taboossy

Crazy Times

Hey

It's me, Tabloonny

Back from the grave.

Refusing to stay in there.

It's been a minute. I took some time off these past 2ish months. Went on a lil trip. Played some games. You know. A break.

Did some of the usual. Working, writing, drawing, etc, etc.

But mostly took some time off. I want to really buckle down this next few months and spend some serious time on the game. Try to get this thing finished before the heat death of the universe.

I was str...

I make post

I write post

:)

This is gonna be a short one

As per usual I work on the Statues game

The writing and the images and the booties and the boobies

Ok maybe too short

Let's add some filler and talk about something I've been debating.

Giving names to the Statues. Now don't get me wrong, they have names. But at the moment they're not shown in-game.

I've been going back and forth regarding this.

On the one hand giving them names makes the...

1.0 Expectations

Hey :)

We meet again.

Let's chat for a bit.

As usual I've been working on Statues. Slowly chipping away.

But what is the end goal? Why are we chipping? Well, I'm glad you asked.

In today's episode of What am I doing with my life... We'll answer these questions and more.

But in all seriousness I do want to talk about the current plans for 1.0. I went back and forth between doing a quick wrap up (some kind of post game mode where you can revisit ever...

Yep

:)

Hey

Super quick check in

Basically done with the "Planning" stage. Moving on to actual production. Turning placeholders into... Permanentholders? Making some entirely new assets and whatnot.

I got a pretty clear vision of what the final version should look like, it's going to be a while though. The planned content is going to roughly double the game in size. Should be a good time.

I'm never too sure what I should talk about.

Anyways

For now that ...

Here we go again

Yo!

Quick check in

Not a ton to report yet. Almost "finished" with the planning stage and the behind the scenes eventing, variables, switches, etc.

Hmmm yep.

Bye bye cya next time :)

2024

Hey :)

It's me

I've been working on Statues 1.0

Yep

It's been a minute since the last post.

I needed to "realign" myself after the release of TTPP v0.2 and the understandably lukewarm reception.

I wanted to take a step back from all the social media stuff.

While I enjoy reading comments, reviews, etc. It definitely has an impact on my mental. And alongside that my productivity, ideas, etc, etc.

I won't bore you with all the introspection I've be...

Update v0.2

https://taboossy.itch.io/ttpp

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there it is.

It's finally uploaded! wooooo!

What a ride. Anyways. Me tired. Me sleep now.

I'll make a post release post this Sunday. Probably :)

Enjoy and goodbye for now.

done

it done.

It is.

Finally

Finished.

Hoooly that took a while.

Official unmovable release date:

Friday 6th September 2024. Not sure what hour though.

After last post I decided to change an entire scene and then I ended up making small changes to the other scenes. And well... you know how it goes. A month went by in a flash.

But I didn't want to make yet another update saying "next week frfr teehee".

So ye.

I'll be s...

Final FINAL stretch!

Just a quick check in before the final push!

I've made a good amount of progress this past month-ish and it's extremely close to being finished. But there's still a few things that need doing.

Right now I'm finishing up the scenes, sfx, polishing the animations, etc. That should be done in a few days. After that comes the packaging and reducing the package size to 2GB (because that's the maximum file size Itchio allows).

It's very very close but I don't want to rush things. ...

Final stretch!

Woooooooooo still alive!

Survived 2 different plagues. Bronchitis and some mysterious debilitating full body pain that came and went in a day. Still don't know what that was. Very cool. Might be dying. Oh well.

Anyways let's talk business.

Thankfully things have been progressing smoothly this past month-ish.

Finished everything related to lighting and light baking. It's not perfect but I'm done with it. I might revisit it some day in the future but for now, good enoug...

Still Alive.

I've been getting a little too lax with my ¨weekly posts¨. I'll try to be a bit more consistent moving forward, at the very least biweekly. Honestly making posts and social media in general doesn't interest me very much.

Anyways, part of the reason why this one has been so delayed is because April was a bit of a shit month. Unfortunately, between extra work and other fun surprises I didn't have a lot of free time.

TLDR: Not a lot of progress during April.

Good news: The n...

Foundation

In today's episode of what am I doing with my life!

It's been a little while so let's see.

I more or less remade the main character. Reworked his walk animations, changed the way the lighter animation works, added the flashlight, added the long awaited sprint function. Plus a few other things.

Overall a lot more things and functionality.

Finished the intro to the game. A short(5ish mins) section introducing the character and a little background to ...

Neighboorhood

Aaaaaaaaaand that's the rest of the map "done" (With a few missing things)

There may be a few more locations in the future but this'll be the main area where most of the game takes place.

Hmmmmm. With that done I can now focus on the actual story/game. Very excited to be finally done with this part and keep working on the actual fun part of the game making process. 

Yeah idk what else to write :)

Have a good week and goood byeeeeeeee.

Another House

Hey.

Hi.

It's been a while.

Let's have a talk.

I'm almost done moving. 1 or 2 more weeks. Pain.

On the game dev front. I've been modeling MC's house. (While also keeping everything very modular to make the rest of the neighborhood)

Don't know when(2 months maybe? idk) but the next update will be the "Outside update" with an actual intro to the story, the MC and obviously an outside area.

Don't want to spoil things but I want ther...

The Great 2023 Retrospective, Unreal Engine, TTPP, The Present and The Future.

