Sudden Changes - Undertale: Gaiden

Woah hey hey guys. It’s been uhmm... A really long time, huh... Hope you’ve all been doing well. 

So... Where to even start? I want to say that not a single day has gone by without me thinking about this project in some capacity. I’m my friend group’s Dungeon Master and I’ve included characters from Sudden Changes in some capacity throughout the roleplays I’ve run. The Followers, Spout, so on. I’ve always wanted to come back to this project someday. 

Since the last update I have graduated college, started my full time job, and trans’d my gender. So the peep you used to know as <REDACTED> is now known by as Nora. I also have been working on my art skills, writing, programing, learning guitar, and so on. I’ve had my ups. I’ve had my downs. And I’ve been living my life. And that means I haven’t been actively working on Sudden Changes. 

Sudden Changes was always envisioned as a form of side sequel to Undertale, exploring how familiar yet foreign characters would interact with each other and the events that unfold from that. And Deltarune does that in ways I could never imagine. Playing it was an experience. It felt like pure creative liberation. For lack of better words, it was beautiful. To this day I can say earnestly and with full conviction that... 

My love for Undertale has never faded. My love for Deltarune has never faded. My love for Sudden Changes has never faded.

I have no idea what Deltarune’s impact on Sudden Changes will be. So, I’m comfortable waiting until Deltarune is fully released before picking this project back up. 

I’ve met so many wonderful people through the Undertale AU community, people who I interact with even to do this day. Seeing Sudden Changes fan content get millions of views on Youtube, that awesome vs. Sans animation, and so on, I am really honored to have been the recipient of your support, excitement, and so many other positive emotions. And I hope to be that person again in the future-- But this project isn’t what I need for my creative aspirations, right now.

So if you’re wondering, “Nora, if that’s the case... What are you doing right now? I actually liked your personality, creativeness, and way of thinking outside of what I saw in Sudden Changes. As a creative. I want to follow whatever you end up doing!!” which I honestly doubt you’re thinking... But thanks if you actually are having those kinds of thoughts! I’ve been a Vtuber for a year and a half now lol. Bet you weren’t expecting that. If you want to follow my new blog you can at @extraordinora​ and at https://www.twitch.tv/extraordinora. Feel free to hop in and ask any questions about Sudden Changes, or find out what other creative things I’ve been apart of since, like my friend @pinewsun​‘s PENTA CLVSH project which you can watch on Youtube at https://youtu.be/NW6aHKt7ZsE.

So I think that was about everything I had in mind to say. You’ll definitely hear from me about this project again. Thank you.

God. Just finished Chapter 2 and what a trip. I’ve been meaning to make a longer post on the current state of things, what my plans are, and so much more. I haven’t really looked at my tumblr in a long time out of feeling a sense of guilt for this project and my overall running low on energy. It blows my mind on some of the concept art I have for Sudden Changes that lines up completely with Deltarune stuff and what doesn’t. I think that’s just an incredible thing.

Art by https://twitter.com/dividedoodles

Part 2. Let’s do this! So what if it’s a day or two late! We’re doing it live!

This post is intended to go over some of the design decisions as Premonition development continued.

If you remember in the last post, I mentioned that I had originally intended for there to not be any battles at all. With that, that meant no random encounters. Personal preference, but I am not going to make any lasting efforts to emulate the Deltarune battle system and UI. This is an Undertale Fangame first and foremost, not a Deltarune one. 

At first I thought about having the random encounters be a sort of “beta” Darkners, maybe something that by the time of Undertale and thus Sudden Changes they would be extinct??? The shadow of the forest’s canopy might have served as a psuedo-dark world???? These are super loose concepts and not things I am building upon because the answer was painfully obvious when I realized it. What do you encounter in an untamed woods? Animals.

Also referenced in the last post was the change in scale with overworld sprites for different scale areas. 

A key thematic theme in Premonition is the river that comes from the mountain top. And so with that the Riverperson has become relevant in Premonition’s story.

