#devtalk

Hey, I've been recently made aware of a... I don't know what to say so I'll just put, "controversial" update of one of the games in this community.

First off, I want to say kudos to @/fantasia-kitt for biting the bullet and putting some actual real dark shit into the game. This is what's been missing from the community.

Personally, I think these devblogs and interactions between community and developer have watered down yandere stories and have promoted an almost unhealthy look towards what a yandere actually is.

It also has caused several people to develop an unhealthy sense of relationships, thinking that you're only loved or capable of showing love if you do extremely toxic things as a "Look what I'll do for you, don't you understand?"

This isn't to say that I think devblogs should be removed, or we should stop dev-community interactions all together. No, this is just me saying, "Hey, guys. These characters are meant to be dark, are meant to be evil, they're morally reprehensible and irredeemable. Remember that."

When you get into dark content, you have to be prepared for dark fucking content, okay?

Onto my second point of this post.

Do I think there should have been clearer warnings in the game before some of this stuff happened? Yes and no. I think FK's warnings are appropriate and clearly stated.

I also think that following a similar format to Boyfriend to Death, where there is a content warning/trigger list for each separate character would help in expectations for these incidents. People get attached to characters, it's a thing that happens. If you asked me several months ago, I would have a different opinion. As it stands, I now have comfort characters of my own.

Do I think anything is wrong with TKATB or FK? No, absolutely not. FK is entitled to create whatever story they want to, however dark they want to. I appreciate that they're bringing this into the community and it's a little inspiring and motivating if I'm being honest.

Anyway, this is just my own personal thoughts and ramblings on this matter. I am but a tiny dev with a tiny following that wanted to make a post about this in general. In the future, I will personally be making a trigger/content warning list for each character before such content is released to avoid this happening. I will also be implementing it into the game itself so it's very in your face about what Duplicity: Revival contains.

You have your own responsibility to listen to and heed warnings that developers list for their games. If ***any*** of that content on those warnings are an issue for you, then don't interact with the game. At all.

I think that's all I had to say about this. I'll add more if I think of anything.

Take care of yourself, bunnies. <3

Victor ukagaka at home:

As Below So Above is a 70's RPGMaker Horror game that also takes influence from the Mascot Horror genre created by @s0ckh3adstudios and @moog-enthusiast.

When Flower, accompanied by her roommate Harris, goes to pick up her little brother from summer camp, they discover the entire place has gone empty. Where did everyone go? Where is her brother?

Solve puzzles and avoid threats as you uncover what hides below Bellows Camp for Jr. Rangers.

I want a man who takes time to really get to know me, works on himself, has his own life, is independent yet very clingy and falls in love with me- loves me to death and back in a way i wont ever feel like i am not good enough. Whi treats me like the fucking GODDESS I AM thank yew bye

You think those are high expectations?

Well, they may are

But i always settled for the fucking BARE MINIMUM, sometimes not even THIS

Now i love myself enough to know what i am giving and what makes me special so i wont EVER SETTLE FOR LESS ANYMORE

Once you learn to be alone, you wont get attached that easily.

I know exactly what i want ( FINALLY )

And with over 8B people on this planet, I KNOW there are men who can live up to my expectations.

I gave idiots too many chances

Never doing that again

So if i can’t get this, i dont want it.

bg3 does have somewhere around 17k variations, they're just not what people outside the industry would first think of when hearing the term.

TL;DR:

Your hair, eye color, armor, dyes, party composition, etc., are all variables the game takes into account when we talk about Ending Variations

There were not 17k endings worth of content removed from the game(this is unrelated to the actual content that never made it into final build)

Buzzwords are as much a marketing technique as they are an online argument starter.

Let's talk about how everything began.

CurseBound is the title of my very first visual novel project. (Yes, it's "CurseBound" not "Curse Bound" but don't ask me why, I don't know either...)

In the beginning I didn't think this would actually *be* my first vn. Because before joining a dedicated english speaking discord community for visual novel devs (aka DevTalk), I thought I would just create my huge ass passion project There have been Gods.

Oh what a fool I was.

"Start small", they say. And oh boy are they right. Without even knowing *how* to create a visual novel, what tools to use, how to plan from start to finish, ThbG was way too ambigious and badly organized for a noob like me. (This is not the right moment to go into all the details, but don't worry, we will talk about ThbG later in another post!)

Luckily for me, soon after joining the DevTalk server, a very beginner friendly vn jam was announced: O2A2 (Again!) With a limited scope of only 1k words allowed, only on sprite and one background image, this was honestly the perfect jam for a newbie like me to get their feet wet.

Being scared of Ren'Py (and not knowing better or listen to anyone's advice lol) I went straight into TyranoBuilder (which I just bought a few months earlier on sale) and created my very first finished and playable visual novel: CurseBound.

Without knowing what even to squeeze in just under 1k words, I went for the next good thing and wrote a little scene about the unnamed character that I've used all these years for my profile picture across all social media.

Very simple, no choices, only one ending, terrible timed transitions and probably full of typos (believe me when I say I'm too scared to go back and read this early "masterpiece" again lol).

But! It is and was my very first (finished!) visual novel. And for that I'm very proud. Because if it wasn't for CurseBound, I wouldn't be where I am today, one and a half years later. CurseBound showed me how easy and fun creating (and finishing! I feel like I can't say this enough lol) visual novels can be. It marks the starting point of my new passion.