2headedb0y - I Hate You, Don't Leave Me

Free to play?! Et tu God?! my broke ass is crying happiness

Hell yeah F2P! I honestly didn't even want to go through the trouble of trying to navigate the logistics of selling a game. It didn't seem worth it for how niche my target audience is, especially as a no name dev.

Indie games are very rarely profitable, and I'm more interested in the game reaching more people. So of course F2P will accomplish that better

Will there be an option to buy furniture for the house?

I've considered this one but no plans to implement that at this time. It would take a ton of scripting to do something like that in RPG Maker MV and further extend the release time, and I'm already having to kind of slow down production because of the time of the year.

Edit: what I could do with this, is write the script setup for it into the release though, so that the bones for it is there on release and then on a succedent update I could do the longer process of adding in all the items, putting them in shops and as mission rewards etc. I'll have to think about it but it's not a priority right now

Will we be able to make bad choices with the cats? Like have one hate us? Or do we have the choice for one of the romances to be attacked by our cats?

Tbh I hadn't really considered that sort of thing, the cats are kind of a plot stepping stone to the overall story involving Yurei and their main function for story purposes so far kind of ends at the ability to adopt one, so I haven't done much with what happens after the cat lives with you except that you can change their accessories around.

Probably won't have them attacking any love interests. But I could do an ongoing point system with them of attachment level similar to what I have with the guy characters, that persists and can grow after being adopted. I could see how that could become story relevant.

As far as the inverse, making the cats dislike the player if you don't do well taking care of them could also be a thing and could also be story relevant.

My main goal right now is to keep features story relevant unless it's something very easy to implement, otherwise I'm risking a lot feature creep that just requires a ton of time to put in and perpetually pushes the release out you know? (which is why I'm not planning on housing customization right now if you saw the other question about that.)

So I guess the answer is the cats won't have an opinion on the love interests (except they like and remember Yurei because he basically raised them from kittens) but they certainly could grow to dislike the player if you don't act right :p

Frightened eyes, looking back at me

Change your mind, don't care about leave without me

I LOVE THE GAME IDEA SO MUCH HOLY SHIIIIYTT

So anyways. Geeking out rn. So fucking COOLL

-🍏

Oh wow thank you! I'm so happy people like the idea. It really motivates me to consistently work on it!

I am mom's spaghetti palms sweaty right now, was up into the wee hours of the morning with my game after realizing One Drive (Microsoft's "helpful" cloud syncing it pushes) was autosyncing all my game files (and other less important files) while I had them open working on them :')

I'll spare everyone the details of why that's bad but the tldr is it almost corrupted my whole game, but I fixed it and only lost some very basic formatting (in game menu adjustments and the font settings, which I am replacing anyway with something more readable). And a few small edits to some json files which again are easy to redo.

I already back up my game to a flash drive (yeah, I know I need to get Github) so I've banished One Drive from my desktop since there's no reason for it to be there.

Definitely don't recommend allowing One Drive to autosync files while you are actively working in any kind of database. Unfortunate that I didn't realize this was happening until it started giving me all these issues!

Just a brief check in here since I realize it's been almost a week since I posted any updates here; I took a couple of days off for some personal business but I am still working on the game. Unfortunately I don't have much to show for it at this time because it's story writing. I have written it into the game, arranged the chibi sprite movement routes and all that, but I haven't drawn any art for a while, so posting screenshots would be kind of boring, and I don't want to post a video sequence because I'm not trying to do too many spoilers here...

But please trust I'm still working! I've also added options for the player to do their own keybinds since RPG Maker defaults to arrow keys and z/x for select and cancel. I don't know if I mentioned that already on here, but I remember playing Omori and how awkward it felt to not be able to do the traditional WASD keyboard movement, so players can set things up that way if they want to from the options menu.

Also I got it set up so that you can type things into the game when prompted for things like naming your player or putting in a word or numbers rather than having to use arrow keys to scroll through an on-screen alphabet, because that's also annoying as hell imo. But mostly it's been writing I'm working on.

I hope to have something interesting to show you guys soon though, like actual screenshots or something, I just have to get back into drawing.

A small carnival area for Midnight City. I still need to blend out the gradient on the ambient light for the night time Ferris wheel. And make the interior map for the haunted house.

Also considering putting a clock on the Ferris wheel, but I'm not sure if that would cause lag or not...still thinking about that one.

Don't know his skin tone so made a rough sketch fan art without it :DD

So I lamely kind of burned myself out doing my taxes yesterday and didn't really get anything done on 2-Headed Boy, but I thought I should at least post a concept drawing of one of the other boyfriend options/rivals for the yandere boy.

This one is Yurei, birthday April 14, occupation: freelance artist/gig musician (vocals and piano). Went to a private art school from an early age. Lives on the 2nd floor of your apartment complex.

This one is a somewhat slow burn, does not give his heart easily but when he does...watch the switch flip!

Just started drawing assets for him so more to come soon ™