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April/2025 - Monthly Thanks Message.

Thank you all for your support this month. I did some changes to the names of the Patrons who are supporting me this month. I also want to thank the Tier 0 patron who's here supporting me too, there's not a regular space you could go there, but know I'm grateful for your support.

It's thanks to you guys supporting me actively this month, especially my Tier 3 and Tier 4 patrons wh...

Just Friends Build 0.71.0.44 Release!

Hey there guys. Sorry for the delay I originally wanted to release this for you all yesterday but I got sick with a pretty nasty cold again, but I'm feeling good enough today to finish my work!

So here's the news about this build:

Some important features that were added was the PATHFINDER option, some important fixes for "First Encounter" routes that should now work. First, First Encoun...

Quick Update!

Hey there guys, you all good? I hope so.

First of all, thank you all so much for being here supporting me. Your support may look like little to you, but every single penny I get is the difference between me having food on the table and living on the streets, so thank you all so much for your support!

I'm working on Johan's routes, and I'm almost finished with them, I will soon start the process of correction of each route, to make sure few to no mistakes are passed into the game. ...

So... I am confusion.

Hello there. I have some confusing news!

I'm working on Johan's routes as always and I decided to check on Karnal's scripts to check how is the naming convention I use to create the route paths. Route Paths are how I organize the routes so I can anchor them to one another, it's very similar to how Windows Paths works too. So, I wanted to know if the route would be something like: Johan/1stAct/1 or main/johan/1stact/1 or main/3rdDay/Johan/1stAct/1 and so on.

When I check Ka...

Updates for Build 0.71

I have good and bad news.
The good news is that I finally figured out what was happening with the 1st encounters being selected even if you had met the character before instead of going for second or third encounter.
However a new problema arrived, essentially you would never be able to see a first encounter even if it was your first time seeing them with the fix I found.

The fix for that was to find a way to add a boolean.
That or change the whole system and I don't want ...

Build 0.71 voted content.

So I'm just here to tell y'all that the Tier 3+ patrons voted for Johan's new routes on Day 4. This means 12 whole routes since the start of a new day from Day 4 onwards have 3 possible encounters plus an Act0 to write. It should be finished by the end of the month as always, but I'm trying to deliver every build by day 25. So let's hope I can do stuff until then! :)

My PSU did burn out, as soon as this month's income comes into my bank account I'll pay my credit card and I'll bu...

Just Friends Build 0.70.0.44 Is now available for tier 2 + patrons to download!

Build 0.70 is now available for Tier2 + patrons!

So if you're new here, you have to come to me and ask for the links to download, I do not push them anymore on Patreon given the nature of the website being flawed, instead I deliver a link for each patron with a password for them to unlock the file.

Here are the changes for this month's build:

Some talk about c...

Development Update: Theming done!

Hello there guys. First of all thank you all for supporting me this month! 40 patrons in total is a good number! I'll keep on saving as much money as I can to keep investing in Just Friends be it by buying music or music packs and more artwork for it!

I finished the theming for just Friends on Godot 4. NOW, I only need to push the remaining missing routes for Johan! :D

Here's a before/after of some of the menus:

Main Menu:

2025-03-12 03:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Development Update: Theming

Hello guys. I've been fine-tuning some small things I have seem to forgot to do before I branched Just Friends out of Visual Novel Core, which means I have to do some double checks on both just Friends and the base engine because yes.

Either way, I've been fixing stuff, and adding the theming for the next build. So far I finished the Title Screen, and I'm now changing the Load/Save screen.

Here's how the Option Screen was and is now:

Old GD3 Menu:

2025-03-06 06:37:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Monthly Thanks Message - Feb/2025

Hey there y'all. You doing ok?

I just wanted to thank you all for this month's support. Here's the patrons who supported me this month (Minus Status:FREE patrons, due to automation situation).

And to the people who supported this month but is not on the list, sorry. I automated the process to avoid losing time. Before, Patreon would keep your Pledge Status even if you cancelled your subscriptio...

