#dev speaks

🔻- red triangle: used to mark jewish targets and to signify support for violence against israelis and jews. Most often used on the left to signify support for hamas.

🧃- juice/jews

⚡️⚡️- double lighting bolt used to symbolize nazi SS

👃- nose. Stereotype that jews have big noses

🖊- ballpoint pen. Older and not used as often, used to cast aspersions on Anne Frank's diary and its veracity

🧼- soap/showers/gas chambers. Also reference to story that the fat of jews was rendered down to make soap in the death camps.

💰- money/moneybags. Greedy jew stereotype

👺- old stereotype that jews are evil/of the devil/ working with the devil. Note the long nose.

🖌- painter/austrian painter/Hitler y"s

(patch note codename: “everything is held together with tape and also a little blood”) (08.25.25.)

hi. um. i don’t even know how to start this?? hey. i’m echoe. i’ve been making this game called Temporalia for a while now, and i guess i should probably talk about it somewhere other than my notes app and the 50 drafts of rambling i keep harassing my fiancé with at 3am.

so, Temporalia. it’s a time loop rpg about… holding on. like, really holding on. not in the hero's journey, “save the world!! triumph through perseverance!!” way, but in the messy “i don’t know if anything’s going to get better but i’ll try again tomorrow anyway because what else can i do” way. and i know that's all grimdark and depressing but this really is meant to be about hope.

you play as Leto, who’s stuck in this weird place i just call “the Void.” and it’s exactly that—empty but not empty, quiet but oppressive, always folding back in on itself. it's a whole different universe with different flora and fauna and people and places. genuinely this place has been in my head since fucking middle school and the fact i'm putting this place in my passion project as an adult now is a little surreal.

every loop starts the same. you wake up. you try again. you might get a little farther. maybe not. and the world notices. people notice. your friends notice — maybe not the fact that you're in a timeloop but the fact that you're changing. they start to change too — not because you’re changing everything, but because existing in repetition does something to people.

and i love writing that. i love when a game feels like it’s breathing with you, even if that breathing gets ragged sometimes. i love feeling like i'm breathing the air of the world i'm imagining. even if that air is.. terrible. that’s what i’m chasing here: something that feels alive, not because of flashy open-world nonsense, but because being there feels different than reality.

also. i added this thing called the Settings Person and they might be my favorite creature i’ve ever made? they literally live in the pause menu. they’re soft-spoken and curious, they ask you questions about yourself, and they remember your answers. like, for real—they remember. and if you ignore them for too long… well. they notice that, too.

right now i’m buried in dialogue and systems. trying to make sure Leto doesn’t sound like a robot when he’s tired, or too chipper when he’s breaking down. i really want him to be a person you can inhabit.

and honestly? i’m scared. it’s one of those projects that feels too big for me sometimes, too heavy. but then i see a scene click into place, or hear a piece of music that makes my chest hurt in the right way, and i think: yeah, this is why i’m doing it.

Just wanted to pop in and explain the radio silence for the past week or so!

Aside from holidays and entertaining family, I've had my plate full with a few projects that I'm excited to share with you guys!! Some are still in development (of which I will be banging out work for tonight) while others are out (but at what cost)!

Re:Tale VN

I'll elaborate more in its own post, but to be concise, I've been working on a small visual novel for the past week to submit to Velox Turbo 3!

With the theme being "The world's ending but I still have a job," Re:Tale tells the story of Elowen, a generic shopkeeper stationed right in the heart of the demon uprising activity hotspot. In it, she has observes, does work for, and bonds with a certain prophesized hero as they both stubbornly stick to their occupations, even as the world crumbles.

While it's certainly rough around the edges and borderline unfinished (peep the issues list on the page), I'm still immensely proud of it and encourage you to play if you'd like a quaint little game experience.

Shield minigame I'm COMING for you...

2. Cicatrix Blue VN

As some of you may or may not be aware of, I've worked under a certain goat by the name of Tryfroggery AKA Kaye for a few projects, and I'm happy to say that another one will soon be added under my belt.

Cicatrix Blue is a strategy survival visual novel that follows arguably one of the worst friend groups ever as they're left stranded in a set of train cars in the middle of winter. Watch them as they ration, fight, and perhaps even die, and maybe, just maybe, figure out what their problem is...

The game will be coming out soon for the Winter 2025 Visual Novel Jam, though possibly in segments as the programmers are absolutely lifting the weight of the world on their shoulders with the complexity of the code #notenviousonebit. I'll have more on this later, but I implore you to check out not only this game when it comes out, but the rest of the members' work because they are actually so CRACKED at what they all do.

Also if you're reading this Kaye I'm so sorry, I'll be down in the docs writing those endings TONIGHT.

3. Remember, You Will Die VN

And finally, the thing that I'm arguably the most excited for... I've finally gotten Steam working and am in the process of making and verifying RYWD's Steam page to release the Chapter 1 demo on there and Itch.io.

Remember, You Will Die is a chatsim visual novel that I started work on alongside classmates from college. In it, you work as an agent on the verge of decomission after sustaining a horrible injury, saved only by the use they think you can have if you become a handler. Get to know and romance your fellow dysfunctional agents, complete mission minigames, and see the twisted stories of those held beneath an unnamed agency unfold before you.

There's a lot of factors going in to when I can complete this, with other responsible parties doing their own work alongside me that I need to get and input, as well as looking for potential new additions to the team as we move forward with further development. Just know that RYWD is coming and it is coming HOT as soon as I can get everyone together to do their work!

NOTE - Since I don't have finished page links, feel free to check out the original character snippets made for my initial game pitch!

tagged : @nighhtwing! tagging : anyone who wants to! tag me if you do it :) --> share the first lines of ten of your most recent fics (or whatever you got going on) and tag ten however many writers u know. if you've written fewer than ten, share anyway !!!

The bat-hammer is downstairs in the bat-toolbox, which is in the bat-cave. The regular, non-bat hammer is in Alfred’s toolbox and Bruce hasn’t been allowed to touch that since he was fifteen. (I don't think that's the way it works | dc)

The stage is split in two: one half a dingy apartment, one half a prison. (Get Used to Dying, | dc)

Current date is: WED 4-27-1983. [You have two years.] (Press # to connect. | dc)

someone so kind and compassionate, who tries his hardest to be the bigger person even when people are unfairly cruel; who wears his heart on his sleeve and works hard to be a good example for the people who look up to him; who isn’t afraid to speak his mind but always focuses on uplifting those around him !!