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Naomi eeps

Our first peek at some N3 scene art! This is as early as it gets, and it's just a sketch, but you might be able to figure out some things like "damn bitch you live like this?"

Addy and Naomi share a dorm room, but in Night Two, you only saw Addy's pretty side of the room. Naomi's side has a very different vibe. She has a bare matress, no sheets, she also sleeps nakey, and you can even see Brimstone laying on her back. I love sketches like this, because I get to look at this and the fini...

Frosto Remembers: Dr. Blankenship

The first dev log post where Frosto talks about a part of development!

When you think of Love Sucks you mostly think about the three girls. But it's hard to imagine the game without Dr. Blankenship.  Her sassy dimenor, her seductive winks, her...large personality.  She's become a staple of the game.  But when we launched the first build of Love Sucks, she didn't even have a model yet due to the rush.  So how'd everyone's favorite history teacher come to be? 2024-11-15 14:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Lore: Druids

Hello, friends! Now we're back, here's our first post! We had this idea in Night Two but we didn't implement it fully. Maybe we'll go back and do that eventually, but for Night Three, we plan to expand the book's function a little, and let people who are interested in worldbuilding collect lore entries for various different subjects. We have a whole bunch of these, and here's the first: Druids!

Also, I may be changing what times and what days I post things. Before, everything was sche...

We're Back! (AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃)

First of all, HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEN! A special day all of us at Art Witch Studios 🎃

We're back! technically, we never left, but we've also been very quiet on our media platforms for some time now. Sorry for the long period of radio silence, but we haven't had a whole lot worth talking about until now! Secretly, in the background, we have been continuing our dark work after a hard-earned break from the horrors of game development to enjoy the delicious fruits of ou...

Steam Trading Cards are now LIVE (I hope)

I'm clicking the button at the same time I post this final set of backgrounds. I don't know how long it takes them to go into effect, but Steam's documentation makes it sound like it should be instant.

These three backgrounds are the classics. We've gotten more mileage out of stars than anything else Aila has ever made.

The N1 and N2 backgrounds held us up so much because Steam didn't like the exposure of thigh as their skirts blew up, even though they didn't show anything lewd....

Day 3 of 3 backgrounds

The community items should go live tomorrow, so here are three more of the 12 profile backgrounds.

I really like the midway. Aila has this great way of telling a story with her backgrounds and putting a lot of fun things in there for people to look at. Like, who are these people? What's the deal with the hockey guy? Look at all those fun prizes!

The midway's background was a bit of a pain, actually. I soon realised that Naomi and Addy would be in the background, even if they were...

Three more Steam profile backgrounds!

Today, we've got Dr. Blankenship's lab, the College Fair, and the Fountain Courtyard!

Personally, my favorite is the lab. I'd love an indoor magic tree like that. I like plants.

Night Two Steam Trading Cards on Wednesday!! (FINALLY)

It's taken way longer than it should have to get this going. We've had the cards and the content for a while, but getting through Steam's approval process was a nightmare! We had to make changes to basically everything because we were just too lewd. It turns out that Steam doesn't like thighs, cleavage, or anything else like that. On one hand, it makes sense - profile backgrounds can be seen by any person of any age, and therefore have to be family-friendly.

On the other hand, big ti...

The last trading card, and other stuff!

It's all done, put together, and up for review!

There's also a bunch of emotions for Steam, and a bunch of backgrounds, too! Too many to upload here, but I'm happy with them.

Once they're live we'll make an announcement, and then it's happy collecting :D

Trading cards 2!

Just like I said, I'm putting up two more trading cards! I think Steam requires at least 5, so who should be the last card? But we're out of card suits! Oh no!

(Also it's my birthday, yippie!)

Trading cards?

Love Sucks Night Two reached the threshold of... something! That allows us to develop trading cards, and possibly even points shop items for the game. I love trading cards, everyone does, so we're going to add some to our game!

But first, we gotta design them. Here are two unfinished trading cards, of the two most obvious picks for cards, Jan and Anna! Next week I'll probably show you some more! Yippie!

Rare girl mode art...

The plan to make Sarah playable as the main character is still a thing we want to do! No ETA on it, we still think it's more important to actually make the games and finish the story of Love Sucks, but Aila is gradually over time creating the art that would be needed for it.

Creating girl mode isn't as easy as it sounds, it's a thing that would actually take quite a bit of effort! Large portions of art need to be remade, some scenes will need to be rewritten, a pronoun system will need ...

How'd it go?

Hello, friends!

How did the launch go?

Today I want to communicate a little about how the launch of Love Sucks: Night Two went for us.

Good news! It went well. Launching a game is a scary thing. Especially a paid game, and one we spent several years working on. The question of whether anyone will play it, whether it will have been worth the effort is always one that hangs over us before we click the button.

But I'm happy to say that there was barely any scuf...

Patreon is being shit. Removal of NSFW content

Patreon is currently doing a crackdown on porn, and it's getting a little testy. Right now two large NSFW patreons have been put under review for having private NSFW posts, which is our bread and butter for you guys. We've been posting stuff for years, and out of an abundance of caution we're deleting it. Even though the game is out, we won't see the money for a while, and we still have other developments we're working on.

