Destined Heartbeats Development Blog

heyyyy gamers so here’s my recurring “I’m not dead” post except this time!! we actually have news

so the demo, as you may know, is the entire first day of the game (in practice ~30mins) and as of this update it is fully scripted! The text and programming for choices and such are all in the game! It is, effectively, playable! however the sprites are a bit outdated and several of the characters are going through changes, so there’s still much to do before the demo can be released for y’all.

In other news, in addition to the first day being scripted theres also script for about half of the first route for the full game! not just concepts this time, we have entire real dialogue and full scenes.

smaller notes:

- new backgrounds

- concepting all remaining routes

- working on characters

-making lists of remaining assets for demo

-fixed bug where you were stuck going to anime club forever (again)

-working on lore for sachiko’s favorite anime so she can properly infodump about it

All in all Alfie is the major MVP for this update for writing the script and drawing the backgrounds, so make sure to give them some love <3

That’s all for now, hopefully things will keep up the pace during summer!

I meant to make a proper dev update on the 14th as usual but alas I forgot

I still have classes so don’t expect anything huge just yet but we’re going over all the old stuff and fixing it up (this includes the characters, some of them are getting renamed and slight redesigns!!)

anyway yeah development has slowly but surely resumed here’s a sayaka valentine as a treat for sticking with us

Hi~~ this is a bit of a short one bc I don’t have much to say for myself but uuuu things accomplished

-a CG

-started making annaliese sprites

Hi everyone!! Happy new year!

Bunch of stuff got done (mostly all at once tbh) so here ya go!

-anime club day 5 scene concept

-many sprite edits Sayaka has a sprite, most of the girls got new clothes, everyone has more faces

-really gay CG

-added more characters to Sakura Bloom so I could properly start writing for Sachiko’s Route

-James made some fantastic backgrounds

-also there’s an official timeline now

Alfie has an art to share on this months post! Its Momo!! Isn’t she lovely <3333

That’s all for now! hope 2020 is being good to y’all so far!

December 2019 Development Update

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happy December holiday!! not a Big update this time content wise considering we have done, literally nothing, but I hope the art makes up for it!! Art is a collab between me and Alfie ( @buttterfreee ) 💕💕 anyway here’s the update in the form of discord messages please enjoy

Howdy!! it’s like 3am so I’ll make this quick theres a lot of progress!!

-added sprites for Mimiko

-added 1 background music

-implemented more expressions for characters

-fixed a bug where the menu options were invisible

-new pose for Sachiko

-added school uniform alternates to some characters

-implemented new scenes

-started adding a cg image

-implemented placeholders for remaining club scenes

-fixed a bug where you went to anime club eternally after visiting other clubs

-added a choice that was missing

and now for some fun chibi art 👀 that’s all thanks for continuing to support us

it’s 3am but that’s fine let us trick or treat you to a special collab ;3c featuring my own art and featuring the art of james ( @ghast505 ) and Alfie ^^ ( @alfiefalfa )

In order from left to right:

Hanako - butterfly

Mimiko - familiar/cat

McKenzie - cervitaur

Kayo - angel

Momoko - Sphinx

Yuri - werewolf

Sachiko - kitsune/yokai

Annaliese - haunted doll

Kanna - harpy

Sayaka - siren

and now some notes from the devs

“They’re as lovely as a booquet of flowers....” ~Alfie

bless u rishi…just for u im gonna make This Very Ask into the post

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(art by robin/ springexalt on twitter)May I introduce you to the lesbian dating sim Destined Heartbeats!!!

The Full Title is Destined Heartbeats: Was it Fate that I Fell in Love with You?! I have been working with some friends on this game since Dec 2017. We have a cast of 9 girls including Kanna, Momoko, Kayo, Yuri, Hanako, Mimiko, Sachiko, Sayaka, and Annaliese. 

You play as McKenzie whos a transfer student to Murasaki Girls Academy in a search to live your life as a free lesbian at a high school full of girls. You have 1 week before your birthday party & to meet all the girls. Maybe your friendships can blossom into something more~?

I’d write more but this post would be Massive so here’s some fun images! 

(image credit @leafpool )

Thank you for checking out Destined Heartbeats! with luck the demo might be coming relatively soon ^^

dfjdfksfh yeah maybe I missed a few months it’s fine we’re fine HERES THE CONTENT

-added more expressions for Yuri and Kayo

-another lunch scene successfully implemented

-achievement/ending planned

-new dev!!! say hello to James hes valid and will be making music

-speaking of music there’s 4 tracks so far 👀 so I’m gonna work on implementing those

And now for a note from some other devs:

“Now with 120% more gay” ~James

And as compensation for waiting this long for an update heres a ton of art

so quick post on account of that other transphobic heartbeat game going around and all of us devs collectively perishing everytime we misread it (since we tend to casually refer to this project as just heartbeats). So here’s this post just to make it clear and on the record just in case.

-we are not affiliated with HEARTBEAT

-we don’t Support them or their transphobic ideas

-trans people are valid

ok now that that’s over with there Might be a post later today if I can get enough free time to draw??? just for fun since it’s lesbian day. regularly scheduled update will be on the 14th I Promise there’s stuff to mention I just keep getting so busy ok NEAT