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Grounded and fabulous
Genes: Marigold Ground/Bronze Facet/Grape Opal Apparel: Sarcastic Jester's Collar, Amethyst Roundhorn, Shadow Aura
Santiago in a promotional outfit for my wip game Passing Through Eden!
Intro title screen for my side project game Hotline Gecko!
An intro slide for Passing Through Eden!
One of my favorite concept art paintings so far for Passing Through Eden.
At the stage in my game development where I must develop a battle system. The player will collect words (Ham Ham Heartbreak anyone?) and use them in turn based combat somehow, but how??
Old concept art for Kuroo, a character in Passing Through Eden
Can’t wait to get far enough in game development to show you these characters! Kuroo and Xiao.
as some of you may know...... i quit my job recently and one of the (many) things i'm trying to get to do for a living is make indie visual novels
i'm making my first short game for a yaoi game jam and just posted a tiktok of my progress so far, so if anyone is interested pls support me by watching and liking the video <3
I `d suggest giving this creator a follow. The art style is very appealing and some of these videos demonstrate that the game already has some really interesting mechanics to play with.
unsure if I want to keep the magnetic magic, while it is fun to use it feels too 'physics platformer' and not like fits the puzzle game style
There are some aspects I like, how metal objects attract alot more intensely, which might work well with electricity when I add that :?
...he knows too much... --------- follows Irredeamable on Gamejolt, share with all your friends, yadda yadda, you know the drill.
Pretty great story and a good show that sometimes, plot holes shouldn't be ignored as solving them could bring changes that greatly enhance the game's appeal and uniqueness. I definitely recommend sucker for Love and its sequel to anyone interested in unusuals dating sim with really well-written characters..
Can I ask, what made you think of the "date to die for" thing.
I mean, what did you think when writing the story? (I love your games.)
So way back in 2021, SFL was first conceptualized as part of a game-jam style game collection (Dread X Collection 2), where the theme was adapting Lovecraftian lore. That version of the game you can play for free as Sucker for Love: Prelude on steam. After that iteration, our publisher signed Akabaka for a three game contract
The Sucker for Love story was loosely planned from the start as a 3 game narrative, with interconnected stories following different protagonists and their romantic encounters with the Outer Gods. The original plans were to first expand Sucker for Love: Prelude into a full, dating-sim game, with the protag, Darling, attempting to win a kiss from multiple detailed Eldritch ladies. Cthulu, the King in Yellow, and Nyarlathotep are 3 of the most recognizable lovecraftian gods with a lot of lore to pull from (along with Azathoth and the Black Goat of the Woods.) For SFL First Date, to keep the scope of the game smaller, Akabaka focused on just those three.
The second game was always planned to be a foil to the first game, where the player could go deep with a single Eldritch goddess instead of wide, so the player could get to spend a lot of time with their love interest. For SFL Date to Die For, the Black Goat of the Woods was a complex but interesting character to adapt from Lovecraft's writings. (That's a whole post on its own...) But for a series about "dating sexy versions of eldritch gods", the Black Goat of the Woods fit really well as a datable love interest, when stripped down to her core trait of being the all-mother with a powerful aura who drives everyone in her proximity to madness with desire.
Originally, the protagonist was planned to be a disaster lesbian, sort of a female version of Darling. But in the actual writing of the plot and dialouge, Aka kept hitting a major plot hole: if Rhok'zan has a powerful sex aura that make everyone go mad with lust, wouldn't Stardust basically get vaporized from her already next-level lust being magnified 1000 fold? The solution was surprisingly simple though- the only human who could survive Rhok'zan's aura even for a second would be an asexual person. (An aside: I think that's something really special about DTDF actually- Stardust truly is the only person that could have saved the day, BECAUSE of her asexuality- not in spite of it. Her asexuality is as central to her story as Darling's all-consuming lust is to his ☆)
Also as a foil to SFL First Date, the second game was planned from the start to have a heavier focus on the 'horror' aspect of the series, and a focus on cultists as a real, present danger. Main inspiration here was The Dunwich Horror, where the threat comes not from the Outer Gods, but from the rabid town of cultists who want all outsiders dead.
So with all of those aspects set, the rest of the narrative for Date to Die For came together from there :)
(As for the third game, the plot has been mostly set for a while, but yall will have to wait and see~)
Irredeamable is out!
Go and give it a try this weekend, it's fun, it's short, and it's free!
Just wishing you all a good time with the game and announcing that we officially reached 15 downloads! Its a big game so If anyone finds or make something interesting, feel free to share it with others through tumblr or this Gamejolt community i made.
Irredeamable is out!
Go and give it a try this weekend, it's fun, it's short, and it's free!
Your game has an eldritch horror vibe to it that i cant explain
Thats an interesting observation. I dont know how far you are so ill try not to spoil, but i do think my usual themes and concepts do tend to be eldritch adjacent. Narkaas is best described as a tiny pond in a massive ocean. Its a tiny glimpse of the universe im building and there is something uncomfortable about that smallness. There are mysteries that cannot be solved. Entities that are too powerful to be held accountable or too alien to be reasoned with.
and all of that is paired with a protagonist who lacks a spark of hope. Lady is deeply fatalistic. She believes that her story has a pre-determined ending and that going against it is simply futile. Fate is a deeply eldritch concept. It's a force beyond power itself. It cannot be reasoned with, nor fought. There is no good or evil in fate, only what is and what will be. Where can hope be found when the inevitable is your enemy?
Were currently at 23 downloads! Thanks to everyone who tried out the game so far. If you got any fanart, theories or comments on the game, dont hesitate to share. I`ll reblog just about anything and will take any help i can get to spread the word. The #irredeamable tag is more yours than mine from this point onward.
Irredeamable is out!
Go and give it a try this weekend, it's fun, it's short, and it's free!
Plot twist, the game has been 60 fps all along
Weve officially reached 30 downloads people! Thansk to everyone who tried the game so far. To be honest, i was hoping for a bit more inertia on release but i guess iI'll have to keep pushing this ball until it gets rolling. Ill remind everyone to not be shy and share their experiences with the game and its characters. At this early stage, even the tiniest display of interest counts. I don`t expect to make it big, but it would be nice to at least get the game to find its audience and a niche fandom.
Irredeamable is out!
Go and give it a try this weekend, it's fun, it's short, and it's free!
Just a little poll to get a feel of where everyone is at. There a few posts I'd like to make about the game but i wouldn'tt want to spoil anything until i know most of those who are still playing/intending to play, are done. I`d at least like to make a detailed post about every queer character for pride, but i might have to sit on that one until the very end of the month since getting to know the characters is a pretty big part of the game story.