Damn what a tittle.

This might be a long post. If it's not I'll delete this part and nobody will know. (It's long)

Before we begin, I hope you all had a great end of the year and wish you an amazing 2024.

2023 was an overall fantastic year for me. Learned a lot of new things. And some big positive changes happened. So all in all no complaints.

Unreal Engine. Honestly pretty good. It wasn't as hard as I originally thought it'd be. It looks a lot mo...

IT'S OUT!

https://taboossy.itch.io/ttpp

Go play it!

There's a massive thunderstorm literally happening right now. So I'm keeping it super short!. Happy holidays I'll be back. Lemme know if anything breaks

Release date! (For the TTPP demo)

Aaaaaaaaaaaalright, I know I went radio silent for a while there but it's been a crazy month.

Anyways drum roll please! December 22! Probably, maybe 23.

I want to release this demo before the end of the year because I'm going to be extra busy during Jan/Feb. And it sound fun to make this my Christmas present to the internet.

I still have to finish some things but it's a very very small list. So I should be done in time.

Honestly time estimates are very hard to predict....

Steam!

My little babies (Gross disgusting degenerate babies) are on steam!

Wishlist them! That's an order... A humble request... Ok fine, I'm on my knees begging...

Apparently having thousands of wishlists helps a lot with visibility and exposure. Fingers crossed I get that many.  

A Silent Statue on Steam!

2023-11-04 14:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post

So very close

But it's not going to be ready this month sadly, I really wanted to release it in October but oh well. 

A lot of little things left to do.

Most of the audio, settings, credits, packaging, setting up the itch page, steam page, the N95 page.

November it is! Almost certainly. Like 98.6% sure.

And this concludes my report.  Goo by.

Quick Post

The spookiest of months is upon us!

PPTT's demo should be done towards the end of the month. Probably. Most likely. Fingers crossed.

I'll work for a couple more weeks before giving a proper date. 

For now I won't be showing much more about the game. Don't wanna spoil the whole thing.

PS: wtf is that new logo.

Even Spookier

The furnishing and texturing is about 80% done.

Next few weeks I'm going to focus on putting everything together. Actually finishing things that I've been leaving almost finished.

And start working on the various animations. The good stuff.

That's all. Post over. Bye.

Very Spooky

A couple of shots with the models in there. 

Most likely not the final versions but getting closer. I'm still figuring out baking textures, rigging and topology. All complex topics but I'm getting better at it. Also their overall design. I might've made MC a bit too short. Around 5' or 150 cms. A couple more inches might be better. And I want to give the ghost a few more accessories. 

While I figure that out I'm going to finish working on the house. Modeling, texturing, ...

Progress

This is a little awkward. I'm not really sure where I can post videos to embed on Patreon. Vimeo, youtube, etc are all no nudity. And twitter now forces you to have an account to view posts. Cringe.

Still I'll leave these two links.

Twitter Link 

Discor...

Underwhelming

I was really hoping to make a fun happy post. But it is what it is.

Uploading the game to steam has been rather challenging. 

Every time I submit the store page it takes 3-4 days to get a response. So far I've gotten two negative responses. (Just to be safe I won't share screenshots because it's behind an NDA I agreed to)

The 1st time was because of those 2 images, the buttcrack is not, in fact, PG13. Who knew. The second version is fine. RIP buttcrack.

The 2nd ti...

Discord

Discord

https://discord.gg/rEjQPgtQ7N

It's official now. I'm a full blown internet man. There's no going back.

It's also free and public for now.

I wanted to set it up before steam.

Speaking of steam, I should have a link to the store page this week. It'll have to be set to "Coming soon" for a couple of weeks. But it's happening.

Another tittle

Good news: I'm officially a steam partner.

Bad news: I've been bombarded with work these past few weeks.

Good news: The steam release should happen this month.

So yeah to keep it short, I've been focusing solely on Statues. Next week I'll be working on setting up the store page, trailer, etc.

This update will be mostly the same. A couple changes here and there and new SFX for the scenes.

End of post.

Title

Yep.

With this somewhat functional model finished I'm going to start working with Unreal. Finally. 

This isn't the final model for PPTT it was mostly to learn topology, animation, blender, etc. I'll eventually make the actual ghost model but should be quicker and better.

Statues steam release should be around late July or so. After that I'll split my time between finishing statues and making an early demo of PPTT.

Let's face it

Faces are hard. 

If one little thing is wrong the whole thing falls apart.

I don't think anyone will be surprised when I say I've been avoiding faces since I started drawing.

I though about sharing my old sketches. But those are simply too horrifying to share publicly. Maybe after I die.

This past week was all about faces. I would start a new sculpt and think to myself: Hey that looks pretty good, this wasn't so hard. Then come back the next day and realize I made...

Topology

Is a pain in the ass.

The images show the difference between clean topology deformation and dirty topology deformation. More noticeable around the joints. 

Clean topo is mandatory for animation. 

It's one of those things that the more you do it the better you get at it. I doubt this'll be the final model but it's good enough for now.

Next up is the face, feet and hands. Those 3 body parts are more complicated and time consuming than the entire body.

Aft...

More blending

Hi :>

This week: Rigging and animation. 

Next up making a proper game ready mesh. After that I'll start working on the Ghost.

I've also been working on Statues. Mostly outlining the rest of the story and figuring out how the events should work.

Bye :)