I think there’s no greater sign of a soulless dev team than a loathing of people who speedrun their game
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ALTI’m slowly plugging away at these cutscenes for Blackmask. Lots of things in my have been calling for my attention such as like taking care of my family and all that.
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Got a test web build together to make sure everything’s in order. The controller input kinda broke, so that’s fun.
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I started modelling Ghost and got unhappy with the design, so I updated it again.
Which parts do you like about the update, and where do you prefer the old design?
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Hello-hello! I’m finally breaking into starting all the artwork for Samson and Dell! The story isn’t 100% airtight just yet, but it’s solid enough that I will need a majority of these backgrounds and CGs regardless of tweaks, so I’m going through with them and will adjust as needed.
That being said, it requires a LOT of art. With just backgrounds and CGs, I counted roughly over 270+ images–though do keep in mind some counted are more minor alts of others, and it’s completely possible I’ll cut corners and consolidate ones if I feel I’m being too granular, lol
But!!! I’m excited all the same! No idea how long things will take since right now I’m just focusing on sketching things rather than fully rendering them, but having them sketched is still considerable progress!!
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Hello tumblr friends. Here’s a little picture of our pal, poor ol’ Abbey Apples, fretting over a hypothetical tour of Europe. She’s unlikely to go. Also, though, this is a good opportunity to give a few remarks now that we’re a couple months out from Ciderville coming out, I think. Click below for my thoughts!
[[MORE]]First and foremost, thank you all for your support, fan art, and kind words! It’s made the whole grueling process of trying to make something in renpy without any foreknowledge of the tool worth it, ultimately. My bitter, shit-smeared husk of a heart has been genuinely warmed seeing how much people got out of Abbey & Sylvia’s little adventure. I’ve had a couple people tell me that it made them tear up, which is surprising, but welcome information. I’m not sure how I did it, but I hope I can do it again in the future!
For my part, I’ve found myself quite attached to the character of Abbey Apples. I originally just made her as a character I thought it’d be fun to see get horribly tortured and murdered over and over again- and don’t get me wrong, she is absolutely that… But, in addition, I found myself increasingly endeared to the miserable woman. As the writing process went on, I wound up making her history increasingly miserable until I felt sufficiently bad for her despite her rather rotten attitude towards life.
It’s interesting though, right? The world that the conservative mind perceives/fears is often a weirdly sexy place- if nothing else, it’s very pulp. Devil-worshiping torture cults, Death Wish style pervert gangs roving the streets, sinister foreign spies around every corner, and perpetually endangered womenfolk that these forces (usually in cahoots in some way, of course) plan on doing terrible things to. Maybe even doing terrible things in the butt, no less!
It’d be a very good world for a weird pervert to live in. Specifically, the kind of weird pervert that the conservative mind presumes their culture war opposition to be, whilst simultaneously loathing themselves for being. The lengths that someone who hates themselves for having a secret account on “fartingbitches.com” will go to in order to maintain the illusion of not liking those amazing farting bitches. All of traditional morality is built on this tragic reality. So, what better world to write a grisly little romance story in? You take one wrong step in the big city and you’re getting abducted by a transgender crack dealer who’s threatening to feed you to piranhas the local hospital uses to dispose of all their abortions. Sexy stuff! I have a lot more stories I’d want to tell in a world like that, and I think Abbey is the perfect gal to explore it.
That said, whatever I make next, it will absolutely not be a visual novel. Working in the engine was the least fun I’ve ever had working on anything game-design related. Just a miserable, mind-numbing experience. And to top it all off, my darkest confession- I just don’t like visual novels that much! That is to say, at all. I just don’t like ‘em. I know, I know… Never try and make something for a genre you don’t like. My bad. Honestly, the only reason this game was in visual novel format was that a friend got me into a game jam (which wound up not really happening for us) and it needed to be in visual novel form, so here we are. I just didn’t want to have to re-do a bunch of stuff switching to a different engine or something. Sorry to disappoint the VN fans- it simply wasn’t meant to be.
Expect the next Abbey Apples adventure to be something in a classic RPG Maker horror adventure sort of flavor… But first, I’ve got a couple zines I wanna do, I think!
Thank you all for your kindness, again. Lemme know if you’ve got any questions!
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Thought this would be cool to share. So, someone made a video playing the game I made art for. Anyways here’s the link if you’re curious. But yeah pretty cool shit
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Probably should’ve mentioned this before but I don’t really have an audience or anything so… anyway, visual novel, my first published one, made for a game jam so it’s a little shoddy and I plan on maybe revisiting it in the future but you can check it out if you like girls from space who look like john carpenter’s the thing
Interdimensional Girl (From Outer Space) by Mx.Scratch - itch.io
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I made changes to some prefabs and accidentally made the players too small…then I realized that actually rules, so now the players are small :)
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Working on some more sprites for the bestest character in my vn (in my opinion) :]
some ingame footage. Still working on getting the sprite sizes right… :,)
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Oh yeah forgot to announce that I rewrote the dialogue I lost and now we just gotta wait for the betatesters to try out the game and make sure there are no more softlocks
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yk how I say Stephanie is a serial killer kinda ya?
well fun fact Duster doesn’t know about this until late 2020 and only experiences it firsthand months later, around April 2021. I just think it is really cool to watch their relationship dynamic just get absolutely fucked. But also to see that Duster as a character still loves Stephanie. AGH THEIR LAST CONVERSATION AGH AGH AG AHHA GAHGHHHH OMG IT IS SO FUCKING GOOD
*gets flashbacks to my hilarious realization of how gay they are*
AGHHH I LOVE TOXIC SCARY DOOMED NONBINARY DEPRESSED DEAD ALIVEYES QUEER YURI YES YES YES YES
*slams fists onto my bedframe *
FEED mE
ok but in all seriousness looking at the timeline I have written I just rub my hands together all evil-like and appreciate my work
past-Kylan always be doing such good shit through them tough times like bro survived trauma and then wrote the most traumatizing shit for current-Kylan, thank you man you so cool man
