Yet another progress video on the submas Stardew Valley mod I’ve been working on with the help of the wonderful @xdoctorsparklex ! (She wrote the script and I coded it in! Thank you so much!!)

This would be their introduction event! Along with their own individual heart events, we’ll also have a main plot featuring the twins revitalizing the abandoned train station and more! ^^

EDIT: The second introduction event has been posted here!

Hello! I’ve been following this mod for a little while now and I want to say!! How absolutely impressed and blown away how amazing it is!! The story and world building is so much fun! And the sprites and the amount of effort you put in each animation is phenomenal! The pokemon look so good and I adore how you made emmet and Ingo’s walk cycles different, and just the! Writing and seer amount of programming done is just! Amazing! Super bravo! You two so clearly but so much thought into (1/?)

First off, I'd just like to say thank you for taking the time to type out all your messages! It really means a lot whenever we get feedback like this!

Kade is brilliant on the world-building aspect of things and coming up with ideas... She sent me a whole google doc with a draft of their schedules a day after I managed to get Emmet in game. Really helped give this project a sense of direction!

I wasn't too confident regarding writing and pixel art at first, but having her take charge with scripts really helped me stay on track towards a higher state. After so many events, I feel like we have a good idea as to how to write their characters. Making Emmet's sprite first did make Ingo's a bit of a pain to draw (since he does not walk like that) but I'm glad I committed to the bit from day one.

I've been staying up late (I get too excited working on the mod...), but I'm making sure to sleep in to account for that! It'll be a while until we get around to releasing platonic versions of their routes (don't get me wrong, it's first on our patch priority- especially since so many people following this are aromantic! We just still have a long way to go regarding the base mod.), but I'm glad what we have is still enjoyable for now. Emmet's part of Ingo's 10 heart event is still one of my favorite things I've written. It wasn't in the original draft and was only added in during the coding phase, but everything is constantly evolving!

As for Chandelure and Ingo, they can understand each other, just not in the way the farmer can understand Pokemon. We actually discussed the logistics and capabilties together but I don't believe we've ever published it in a post. The farmer understands Pokemon as if they were recieving instant translations to English from the noises they "speak". Farmer has a bit of telepathy in a sense because sometimes, they're just making noises, but they can read their thoughts in words. (When writing Joltik, I don't actually have any text in my head... it's just babbles of "bah" and "wawwawawawawa" in my head. Baby noises.) Farmer also has an absurd ability to eavesdrop, so they can just tell if a Pokemon is thinking/saying anything.

Ingo and Chandelure have their souls bonded, but Ingo can't quite decipher what Chandelure's chimes mean exactly in words. He reads her through a mix of tone, how her flames burn, charades, and any visions she transmits into his mind through active effort. In the tunnel, she's just transmitting what she wants to say into the farmer's mind. Ingo can't pick up on that. When Chandelure communicates with Ingo, she has to will his perception, and it's only in images. If Ingo had the image of hand-holding with his crush flashed into his mind, he would just get flustered and eventually assume it's his imagination running wild again. He does get caught up in his ideas, so Chandelure can easilly gaslight him into believing it's his own train of thought rather than her fault.

In that same line of thinking, Chandelure could convince him that he's super down bad for the farmer with enough suggestions since she kind of wants to win a bet with Grandpa saying that they'll get married in three years. Ingo feels haunted about having a crush for a reason.

▷ Station Steward Thylak

Greetings citizens of the Union and beings from beyond! Welcome to Union News Central, I'm your host Bluglakkag Flublabbak. Hello! This is the recent news! ::3

The New Libertopia Cultural Fair has begun! Culture is something that's been lacking in the Union, as the Replicants had very little and the uplifted species of the Union had nothing. That being said, the exposure to so many alien cultures on New Libertopia has inspired the habitat's communities to host the New Libertopia Cultural Fair! At this wonderful event, Union species have been expressing themselves in new and interesting ways, and alien species are encouraged to share the beauty of their own cultures.

Headlining the event is the Vegvian clone band Zoryal-Thunn. Opening with the song 'When Moegmar Arrives'.

The Zoryal-Thunn band members were grown here in the Union as a part of the Vegvian Preservation Project, and once they finished their adjustment cycle, they chose to remain in the Union as citizens.

