And set up a way to "sit" at the bench seats in the cat café, since I wanted that for a cutscene, and unfortunately customizable player characters mean I won't be able to have player sprites make unique poses like actually sitting.

Small demonstration of cooking in 2-Headed Boy. Before you can unlock cooking, you have to get the recipe books for the things you want to cook. You can't just buy them; you'll have to find them playing through the story.

Moreover, produce ingredients are seasonal so some ingredients will only be available for certain times of the year. Ingredients don't expire/decay/"go bad" though, so you can stock up on whatever produce is in season for cooking later!

Recipes are greyed out in the menu if you don't have enough of all the ingredients to cook that thing. If you haven't cooked the recipe before, it will have a weird vague name. After cooking it for the first time it will display the real recipe name.

There are 25 recipes, as shown in the top right of the cooking menu. The top number (here showing 25/25, or 100%) is how many recipes you've collected (in my demo here, I have all of them). The bottom number (starting here at 0/25 or 0%) shows how many unique recipes you have cooked.

I've also entered the favorite and least favorite foods for each of the love interests into the social media menu. These are hidden from the player until you learn what they are while playing the game (you can learn these from various methods, it might be during a conversation, by giving a gift, by cooking something for a love interest, or maybe some other way).

I don't want to limit crafting to just cooking though, I would maybe like to add some other crafty category, something else the player could make for the guys that would be cute, but I'm not sure what yet?

And as I'm looking at this video I'm realizing I need to adjust the lighting for late afternoon/early evening as well. Still a bit too red...

Also added an option to the options menu for changing message speed in the game, in case you want the dialogue/on-screen text to display faster (or slower??) or even instantly (rather than it "scrolling" across the message window). A very basic feature, so basic it should be a given, but it didn't occur to me to add it until now. So...yep

The anxiety of yandere Kage trying to keep his cool after you inadvertently hurt his feelings

You're not a literal nobody, thank you for putting so much time and effort into making such a beautiful game, omg ;-;

Nnng my heart

Dev log for my upcoming free to play yandere boyfriend otome RPG: 2-Headed Boy. Story-driven/choice-driven gameplay with exploration and various activities.

You can wishlist a 2-Headed Boy of your own today; visit his Steam page 🤍

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2-Headed Boy on Steam

A modern-world dating sim, but with a pesky yandere boy, Kage, who will relentlessly pursue you regardless of who you want to date. Explore

Development began January 2025.

Current stage: Production (stage 2)

Estimated overall completion: 20%

Game is not suitable for children. People with severe relationship trauma might proceed with caution. Also contains flashing lights.

Content warnings: toxic relationship, manipulation, gaslighting, various forms of blackmail, love bombing, verbal 4bus3, stalking, obsessive behavior, s3lf harm, e4ting d1s0rder, guilt tripping, violence, d34th, drug 4bus3, character backstory references to chi1d 4bus3.

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Story and gameplay concepts below! vvv

You have been staying in Japan after traveling there for a highly advanced medical procedure. Your only friend, Koyomi, sees how isolated you have become here, and is encouraging you to get into dating. She offers to introduce you to the sweet, normal, well-adjusted single guys she knows in your apartment complex. But for whatever reason, she doesn't seem to want you to meet Kage, your next-door neighbor.

"There's something really off about him. If you decide to talk to him, obviously I can't stop you. Just...please be careful. He's really...fragile."

Every choice you make with/towards your yandere neighbor will have a disproportionately larger impact on him than all the other dating "options," for better or worse. Also, be careful about the other "options." Every choice you make with them also affects Kage.

Build your guys' stats through interactions and cute dates. Figure out what they like and make them cute gifts. Witness Kage become increasingly unhinged and navigate the fallout of his wacky antics.

What you say, do, don't say or don't do all matter. Especially to your yandere!

Why has he latched on to you so tightly? Reach the "true ending" to find out, along with answers to other questions raised along the way.

Choose your name, gender, and appearance. Choose your birthday for some fun birthday surprises. Choose your guy, or guys. But remember Koyomi's advice: be really careful with Kage. He's fragile.

Trailer for 2-Headed Boy, free to play yandere boyfriend RPG for PC, no release date but Steam page coming soon™ up now for wishlists!

hii! I was wondering if you were looking for an artist for your game? ^_^ so sorry if this seems rude

Hey no worries, thank you for offering but this is going to stay a solo project :) I have purchased art from other artists who will be in the credits (pixel art that has been designed with the game's engine in mind), but I'm not actually working "with" anyone in a team.

The logistics of that would be a nightmare for all involved as I'm terrible at coordinating with people, have completely erratic hours/no sleep schedule etc.

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Thank you for contributing to this project 🤍 Maybe I should buy more pixel art to build another new map soon!