Just Friends Build: 0.69.0.Godot4.3 is now Available for Tier 2+ patrons!

If you're a Tier 2 aptron or above that you will soon get a link and password to download and unlock the new build of the game. This is actually the just Friends branch rather than the Visual Novel Core however there's a lot of UI elements I need to change, for now only the title screen had an overhaul.

Here's the major changes, but you can read all of the changes both from the VN core creation up to Just Friends build 0.69 AND all previous builds updates on Godot 2 and 3 versions from...

Quick Update!

I'm almost finishing the gallery system. Once it's fully functional, the CORE Visual Novel program will be finished. Next month we'll have a fully Just Friends build in this engine, and I'll start by branching the project and starting to change the whole theming. After that, I'll push the remaining missing routes into the new build and by the end of March the Tier 3 and 4 patrons will be able to vote again for the next routes and updates!

I'm so sorry it's taken kinda long since ...

Johan new Artworks Release!

For tier 3 patrons, here's the pack with four models for Johan:

Underwear, Fully Clothed, Shirt With Underwear and Shirtless.

Tier 4 patrons already have access to these and also to some extra spicier variants, since they do help more, so I gave them more to see.

Now the file IS protected. You need to ask for the link to download and the password of it.

Right now though, the current Tier 3 patrons for this date (and Tier 4) will get a message with the password...

Thank you!

For you all who are here with me.

Thank you so much!

The next build of the game will probably be the last one you'll see with the "Visual Novel Core Engine" title in it. As soon as I finish the Gallery system for it, it's done. I'll branch the game into Just Friends finally.

I want you all to remember that when you cancel your membership, you still have access to content here, however, I can't see your tier anymore. You're classified as a Free member.

Whe...

Monthly Thanks Message - January 2025

I want to thank you all for your support.

I know these will be some harsh times for us all, but Just Friends survived Covid, and survived other awful situations in the past, all thanks to all of you. Some of you have been with me for a long time.

It's thanks to your support monthly that I can buy my own food, pay my bills and save money to keep investing in this project.

I hope you all stay with me for the next month and I hope the game in the new engine is working ni...

Just Friends - Visual Novel Core Build - Version 0.10.7 Released!

The name is weird, right? That's because as part of the Porting efforts to Godot 4, I didn't create the Just Friends engine, I created a Visual Novel engine instead, and Just Friends is being loaded in this engine for now. Once the engine is completed, it will be branched into a copy that is called Just Friends. And then, we'll have the game as it should be.

These are the features this new engine has:

• Save, Load, and Delete.

• CreditsScene.

• ...
  2025-01-29 21:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post

VNC Just Friends Build 0.5.0 GD4.3 Release Date.

Hello you all!

I have some news. First I was able to finally, after weeks, add the Save/Load/Delete feature to the game, it was a painful process, but the whole system is more complex now, thankfully with the help of a friend who gave me some good pointers and did a lot of the actual ground working for the core of the VN, the code is way more procedural now. This means, loading stuff is way easier, only needing to load very little information and the rest just happens automatically.

Changes to Tier 1 Public and Itchio releases.

Okay, I was deliberating here and I noticed that the public releases would be better IF updated only once a year for Itch.io public.

I think that Tier 1 patrons are supporting me for a long, long time, and you guys do deserve to test these builds too.

So here's how things will work fornow on:

I changed the schedules, and now, itch.io will o...

January 2025 Update!

Hello you all.

As you all know, a few months ago I started pushing for Just Friends to be ported to Godot 4. However, as the checking went by I noticed that just porting it directly would be complicated, instead, redoing all the system from the ground up was way better, this way I would be able to create a better system.

With this in mind, the Visual Novel Core project started. The idea is to create a core Visual Novel system that can then be branched into different versio...

Happy new year guys!

Happy new year to all of you. I hope this last day of 2024 is one full of happiness to all of you.

I got sick, sadly, shortly after releasing the game here, so I wasn't able to work too much on the new build so far, but I'll go on from now on.