Before, Patreon seemed fine with NSFW content, so long as it w...

Love Sucks: Night Two now on itch.io

Thank you, everyone, for such a lovely first week of launch. Seeing people talk about the game, theory craft, play it, and offer us words of kindness and support has been something I will forever hold dear in my heart. You all really are an amazing community, and I am so happy that I get to do this. Thank you especially to everyone who wrote a Positive review on Steam for Night One and Night Two. We need more, but we're doing good.

And now for another announcement. Love Sucks is...

Love Sucks: Night Two is RELEASED

Love Sucks: Night Two is now available to play, released on Steam right here!!!

It will sell for $10, and also has an Art Book as optional DLC for $3 for people who want to support us a little extra, and have a little insight into the development process! It installs as a .pdf...

The Credits

I thought that just a list of names was kind of boring, and when I made the patreon tiers, writing down stuff like "your name shinier in credits", I didn't really think about what that would actually mean other than higher tiers coming first. But that was sorta lame, so I decided that rather than do that, I would do the credits in the form of some images and then draw on it. I like it. It's more fun.

These are the credits, as they will appear in game!

I say it a lot in the pictu...

Love Sucks: Night Two Release Date

Love Sucks: Night Two finally has a release date: April 26th, at 4 PM PST, and will sell for $10!

If EA drops a bunch of shit that day we're gonna make it like Monday or something though :|

It's been a long time coming. Much longer than we anticipated, but after all our years of work and effort, we can finally consider N2 to be ready for people to buy and play! We've passed compliance, we've got the date, and now we start the countdown to launch.

In the meantime, we're goi...

Name In Credits benefit is now final!

With the release date about to be annonced, I am finalizing the game's credits.

That means, anyone who joins the Patreon AFTER the release of this post WILL NOT appear in the credits of Love Sucks: Night Two!

These credits are to show appreciation for those who have helped support the development of Night Two, but Night Two has been completed, and now just needs to be polished and released!

If you wish to support us this late in t...

Jam & BanAnna

Not everyone saw this, but here's our April Fools joke. Jam and BanAnna, the rejected Night Three costumes :D You may have also spotted the sketch in the art book!

The Love Sucks Art Book

We've kept this a bit of a surprise!

Once Night Two's art was all done, the idea was floating around for something else we could make for people. Given that AIla's wonderful art is probably why most of you are here, Aila set about creating an art book as optional DLC for Night Two, a fun little extra thing for people who want to support us a bit more with a one-off thing, or just want to see more.

We plan to sell the art book for $3, but also, we're going to give it away to every ...

Bloopers! :D

While developing the game, once I was done writing stuff and needed to wait for one of the other devs to do their part, I had the idea to include a bunch of silly joke scenes based on jokes we made during meetings, planning, or other silly stuff that came to us.

Obviously, they don't belong in the game, so we decided to include them anyway was Bloopers in the extras menu, which become available when you finish N2! There are 9 in total! :D

In other news, Love Sucks Night T...

LOVE SUCKS: NIGHT TWO IS FINISHED (also N1 update)

And I'm not even joking.

Love Sucks: Night Two is now in what we consider to be a feature-completed state! Everything is in, everything works, and we've tested to make sure we're not missing everything. All the art, the writing, the systems. It's done! And that means the game will be released very soon!

So what happens now?! Now, we're talking to the publisher so we can figure out when the best and coolest time to release is. The very moment I get that date, I will let you know. B...

Book Portraits

While some of you who have access to early builds may have seen this already, I thought it would be nice to show everyone everyone's portraits in the book! The book being the in-game place where all the important learned facts, bits of character development, and a record of unlocked runes are kept. Each characters page has a picture of them to go with it, and here they are!

The book is magic, though. So I wonder if this means Theo is a great artist, or the pictures drew themselves?

Dinner

A drawing of a scene where food is consumed, and the concept art that I gave Aila for comparison. Can you tell which is which?

WOE, BOOK BE UPON YE

Thebook used to appear in the middle of the screen and it looked like Addy just threw it at your face (which was funny, but I still changed it)

The Book - facts!

This week I've been working hard on this part of the book. Throughout the game you'll get a book that will be used to record facts and stuff that you learn about the girls throughout the game!  We hope to add extra functionality to the book in future and in N3, but I really like the book system that will be present at N2's launch :D

Cheevos!

Here are some of the many icons for N2's achievements! Some of them use game art, but some of them have stuff Aila drew up :D  I wonder if you can guess what any of these are for (probably not)

Mystery Symbol

Or maybe it's not a mystery. We've used this symbol before. Maybe you know what it is.

But what could this image be for? :O

big res makes for a pretty rad background, too.

Naomi >:(

She's hot, she's steamy, and she looks quite annoyed. Which is pretty normal for her, to be honest. What could have upset her this time?

Also, this has a really big res, so Naomi lovers could use this as a background :D