#making games

A visual novel | in development Genre: Interactive fiction, Slice of life, 16+, Mature theme, Romance, LGBTQ+, Slow burn, Multiple endings, Choices have consequences, Found family, Literature attempting to pretend it's philosophical, Childhood trauma, Mild angst, Immigration, Mental issues Language: English 🎀 Vietnamese Words: Yes. Long form. Chapters: 1 prologue + 6 chapters Romantic options: Aceromantic, 3 Male presenting love interests, 1 Female presenting love interest, Polyamory Platform: free to play on itch.io, probably will have a kickstarter

Hi, i'm Aprix Sage and i'm making a free queer visual novel game because there are never enough of them ( ◡̀_◡́)ᕤ and also i have things to say about identity. I do my best and commit to get it done, since it's my first work, I'd love feedbacks, engagement and any thing from everyone!

The story takes on the POV of a person from South East Asia [customizable gender expressions and intentionally omitted nationality!] in their short but important journey in Dublin. An international student who is highly functional but also kind of a mess.

They aren't not looking for love, but that risk is lurking.

They are going to have a very bad time.

They are going to have a very good time.

They are going to miss it for a life time.

This is a game about the story you tell yourself about yourself. What happens when it stops being true. Whether you get to write a new one or whether you've been revising the same draft since you were a teen.

Current status: writing. Code is being figuring out. Art is being budgeted. It's going to be a while and i'm okay with that. It is being funded by my broke ass and I have been overly ambitious with the scope.

This blog is: dev updates, author shit posts, lore i can't help sharing, me yelling about Dublin geography at 2am, and the occasional character detail that will mean nothing to you now and everything to you later

Reblog if you want more queer VNs ✌︎㋡ Follow if you want to watch me build one

We are looking for members to join this project:

Beta readers/Game testers

GUI artist, BGM musician, any one 𓁉 *beggar pose, whimping*

Culture specialists: guardians of the holy Ireland culture who stop me from slandering the beautiful speech of locals

She/her for the author/dev ⎚-⎚ Aprix Sage

He/him for the unenthusiastic, exploited, half-coerced dev ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ ) iambread

I have commissioned and gathered quotes from great artists and when it's ready I'll introduce them!

I almost forgot warnings.

THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE FOR RACISTS, FASCISTS, ZIONISTS, BIGOTS, MYSOGYNISTS, HOMOPHOBIC, ISLAMPHOBIC, ABLEIST, TRANSPHOBIC, CAPITALISM BOOTLICKERS...

I finished making my game! Check out the last vlog, there’s links to some cool stuff like the game (which is free!) and my Patreon and kofi if you wanna support my art and get a cool pdf of a zine I made for the game.

*me adding furries and protogens into my scratch game to ragebait 7 year olds*

Hello there! Do you have an interest in game making? What about horror? Do you like the weird wacky and wild side of things? Have you ever wanted to watch a game become created or support its creation? Well have I got the group for you!

My name is Quinn, and I am the head creator of Teraphobia, a multi-genre horror game where you play as a little girl and her protector while they try to survive a world full of monsters. But not everything is as it seems, and reality itself may not be able to be trusted.

Please be aware that this IS a HORROR game. There are multiple extremely dark topics that will be touched on during the game, and while we will do our best to portray things respectfully, some people may not be suited for this game as it does deal with triggering things. Please take care of yourselves first and foremost.

Want to join? Become one of the ducks in the pond and chat with us here in the discord!

If anyone's interested and has some experience with coding, design, anything else that could help, or wants to be part of this project, feel free to dm me or comment below!

This will be a tma-based non-profit game, so keep that in mind (there will be spoilers!!)

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Howdy.

If you have any inkling that at some point in the future you might want to try making something in RPG Maker (which I highly suggest! it’s fun!), then you should get RPG Maker MV right now while it’s on sale for just 6 bucks.

RPG Maker is doing one of its big sales that it does once or twice a year, and this time they’ve put RPG Maker MV on 93% off for some reason.

MV is really powerful, widely used, and has amazing community-made plugins to help you make all sorts of games. Not only can you make turn-based RPGs and narrative games, but if you’re willing to dip into plugins, you can make grid-based tactics RPGs, RPGs with real-time action elements, or even card RPGs and deckbuilders akin to Slay the Spire.