Sam Rose

rendered full body sprites and logo for Under the Blood Moon! #art #visualnovel #gamedev #utbm

I want to write a book, I want to make a comic, I want to create games, I wouldn't mind making an animated pilot!

I've got ideas for all of them, sitting unfinished, and ADHD wants me to jump between them all

And then depression robs me of creative drive

I just want to finish a project...

I don't know when, but at some point I became so anxious that I stopped finishing art projects

I used to draw and make comics for myself and I loved it so much, but at some point I couldn't survive off of it so it took a back burner to work

I want to create but I'm scared to finish anything...

The character creator is fairly simple for now but it'll get more stuff later down the line!

Behold, Ramon's one true love #vngame #utbm #gamedev

Essentially to do it on the Main Menu itself you have to override pre-built actions within Renpy itself, which is harder to do than just making custom animations within labels that mimic what you want to accomplish

Nothing wrong with either approach, just depends on what you want to achieve

Simplest way would be to make a picture/static version of your main menu, then at label start show the fake Main Menu and the image of the doors closing shut over it, then continue as normal

Otherwise you can set action Start("Play Animation") in Screens.rpy and define the anim in a label

Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk posing as if they're on an album cover, with their pendant jewels glowing.

Raise your hand if you want one of the Dazzlings to be your Valentine this year. #mlp #eqg

Under the blood moon will have a character creator for people to play with. If there any skin tones not here that you desire let me know!

I guess at the very least it means I have a bunch of my own pre-made assets to work off of, I'm find that very handy!

Thinking of maybe just making myself a library of pre-made assets to draw from in the future now too, drag and drop baby!!

Me: This thing I need to code is difficult, I should use a pre-made asset to make it easier for myself

Me Later: Wait, I hate how this assets is set up and works!! I'm just going to do it myself and then I'll understand it!!

I'm sure I'll eventually find pre-made assets useful lmao

Learning to do more things in Ren'py and having fun while doing it! #gamedev #VNDev #VisualNovel #SaveThatDateVN

Hoping to have this short and free little VN done before the end of February, or sometime early March at the latest

...Oh, also this is a Horror/Dating VN but SHHHHHHH-!!!

idk they raise a good point

Last October.

I will 100% stop using Discord if they do this

Discord has been an invaluable tool for connecting with people in fandom, keeping in contact with friends, and sharing works in progress

But there are, and always have been, alternatives and they will be used if this goes through

Under the blood moons art assets are almost done! Just one more bg and some final sprite rendering then we're moving onto sound/music.

Normal church things are happening here 😇

Ramon yapping and blinking ! #vndev #visualnovel #utbm

Rendered! #art #utbm

finally decided on a rendered look for Under the Blood Moon's character art. Ramon looks perpetually oiled up. #art #visualnovel #utbm #vndev

Good movie worth the wait. Markipliet should be in more movies

Learning to code lip flaps and blinks in Ren'py was very fun! Been learning a lot about its animation language so I can make it look all pretty soon!

Gonna be a very pretty VN by the end!

Someone once told us that making minigames in Ren'py would be too hard so we should scrap them entirely

Years later, I intend to show that person just how wrong they were

Ren'py is just Python at the end of the day, it can do basically anything if you actually code it

A brown bunny peeks out from under a white blanket, only its head visible.

Genuinely I think the only thing really holding Godot back at this point is a properly functioning asset store and better C# integration

If they had those two things I doubt I'd ever give Unity the time-of-day again

Unreal currently gets a pass for being made with AAA games in mind

So I've at least got a fundamental grasp of how Unity works now, i feel like I could easily prototype some games if I put my mind to it...

But its just so much more fun to create in Godot??

The engine loads so fast, the in-engine code editor is so easy, I can build prototypes in minutes to hours!!

Sounds like it would be a dream come true honestly

Seems this post is doing the rounds again!

And given payment processors never reversed their decisions and also the craziness of the world right now, the message is still important

Create NSFW art!! Do not let them bring you down or stop you!!

I'm still trying to decide on what direction to take the character sprites shading so on a later date I'll be experimenting with that. But besides that these are the final designs/poses for Tanya, Ramon and Eden's in game character art ! #art #vndev #visualnovel #utbm

Separation Anxiety

One-Winged Angel