finished another ludum dare! our little jam studio has 3 titles under its belt now...!
i coded this one so it's a ren'py game (instead of game maker studio like the others), but it really has no business being made with ren'py...... you play as a sardine and you try to pose yourself in the right shape to get on the train before it leaves. it kinda feels li...
2023-10-02 19:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
i've failed u guys this month... i only have the trick newsletter art. but it's REALLY cute, so i hope that makes up for it!
september was pretty bad for me due to stuff going on in my personal life, but i got to take a small vacation so it wasn't all bad!! i'm okay. i just didn't have the energy to draw for fun, but i guess that's also because i released 2 songs and another chapter of SAS this month too. the grind never ends!!
thanks for looking~
2023-09-30 19:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
another chapter of SAS is finished!!!!!!! the only thing missing from this release is that one of the unlockable bonus songs is planned to be extended for the final version (i wasn't able to finish it today sadly! it's only a minute long rn lol)
i went ahead and attached the builds to this post since i don't think i can make them private on the itchio page... let me know if there are any problems/bugs and i can update if necessary.
reminder that this game is meant for ages...
2023-09-27 06:00:30 +0000 UTC View Postjaelights said i could post one of her songs for sex advice succubus today!! it's a remix of senna's theme from charm studies :)
almost done writing the new chapter, so expect the wip build to go up in a few days!!!! WAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
2023-09-25 19:24:51 +0000 UTC View Postsince i released 2 songs last week, i wanted to talk about how i make the vocals! i used something wrong as an example since it has a lot going on, but the tuning was relatively simple... also this vid lets you listen to the vocals on their own, which i think is neat! sorry in advance that this is a bit of a rambly infodump, i hope it's not too hard to follow lol.
so, the fi...
2023-09-19 06:36:10 +0000 UTC View Postfinally finished the vid for this!!!!! gonna do a little youtube premiere tomorrow afternoon at 3:00PST, but i wanted to share it here first since i kept mentioning it before now! so happy to finally share!!!
some backstory on this track: i've mentioned this a few times before, but music can be a bit of a struggle for me at times, so i often end up writing lyrics to songs i can hear in my head but that i don't quite have the skills to make real... i thought it would be nice if someone e...
2023-09-15 01:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
i wrote this song a while back, but it was just chords for a long time. i was too intimidated to make the instrumental, but i suddenly got a burst of courage the other day and made all this in one go!!! the music video was fun to put together too :)
now that i have all this momentum built up, i'm gonna finish the OTHER music video for a song me and jaelights finished back in july (oops!), so you can expect that by frid...
2023-09-13 20:26:00 +0000 UTC View Post
made some more progress on the second session!! i might add more to the bg since it's still a little barren, but i figured finishing the art is what it'd take to get me to write the rest of this thing. i've been so preoccupied with other stuff that i couldn't bring myself to look at the script, but i feel like i can now... i really wanna finish the patron build this month so i can update the game in october!
side note: over the weekend i finished packing books to send out, so i'm headed...
2023-09-11 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Postthis will be a bit of a sleepy dev diary… i’m writing it late because i’ve had trouble focusing this week (personal stuff i decided not to share, i’m ok tho)
so, the store page for another piece of candy vol. 1 went up! as of writing this, there are only a few copies left, which is actually perfect because it means 50 was a good amount for patron-only orders!!
the reason i wante...
2023-09-05 07:58:20 +0000 UTC View Post
the store page for my first book is LIVE!!!!!!!! this link is meant just for patrons since it has an exclusive bonus item~
EDIT 9/4 1:30AM: i'm marking these as "sold out" before i go to sleep, but there are ~5 copies left. if you wanted one, please message me and i will open it back up for you to grab!!
https://shop.nomnomnami.com/product/another-piece-of-candy-vo...
2023-09-03 07:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
i was pretty busy with another piece of candy stuff, so i didn't get to do patron requests this time... i should have time for them next month tho!
result for another piece of candy's audition event is posted at the bottom, so come back and read this after wednesday if you don't want to be spoiled!
i thought about just posting another sneak peek this week but i have some status updates i can share, so i wanted to write a longer post after all :) happy birthday, butterscotch! now for the updates...
i put a digital version of the another piece of candy book 2023-08-29 01:43:31 +0000 UTC View Post
wanted to post the full event here even though the first few of these have already gone up! voting will be on the 27th, so make sure to check the link on the site so you can have a say in which one of these cuties will join the cast~ (edit: VINEGAR WON!! added the result strip now that it's over)
also, quick update on the print edition of volume 1: just waiting on the gumdrop keychains to come in the mail, then i can set up the little store page so you guys can order th...
2023-08-21 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Postwork in progress obviously :) mostly been writing the script, but i got the new menu working too!
