Made A Few Hoodie Sprite Versions Of Sweet Baby Kage For 2-Headed Boy. It's Not Much, I'm Still Trying

Worked on the light effects for 2-Headed Boy today. Before, the city lights would only turn on/off when the player loaded into a new map (depending on the in-game time during that map load), but that seemed pretty awkward. I mean, what if you're hanging out on the same map from daytime until it's supposed to be dark?

The map would get dark before, but the city lights wouldn't come on and the open/closed shop signs wouldn't switch without changing what area you're in, which could get confusing. If you were standing outside the mall and the business hours passed, the sign wouldn't light up "closed" instead of "open" unless you went into a building and came back out for example.

But now, light effects are dynamic! Streetlights come on when night falls whether you change map or not. Open/closed signs come on when they're supposed to for your MC's local businesses.

And the window lights for that weird fenced off condemned house.

Probably more important than all of that though, is the game now has a more eye-friendly font! Plus, a handy window in the top corner so you can always know the date, time, and season.

You also might have noticed it says it's October in the video, but the season is winter; I manually changed the season to winter without bothering to match the month, just to show off the winter map. But the game starts in October, and so will start on the fall map :)

First floor of the carnival's haunted house, just testing the animation here. Cute little mouse eyes in the wall holes, painting eyes on upper floor do that cheesy follow you around thing, lightning windows, haunted couch, and the ceiling is leaking blood a little bit.

Will work on this more later but I'm probably gonna focus more on cat cafe for now, I mainly needed to start this for a screenshot for the Steam page :)

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

Here's the first part of the Midnight City Mall for 2-Headed Boy, my yandere boyfriend RPG WIP!

This floor features ATMs for withdrawing funds/reviewing your bank balance (funds are deposited to your account once per in-game week cycle), as well as a crane game for winning plushies to give to your love interest(s). 5 different plushies creatures each available in multiple version for a total of 20 plushies. Different love interests like different plushies.

Also features a photo booth (usable with love interests), still figuring out exactly how I want to implement that part.

A lounge area with some paintings, and a food court with some oddball clerks. A variety of menu options are available. Figure out what foods your love interests like and have a lunch date.

Eating food/beverages also replenishes your "Spoons," a points meter that depletes with social activity in the game at varying degrees depending on the activity and how things are going with your love interest. Certain foods/beverages also provide different buffs. Still working on this part!

I could lose fucking everything,

But not you,

Oh God, not you...

The very next day after my last post here I got some bad news. A person close to me who has been a friend and mentor for the last 8 years passed away from an intentional overdose on their prescription pain medication. A pretty long suicide note was found in her home, so we know it wasn't an accident.

In any case, April was not a good month in my life. It seemed like it was one thing after another. I'm still trying with the game, but progress has really slowed down. I know you are all very understanding about these things and I'm mostly beating myself up about that. I just wanted to update everyone.

I decided now is as good a time as ever to add the hospital map to the game.

Walking sprite samples for love interest Yugen

Expanded the arcade area a little, and if you read the text box there you'll see which new map I'll be working on next! After adding the final love interest, anyway.

Also added 3 new shops to the mall, the electronics store, noodle shop and a shoe boutique, for more gift options for your love interest.

Also added the grocery store. There's not much to buy there yet, but I plan on adding in the ingredients for the cooking system to that shop, so you can make little treats for the love interests. ...Don't let your yandere find out you're doing that though.

Other than that just kind of worked on optimizing map transfers to make them less janky. Oh, and not shown here but I started working on the holiday event things too!

If you'd call my name out loud,

Do you suppose that I would come running?

Do you suppose I'd come at all...?

(You know I would...I'd come running)

Small redraw of Kage sprite in sad mode