hello! it's march now & i've already been very busy with various things this month so far... but here's what i'll be doing for the rest of the month!
i was thinking of doing nanoreno but actually i have too many other things i need to catch up with & need to take a break too so that i don't burn out, so instead i'm working on a lot of little updates.
as per the title! i have a game in indiepocalypse #14 & it's the ferris wheel game i've been working on for the past little while! it's called A Wheel Without a View.
indiepocalypse #14 is a paid zine with a bunch of interesting games. since A Wheel Without a View was made specifically for it, it won't be available separately on my itch.io page for a while, but when i have permission i will release it to patrons first & then publicly on itch.io later.
for now, if you want ...
2021-03-05 23:50:11 +0000 UTC View Postthe end of the month came really quickly (probably because it's a few days shorter than usual...) but as usual postcards have been sent out & the thanks page on my site has been updated!
the postcard is based on my latest game tong jyun! if you haven't played it yet, you can download it from the link in my last post.
2021-02-28 08:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post
my new game is out on itch.io now! i hope you'll all enjoy.
湯圓 [tong jyun] is a little chat about cooking & culture. play as polly chan, a chinese american whose only knowledge of chinese comes from speaking with her mom at home and the saturday school lessons she didn't really pay attention to. help her make tong jyun to celebrate the lantern festival even though she doesn't even know how to write tong jyun in chinese.
download @ 2021-02-26 11:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
it's ready 👀 so here is my new game 🏮 tongjyun ! it's a little chat about cooking & culture. i hope you'll enjoy!
early access link: https://npckc.itch.io/tongjyun/patreon-access
the bonus for this game is a little collection of photos from the game (+1 extra photo not in the game) & it's attached to this post.
(downloads will be available for ~1 month.)
2021-02-23 05:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post
this game is short but there's a lot of weird screen stuff going on so it's taking me a long time to put together... here's a bunch of screenshots of how it looks so far!
click the images to read the captions.
2021-02-13 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
so, it's february, the shortest month of the year... but i'm hoping to get two games finished up. fingers crossed!
here are my plans for the month:
my team finished in time for the deadline so our ggj game is out now!!
get it here! https://globalgamejam.org/2021/games/mail-rabbit-1
(you can download from the ggj site, but it's faster if you download from the itch.io link instead haha)
it was a really fun process working on a short jam with a team since it's not something i've ever done before. given the chance i'd definitely...
2021-01-31 08:43:10 +0000 UTC View Post
it's the end of the month so it's time for postcards in your emails! the thanks page on my website has also been updated.
also i thought i'd share all the iterations of the logo for my ggj game that i went though! check the captions for comments on the process. (the game itself is still in progress though... rushing to finish now!)
2021-01-31 02:16:54 +0000 UTC View Post
so i ended up working with a friend for global game jam this weekend so here's a quick peek at the game we will hopefully release on sun!
it's been a very interesting experience since i'm only working on the dialogue and sketches for the art with my friend doing all the programming and final art, but i'm really enjoying it so far.
it's about a mail rabbit who needs to collect letters.
here's a video link of the game coming along with music : 2021-01-29 23:40:28 +0000 UTC View Post
this is still a secret (shh!) but here's another peek at the ferris wheel game i'm working on! i'm using renpy's new matrixcolor option to tint the image depending on what time of day it is.
you can see in the timelapse (second image) everything is greyscale, but the first image above is pink - the colouring is all done through renpy).
the animation is also all done in renpy! i'm having fun trying out some new things.
once i have more of this project done i'm going t...
this is a secret (shh!) but i've been asked to make a small game for something so i'm working on some ideas for it! when the game comes out i won't be able to share it with you right away since i won't be posting it myself right away either, but once i get the ok to post it on my own itch.io account i'll be sharing it with all of you.
this is all i have so far (ferris wheels are hard to draw!) but i'll keep you all updated with more stuff when i figure it out 👀
2021-01-10 00:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post
i'm testing out a separate history screen & i think i like it more than having it in the menu as usual! it's easier to access.
this is the scroll bar i decided on - the background is highlighted when you hover over it, but otherwise it only shows the thumb. a small detail that makes me very happy is that the text "fades" at the top/bottom of the history screen so it isn't just cut off suddenly - i think it gives it a softer & nicer look!
(i also attached images of ot...
2021-01-05 08:29:16 +0000 UTC View Posthello to all of you in 2021! it's the start of a new year & i hope it's better than the last one. here's what i'll be doing this month:
happy new year! i made a virtual hatsumode for those avoiding the crowds for new year's and delaying real-world hatsumode.
*it has no connections to any real-world shrines.
it's released for everyone now & you can play it in browsers here: https://npckc.itch.io/virtual-hatsumode
2021-01-01 01:28:55 +0000 UTC View Post
i got it working so here it is before i head off to bed! a little shrine visit i made for new year's for people who will be refraining for visiting shrines for new year's to avoid the crowds.
the phone-sized backgrounds that i'll be releasing as a bonus are also attached to this post!
(downloads will be available for ~1 month.)