2023-08-14 18:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post
last friday i finally ported charm studies to android!! it only actually took a few hours of work to code the new stuff, but i had been too worn out/busy with other things to actually be able to do it until now... i didn't expect to get it done last week, so i'm really happy i could put it out!!
so what new code did it take to do this? i'm glad you asked!!!!!!!! (because i wanted to write about it today lol)
the main thing i needed to do, especially...
2023-08-07 19:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post
it's a real book!!!! waaaaa!!!!!!!!
i sent some fixes for the colors on the cover (butterscotch's clothes are too dark and the bg gradient had some banding), but after that they can actually print these babies and i can set up my little storefront. really looking forward to this!!
2023-07-31 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
i've got a truckload of art for you guys this month!!! i guess this is what i end up doing when i'm not actively working on a game haha.
got ambitious with the background so it took a while to finish. gotta animate everything swaying for the video, so it'll still be some time before i can post it, but we're getting closer!!!
2023-07-25 00:18:12 +0000 UTC View Postthe first and most exciting update: I ORDERED THE ANOTHER PIECE OF CANDY BOOKS!!!!!!!! the proof copy will be here in a week or so, and then i can set up a little online store... i'll have 50 to sell (for the first run at least!) and volume 1 includes the first 122 strips (excluding guest comics). it filled up 36 pages, which feels like a lot but also not that many...? i think it's a good size for a first book, so i'm really looking forward to seeing it in person :)
i'm...
2023-07-18 00:36:11 +0000 UTC View Post
might make more adjustments before it goes to print, but i can finally move forward with my pdfs now...! let's see if i can get the books ready by the anniversary!!!!
2023-07-10 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
i write one of these every 6 months or so, and here we are in july again! i might mix it up next year by doing these more often since it's nice to give a big update like this… maybe once per quarter? who knows, gonna keep thinking about it.
anyway, here's the link to the plan from back in january. i like rereading them before diving into the update since it gives me a good look at where i was at ...
2023-07-06 18:11:57 +0000 UTC View Postunderling plush stuff has taken up most of my mental energy (even though i don't really have to do anything haha) so i've been catching up on videogames and trying to take it easy so i don't die from anxiety
so the past couple weeks has just been:
i was mostly resting this month, but i have some good stuff to share! yeahhh!!
WE HAVE 21 DAYS TO SELL 200 OF THESE GUYS TO MAKE THEM REAL!!!!!!
https://www.makeship.com/products/underling
patron-only 5% off discount code: RXBVZRX6D680
i have 10% off codes for $12+ tier patrons i will be sending over DM shortly!
too excited to say anything else atm dhsgjk pls share the vid with other fans!!! thanks for your support!!!!!!!
2023-06-30 17:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
this was the thing i couldn't announce before!!! now i can announce it!!!!!
makeship reached out to me and wanted to do BAD END THEATER plushies, so we started with underling! it's crowdfunded, so it has to sell 200 units to actually get made. if it succeeds, i'll be able to do the rest of the cast, i hope!! they only do limited run, so it's basically like, you either get it or you don't... that's the only real downside of this to me haha, i'll be sad if anyone misses out on these.
<... 2023-06-26 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Posti mostly took time off these past couple weeks to recharge after all the stuff i've been releasing. so the only work i've gotten done lately is drawing comic strips, and updating my games with a few new translations... this is the bare minimum for me, and i've otherwise been spending time away from my computer playing videogames!
i've had a bunch of time to think and plan out my schedule, so i wanted to share some of those plans today so you guys know what to look forward to ;o my mid-y...
2023-06-19 19:15:31 +0000 UTC View Post
finished drawing all my comic updates for the next month or so! enjoy them in advance <3
2023-06-12 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
i made a gb studio game in a week! here's the why and how of it all (strap in, i wrote a lot!!)
this is a jam i did completely on a whim! some of the other jams i've done this year, i had planned to participate in ahead of time... like i knew from the start of the year that i wanted to do NaNoRenO again. and i know i want to do Y*ri Jam whenever that comes up (usually in the fall!). but this one i had just seen a post about it on cohost--it's a...
2023-06-05 21:19:35 +0000 UTC View Post
heyyy! sending my whole gb studio project this time, since there are no PSDs to speak of... the music was made in it too, since they have their own editor! it's a free engine so pop it open and take a look around~ otherwise you can find all the sprites in the assets folder :) i used aseprite to make them, but they're just flat pngs haha.
more details in the postmortem tomorrow, enjoy the files for now! hehe <3
2023-06-04 19:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post
i'm posting the game publicly in a few hours but i JUST FINISHED IT, except for 2 illustrations... ((EDIT: finished the last of the art! it's all done now!!!)) so i wanted to share ahead of time, even if people are maybe asleep and it doesn't matter aaaa
this time it's a browser game!! so no need to download anything.
play here: 2023-06-04 05:03:33 +0000 UTC View Post