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I'm a stickler for low friction UI!

Making a Tascot is already a lot to ask of users, so I want to make it as easy to understand as possible, even with all the options.

I should be working on the meatier stuff, but adding fun little conveniences to TascotMaker2 is more fun. Like the editor showing you how the system uses fallback sprites in realtime!

#godot #tascots

Recently completed a complete overhaul of the behavior trees to make them more modular!

Tascots now string different actions together to accomplish a goal. e.g. why sit on the ground if there's a chair nearby?

#godot #tascots

I'm taking a break from UI to work on behavior scripting and WOW look at them go

Love to make a System

Love to design a Mechanism

Tascots has officially hit its 10th major version! (0.011)

Thanks to our lovely backers for helping me push dozens of hot fixes and squash hundreds of bugs, this project runs on your generosity and enthusiasm!!

Here's a sneak peek at the new TascotMaker2 editor ✨

it's currently a "not impossible but no promises" at the moment. I have no linux machines to develop and test it on, and that won't be feasible for the near future.

I may try some experimenting with it after launch.

No sooner than 2026 for sure, doing my best to stick to my feature list and roadmap! I thank you and everyone else for your patience and hype!!🙏

No timeline yet, most optimistic would be 2026, but I don't know how much still needs to be done!

It will be on both steam and itch, any patches post-launch will be free and push through both storefronts!

The demo/lite version will continue to get any performance enhancements or bugfixes that'll happen 🫶

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Wanna see more of these neat behind-the-scenes videos? Backers get the latest updates and access to up-to-date backer builds at ko-fi.com/urlgrae ✌️👽

We here at Tascots believe in a new, novel concept called "Deshittification". We use this philosophy to do things like upgrading menus with useful, intuitive features and helpful quality-of-life improvements!

(Version 2 of the TascotMaker is getting a lot of neat upgrades!)
#godot #tascots

Thanks for your enthusiasm and patience! I'm workin' hard to make it the best it can be!!

For those wondering: A couple of backers have confirmed that Tascots works through Linux using Proton!

So while there's no native client yet, Linux users are free to give it a shot if they're interested! 🎉

Simultaneously waiting 6 minutes for one clip and 33 thousand nanosecond-length clips in a row

also recently added drag n' drop functionality to adding files, making adding audio and sprites that much more convenient!

Recently added a new voice setting: Pip Speech!

This mimics how most popular RPGs play audio over text, with a small audio clip played repeatedly.

You can add multiple clips, and even set a variance that will play the clip at slightly different pitches!

#godot #tascots

Yep! Supporting gets you access to the backer discord and the current build!

One sprite is just the minimum!

You can animate and upload as many sprites as you'd like to animate their actions.

Button herself has over two hundred sprites and counting :)

Careful with that burger, man. The pickles are all falling out!!

#godot #tascots

Feature creep?

Nay.

Feature ✨ Abundance ✨

Not currently, but i'll write that down as a potential customizable option! (why didn't I think of that it sounds perfect)

You can also catch a glance into your Tascot's inner world, as they will regularly have thoughts about things going on such as their emotional experiences and environment!

Hope you're all feeling good emotions, because your Tascots can too!

They experience emotional fluctuations based on events that occur to them, their needs bars, or via authored dialogue triggers!

For those asking: sharing Tascots and Dialog is as simple as dropping .tascot and .dialog files into the custom files folders.

They act like mods, and are plug n' play!

I don't host your files, own them, or upload them anywhere.

It's up to you to share what you've made!

Tascots are shared via single packaged .tascot files, so you're allowed to make and share whatever you like!

Tascots doesn't host any files you make, so I'm under no obligations to restrict anything nsfw :)

An extra shoutout to kdik, who was incredibly gracious to make changes to his Text-to-Speech plugin to accommodate extra voices for use in Tascots.

I will spend my birthday wishes on these lovely people instead. Thank you truly!

GitHub - Lilith-In-Starlight/godot-wav-file-reader: A WAV file reader because Godot couldn't bother to make one A WAV file reader because Godot couldn't bother to make one - Lilith-In-Starlight/godot-wav-file-reader

Tascots would be nothing without wonderful plugins by these talented folk:

TTS by kdik
github.com/kdik/godot-t...
WAV file reader by Lilith-In-Starlight
github.com/Lilith-In-St...
ACVoicebox by mattmarch
github.com/mattmarch/AC...
FriendlyScribbles font by kmlgames
kmlgames.itch.io/friendly-scr...

The Tascots have baked me a small cake for my birthday, which is neat but also I never programmed that. Hm.

Anyway, while I attempt to dig the cake out of my monitor with a fork, I wish to thank everyone who have supported Tascots so far.

its been humbling to see so many of you support my work❤️