Their songs revolve around the Vegvian history they studied during their adjustment cycle, and the battles and struggles of the past. Their songs don't celebrate war or violence, instead they honor the dead, sing to inform, and encourage a message of peace. Their iconic instruments catch the eye, repurposing of hard-light axes into musical instruments in a swords-to-ploughshares dramatic flare.

Not far from the concert, the elusive Ugluk artist Bloroworoe Riououeururowuw has set up a stall at the Fair to give some flare to the exoskeletons of Ugluks. Bloroworoe promised that for each decal painted, they'll answer a question about their art.

The stall also attracted some spectators, including Thylaks, who Bloroworoe encouraged to come in and made it clear that anyone, whether it be synthetic life forms, or organics with an exoskeleton or cybernetics limbs are welcome to be turned into a piece of walking art.

Meanwhile, the Mod community of the New Libertopia Ostess-Sat has promised to set up a stall at the fair soon. They're just gatering supplies, data on the anatomy of alien life, and looking for a space to set up at the moment.

The Ostess-Sat Modders are a group of Ostess-Sat speeder riders and racers who enjoy cyberneticly modifing themselves. Their passions grew from engineering their speeders to be safer and faster in the Ammonia Sector race tracks, which then moved to the modification of robots for quick repairs of speeders on the tracks in pitstops. And then of course, they began expressing modification in themselves. Hence 'Mods'. ::3

The Feforyans of New Libertopia have set up a presentation of their martial arts slash dance called Pudra. The teachers said they're willing to teach anyone, so long as people treat the art respectfully.

Pudra originated as an old Feforyan self defence martial art used against cruel Fefings. It developed in the pre-Observer age of post-Nuclear Feforia and in the time since then, its developed into a cultural dance which has a number of different styles depending on the situation and its not restrictive in terms of what someone can do with the amount of limbs the practioners may or may not have. This is in part due to the recent mutations which turned Feforyan legs into a fused tail, but it's also partly because of the many alien races Feforyans have encountered.

Lastly, the Replicants have set up a stall displaying the new lifeforms engineered for Feforia, animals that have been spliced from a number of different creatures that can withstand the planet's toxic atmosphere.

They explained how each critter is being crafted to be beautiful and unique in their eyes, even if some found the creations to be disturbing, none can deny its an impressive show of scientific mastery and biological artistry.

Well, that's all the major attractions of the New Libertopia Cultural Fair so far! I know I said 'lastly' with the Replicant event, but the Fair is still only on its first day, and you expect many more additions from our other alien residents soon! If you find yourself in New Libertopia in the coming weeks, be sure to visit these and other attractions and enjoy yourselves!

This is Bluglakkag Flublabbak saying thanks for tuning in to our signal here at UNC. Be sure to bookmark our wavelength for future updates.

Solace in the Union.

Been working on a mod to add submas into Stardew Valley!

I'm having a lot of technical difficulties and don't have much to show yet but I can talk to Emmet and give him batteries.

(Grimsley is my player character)

Even more progress on the submas Stardew Valley mod I’ve been working on!

It is still very much a work-in-progress, but it’s chugging along! Still need to finish writing more daily dialogue, making heart events, ironing out their schedules, etc... Their Pokemon will be added in too, but I can’t implement that until the 1.6 update unfortunately...

Anyways! Ingo is now in the mod... he infodumps about trains with Emmet and likes trash for Garbodor.

Super special thanks to @xdoctorsparklex for helping me make it— helping with writing and even coming up with the very first heart event (shown here)!

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I made a plushie of Warden Ingo from Pokemon Legends Arceus!

Progress pics can be found on my twitter here

▲ Ingo's 2 Heart Event ▲

As always, thank you to @xdoctorsparklex for drafting the script for me to code in!

This event expands on a line from part 3 of the Subway to Stardew introduction events! Pierre upcharges them. Drama ensues.

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A plushie of Cyllene from Pokemon Legends Arceus (that I made a few months ago and forgot to post here)!

I have a few :>

1. Do you plan to reference Hisui in any way? The events before or after Ingo disappearing or perhaps even foreshadowing?

2. The question probably on everyone's Minds: will you be able to marry/date both of the twins? Will there be special heart events for both of them as well?

3. Will the other townies make reference to the twins in their dialogue or will we have special events with one or more characters with the twins in them? (e.i: the joja cola commercial with Shane, Clint and Emily).

