Walking Sprite Samples For Love Interest Yugen

Relieved to say the character creator is nearly finished. I still need to make a few versions of the character portrait clothing that align with the "medium" sized neck, but I think that's about it. All clothing has corresponding portrait clothing now (where it would apply; swim shorts with no shirt or off-shoulder clothing of course don't show up in the character portrait).

I've fixed a couple of the hair colors, so red hair looks like a natural red hair, and brown hair now has a dark and light version. And the animal ears and tails now have hue shifters so you can choose the color of your ears and tail (if you choose to have them).

Oh, and I still have to add human ears too. A lot of the hairstyles will hide human ears anyway, so I have to figure out how to layer those with the hair; not sure if I can have them in the "beast ears" section or if they will have to have a separate section.

To the anon who asked if the cats at the cafe are adoptable, here's a small demo of how that will work. You can adopt only once/one cat per save file.

But what you can do an infinite amount of times is change your cat's accessory, so if you gave it a collar and later want to have it wear a bow or flower, or change the color of the bow/flower/collar, you can do that any time from your apartment wardrobe.

Before you can adopt a cat you have to get it to a friendly status with you at the cafe, by playing with it (use the laser pointer, I'll probably add a feather toy or something too).

Cat cafe is a key element of boyfriend option Yurei's route; playing with the cats and adopting one will get you points with him. More on that later!

I'm also working on a little special something for people who donate to the game, that will be related to cat cafe.

Unrelated note here, I don't know how many people have been paying attention to the in-game clock in the videos, but some may have noticed that before it was moving like...crazy fast, a second for a minute. I realize that would make crazy pacing in the game and probably be stressful. Right now I have it set to pass in real time, so a minute in the game takes a minute in real life.

BUT you can fast forward time with various in game activities so you're not time-gated (you can skip 8 hours by sleeping, or 2 hours with a nap, as a couple of examples).

Edit: Also, time passage is not tied to your computer's clock or anything like that. Time doesn't pass in the game unless you are actually running the game (it's not like Animal Crossing for example, where time passes in the game whether you are playing or not).

Working on more maps for 2-Headed Boy, testing player collision and currency checks etc. Since there are no ushers yet I can just walk up to the concert without paying, but that will change soon™

Also started writing the first meeting with Yurei into the game.

Tldr I'm 98% sure I'll be able to get stuff like Steam achievements working in my game as well as stuff like checking for DLC ownership if the game ever gets popular enough to warrant a DLC.

Also this is Yurei's apartment so far, he needs more furniture! And I gotta adjust the alignment of a mirror so he can have a bathroom mirror without it clipping into the sink or ceiling.

Long boring version: I got basically nothing done on 2-Headed Boy yesterday, found out Steam's API integration thing only supports C++ and if you want Steam features on your Steam game that's programmed in a different language, you basically gotta use a 3rd party service, the website for the one they list as commonly used for my engine was down of course.

But thankfully the RM community came in clutch once again, and someone wrote up a thorough tutorial on a community forum, including a zip file with all the files I needed to update my engine and game etc. for Steam integration. So that's what I did yesterday. And worked my job too, dumb I know but I got bills to pay 🫠

First floor of the carnival's haunted house, just testing the animation here. Cute little mouse eyes in the wall holes, painting eyes on upper floor do that cheesy follow you around thing, lightning windows, haunted couch, and the ceiling is leaking blood a little bit.

Will work on this more later but I'm probably gonna focus more on cat cafe for now, I mainly needed to start this for a screenshot for the Steam page :)

It's h a p p e n i n g

Will probably be up all night working on my Steam page stuff

Added another small QoL feature for 2-Headed Boy. Now you can press a hotkey to access a message backlog and review the last 20 40 messages you've read in the game. Just in case you miss some dialogue, or want to review what was said, see what dialogue choices you chose, etc.

I might need to increase the backlog to more than 20 messages though. I did end up increasing this to 40, will see if that's a good amount when playtesting.

Also wrote more dialogue for the White Day scene that triggers with Kage if you got a White Day gift from Yurei (which only happens if you gave Yurei something on Valentine's Day, of course).

My darling,

When you smile

It is like a song...

And I can hear it now

Ko-fi

Visit 2-Headed Boy's Ko-fi Shop!

I've opened a Ko-fi shop. Come take a look!

So I was feeling like a couple of those donations were like...freakishly generous and I wanted to give something back to the donors. I've sent them both a way to redeem items on my shop I just opened a few minutes ago on Ko-Fi, and I have a little tier system now for donations (see the pinned post, it's been updated).

So if anyone is feeling outrageously generous, feel free to check the store page. Tier 2 of my 4 tiers is still a WIP/not available in the store yet as it's a cosmetic in-game item, and it's related to what I'm currently working on in the game, so I'll probably be able to code it in tonight and get the item listed on my shop tomorrow.

Tier 1 is still just the normal donate option/not a shop item, to send $5 and have your name in the credits.

Thanks again for checking out my free to play game, which you can now wish list on Steam!

If you'd call my name out loud,

Do you suppose that I would come running?

Do you suppose I'd come at all...?

(You know I would...I'd come running)