By the way, this is part of a bigger concept, where you orchestrate a rebellion against an oppressive regime from the (relative) safety of an underground radio
station.
Let us know if this is interesting, we still have some idea on how to turn this
into a proper game somewhere down the line.
This little experiment from last year took only hours to implement, but the playtests yielded encouraging feedback: a bit of audiovisual feedback and a goal to work towards engaged for longer than anticipated.
Some testers proudly sent back screenshots reaching a score of 100!
Mia is now live on Twitch working on the visual character design for our upcoming visual novel!
Check out her stream here:
https://www.twitch.tv/mia_zumi
RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/117346226558370906
Oh, yes… this reminds me of the biology teacher who called me the laziest student she had encountered in her entire career, after I failed to answer her question regarding a worksheet I had not been able to focus on during class.
Good way to nudge me into ditching biology in favor of physics and chemistry.
Still undiagnosed by the way 😜
I habitually select text on websites with my mouse to keep my fingers busy. So these little context menu popups that trigger on text selection are one of the most user-hostile "features" I encounter on the web. Right up there with cookie banners and straight up ads.
Lea
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gothnotimeleftart/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0QzZeS8yyPMYjRXL_4mbQ
Mia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mia_animating/
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mia_zumi
YouTube (animations): https://www.youtube.com/@justMiaAnimations
YouTube (gaming): https://www.youtube.com/@Miazumi_Gaming
We are happy to announce that two artists, Lea and Mia, have joined us in the development of our upcoming game!
Over the next months they will be working with on illustration and design of our upcoming sapphic romance visual novel.
We are aiming to announce the game around November, so we will be busy with game design and visuals until then.
The drawing attached is by Lea ;)
Check out more artwork on their social media profiles in the next post!
![A screenshot from a visual novel.
Portrait of a fancy dressed woman in front of castle ruins.
The text is partially cut off and reads: "Ah! The Bloodshell…
As I was hinting at earlier, I'm pretty busy patching up the soldiers after the fight. If you [cut off]
ty shell for me, id be able to make a much stro [cut off]
would almost double the effect of my previous [cut off]"
The portrait shows a blonde woman with a stern expression in a red corset and a tunic. She wears heavy gold jewellery, most prominently a pair of dagger-shaped ear clips that reach down to her shoulders.
The background has an eery turquoise hue and shows the ruins of a castle in a forest.
The text box is adorned with flower petals.](https://cdn.masto.host/neckarwiese/media_attachments/files/117/332/101/948/898/160/small/b17a313906892816.png)
If you have an author named Al on your site, these days it is very crucial to use a font that clearly distinguishes lowercase L from uppercase I.
The default Mastodon font does not do that either xD
Anyway, Please Be Happy is really cute. Highly recommended ;)
ooh! I just noticed my sibling writing a review of Sonic on stream. such a retro nerd…
Kitty coop!!! 😻
The game I didn't know I needed…
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4096780/The_Missing_Tail/
At some point, I need to finish migrating all my #Nix flakes to npins. I have already started new repos using npins and it is so much less unnecessary cruft to use it. I can highly recommend it.
We went live with our new studio website designed by Jenni Moss (see https://trulyxd.com) 🥳
Thanks to her design system we had all the building blocks we needed. There are still a few kinks to sort out, but better to go live sooner and iterate on it than delaying it again and again!
Check out the website here: https://codepergola.eu/en
Seen in #Heidelberg earlier and I like the vibe. I wonder what inspired this.
I'm finally done layouting most of the @codepergola website, so now I will keep randomly clicking between its handful of pages admiring its beauty. 🤩
RE: https://neckarwie.se/@codepergola/117190328787793465
The four of us met up for a kick-off yesterday and had a blast! The concept for our lesbian romance visual novel is taking shape. We'll share more details very soon.
Feel free to join our Discord for more infos:
https://discord.gg/XzdwXNb8bn
RE: https://mastodon.art/@inkscape/117196158757512003
hm, maybe… 🤔
In other news, we are currently talking to a few visual artists to find a partner to turn this project from prototype to fully-fleshed out game.
We intend to post updates more frequently, so follow us to stay up to date!
We are now reimplementing the interface using Dialogue Manager, see
https://github.com/nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager
This is more a dialog tool than a visual novel engine, but hopefully this will make it much easier to customize and well maintained.
We want to playtest this soon with an actual scene and some proper dialog to see how that UI works out in practice. Our recent work on this has been pretty technical, as we cycled through virtually all the VN engines available for Godot.
Dialogic did not work as our customization needs were too complex to deal with in the engine. Rakugo seemed like a better choice, but we eventually realized that it is not well documented and apparently unmaintained.
