An anime girl in a top hat winks at the camera, the text next to her says "Whatever you’re facing today, you can do it. No matter what, never stop believing in yourself."
I know this is a repost but with everything going on in the world I think we need it today.
And here's where you'll see the CG for when [major spoilers redacted]. Isn't that neat?
To finish Black History Month, I want to share the Black Voices in Gaming festival that happens each year.
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Yes! I remember playing the demo with Parker back in 2024. That was a fun time! -Tess
The Songbird Guild is a yuri VNRPG about a world where being a magical girl is a regular 9-5 job.
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An RPG battle screen with three spider enemies on it. Two of them are dead, lying in a heap on the floor, while the last one has several burns applied to it. The player has the ability "Fireball" selected and is about to use it on the remaining enemy.
Apply burn heal to affected area...
Ah yes, brings back memories of NarraScope 2024. I bought a desperation chicken wrap on the Amtrak since I hadn't eaten in several hours and then missed the whole first day due to food poisoning. -Tess
When capitalism and magical girls collide
The Bodkin Queen does not take prisoners...
An RPG battle screen where the player has the move "Poison Treat" selected. The description is "A sickly treat that poisons the target and does more damage if they're already poisoned."
What does Brie put in the poison treat, wrong answers only.
Claire wakes up every day and goes to a job where she's basically customer support but if she gets the answer wrong somebody dies. What a trooper.
A picture of a purple cartoon spider monster is in the middle of the screen, with pictures of her two human victims wrapped in web on either side of her. The monster is saying "Hardly what I'd consider a meal, but it's been so long since my children have eaten flesh."
Ordering human flesh on GrubHub and wondering why the police show up at your door instead #justeledonathings
A list of holidays that happen on Wednesday February 4th. The holidays are "Work Naked Day", "Thank Your Mailman Day", "Create a Vacuum Day", and "Stuffed Mushroom Day"
Directions unclear, I thanked my mailman while vacuuming naked and now I've been arrested.
An encyclopedia screen with definitions of six Goddesses. Tauna the Phoenix: The Goddess of passion, represented by the red moon. Bodhea the Dove: The Goddess of benevolence, represented by the orange moon. Esyglia the Songbird: The Goddess of cherfulness, represented by the yellow moon. Atuka the Turtle: The Goddess of virtue, represented by the blue moon. Drontix the Fox: The Goddess of Chaos, represented by the purple moon.
Tag yourself, I'm the funky looking dragon dude in the top right.
A visual novel screenshot. The two characters stand in a grocery store, a choice menu is displayed above them. The two available choices are "Go when Kotori is most powerful" and "Go when Brie is most powerful"
It's national puzzle day! Going to be playing quite a bit of Monkey Island to celebrate.
A magical girl in a pink baggy outfit with white shorts has her eyes closed with a smug reaction. She says "And besides, if there's one thing I'm good at, it's setting stuff on fire!" Next to her is a magical girl with an eyepatch in a white and pink dress. She has a concerned expression on her face.
She is very good at that...
Joy...
Some footage of our improved CG gallery
Two magical girls and two animal familiars are off to the side of a visual novel choice screen. The choices presented are "Ask Kaida what to do", "Burn the building down", or "Ignore it".
A two panel comic. The first panel has two red buttons, labeled "arson" and "ask the responsible person". The second panel shows a character with our main character's head superimposed onto them. They're sweating, struggling to make a decision between the two.
Decisions, decisions
A phone with tiny charms hanging off the side. The phone has text on it that says "You are the best!"
Today is make your dreams come true day!
A visual novel screenshot. The two characters stand in a grocery store, a choice menu is displayed above them. The two available choices are "Go when Kotori is most powerful" and "Go when Brie is most powerful"
In The Songbird Guild, decisions affect the way you explore dungeons and the battles you have in there. The dungeons and battles in turn can determine your choices!
The body layer. Claire's body outline as well as the blush on her cheeks and her golden hair set the foundation in this layer.
The clothing layer. This one shows a brown top hat with gold trim, a sparkly golden and light yellow suit, a brown bowtie, a brown skirt, and brown gloves all together. There's a unique clothing pose for each body pose so that they clothing can move with the characters.
The layers for the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth. In this case, we have winking eyes, normal eyebrows cut out to fit the gaps in Claire's hair, and a mouth with the tongue sticking out slightly. Typically, a character will have 4 or 5 eye expressions, 4 or 5 mouth expressions, and 3 or so brow expressions typically including raised brows, normal brows, and furrowed brows.
All the pieces put together! Claire is winking at the player while sticking her tongue out and pointing when all is said and done.
Characters are put together out of multiple pieces, which can combine together to make far more expressions than we'd ever be able to draw on our own. Here are all the pieces that make up one of Claire's poses, as well as the final product at the end! #indiedev #gamedev
The inside of a brown cave, filled with torches for light. A glowing green liquid seeps through the cavern floor, going into two tunnels deep in the distance. Behind the glowing liquid is two bear statues, which surround a series of illegible glyphs. In the foreground, a set of stairs goes up to the right to a cavern that leads offscreen.
An aquamarine-colored cavern filled with glowing yellow balls on its ceiling. Pools of glowing green liquid are present here too, but they don't dominate the space quite as much as they do in the main cavern.
Oh? What's could this be? 👀
A magical forest with blue and green crystals growing on the bark of trees and stumps. Various mushrooms can be seen along the purply-blue path leading through the trees and into the distance. A slight fog hovers in the air, obscuring vision even further.
The forest outside the barriers of Larimar's cities is simply called "the forest", since it is the only one. Here, corrupted creatures said to no longer have souls reign. Unfortunately, it's still necessary to harvest its resources for these cities to survive. That's where magical girls come in.
A slab of rock hovers in the sky, surrounded by swirling clouds. A sea of stars on a deep navy sky hover above the scene.
The generic background where battles take place. The stars and clouds in the back were additions by the background artist the really brings the whole thing together.
Shingo is outside in the snow, wearing a purple cap, a brown fluffy jacket, and a pink scarf. He's making a snowman that looks like Ai, with her glasses and snowy pigtails to match her hairstyle. She's wearing her own purple scarf. Gigi the dragon is sitting on top of the Ai snowman's head with little blue earmuffs of her own. She's grinning widely with her eyes closed.
Wishing you all a Happy Holidays, whatever you celebrate, and a Happy New Year in less than a week!
A chunk of gibberish text that says "piqifema ugar cedulir jowik uqal fadom lexe ukij nivowib tohe emeb gevuxu enohew muqese nokujov"
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A cute anime girl on her phone. The text next to her says "Y’all ever just have an insatiable craving for human flesh? UWU"
NUMNUM
Three tall buildings with many, many rows of glass windows down their sides. A shiny aquamarine path connects them, with various spots for decorative trees to compliment the space. Now in its abandoned state, fog rolls across the ground, obscuring some of the buildings in the distance.
The Bodkin Ruins were once said to be home to a king and queen of the ancient human tribes. In reality, this group of towers was once the corporate office space of Bodkin Technologies, a specialist in electronics, which in today's world have been outmoded.
