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Itch why didn't you send me a email for this reply aAAa- Huh! Okay ngl that gives me some optimistic hope for trying to go for a more correct diagnosis, cause I'm suspecting I have Autism/ASD, but don't know for sure and I'm going to need to see someone outside my area to get rediagnosed which isn't fun considering my physical issues. X3 Also that is honestly very fair, I haven't gone to get rediagnosed myself for much the same reasons of not having energy for it yet, plus my RA(Rheumatoid Arthritis) or whatever it is has made most physical movement very draining to do as of recent months.

Hopefully! I ended up having to install a UI theme cause the bright base one made my head ache and the new theme changed icons/layout of things so I had to relearn it, but it seems to work well enough? Though my test VN was rather small and the next thing I wish to do is decently big so I'll be pushing it once I get energy to pick what big project of mine to do. (I have like, three VN ideas, ones new while the other two are old ideas of mine)

Yeye, the most I'm really willing to do is have that friend playtest my things to catch any spelling errors, otherwise...I'd feel like a burden if she was having to code everything for me as well ngl ;w;

Yeah ngl I think I am cause after I finished that Test VN I want to make more I just need to get so many more resources before I can XD Still heavily conflicted if I'll post the test VN or not(cause wowzie, got extremely personal at the end), but! It's playable from start to finish even if my prose at times did not work with the text box constraints so it looks a bit off XD

Ooo, ngl I'd try combining SFXs if I knew how ngl, I ended up finding some cloth SFXs that worked for my purposes, just took aLOT of looking around. XD

Oh gosh, I completely understand that, it's been hard for me to find the right headspace to properly write much of anything lately X'D It's either really easy or difficult, and I only finished my Test VN after having a very rough day that I just used as a way to finish out one of the more emotionally draining segments and then was able to finish it after that more easily.

Oooo, ye!

Same tbh, I can hardly keep up with the mobile games I play and they aren't nearly as demanding of my time, so stuff like MysMes I can't really return to easily XD

:DD Yay!!! Ngl that makes me super happy cause I've not found anyone who's played Nameless and Dandelion before ^W^ They were definitely among the first PC VNs I've played among like.....ngl I can only remember Princess of Ruin(which I recommend since it got a Itch release recently) cause I played way too many VNs/Otomes back then including mobile ones in the "Shall We Date" series XD But I definitely get preferring Nameless to Dandelion! I loved Dandelion alot cause I played it first, but generally I prefer Nameless due to the characters...that does remind me I want to replay it, oops XD Oooo, that's awesome! :O I don't have any physical merch for MysMes or any of the dev's games cause couldn't afford it, but I might eventually try at some point ^^ And ye, I was the same, I managed to complete all the base routes of MysMes after spending a bit to unlock the "Deep" routes(which I admittedly did at the start cause the route I wanted to do was not one of the free ones), but I wasn't able to keep up with the updates after a point and despite there now being a route for V which I had been wanting(which I would also need to pay for, why), I still haven't gone back besides to reread chats when I have the space XD

Yeee! :D I'm definitely going to need to write in a doc first from this point on, namely cause besides my friend catching some spelling and grammar mistakes(only around four-ish surprisingly but still I was mildly embarrassed), the write as I go isn't going to work for any of my bigger projects, it'd only work for something really short like what I did but not for longer ones XD Especially if I try to have route splits or variable tracking, good god that would be, a big mess XD

Thank you, I hope so too! I'm currently trying to mentally plot out my next project as well as buy the assets I'm going to need, but it's fun to do and I can't wait to make another VN! ^W^

Melancholy Marionette1 year ago

That happens to me all the time, haha.

I hope you’re able to eventually get somewhere with a diagnosis :3 That sucks you’ve got arthritis >.< It sort of runs in my family, and it’s what stopped my gran from eventually being able to walk cos it was so bad in her knees. My poor dad has it in his knees, back, and fingers as a result of his work, and even though I’m only in my thirties, I’ve also got it in my knees, though nowhere near as bad as my dad. But yeah, it’s horrible :(

I hate having to redo any kind of UI stuff, it drives me insane x3 haha.

There are a lot of free assets and stuff out there too if you don’t mind using those so you don’t have to pay for every single thing :3 It’s just the terms of use on free ones tend to be stricter than on paid ones.

That’s fantastic you managed to finish that first project though :D If you’re worried about posting it, you could always work on more projects to build up experience, and then come back to deciding whether or not to post it at a later date :3

Oooo, nice, Princess of Ruin is one that’s been on my list of things to play for a looooong time now, but I had no idea it had an itch release! :o

Hehe, yeah, I used to just devour most VNs I could get my hands on whether they were PC or mobile years ago x3 Now I’m a lot more picky since I never give myself as much time as I should to play stuff T_T

I know some people use things like Scrivener or even Twine for writing their stories and testing branches etc. I never have myself cos I’m kind of terrible at trying out new things when I’m already stuck in my ways x3 but I imagine they’d be very helpful for planning stuff better!

