Couldn't work on what I really wanted to show this week because of some real life events so I wanted to do a quick update this week to show off the model for one of the main Bandit's Harry, all that's done so far is his model, hopefully I'll have more of him to show off someday.
She appeared to me
Like a flower on the cliffside
A single stalk rooted on hard soil
Swaying precariously to and fro
And yet above the windy bluffs
She blooms in spring
Faithfully
As the sun sets
Today marks the fourth year anniversary of A Summer’s End release. We’re celebrating with a weeklong sale starting at 10:00 PST on Steam and itch. We’ve also made a new post on our website to share about the current development progress of our next game project, In the Ocean I Learned to Float. We appreciate everyone’s support and we hope you look forward to future updates!
I spent the day working on (hopefully) final concept art for the mysterious Myster, a love interest who will be introduced in the next demo. ... I can't promise he'll show up in person, but you should be able to talk to him!
I've been working on both his heroic and his civilian design for more than three!! years!!!
His hero suit was inspired by: Lelouch/Zero Code Geass, Berzerker Fate/Zero, Zer0 Borderlands 2, and a set of scifi League skins. ... Weird that the first three sources all use the word "zero" somewhere but that's not the focus of our devlog today.
I've also started working on some sprite expressions for Griffin - not ready to show those off just yet but they're coming along, here's a sketch page I made before transitioning to digital art -
I wrote a decent amount, I believe somewhere over 600 words including some important variable-based scenes and menu choices... I'm pretty sure I started coding in and formatting that scene while I was at it.
I also BACKED UP MY FILES somehow I hadn't backed up my files for months!!! I guess I let that get away from me after the demo came out, but I definitely had to get back into the practice.
Drops of Death - A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist
In Drops of Death, there's been a murder at the university pool. A mysterious hooded killer is responsible for the death of innocent students. MC Adrien barely manages to escape with their life, but now they must face the threat of an unknown killer looming.
There are four love interests Adrien meets along the way, including a detective, a junior detective, a shy student and former swim team member, and your best friend. The twist? Each love interest can spawn as the killer at the start of your playthrough. They each have their own killer routes, killer romance endings, and they also can be innocent too. The thrilling part is, you could be dating the killer and not even know!
Here's a cool thing: GameMaker is now free for non-commercial, non-console use, and all its asset bundles are free! They've also introduced a one-time free aimed at replacing their current subscription model.
Also, while they're being vague about it right now they've hinted that they might be working toward some open source progress as well, which is very cool!
So if you've ever wanted to give GameMaker a shot and try out a new engine, now you can!