Some sprites have also been updated overtime, here’s Squashbert for example! I felt like his old head looked more like an apple then the pumpkin it was supposed to be.

For the entire time Premonition has been in development, it only has had one track by MrEpicIsHere777, https://soundcloud.com/mrepicishere777/sc-its-a-beautiful-day-outside. Goblin Guard has been proudly working on the OST as its main musician, here is a new track- Leafdrift! The music for the first sub-area of Premonition. https://soundcloud.com/goblin-guard/utg-sudden-changespremonition-ost-leafdrift

And now for the last part of this post, battlesprite made by @tmntleo15​

Art by https://twitter.com/dividedoodles

Right at the start of the year this blog reached 1,000 followers. To me that is just insane, and I never expected to get this far. Even when I went silent starting from the start of the year, nearly an additional hundred people have followed also. To all of you, I salute you, and I want you to know that I appreciate it. I wouldn't be doing this without you.

If you've kept up with this blog, you will know that there have been times where I may disappear for months without posting much or any content. This comes from a variety of factors, lack of motivation, college, work, the current pandemic, and so on. Recently for the past months I have been trying to improve my art, and just ended up frustrated when I felt that I wasn't getting better. I know it's kind of silly to get torn up over the quality of sprites for a fangame which is supposed to be a passion project, but compared to others in the community I just felt inadequate in what I was capable of doing. 

However, while I may have not been working on things full steam ahead, progress has been made. The reason I waited at first to post the 1,000 followers post at the start of the year was that I wanted to have something to announce in the first place. In March, MrEpicIsHere777, the person who has allowed me to use their Undertale Engine used in their Storyswap: Color Asriel fight, completely remade it with new features.

The text system was changed to a more case by case individual format, instead of everything being stored in a giant script. I felt this will be vital to my writing style as I won't have to redo all the indexes manually when I change a line due to it being too long or if it needs to be changed.

The second, and most important change, was the inclusion of a complete battle system. It may seem silly to imagine, but for the entire lifecycle of Premonition, I intended there to not be a SINGLE bullet hell battle. The reason? I didn't believe I had the coding ability while working on the measly amounts of content that I was able to. Call it sloth if you will. I won't argue with that.

And the third and equally as important change was, moving from Gamemaker 1.4 to Gamemaker 2. That's a big one. Based on the additional features that Epic has included, I'm certain that it will be worth it.

I believe this time has been essential for me reaching the ideal of what Premonition should be creatively. Just looking at the before and after of the same room speaks for itself.

For those of you that remember that video I posted all that time ago with Asgore and Clovis walking through the forest, it was important to have the trees be striking, and looking at the tileset I was using, created by Frigadae, the regular trees were just too small. The buildings were also closer to the scale of the trees, and the person meant to live in them was actually  taller than the actual door. I showed off the minisprites briefly in the previous update post, but they will be used a lot more than I originally intended when making them. 

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Holy hell! I’ve been eagerly awaiting this moment when I realized the blog was edging close, and have been trying to get a post ready but I was just blindsided with how fast it came!

First things first that I want to say is, I got my first drawing tablet and have been learning how to use it.

Here is a WIP of a bigger post to really celebrate this, which I plan to post by Friday as a “state of the project”. The goal will be to explain how Sudden Changes has changed from its beginnings fundamentally, why I made some of the decisions I did, and more. 

You’re not the first person to ask that and to be honest if you haven’t kept up with things on the blog it might seem difficult to go through all the posts. 

The game is still being made! Don’t worry about that!

These past few posts are to have content on the blog while the game is being made instead of having just radio silence for periods of time. You get to see some world building / designs while I get to practice writing the character. It’s a win win!

Papyrus stands in front of the Itsy & Bitsy headquarters entrance where despite being located in the city of Reindence, where emerald thunderstorms reign supreme, not a single drop of water lands on his body. The glass door lacks any handles and Papyrus assumes that the door had to be automatic or needed to be opened by the receptionist at the front desk needed to press a button.