Friday Rambles 2022-12-09 (and game wips) (Patreon)

It's the Sunday Friday Ramble(?)

I'm working on a different game that's not the one I was working on before, because it's a little too ambitious and it would take months if not years to finish, when I only have like, one month left before my sabbatical is over and I need to apply to jobs again.

So I started a new one built on the scaffolding I already built for the first game, with smaller scope (just a straight up branching path visual novel, with a short and focused story). If you haven't already seen it on my twitter, here is the intro: https://twitter.com/hcnone/status/1601646684773044224

I'm having a lot of fun with it, and now I don't have the pressure to make the game epic and good or whatever. I mean don't get me wrong, I still care and am putting effort into it, but it's just a silly side story and not the "big main canon" one, so I can afford to mess it up. Right now as a budding game dev, my goal is to just get a game out.

Anyway, I wrote a bunch of dialogue and story so I know what sprites I need to make, and started making the sprites, too.

Some progress:

You'll note Tiger-chan is wearing a different outfit than usual. A safari outfit instead of a bikini. It fits the story better, but mostly, this is because I don't want people to get the wrong idea of what the game is about. It'll only disappoint people who think it's gonna be sexy or whatever, while also turning off the people who aren't into those kinds of games. Lose-lose.

But now I have a new canon outfit for Tiger-chan, because I actually really like it lol

I still need to sketch out like 4 more base sprites and then add talking and blinking animations. After that it's just dialogue and BGs and CGs... At least all the technical tooling stuff is done. Dang I hope I can finish by the end of the month...

Anyway, thanks for your support, as always! Hopefully next week I'll have lots of progress to share.