You Guys I Am Actually Tearing Up Rn, It Feels Like Someone Is Giving My Heart A Tight Hug ;_; Thank

Trailer for 2-Headed Boy, free to play yandere boyfriend RPG for PC, no release date but Steam page coming soon™ up now for wishlists!

Small redraw of Kage sprite in sad mode

I feel like I'm in this post and I don't like it (except I kind of do).

Was I the yandere all along...?

I don’t know if you have done this but

Yandere artist who sees darling as a muse. They adore painting them and often times have them restricted into poses

Yandere!Artist x reader

somedays youre kept dazy and tired, making it easier for you to stay still for long periods of time

other days, they want you awake. they want you aware of the art youre taking part in <3.

so you're restrained, heavily. sometimes youre strung up by rope or chains from the ceiling, sometimes draped along the couch, other times you have to sit upright in a chair for hours at a time

they become so focused, sometimes they don't even hear you asking for breaks. it's only when you start to shift in discomfort that they look up from their easel, brows furrowed, asking, "what are you doing?"

Artist having paintings upon paintings of you around their house. they can't seem to get enough of your image, spending countless hours replicating each detail

when they're not painting you, you're glued to their hip. they want to touch your skin, your hair, feel the texture of your clothes so they know what to paint next

sometimes you wake up to them watching you sleep. what better time to memorize your details when you're at your most peaceful? when you won't shy away?

Artist having days where all they do is paint, and paint, and paint, and paint, and by the end of the day your muscles ache fiercely from being contorted and held in position

but oh, oh, how beautiful you are in their eyes. you consume their every thought.

Phew, ok I'm finally ready to share the thing I've been working on. I suck at making videos but here is a demonstration trailer of my character creator I set up for the game, which I'm now calling 2-Headed Boy, and finally has a title screen (and I think I need to thicken the line on the "2" in the logo...). Now the player can have more customization options for their MC.

First pick your name, then some pronouns, then your appearance. Look masculine, feminine, some kind of mixture or androgynous, pretty much up to you. Choose your skin tone, eye color/style, eyebrow style/color, hairstyle/color(s) (or be bald), ears (or be earless), clothes and accessories (or run around in your underwear, idc). Tails and wings are optional.

The clothes are a mess right now, I need to go back and re-align all the portrait busts so I don't have to have a bunch of repositioned versions of the same outfit for different busts. And I need more outfits, these are default clothing/accessory assets I just redrew for my sprites.

Also I plan to add color shifters in for the ears and tails, and also put in human ears and maybe elf ears??

I know the neck category is super weird, the neck and head were a solid piece when I started, but I couldn't get the hair to layer properly with the faces so I had to sever the head from the neck.

If you have any requests/suggestions about outfits, accessories, ears, tails etc. lmk in my asks or comments! I will do my best to implement them...later. I need a break from working on the generator to focus on other parts of the game :)

Quick update, someone politely inquired about the pronoun setup in my game project yesterday, and to be honest I hadn't given it much thought.

But I decided, what the heck why not just decouple the player sprite's appearance from their in-game pronouns so they are separate questions when you're setting up your character at the beginning.

So you can use the feminine sprites with masculine pronouns or vice versa. I'll also add a 3rd set of "they/them" that can go to either sprite set too.

Not a hard thing for me to do and I'm sure it would make some people happier and nobody less happy, so that's a net positive for the game, and that's what we aim for here in my brain world. It's early enough in development that I don't have to revisit very much of what I already wrote into the game either so it's really nbd on that front.

Anyway will try to work on that sometime today if I get time between working my normie job

My 2nd Kage fan art 🩶 submitted off Tumblr but the art is by Voobee

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.

Walking sprite samples for love interest Yugen

He wishes you would :/

I spent most of my project time yesterday researching some specific things about the game's engine, like whether a certain mechanic would be possible etc. It all came back as good news, though I can't say what all of it was since it would kind of spoil some of the fun in playing to know ahead of time.

But what I can say is that I think I'll be able to release the game in installments and people should be able to carry their save files over between each of them, which is one thing I wasn't sure would be possible. It will just require a little bit of planning ahead of time on my part, since adding certain things to a new installment would break old save files (mainly plugins or certain types of scripts requiring data initialization at startup).

So as long as I make sure all the plugins I want to use for the game are already implemented at the first launch, there shouldn't be any problems with people playing the whole thing across one save file through multiple releases/"expansions" or whatever. And of course, I can't delete anything from the new installments that already existed in the former ones.

So that's exciting, because it means I can release a playable game sooner, though I still don't have a release timeframe set yet. What I would like to do is release 1 love interest route at a time, starting with Yurei. And obviously Kage will be in that first release and all subsequent ones because he just won't fucking leave you alone

The anxiety of yandere Kage trying to keep his cool after you inadvertently hurt his feelings