added some movement to the quickmenu today

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Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭

- Firn finished his script revisions
- Blini made more BGM!
- elKortes worked on the UI
- daschoe added Discord Rich Presence
- Mango has almost finished our key art
- Trmin worked on a twitch feature: journal page comments!

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look at my lamp

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Close-up of a male catboy love interest's default sprite. He is wearing purple, deep cut clothes with golden accents. The close-up is focused on his waist and hip area, showing him resting one hand on a hip. Note at the bottom: In-progress asset by MangoCake - project under development

Results of this Week's Co-working Session 🥭

- All our main cast default sprites are finished, so we spent this time brainstorming ideas for Mango's key art!
- Firn continued reworking the script
- Blini worked on the trailer
- Trmin set up a newsletter for us

Here's a final LI sprite teaser~

Screenshot showing an open twitch poll on the left and a prototype Ren'Py scene on the right. The game shows a choice menu: what do you want to have for dinner: chiken or feeesh. The Twitch poll has one vote for feeesh, and vote counters beneath the choices in-game show the vote counts as well. There is also a bar at the top that says "Let chat decide!" With controls to configure and stop the poll.

Results of this Week's Co-Working session! 🥭
- TuffToff made example UI screenshots
- daschoe worked on our prototype scene
- Blini composed a LI's theme
- Firn did script revisions
- Mango worked on a LI's sprite
- Berin started a courtroom scene
-Trmin built a twitch integration feature: polls! ✨

Preview image showing a closeup of a female love interest's hands and waist. She had dark brown skin and is wearing a light white overall decorated with blue trimming featuring flowers and clams. She is also wearing a dark blue belt around her waist, and there's a cut out in her suit showing her belly button. Caption: In-progress asset by MangoCake - project under development

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭
- Mango finished a female LI's sprite!
- TuffToff finished the UI our jounal's UI
- Blini worked on our trailer
- Berin and Firn discussed the story and then we tried finding an approach for our dialogue typewriter effect we are satisfied with 😅
Preview~

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭
- Mango drew a female LI's sprite
- Trmin created a test scene using our Twitch integration
- Blini worked on our trailer
- Firn and Berin discussed plot changes
- daschoe made a concept for our journal! 👇

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I can FINALLY show you a new feature of the game I'm working on. (I've been integrating the polished UI in the past weeks and can't show this yet)
So, upon popular request I've integrated a typewriter-effect. All characters can have individual audio files […]

[Original post on peoplemaking.games]

Close-up of a female love interest's default sprite. Only her waist and hip are are visible, and she is resting on hand on her hip. She is wearing an elaborate dark blue dress with golden accessories and a red cape. Caption: In-progress asset by MangoCake - project under development

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭
- Trmin built a test scene using our Twitch integration
- TuffToff worked on our journal UI
- Blini worked on our trailer and BGM
- Mango worked on a female LI's sprite
- Firn and Berin continued revising our script

Here's a preview for a love interest~

Close-up of a male character's hip. He is dressed in black and has a whip hanging from his belt. His right hand is resting on it.

This Week's Co-Working Session 🥭
- Mango started working on a female LI's sprite
- Blini worked on our trailer
- Trmin tweaked the Twitch integration
- TuffToff polished UI elements
- Firn revised our first draft
- daschoe added typewriter SFX

Here's a preview of a male love interest's sprite!

Happy Hour! Sorcell's Spectacular Spell, V-IMPACT, and b-e-e-t-l-e! YouTube video by Nice Gear Games

Today's games:

🐟 Sorcell's Spectacular Spell by @mangolei.com
🐧 V-IMPACT by Erman Abdiler
🍕 b-e-e-t-l-e by Viv (smuckerz) and Paul (piratetune)

Please check out these cool and awesome #IndieGames!!

www.youtube.com/live/Dr3MbLu...

Happy Hour! YouTube video by Nice Gear Games

Daikon and I will be #streaming #HappyHour tonight from 9PM JST! The show is a #Japanese and English bilingual stream introducing some cool #IndieGames we found. Come hang out and find new stuff to play!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr3M...

a person is writing in a book that says " palace to share the prisoners " Alt: Anime gif of a person writing in a book

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭

- Mango finished our protag's sprite and starting working on a LI 👀
- Blini got to work putting it into our WIP trailer
- Trmin polished our Twitch integration ✨
- Berin is checking our first draft
- And Firn did first minor revisions!