4. Will he be able to go inside the train station?

5. will we see Emmet's giant horde of joltiks?!

6. Will other people be allowed to make portraits of the twins?

You don't have to answer every one of them

I'm sorry asdfghjkll I'm just really excited about the mod,

i've played over 600 hours of stardew valley and I also adore Ingo and Emmet

Thank you for the ask!! This is quite long so I'm putting them under a readmore.... I hope I answered your questions well enough!!

1. Just a bit of foreshadowing! We do intend on making a Hisui expansion later down the line, but we are currently focusing on just making their pre-Hisui storyline for now!

2. Of course the twins will be datable! I started making the mod because I couldn't wait for Pokemon Masters EX to add them in and decided to just make the submas dating simulator myself haha... Stardew's base game doesn't allow for marrying more than one character at a time and currently there are no references to dating both at the same time (we still have a Lot of dialogue to write in general...). I do know that there are mods that allow you to marry multiple characters but I personally have not tried them myself (I read that your spouses would kiss each other and and quickly departed.... please do not try to make them do that. This is a no blankshipping zone. If anyone deliberately tries to use the mod for incest purposes, you will be tied to the tracks and promptly ran over). For now, the heart progression will assume that you are only going to date/marry one of the twins. If there is enough demand (or if someone else wants to write it....) another "route" could be made later on that has them acknowledging you dating each other? It would be difficult to implement since daily dialogue is tied to individual heart levels and there's not much I can do about having them acknowledge you dating the other in the base mod.

Up until you officially date them, they will simply just be very good friends with you (and a bit obsessive... they're quite lonely in Pelican Town and you're one of the few people who don't turn them away! Can you blame them for becoming so attached?). Emmet's heart progression will consist of him not quite knowing how he feels other than that you are verrrry important to him and will be verrrry similar to Nemona's friendship in scar/vio (if you know... you know) until you decide to date him. Ingo will suffer from his repressed feelings of love and write secret admirer letters to you to cope, all while ensuring that you can he is very much grateful for your friendship... he is a gentleman and wouldn't want to make you uncomfortable with his feelings so directly!

3. The other townspeople will acknowledge their existences! We are still working on specifics, but they will interact with them. Most characters are wary of them and their pokemon, so it will take time for them to warm up, but they are liked by Jas, Vincent, and Granny Evelyn (who will mention having a Bellossom long ago...).

4. The train station will be enterable! Still working out the details for that too, but we intend to make it sort of like the Community Center... We do also want to add quests to improve the exterior of the train station too (there's so much.... dirt.... it's so ugly....)

5. Most likely?? I still have a lot of spriting to do!! There will be joltiks though!

6. You are more than welcome to make your own portraits! The portraits that I drew up are too big to fit inside the vanilla game dimensions (64x64 pixels... tiny...) so I have to use portraiture to load them in (otherwise it loads the resized versions I have implemented... which are quite blurry ^^;). If anyone wants to make vanilla sized portraits to be added into the base mod then then please let me know! If you also make your own portrait mod, I would be happy to link to it when I release the mod. Though... do be aware that the portrait sheets this mod has the dialogue coded for are quite long. Here are the full portrait sheets:

I made another Warden Ingo plushie and put him up for auction!

You can also see my progress of making him over on my Instagram!

Currently modding SDV and let me tell you... I am struggling due to trying to decide if I should make the town medieval-like, or keep it normal. ;3; And I'm tempted to keep it normal cause I know the train station will be medieval and weird. So I'm forcing myself to keep the town modern so when the Ingo and Emmet mod comes out, they won't be confused lmao.

Oh you're making a mod too?? I wish you the best of luck!! It's so hard making assets and trying to get it to fit with the whole old worn down look of Stardew Valley... I think they'll appreciate a more modern town!

The design for the rebuilt train station was a struggle to finalize because of how we had to balance the simple Stardew Valley aesthetic and the "city slickers working their asses off to make something impressive and worth visiting a town in the middle of nowhere with nothing for" look... All while keeping the original map properties intact (the station isn't symmetrical...... we were doomed from the beginning)

Here's some progress pics and the finalized sprites for the rebuilt train station!

Can you post the sprites of the twins, I kinda wanna do something with them.

Sure! Here they are.

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I made Drayden into a plushie because I could

Progress pics can be found on my twitter here!