So glad you’re having fun with it all anyhow :D I hope you continue to enjoy it cos it’s an awesome thing to do :P

Alira1 year ago(+1)

Hopefully! And, god, I know that feeling, it's in my knees too, as well as right hand and most of my feet, makes walking really hard ;w; Arthritis runs in my family as well, I don't know if my dad has it but my mother does though she's kept quiet on how it affects her. Meanwhile with me I've also gotten the possibility of Fibro adding to it after my last visit to my RA doc and general doc ;w; Cause since the RA meds haven't done anything to help besides take the edge off, when I told the RA doc that he brought up the high possibility of Fibromyalgia as to why I'm still in so much pain, which just. Was such a severe gutpunch that I spent most of the day crying cause I'm still in my twenties and there's no cure for for it, so. Yeah :')

Yeee, I ended up only using free SFXs, it was just hard finding a cloth sound effect that'd work for grabs XD As for everything else, I honestly just have ALOT of problems finding what I'm looking for unless it costs money, like sprites and backgrounds I've had to resort to DLsite and Booth cause I just don't know where else to look and google doesn't help much XD

Yee, that's true, I just don't know when I can get around to my next project, I'm still needing to buy assets for it like backgrounds XD But I may end up just posting it and making sure to put the trigger warning I put in the game on the page. Nothing really overt occurs, and it's mainly just mentioned in passing, but it's still heavy considering the MC is not in a good headspace. I also am sliiightly nervous to post it just because I didn't realize the terms for one of the artists of the royalty free music I used had a thing where I would need to email him if I wanted to use in a commercial project, which I just planned to make it pay what you want, but since his music ended up being the main ones I used, slight fear cause I'm too shy/socially anxious to email him so it may just end up free with my ko-fi listed in the description XD

Yeye! I only found out thanks to googling the dev and finding out they were still alive after many years of being inactive. I plan to buy it when I'm able cause, ngl, I originally played it via pirating it(Cause I'm poor 99% of the time ;w;) but cause I ended up loving it I want to officially buy it to support the dev. just need to save up to afford it X'D

Saaaame, though my issue is my brain being a twat and not letting me focus on things besides what it wants to hyperfocus on with it severely biting me if I try to focus on anything but that, I have such a large backlog of games I have but haven't played yet it's ridiculous thanks to it ;w;

Honestly that's fair, I don't think I'll end up using those myself, just cause I THINK I tried twine but it was confusing so I ended up dropping it X'D I might just fully write in Google docs and just trust myself to remember things/make big enough notes for route splits, it's just programming tracking what route is being chosen that I imagine I'll have issues with XD

Ye!

Melancholy Marionette1 year ago

That's not good :( Tbh, I'm really scared of ending up like my grandma because she was so frustrated at the fact that her mind worked perfectly fine but she couldn't get her body to cooperate, and in the end, she was in so much pain that she struggled to stand without aid >.< It's such a horrible thing to have. And man, fibro on top is even worse! I have a friend with Fibromyalgia and it really impacts her life a lot. She tries really hard to not let it stop her from doing things, but some days, she just really struggles.

I'm so sorry that you're in that situation :( I don't blame you for being upset about it because it's a devastating thing to hear when you're so young >.<

Hehe, finding the perfect SFX is a big challenge! Once I find one that works well for certain things, like grabbing, I tend to end up using the same one across multiple projects because it's easier than trying to find new ones x3

And yeah, getting decent assets is pretty hard, especially if you don't have much money to spend on that sort of thing >.< I've never really totalled up exactly how much it cost me to make each of my games, but all of them involved me buying assets of some kind. Sapphire Snowe was probably the most expensive one so far cos I used soooo many assets x3

Actually, I struggle to find backgrounds more than anything because there don't seem to be that many artists making background assets, so then you wind up seeing a whole bunch of VNs all using Minikle's backgrounds, haha. Also, backgrounds seem to be the most expensive to buy too >.<

Google never helped me much either since most available assets seem to come from Japan >.< I know there are a few indie devs and artists who sell assets on itch.io that are pretty nice :3 I've seen sprites and music and stuff on itch. And also there's a lot on the Unity asset store too depending on your needs with some pretty good sales sometimes!

Yeah, it's always best to mention trigger stuff regardless of how much focus there is on it just so as not to accidentally harm anyone :3 I always find it hard to write the warnings & triggers cos it's tough to know what to say without spoilers. That's why I started putting the main ones as bullet points and then using spoiler tags to make a dropdown that contains literally everything I could think of that might be touched on x3

Ahh, right, yeah you've gotta be careful with the terms of use and stuff, haha. Though, I've actually played a fair few projects on itch where I recognise some of the assets used because they're ones I've got as well, and the devs have actually failed to follow the terms and not credited artists and stuff like they're supposed to >.<

You have to be especially careful with sprites because sometimes, even the ones that you buy which say they can be used for personal or commercial use have extra terms that say things like, but you're not allowed to redraw them in CGs or other poses, not allowed to make merch of them, not allowed to change the colours, and a whole bunch of other things that they don't want you to do >.< I've bought a few asset packs that are completely useless to me because I didn't understand the full terms of use (because using Google translate on Japanese text isn't exactly ideal >.<)

Hehe, yeah, I get that with brains being a twat x3 I find it extremely difficult to tear myself away from whatever my hyperfocus of choice at the time is >.< it's a nightmare, haha.

Google docs seems to work well enough for me :3 I use stuff like different text colours and headings/subheadings etc. to try and organise my stuff a bit better and see things easier, haha. Like I can do choices with subheadings so that it allows me to see them at a glance on the side panel rather than having to scroll through it all. And then I write notes that aren't part of the story writing in like purple or whatever, haha.