Frightened Eyes, Looking Back At Me

More concept art for yandere Kage. I'm going to need a lot of face assets for him since he kind of wears his heart on his sleeve. Hopefully not ever literally...I worry about that boy.

1st of all in the sprite where kage turns away I thought his lower back was showing? Didn’t look closely + the text box placement made me think his shirt had ridden up or he was wearing a crop top lol

2ndly does the game take place in the uk? Asking cause of the use of cunt

1. nope no crop tops here lol

2. Also no, cunt is just a great word, game is in a fictional setting

Sorry about the weird creepy silence for the last couple of days, I had a pretty gross head cold so my head felt about 50% larger than normal for a few days there, and I've been kind of busy expelling all kind of unspeakable evil from my face holes.

Mostly over it now, but all I really did during that time was work on the character creator a bit more, work on some menu organization for the game and other backend things (trying to future-proof the game for installment release and other stuff), and also this thing in the video.

I was thinking about the seasonal produce ingredients for cooking, and how players might end up making something they don't actually want/have a use for, and then not only being stuck with that dish, but also having lost their seasonal produce they used to make it. If they ran out of that seasonal ingredient, they're kind of screwed until the next time that produce is available/in-season, as far as making any other dishes goes.

So besides adding the option to discard unwanted items from your inventory, I've also set up an item called the "Unmaker" that can be used to break down creations back into their base ingredients. The Unmaker is a consumable item, meaning you can only use it once per dish then it disappears from your inventory. In this video demo I have 5 of them, so you'll see that amount go down with each use.

Right now I have the percentage chances of successfully getting your ingredients back set pretty high (100% for the seasonal ingredients and 60% for all other ingredients) but I'm sure I'll end up adjusting these after doing some playtesting.

Tldr I'm 98% sure I'll be able to get stuff like Steam achievements working in my game as well as stuff like checking for DLC ownership if the game ever gets popular enough to warrant a DLC.

Also this is Yurei's apartment so far, he needs more furniture! And I gotta adjust the alignment of a mirror so he can have a bathroom mirror without it clipping into the sink or ceiling.

Long boring version: I got basically nothing done on 2-Headed Boy yesterday, found out Steam's API integration thing only supports C++ and if you want Steam features on your Steam game that's programmed in a different language, you basically gotta use a 3rd party service, the website for the one they list as commonly used for my engine was down of course.

But thankfully the RM community came in clutch once again, and someone wrote up a thorough tutorial on a community forum, including a zip file with all the files I needed to update my engine and game etc. for Steam integration. So that's what I did yesterday. And worked my job too, dumb I know but I got bills to pay 🫠

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there’s text based games/interactive novels on cogdemos(dot)ink too if you’re into that! but I’m not sure if there’s much yandere stuff there… personally I mostly replay nightfall: blackview high since the game was moved to that site…

Dang younger me would have been all over that. I've pretty much sold my soul to this game at this point 🙃 maybe someday I'll have free time again.

Made hoodie and tank top versions of Kage's chibi sprites. The face set next to that is for Koyomi, childhood friend of the MC. She'll be introducing the player to the various "love interests" (aka Kage rivals)

Finishing up the Yurei intro today too. Will try to work on a few other things, maybe some sprite art or something

Wow this it a very ambitious project for one person. Have you made a game before or is this your first one?

Yeah it is definitely ambitious, but thankfully there are a lot of plugins and community support (if I get stuck and have a question) to help streamline a lot of it. And I'm not drawing my own map assets, those are purchased. Music is a mix of assets I donated for and someone I know making it.

So you'll see in the credits more people than me, I guess technically I'm not doing it all alone! I just don't have a team of people, so I do all the programming and scripting for the actual gameplay, map design, writing, character design/art and piecing it all together.

I have made one much smaller game before just to learn the basics of game logic and my software, which it turns out is mostly super intuitive, at least with RPG Maker. I've never released anything though.

Walking sprite samples for love interest Yugen

What’s the chance of PC being able to train cat to attack ROs

You're the second person to ask this. Unless you're just the same person asking twice. Maybe I'll put it to a vote! It's a fun idea.