One Romantic Date, Hold the Awkward was my NaNoRenO 2022 submission! It was the first time I had ever led a team. And it was the first time I've ever gutted the UI as extensively as I did to build it from scratch. My focus that year was project management and UI design.
At the eleventh hour, I had lost some of what I was working on. Thankfully I managed to redo everything I lost and submitted before the deadline! I was so proud of myself and everyone that had a hand in working on this!
Another update + sneak peek: Finished all of the programming heavy coding and now I'm moving onto writing (a LOT) of dialogue! I'd say I'm maybe 2/3rds-ish of the way done with what I wanna do before I release him.
As for the gif above, I'm showing off another main feature I wanted to do back with Yes Man + ED-E, but didn't have the technical know how for: taking user inputs and using them in dialogue to "remember" things about you! He'll ask you questions about a lot of things, and it'll come back up in later conversations!
not that i necessarily stan Any celebrity but, earning massive dev patel stan points at the moment (most likely the first person in maine to watch this film... because most of the theaters are closed today 😭)
i knew that monkey man would have at least one needle drop that took me out and it had like ten actually (somebody to love. ooh la la.) but the one that really got me was the metal track during the hijras + dev fight scene bc LOL that's the bloodywood song about how we should kill all domestic abusers. im like not joking the lyrics are literally like if you disrespect our beautiful queens we are going to crazy murder you
I’m bored and thought of another scenario to put in tension and angst for obey me characters to go through. I like this one by the way.
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Sorcerers’ society find out the causes of earthquakes happening faster than usual was MC due to their magic potential (MC being the cause of all the natural ‘phenomenon’ in S2) and now want to investigate MC and call them in.
Drama has already started baby.
Solomon who’s against this but goes with MC to make sure they’re ok because it’s not a good idea to ignore a seemingly threat invitation I mean.
It’s explained the Ring of light was used to console MC’s magic and everything is fine now but they’re doubting it and want to investigate the Ring of light for themselves, if it’s actually successfuly tamed their magic or just a temporary device to tone it down- simply meaning if MC’s overflow of magic would still be leaking and not fully restrained.
[Also add overprotective Solomon drama who’s against this because that’s hot and more dramatic]
It’s found out the ring of light isn’t powerful enough to completely prevent MC’s magic from overflowing and now…
The sorcerers’ society have deemed MC a threat. A large threat to the human world.
Who would be better off dead. No. SHOULD be dead.
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「If only the story actually did have good drama like this~
Anyways I’m just describing the scenario since I can’t write at all lol if I had enough confidence I probs would haha」
Congratulations hayward and carpenter for doing absolutely nothing this episode. I think it's high time THEY get to be silly while other characters get to go through the worst experience of their lives. You know, as a treat
Being a Sims 4 player and a Stardew player at the same time rn has been fun bc you get to witness the complete disparity in new content quality/maintenance between EA, a massive company, and ConcernedApe, literally just a guy
at the low low price of $5.99, with a 10% discount for one week! wow!
A mature queer visual novel, telling the heated and convoluted story of the love triangle between Quinn, an obsessive police detective, Elias, Quinn's direct superior, and Flynn, a poet with a very talented tongue, caught in a criminal case that spirals rapidly out of hand.
Summary:
Semi-linear narrative
5 chapters, each ~1 hour long
Three POVs
Features:
Non-Blocking choices, letting you go see more of the conversation before making a choice, or skipping it entirely
A fully queer cast
One major ending, four epilogues
Content Warnings:
Quinn & Flynn is a mature visual novel that features scenes and depiction of police brutality and sexual violence; it's not a game intended for minors
Genshin impact Wriothesly/Neuvillette is on tbe brrrain
So I’ve been consuming fanfic like crazy for the past week or so. And. I love all of, but to switch things up a bit: Neuvillette as the one who falls first and pines longingly from afar.
He’s livedd a long time, and just because he doesn’t act on his emotions doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel them. He’s not self aware of how others view him, and he’s full of doubt, but he does know his own mind (even if he won’t admit it or speak it allowed) by his own story and voicelines.
So Neuvillette in love with Wriothesly for so long but also deciding to never act upon it, because he doesn’t think it returned and because he knows that Wriothesly’s own natural death will already break his heart: there’s no need to add more pain to it. Better to be a friend, a comrade, and a supporting pillar in Wriothesly’s life than to try and cast himself as a main character in it.
The end of the prophecy shifts things. The guillotine has fallen, at last, with as few casualties as possible. A tragedy no one will ever know has been closed. And Neuvillette realizes that, even if returned love is not in his script, the very least he should better appreciate what he does have. So he allows more and more personal conversation and shares his private thoughts and feelings and fears. Even gods die. It is foolishness to not enjoy wriothesly in his life while he still lives.
(The water sovereign was always the most gentle, no matter his form. It is how he was unmade the first time: his kindness exploited and twisted unto itself. He had thought himself rid of the trait in his new life, but even now the skies cry for both the people created from the blood of Neuvillette’s murder and for the so-called gods who uphold the order set down by the usurpers.
He is still water itself. In the end, Egeria was correct in one aspect of her rule: water, above all, is love)
And wriothesly… is absolutely not prepared for these softer moments. He had always found Neuvillette handsome and was honored by the friendship offered when he recognized it for what it was. But this is… more. Intimate in a way he doesn’t understand but wants to glut himself on. Every bit Neuvillette offers of himself Is sequestered away and held dear like the most valued treasure. The only thing that had ever stopped Wriothesly from falling for Neuvillette was the knowledge that such feelings wouldn’t be welcome. But with each piece of dispensed knowledge and shared laugh and quiet support offered that knowledge crumbles away into something a bit more hopeful.
Anyway. What I’m getting at is this:
“Neuvillette… I’m afraid I must confess: I am afraid that I’m falling in love with you.”
“Ah… I suppose it is only fair, then, to also confess: I am in love with you, and have been for some time.”