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@Notomy
Indie developer with too many hobbies.
notomys.itch.io/51ur8-90
Boston, MAJoined November 2010
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I've been exploring a rougher art style for some of the cgs in order to speed up their creation. Here is a little preview!
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Getting things in order for regular updates! In the mean time, here is a quick in progress sketch!
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My apologies for the extended silence! Just wanted to pop in and say that this project is still live and kicking <3
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So. Raise your hands if you've had all the stress of 2020 hit you in the face like a sack of bricks and decided to cope with it by playing 200000 hours of Hades. Wait, just me? Real talk, I am taking a few weeks off to give myself some time to recuperate. See you again in 2021!
Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Today I remember, mourn and celebrate those friends who have been needlessly lost to violence and hopelessness. To my friends who have survived. I see you, I love you, and I will fight for you. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TDOR
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I finished coding in the first romance scene on Shay's route today. I still have to finish plotting on the CG for this scene, but it's coming along nicely. #51ur8 #visualnovel #indiedev
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🎉Surprise!🎉
Starlight Shores will be launching on October 30th, 2020 💕
Although this has been our release date for some time, we only recently felt confident in solidifying the date.
Likes and RT's are very appreciated 😊
#visualnovel #datingsim #gamedev #indiegame #renpy
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One of the (fun) challenges with 51ur8 is that each CG has multiple variations. Here is a preview of the alternative version of the CG I previewed the other day. You can't see it from here, but I'm pretty pleased with how the background turned out. #indiedev #51ur8 #visualnovel
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Hard at work! Firstly I'd like to personally thank everybody who tried the demo <3 Secondly - here is a preview of a CG that I've been working on. Kai has 20/20 vision, but wears glasses equipped with anti-facial recognition technology. #visualnovel #indiedev
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It's finally time to make the demo accessible to the general public. If you give it a try, please reach out with any of the inevitable bugs, typos, and pieces of feedback you might have! Thanks <3 #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel #51ur8
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I spent the day making some slight UI tweaks based off of feedback I've received from my testers. Things are really starting to come together #indiedev #51ur8 #visualnovel
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I've spent the week updating my art software, and with some of the new built-in 3d models the program comes with, body-kun might finally be able to retire. He lost his shoulder in a tragic fall and hasn't been the same since. #indiedev #CLIPSTUDIOPAINT
Demo clocks in at 10,739 words. Everything has been coded into the game at this point, so all that's needed to do is tweaking some of the animations while I wait for the final round of feedback before the public release.
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On the subject of graphic design being hard, I spent some time yesterday throwing together these updated character blurbs. #51ur8 #indiedev #visualnovel
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Like many who have come before me, I have stumbled upon troves of hilarious bugs that results from adding more advanced ATL into the script. #renpy #otome #visualnovel #51u8
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Related, graphic design is seriously hard! At some point I'll come up with a logo that isn't a purple blob ... but that's gonna come after the public demo 😂
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It's been a busy month, and I'm pleased to announce that things are chugging a long nicely. While I don't have too many 'tweet-able' components, I did revamp the main menu of the game. #51ur8 #indiedev #visualnovel
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my pro writing tip is to never give anything a stupid, temporary name while you think of a good real name, because the stupid name will just end up being the name you use in the story and you'll hate yourself
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Secondly, I'm on schedule to release a demo of the project at the end of the summer/early Autumn. The demo will include the first quarter of the game (approximately ~15k words). I'm hoping to release the full project by the end of the year!
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Surprise update, who just dropped a demo? Gonna go scream into the void from excitement/nervousness now
misszaius.itch.io/stellar-renega
#otomedev #demorelease #StellarRenegades
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I generally try to keep my personal life from this account, but my heart truly aches for my city.
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If @marty_walsh and @bostonpolice were interested in keeping the peace, they would have kept cops home and lined busses around the block to take people to high-capacity stations.
But ofc they didn't, because cops are just tools designed to enact violence on the people hahaha
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It's also challenging working on one-shot /promotional art for a game without canonical genders for the main characters.
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Me: I'm going to move my office to the third floor so I have fewer distractions. Also Me: Oh, that's where my sketch pad went, let me just whip something up quickly. #51ur8
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I resisted the urge to completely redo my sprites by tossing some gradients and block shading. Is the blush expression anybody else's favorite? #vndev #visualnovel
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It's been a surprisingly productive weekend. Rolling closer and closer to a public demo. All I have to do now is finish editing up the chapter 1 date scenes, and convince myself that I don't need another set of sprites #vndev #51ur8 #visualnovel
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A few updated GUI screenshots! When the new update is posted this month, you'll get to see all of the fun stuff included in the work that did for the Heart Fragment GUI in action. #vndev #otome #indiedev #visualnovel
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Still alive over here. It's been a rough few weeks, and this week I've been struggling to have the discipline needed to work anything but my day job. That's all, just complaining.
I'm still alive and kicking, I've been doing a bunch of editing ... and trying not to let the existential dread kick in.
None of my friends have called me on my shit so, I'm doing it my self.
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I'm finally polishing some of the sound design of the game. Something about setting up the emotional music to swell at juuuuust the right spot is really satisfying - even if it takes a few hours of tweaking #vndev #indiedev #visualnovel #51ur8
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Jasper & Inigo from #heartfragment ... What do you think these two are up to? What's the story behind these strange antagonists? 🤔 Play Heart Fragment when it's released to find out! #otome #vndev #visualnovel #indiedev #vnlink
ko-fi.com/heartfragment
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Me trying to explain to my family a breakthrough I had regarding digital watercoloring technique - after a few minutes of trying (and failing) to explain the different layer settings, I add "well, for context, paper is usually white."
I don't think that made things any clearer.
Lots of small tweaks and improvements over the weekend, but I think the biggest accomplishment was designing Tina's clothing. She's a major supporting character in the story, and probably has some of my favorite lines in the game. #vndev #visualnovel #51ur8
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