A collage of various in-game screenshot of a colorful autumnal stat-raising and resource-management game. There's a title card in the middle saying "Sorcell's Spectacular Out-Of-Season-Update!"

It's done! There's a brand-new update for Sorcell's Spectacular Spell 🍂 🥳

11 CGs, 12 random events, an overhaul the minigame + other stuff. It's a more complete mini-stat-raiser/resource-management game now.

Please give it a try^^

mangolei.itch.io/sorcell-sleuth

Close-up of a male character's sprite, showing his chest, shoulder and a raised hand. The character is wearing an elaborate dark blue robe with golden accessories, and has a long piece of fabric with Akkadian cuneiform written on it wrapped around his wrist. At the bottom is a disclaimer: In-progress asset by MangoCake - project under development

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭

- Berin finished the magic sight feature, which reveals new interactions in point & click scenes
- Firn started doing the first revisions for our script!
- Mango finished the flat colors for our protagonist's default sprite!

Here's a preview 👀 ~

Doing weird things to fruit again today

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a cartoon of a girl using a laptop with the word revising written above her Alt: a cartoon of a girl using a laptop with the word revising written above her

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭

- Mango started working on the protag's main sprite!
- Trmin finished the core functions of our Twitch integration
- Berin coded a feature that reveals new interactions in a scene
- Firn finished the first! draft! of the script!🎉 Time to edit it!

a man and a woman are sitting in a room with a laptop and a monitor Alt: A man and a woman sitting in a recording studio, the woman is resting her legs on the edge of some sound equipment. They're moving their hands to the rhythm of the music.

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭
- Mango sketched sprites for a male LI!
- TuffToff made trailer sketches
- Berin tinkered with our site
- Blini composed a female LI's theme
- Trmin made progress with our Twitch integration!
- Firn reworked the script!
- daschoe is busy with our UI!

Today's progress! It's a feature that lets you break out of choice menus by pointing our rhetorical fallacies in the question. It's really rough RN but functional~

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a man with a laurel wreath on his head is saying `` let the people decide ... '' Alt: Gif of a scene from the movie Gladiator, showing the emperor looking around, holding out his hand with its thumb out in a neutral position. After a moment, it becomes a thumbs down. Caption: Let the people decide

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭

- Berin completed a rhetorical fallacy feature!
- Mango drew sketches for a LI!
- Blini made a trailer mock-up
- Firn rewrote parts of the script
- daschoe continued working on the UI
- Trmin successfully tested Twitch polls!

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a man drinking a milkshake in a diner with a caption that says i guess you could say Alt: A man drinking a milkshake in a diner with the words "I guess you could say things are getting serious".

Results of this Week's Co-Working Session 🥭

- MangoCake drew sprite sketches for a male LI
- daschoe continued integrating the UI
- Trmin familiarized himself with the Twitch API
- Firn reworked the script to include the new puzzles
- Berin set up our steam account😱

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a person is drawing on a piece of paper in front of a book that says ' chinese ' on it Alt: Anime gif of someone sketching a rough character, then drawing a reference sheet for a head.

This Week's Co-Working Session 🥭

- TuffToff polished the UI
- Mango sketched a LI's sprite!
- Trmin researched the Twitch API
- Firn wrote the script + we planned a new mechanic
- daschoe continued integrating UI elements
- Blini made a storyboard for our trailer! 👀

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The Mangolei Entertainment logo, a carved mango, and two portraits beneath it. They're cartoon portraits of Berin, producer/director, and MangoCake, character artist. Berin says with a speech bubble: "Rule #1: All of our games have handsome characters!" MangoCake replies: "Hot."

Hi✨
Berin here, I'll be posting dev updates for Mangolei's games on this account from now on!

We're working on a TBA detective/romance VN set in an ancient Mesopotamian fantasy setting. The top item on our to-do list ATM is the steam page and a cool teaser trailer!

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