#garbage doll

garbage doll is done.

submitted in time for the jam deadline with 2 hours to spare.

this is an empty spaces vn with a toxic yuri theme, for the toxic yuri jam that just wrapped up.

we hope the dolls here will enjoy it. it was very fun to create.

parts get heavy. please hold off on this one if you are not in the right headspace for sex, incest (not the fun kind), mind control, noncon, abuse in general.

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Picture Credits:

the ost of our empty spaces visual novel, garbage doll, is now available on soundcloud, free to listen to and download. if you enjoyed it when you played the game, it is now even better, as frogo has gone through it with a fine--well, medium toothed comb and fixed some rhythm and mixing errors. (it's still not perfect, because we are staunchly against perfection of any kind.)

Today was a day for backgrounds.

garbage doll! it has been released for a week and we've got some plays and we're very happy. here it is if you would like to play our empty spaces visual novel with drawings by my head mate llo

we finally updated the art for the first chapter of the game, which we drew before we did most of the writing. the scene that takes place in the dumpster was pretty but extremely basic and perhaps not evocative enough of being trapped in a dumpster.

now we start by showing the dumpster from the outside.

and on the inside of the dumpster you can see actual bags of trash and, importantly, a miserable little garbage doll.

also, though it's not part of the first chapter, we get to see this character (and her dog) as a fumo (and its plushie)

also more scenes of characters cuddling, though you'll have to play the game to see those.

we've heard some feedback that our content warnings were a bit heavy handed, that the game itself is more lighthearted than the content warnings imply. so we retract some of our fuss about content warnings and dead dove content. the list is still available in the description of the game on the itch page, and in the about section of the game itself. but i'd like to clarify that within the game, while triggering elements are present, they are not leaned that hard into.

We have written and typed in all of the words. There are 12 thousand words in this story, good lord.

Now Llo will need to draw very many images, and together we will figure out how to make the visuals dance on the screen in a way that is effective to the story.

Really it is like writing a script for a play. We have told the actors what to say, but we have not cast most of them or decided where on the stage they will walk, or built all the sets.

There's what, 11 days to figure that all out?

on something to do with garbage doll. the plot was too convoluted. too much was happening.

we simplified some things and now we seem to be able to write again.