The schedule for next month should be the following:

As soon as I finish the Save/Load system, Build 4 is released for Tier 3 and 4 patrons so they can test it first. After that I will start pushing the last three Johan's routes into ...

Build 0.67.0.35 Release!

Tiers 2+ patrons have already gotten the message for the new build that was released early today.

I'm feeling rather sick so I'm not gonna make a huge post about it, changes are displayed in the changelog menu.

The godot 4 engine build should be available by Februrary as a full game but it should be playable by January for all patrons, meaning next month I'll be releasing the first Build GD4 of the game. It will not have theming whatsoever, but it will be the fully playable...

Quick Update.

Since this month I chose to write Johan~s first plot route for the second day with him, I'll probably be releasing Just Friends before Christmas. That's because I need to make sure I have extra time to keep on working on Godot Engine 4, and it still missing some menus. Once every feature is on there, I will create the branches and update the last three updates for Johan on the new scripts, work on theming (to make sure the GD4 version has the same themes as the GD3 version), and then release ...

Godot 4 Engine Dev update!

It took me some days do fine-tune everything, but the "Default" theme of the Message Log menu is now done. I think it's different enough from others VN's too, and it looks quite nice.

With this menu ready, now I can go onto make the other menus. I'll start with the Options menu, I think the audio is far too loud and I want to have the option to change the settings. This menu will ...

Early Access to Public Build 0.58 for Tier 1 patrons!

That's right. If you're a tier 1, you should have gotten your link with the next public build to download!

If you're here after the date of this post as a Tier 1, you can ask for the link too! :)

Thank you all for your support.

Updates!

Tier 1 Patrons:

By tomorrow, any Tier 1 patron will be able to ask me for the Build 0.58 Early Release for them.

That's right, from now on, Tier 1 patrons have access to the next public build six months before it's release on itchio. So if you want to check on it, just ask me by tomorrow, the files, link and password should be done by then.

Backgrounds:

I'm considering learning Blender to learn how to create sceneries, then apply shaders to it to make...

Just Friends - VNC GD4 - Very early build release for Tier 3 Patrons! :D

That's right, it's done. I'll be sending the link to you all soon on Tier 3.

Coming soon:

Hey guys, just giving you all a heads-up.

Tier 3 patrons will get the early GD4 build with the scripts of Just Friends inside just to check how it works on GD4, I'm just checking some kinks but soon I'll be posting it here in a few days.

Tier 1 patrons will get access to the July public build as soon as the December Public Build is released on Patreon. So if you're a tier 1 patron, this month is the month you start getting your new reward! I need By the end of the week I'l...

Build 0.66 Released for Tier 2 Patrons!

It's finally here. Sorry for literally taking to the last day to release it, I got too caught up on the port for Godot 4.

Next month new route will be chosen by myself, I decided to do one last route for Johan on Day 2 which is his Plot Route. Plot routes tends to be twice as long as a normal act, and they have juicy info about the character personal life. It may take a bit to write about it, but we'll see.

Godot 4 build is coming along nice, I will release in a few ...

Quick update no build release:

This month we'll have two builds released! One, ther regular one, for Tiers 2+, the Godot 3 version of the game. Another one only for tier 3 (for as long as it's not finished to be released to everyone else) so they can test on it, it's essentially the Visual Novel Core with the scripts of Just Friends inserted on it. Since I'm still developing the VNC first before porting JF to it, it lacks most of the features but most of all: Visuals and consistency. There's no credits, there's no themes, ...

Development Update #58 - The future of Just Friends.

Hello there you all, how are you doing? I'm fine, thank you very much.

I want to, first of all, thank all of you for your support. Especially to those who just learned about my troubles this month (One screen just died and my chair broke down so hard I am sitting on a small table chair) and decided to tune up their support to twice as much of what a Tier 4 gives me. Thank you all, I am saving every bit of money you guys gave me to buy the new hardware and chair ASAP so I can keep workin...