Been quiet on here recently, but just wanted to thank everyone who's checked out, played, and contacted me about Mother: The Revelation!
It gives me motivation (but unfortunately not the time) to keep working on other games in the series
Gogo gadget middle-aged gay representation! #MTRGame
Sorry for the lack of updates, but my #BaraJam game #MTRGame has been released!
It's a short game following a married couple navigating a new friendship and polyamory
Grab it here for free! Part one of a new middle-aged gays series
bobcgames.itch.io/the-revelation
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And tonight in #MTRGame updates, I have finished staging the sprite (easy because it's a single sprite with only varying expressions), staged the music, and gotten the website mostly set up and ready
Counting that progress as a win for today
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A screenshot of a visual novel game, showing a single character sprite with a standard dialogue window.
A screenshot of the main menu of a visual novel game. The buttons are stylized to look like phone application tiles.
Some more #MTRGame progress today... got the main menu worked out, exported the final sprite into the game, and set up a bunch of the other menus
Tomorrow(-ish): A logo, maybe getting some game music in...? And then sprite staging and such
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A screenshot of an NVL mode screen in a visual novel. The screen looks like a phone messaging app, and three choice menu options are shown.
A screenshot of an NVL mode screen in a visual novel. The screen looks like a phone messaging app, and a conversation between the player and another character is shown.
Feeling weirdly unmotivated this weekend, but I've gotten at least the text message NVL-mode screens done (including the choice menu)
Again, not my greatest UI work, but counting progress as a win at this point 😅
Next: The menu GUIs
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A visual novel sprite of an older gay bear. He has a gray beard and bit of hair at the top of his head, and a good amount of body hair. He is not wearing a shirt.
Oh, I don't think I ever shared the finished sprite for #MTRGame (CW: Shirtless man)
Here's Jason
He's gonna get reused for #DaddyDatingGame as well, and I'm still figuring out what else I'll commission for #BaraJam (given my artist's time constraints)
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Annnd first draft of the #MTRGame script (for #BaraJam) is done, and that seems like a good place to call it tonight
17,501 words, and a more linear #VisualNovel than I usually write, but I'm still trying to ease back into it
Anyway... progress! Good night all 😘
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Just a quick #MTRGame update: I (obviously) didn't hit my goal of finishing the writing by this past weekend, but we're now at 14,407 words and I think closing in on the end
So hopefully writing will be complete by *this* weekend, and then more UI and such
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Oh, forgot as part of my #MTRGame update yesterday... I'm currently at 8357 words
That's probably around half of the game written? Hoping to have it fully written by the end of the week (and have the phone GUI done) so I can do sprite staging, music, and testing
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A screenshot of a game UI that mimics a chat program UI. The left has icons for different people, while the central area is intended to show chat text. The text in the central area is currently badly aligned and there is a big blue box in the middle of the screen.
The "Messaging program" GUI is done, but I need to override a lot of the NVL mode styling... which is a problem for tomorrow-Bob 😅
(With thanks to Sylphrin, PatchrickPlayer1, JshBet8, and Jaykn8 for letting me feature them)
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A game screenshot with a large man in a polo shirt and shorts, standing in a fancy-looking living room. The GUI is a basic blue-outlined textbox.
It's, uh... definitely not the nicest GUI I've ever done, but I guess it'll work
(Still have to do the phone text message and "Discord" message GUIs anyway)
Progress? In any case, it's nice to see the (WIP) sprite and background in place
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One of the first things I used to do for a new game was the GUI... I guess because it was a change from the writing part?
Now I'm kind of dreading it 😅
Anyway... maybe some #MTRGame GUI work today (as well as more writing)?
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#MTRGame is up to 6500 words, and I should make more progress on it today, so... hooray for progress?
It's a lot more linear than my games tend to be, but I also told myself 2024 would be a #GameDev light year, so easing back into writing with a simpler story makes sense
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A chubby caucasian man with a grey beard and a tuft of hair on top of his head. He is wearing a light blue polo shirt and tan shorts with a belt.
SoulsoftEA has been hard at work on the sprite for my #BaraJam game #MTRGame so here's a WIP
Meet Jason! Body hair coming soon, of course
(He's going to get reused for the full game series as well, where he'll be a dateable guy)
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