2020-12-30 16:11:13 +0000 UTC View Post
here's a timelapse of a very small new year thing i'm working on now! i didn't really intend on making anything new until next year but the idea came to me so i'm slowly putting it together now. (i don't want to stress over this too much, so if i don't make it in time for new year, i just won't release it.)
patreon doesn't let me upload videos directly so here's a link to the timelapse: 2020-12-27 02:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
it's the end of the year so here's a post looking back at everything i worked on with your support.
print-and-play scaredy cat dungeon: i released this at the beginning of january! (this feels SO long ago that i was surprised that it was actually this year - actually, i thought tomato clinic was from last year too... it's been quite the year.)
tomato clinic: my nanoreno game! it was really fun making something with little minigames & this is a...
2020-12-21 01:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post
i've been playing around with a click-to-continue button (black triangle in the bottom right of the dialogue box!) but i actually ended up scrapping this... while i like how it looks isolated here (i think the bouncing triangle is cute!), i feel like it doesn't actually match the feeling of the game...
i'm probably going to switch it to one that just fades in without bouncing, but you all get to look at the screen before i get rid of it!
it's been taking me a lot of time doi...
2020-12-15 14:29:13 +0000 UTC View Post
this post gets three exclamation marks because i'm just really happy this tool works because it took me really long to figure out how to put everything together... i learnt a lot about renpy that i didn't know before too haha.
pronoun tool lets you add pronoun selection & display to your game! i tried my best to make everything easy to understand but let me know if you have any questions.
the tool! : https:...
2020-12-11 22:56:50 +0000 UTC View Postmy pronoun tool is WORKING! so here is an early access build for you all if you'd like to take a look 👀
if anything is unclear please don't hesitate to let me know because i want to try to make this tool as easy to implement as i can.
i'll probably be posting the tool publicly on the weekend!
(downloads will be available for ~1 month.)
2020-12-09 04:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post
so i've been working on getting self-voicing in my pronoun tool for ren'py to work properly with custom text tags... i finally found a solution, but it's only for ren'py 7.4 and up.
the reason is that there actually is no way in versions of ren'py below 7.4 to have text excluded from tts, apparently. if it's in {} tags it's automatically removed, and stuff not in tags is automatically read.
however i found out that 7.4 will be adding {alt} / {noalt} tags to work with self-vo...
2020-12-08 02:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post
wow it's already december... this year felt like it went pretty fast & pretty slow at the same time. i spent almost all of it just inside my flat & it's weird to think that a year could pass like this.
here's what i'll be working on until 2021 comes around!
hello! thanks page at https://npckc.site/#thanks for ☕ coffee set and up patrons has been updated for this month & postcards are out too! let me know if it doesn't reach your inbox.
this month's postcard features a character who got cut from The Shop of Good Memories because there wasn't really a need for characters in it... i like to imagine her carefully taking care of all the bottled memories though.
2020-11-30 11:22:50 +0000 UTC
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my game for advxjam is now out! visit a shop, browse some memories, and leave one of your own if you like.
i did a looooot of tinkering to make this game look/sound the way i want it to so i hope you'll enjoy! (it's not quite a 'game' in the usual sense i think but i hope you'll enjoy it anyway 💜)
visit the shop here: https://npckc.itch.io/the-shop-of-good-memories
2020-11-28 10:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
the little game i've been working on for advxjam is now ready for you all! here is 🐈 THE SHOP OF GOOD MEMORIES.
i wanted to make something where the player could also share something. i'd be really happy if you left a photo screenshot of your memory in the comments of the itch.io comment page!
the souvenir photo wallpapers which are a bonus for donating to the shop have also been attached to this post! they show more of the shop than the actual game screen, so you can take a lo...
2020-11-26 02:14:09 +0000 UTC View Post
it turns out the renpy default virtual keyboard for mobile browsers was VERY barebones so i spent far too long updating it into something i was happier with!
the fourth one is the design i'm going with & i'm very happy with how it has improved. (click the images and i think the captions for each image will show up.)
honestly i probably didn't need to spend as much time on this as i did since this keyboard will only show up on mobile browsers, but i really didn't like how the b...
2020-11-22 10:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
my advxjam game is coming along so here's a quick peek!
it's going to be a simple browser point-and-click browser game where you browse a shop of memories. i'm very pleased with how i've done the lamp switch, hahaha.
2020-11-18 09:01:09 +0000 UTC View Post
was planning on opening later but i wanted to get it done with so i can focus on making a game for advxjam, so now you can buy stickers & pins from my redbubble shop!
i've also updated my booth shop with acrylic keychains (these are not on redbubble as redbubble does not offer acrylic keychains as an option)
2020-11-16 12:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
decided to put these up on redbubble (though i'm probably not opening the shop yet until later! maybe end of november?) because i liked how they look.
i haven't ever used redbubble but i thought it was cool how you can choose what size you want the sticker at (and can also make magnets?).
so far there are only stickers because i don't think the designs really work well on any of the other merch redbubble is offering, but i'll think about this a bit more just in case haha.
(i...
2020-11-15 00:39:23 +0000 UTC View Post